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Babylon's burning, from punk to grunge, Clinton Heylin

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Babylon's burning, from punk to grunge, Clinton Heylin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-639), discography (p. 640-646) , and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Babylon's burning

Nature of contents

bibliographydiscographies

Oclc number

85562816

Responsibility statement

Clinton Heylin

Sub title

from punk to grunge

Summary

Destined to become a classic on the subject alongside Legs McNeil's Please Kill Me, Babylon's Burning is a groundbreaking, definitive account of punk rock, one of the most influential and lasting music movements in history--a movement that ironically was built on self-annihilation. Acclaimed critic Clinton Heylin seamlessly weaves together the lives of disparate artists who had in common not the music (there was no distribution) but the pictures, words, and fashions depicted in magazines like Creem and NME. It was a sound that eschewed conventional lyrics, promoted a gutteral musicality but yet contained a keen pop sensibility. Whether exploring the work of early progenitors like Suicide, The New York Dolls, and Patti Smith or charting the progress of the bands who legitimately took up the mantle in the eighties and nineties, Clinton Heylin brings to life the strands of a global artform. From the Sex Pistols's clarion call of a record, Never Mind the Bollocks, to Kurt Cobain's songs of an alienated youth, Babylon's Burning is the brilliant, exhaustively researched story that once and for all defines what Punk is and is not. --Publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue. In the beginning was the word -- Part One. 1971-75 : Fuck rock & roll (I'd rather summarize a book) ; 1973-76 : Eskimo pie comes to Oz ; 1973-75 : Something better change -- Part Two. 2/76-4/76 : Light the blue touchpaper ; 5/76-8/76 : Are you ready for a brand-new beat? ; 9/76-12/76 : Vinyl quotation number one -- Part Three. 1/77-4/77 : The art-school dance goes on ; 1975-77 : Not leaving home ; 3/77-8/77 : The children of the revolution -- Part Four. 6/77-12/77 : Aggression thru repression ; 1/77-6/78 : Darken my northern sky ; 1/7-12/78 : Fast and sensible -- Part Five. 1977-79 : The West rides the crest ; 12/77-1/79 : Last punks in town ; 1978 : The year of living dangerously -- Part Six. 1979 : Out of punk--into the light ; 1977-80 : No wave out! No wave out! ; 1979-80 : The dark stuff -- Part Seven. 1980-82 : Tales of warf rats and suburban weirdos ; 1983-87 : Joining the majors ; 1984-91 : The black muddy river -- Epilogue. You gotta lose

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From punk to grunge

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