Wires Pink Flag

Author : Wilson Neate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441175733
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wire's Pink Flag written by Wilson Neate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition. Few punk bands moved beyond pared-down rock 'n' roll and garage rock, football-terrace sing-alongs or shambolic pub rock and, if we're honest, only a handful of punk records hold up today as anything other than increasingly quaint period pieces. While the majority of their peers flogged one idea to death and paid only lip service to punk's Year Zero credo, Wire took a genuinely radical approach, deconstructing song conventions, exploring new possibilities and consistently reinventing their sound. THIS IS A CHORD. THIS IS ANOTHER. THIS IS A THIRD. NOW FORM A BAND, proclaimed the caption to the famous diagram in a UK fanzine in 1976 and countless punk acts embodied that do-it-yourself spirit. Wire, however, showed more interesting ways of doing it once you'd formed that band and they found more compelling uses for those three mythical chords.

Author : Wilson Neate
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 9781908279330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Read & Burn written by Wilson Neate and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical accident. Despite the fact that they had complicated and transformed that category almost before they'd begun, they seem never to have quite escaped the label. Be it punk, post-punk, or art-punk, critics have clung onto the p-word in an attempt to capture the essence of Wire's innovative uniqueness. But their story - which honours punk's original yet quickly forgotten commitment to the new - is one of constant remaking and remodelling, one that stubbornly resists reduction to a single identity. As a result, the group's projects have always balanced uneasily between artistic endeavour and the need for commercial sustainability, played out against the backdrop of the musicians' perennially complex creative relationships. Tracing Wire's diverse output from 1977 up until the present, Read & Burn seeks to do justice to their highly influential and restlessly inventive body of work.

Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607748703
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust & Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Author : Kevin S. Eden
Publisher : SAF Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780946719075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wire - written by Kevin S. Eden and published by SAF Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jokers in punk rock's pack of cards in face to face with the author.

Author : Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562864
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gang of Four's Entertainment! written by Kevin J.H. Dettmar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.

Author : Paul Lester
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857120417
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lowdown: The Story of Wire written by Paul Lester and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major book on the post-punk legends! Wire were the seventies band who perhaps did more than any other to usher in the post-punk age. Author Paul Lester has interviewed the four original members of Wire - Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Robert Gotobed and Bruce Gilbert - as well as many of their producers and collaborators. Charts the band's history from their days at Watford Art College through their abrasive encounters with punk audiences hostile to their groundbreaking material on albums like Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154. and their 2008 release Object 47. Those albums were to exert an enormous influence on subsequent generations of alternative rock musicians. To bands as diverse as Black Flag, Blur, R.E.M. and My Bloody Valentine, Wire's expansion of the sonic possibilities of rock proved highly significant. Lester has also followed the band's story as it expanded into a melee of break-ups, reformations, parallel projects and solo forays, culminating in their current status as a sort of British Velvet Underground: cultish and modest-selling but uncompromising and immeasurably influential.

Author : Bruce Eaton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441153942
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Star's Radio City written by Bruce Eaton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean electrical jolt from the future. Here, Bruce Eaton examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal- and through extensive interviews with all of those involved, gets to the heart of the cult of Big Star.

Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141690607X
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book May Bird and the Ever After written by Jodi Lynn Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters the Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogeyman.

Author : Werner Herzog
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061575534
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Useless written by Werner Herzog and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most revered filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog wrote this diary during the making of Fitzcarraldo, the lavish 1982 film that tells the story of a would-be rubber baron who pulls a steamship over a hill in order to access a rich rubber territory. Later, Herzog spoke of his difficulties when making the film, including casting problems, reshoots, language barriers, epic clashes with the star, and the logistics of moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill without the use of special effects. Hailed by critics around the globe, the film went on to win Herzog the 1982 Outstanding Director Prize at Cannes. Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog's diary on his fever dream in the Amazon jungle, is an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a genius during the making of one of his greatest achievements.

Author : Kevin Haskins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997205688
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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