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From the velvets to the voidoids : a pre-punk history for a post-punk world / Clinton Heylin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3534 .H48 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heylin, Clinton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock music--United States--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- New wave music.
- Punk rock music.
- United States.
- Punk rock music--United States--History and criticism.
- New wave music--United States--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, USA : Penguin Books, 1993.
- Summary:
- From the Velvets to the Voidoids explores the origins and evolution of the fiery phase of rock & roll history known as punk and New Wave. Journey through the life of this intense and influential musical movement, from the punk scene's New York roots in the mid-1960s with The Velvet Underground, through the 1970s and groups like the Voidoids, and ultimately to such bands as the Talking Heads. Heylin upends notions that this new music evolved in Britain, establishing authoritatively that its roots were distinctly American: only later would the music develop into its more popular English incarnation.
- Contents:
- Preface: Credit Where It's Due - the Appropriation of Punk History xi
- Precursors
- 1 Happiness is a Warm Drone (1961-5) 3
- The Theatre of Eternal Music
- The Primitives
- The Velvet Underground
- 2 All the Needles are on Red! (1965-70) 14
- Exploding Plastic Inevitable
- Nico
- 3 Energy Freak-Out Freeform (1968-71) 32
- MC5
- The Stooges
- 4 This is the Modern World (1970-73) 44
- The Modern Lovers
- 5 The Underground Jukeboxes (1972-4) 50
- Cinderella Backstreet
- Mirrors
- The Electric Eels
- 6 Suicide is Painless (1970-73) 65
- Suicide
- 7 Trash! (1971-5) 72
- The New York Dolls
- Wayne County
- The First Wave
- 8 From Horizontal Arsonists to Neon Boys (1967-73) 93
- The Neon Boys
- 9 Jesus Died for Somebody's Sins ... (1966-73) 103
- Patti Smith
- 10 The Neon Boys Turn On New York (1973-4) 115
- Television
- 11 The Cadillac Pulls Out of the Graveyard (1974-5) 128
- 12 Look Out Cleveland! (1974-5) 142
- Rocket from the Tombs
- 13 In the Flesh (1973-5) 155
- Blondie
- 14 Gabba Gabba Hey! (1974-5) 166
- The Ramones
- The Second Wave
- 15 Down at the Rock & Roll Club (1974-6) 181
- CBGBs
- Max's Kansas City
- Club 82
- Performance Studio
- Mother's
- 16 This is Radio Ethiopia (1976) 190
- Patti Smith Group
- 17 Living on Chinese Rocks (1975-6) 199
- The Heartbreakers
- 18 The Artistics Come to Town (1975-6) 206
- The Artistics
- Talking Heads
- 19 Looking into the Heart of Darkness (1975-6) 216
- Pere Ubu
- 20 Fuck Art, Let's Rock! (1972-7) 228
- The Dictators
- Dead Boys
- Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers
- 21 A Punk-Rocker Parade (1975-6) 239
- Punk
- Rock Scene
- New York Rocker
- Hit Parader
- No Wave - Goodbye!
- 22 Instant Sires from Private Stock (1976) 249
- Television Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- 23 The Last Adventure (1977-8) 269
- 24 The Final Wave (1977-9) 275
- 25 Into the Void (1977-9) 282
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- 26 Doing the Modern Dance (1977-9) 293
- Friction
- Devo
- 27 Touched by the Presence (1977-80) 308
- 28 Thrashing at the Waves (1978-80) 317
- DNA
- The Feelies
- The Contortions
- Lydia Lunch
- The Plasmatics
- Epilogue: The Third Wave 323
- Appendix 3 Dramatis Personae 338.
- Notes:
- Discography: pages [346]-365.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0140179704
- OCLC:
- 27226655
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