Bring the noise : 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip-hop / Simon Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Simon, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Physical Description:

xiv, 428 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

Contents:

What's missing? The state of pop

The Redskins, live

Zapp, live

Younger than yesterday: Indie-pop's cult of innocence

Nasty Boys: rap

Beat happening: "Beat happening"

Backs to the future: The folk and country resurgence in alternative rock

Hip hop and house singles reviews

Husker Du: "Warehouse: songs and stories"

Mantronix, interview

The Smiths: A eulogy

Public Enemy, interview

LL Cool J, interview

Dinosaur Jr, interview

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, live

Morrissey, interview

The Pixies, interview

Living Colour, interview

Various artists: Sub Pop 200

The Stone Roses, interview

The Caring Colonialists: A critique of 'World Music'

Positivity: De La Soul, Soul II Soul, Deee-lite and New Age House

Rap's reformation: Gansta Rap versus Conscious Rap

Madchester versus Dreampop: Happy Mondays and Ride

Manic Street Preachers, interview

Pavement, live

Nirvana, live

N-Joi/K-Klass/Bassheads/M-People, live

RRRRRRush!: Hardcore rave and London pirate radio

Wasted Youth: grunge and the Return of 'Heavy'

Welcome to the Jungle

Let the Boys be Boys: Onyx interview/Gangsta rap is Oi! (1993)

State of Interdependence: Britain, America, and the 'special relationship' in pop music

MTV: The revolution will not be televised

PJ Harvey, interview

It's a Dogg's Life: Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog

Against the grain: Thinking about the voice in pop

Pearl Jam vs Nirvana

The Beastie Boys, interview

Post-Rock

Swingbeat and the new R&B

Ragga

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, live

Blur versus Oasis

Pulp: different class

R&B: The sound of 1997

Roni Size/Reprazent: New forms

Feminine pressure: 2-Step and UK Garage

King and Queen of the Beats: Timbaland and Missy Elliott

Hate me now: Puff Daddy and the player hater syndrome

For the love of money: Lil Wayne, Cash Money and New Orleans rap

Street rap

We are family: The rise of the rap clan and the hip hop dynasty

Roots 'n' Future: The disappearing voice of reggae

Euro: Trance music and the people-pleasing power of 'Cheese'

Miles Davis: Live-Evil/Black Beauty/In Concert/Dark Magus

Pure fusion: Multiculture versus monoculture

Radiohead versus Brit-rock/Thom Yorke, interview

2-Step and R&B critiqued

Faves of 2000: Dancehall

Historia electronica: The case for electronic dance music culture

B-Boys on E: Hip hop discovers Ecstasy

So Solid Crew: They don't know

The Streets: Original Pirate material

Who says the British can't rap? The UK's new wave of MCs confront American hip hop isolationism

Rave-Punk: The genre soon-to-be-known-as grime emerges

Rap videos and the 'One White Dude'

Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner

Kanye West

Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz: Crunk Juice

Mother Nature's Sons: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink

Against all odds: 2005, grime's make-or-break year

2005: The year black pop and white pop stopped talking

Arctic Monkeys: Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not

Green-Eyed soul: Hot Chip and Scritti Politti.

ISBN:

9780571232079

0571232078

OCLC:

86167529