- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd; First Thus edition (1 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0434018465
- ISBN-13: 978-0434018468
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 288,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A compulsive read, part Oswald Spengler, part Spike Milligan, and very, very funny.' --David Peace
`A compulsive read, part Oswald Spengler, part Spike Milligan, and very, very funny.' --David Peace
`A compulsive read, part Oswald Spengler, part Spike Milligan, and very, very funny.' --David Peace
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'As acerbic and hilarious as you'd expect from a man who thought it completely reasonable to call a pop single "unsolved Child Murder". Haines clearly relishes - and shines in - his role as the Ancient Mariner at the Britpop party.'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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So you want to be a rock and roll star?,
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This review is from: Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall (Paperback)
I've read too many books on pop, but this is straight into the top ten (with a bullet), not so much for its insights on the music, but for what it reveals about the trials, tribulations and downright horrors of being in a band. To be honest, I knew little about the Auteurs or Luke Haines before picking this up, having always casually (dis)regarded them as also-rans in a scene which itself never much interested me, whose ambition almost certainly outran their ability by several miles. Oddly, I come away from reading this book with those opinions not greatly changed, but with a tremendous sympathy for Haines himself, and the rapidity with which his vocation was crushed to powder and blown away by the relentless grinding machinery of the music business, with the album driving the tour, the tour schedule demanding the new album, the need for novelty demanding changes in production and playing personnel which Haines can barely control, in a never-ending cycle, until every last vestige of inspiration has been wrung from our hero. It's an old story of course (over which the shadow of Spinal Tap casts a lengthening shadow), but Haines tells it with savage, caustic and hugely readable wit. Mums, Dads - if your kids want to grow up to be pop stars, make them read this book...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Hilariously bitter and twisted.,
By pollmeister (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (Paperback)
The best Rock Curmudgeon alive today. If you were even slightly a fan of all things Britpop - this is a must read. He hates everyone (except the drummer from Suede). His self-belief is unstoppable and his proclaimations of genius many. No one is safe from his scathing criticism,(yes, that includes YOU Justine Frishmann)and this book is all the more funny for it.
Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not Slade! Suede!,
This review is from: Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (Paperback)
I read Bad Vibes in one sitting. It's a real page-turner, unputdownable, etc...
It's a POV history of the bad old Britpop days by the former frontman of The Auteurs. It's a swingeing, whingeing, barking, snapping, curmudgeonly masterpiece of a memoir, with Haines' ego on overdrive and dripping with vemom at every perceived and real slight and grudge that he has absolutely no intention of forgetting or forgiving. I found it immensely funny and accurate, but then I was never a Britpop fan. He seems prone to the same sort of enthusiasms as me (anti-art, avant-garde, conspiracy theories, murder, terrorists, utopian movements...) so maybe that helped. It's a full-on rant with the charm of Niven, Stanshall, Mark E Smith or Ignatius J. Reilly. Try it.
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