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'Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of grunge music.'
--Chuck Palahniuk
'A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story - the glorious nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world's biggest noise.' --Rob Sheffield, author of Talking To Girls about Duran Duran
'A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf.' --Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind the Pollacks
'A very noble record of the grunge scene - and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books.' --Legs McNeil, co author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
'As a child of grunge - who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt - I loved this book.'
--Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves
'Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of grunge.' --Chuck Palahniuk
'Exhilirating ... a story that is hilarious and tragic and utterly gripping ... The rise of grunge was a part of the music industry's last hurrah and this book skilfully documents the inside story of that one final, fantastically excessive thrash.' --Rob Fitzpatrick, SUNDAY TIMES
'[A] lively, funny, melancholy and exhaustive oral history ... For all its eventual compromise and dissolution, Seattle was briefly an exhilarating pop cultural moment to rank with the greats. Yarm's labour of love has well and truly done it justice.' --Phil Harrison, TIME OUT
'A flannel-shirted soap opera ... The great virtue of Yarm's babel of voices is that it allows scores of other stories to be told and retold without judgment. You, the reader, can believe what you want to believe.' --Dorian Lynskey, OBSERVER
'Yarm ensures grunge's many tragedies never drown out the often sublime music that surfaced from this rainy burgh.'
--Stevie Chick, MOJO ****
'A timely account ... [with] vivid, foul-mouthed anecdotes of rivalry, excess and despair.' -- Arthur House, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year >> '[A] Herculean work of interviewing and editing which gives everyone a voice ... Yarm collates colourful, competing memories with some droll juxtapositions ... Yarm leaves the reader full of empathy for young men and women swept up in a cultural moment they couldn't control.' --Dorian Lynskey, Guardian
--Chuck Palahniuk
'A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story - the glorious nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world's biggest noise.' --Rob Sheffield, author of Talking To Girls about Duran Duran
'A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf.' --Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind the Pollacks
'A very noble record of the grunge scene - and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books.' --Legs McNeil, co author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
'As a child of grunge - who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt - I loved this book.'
--Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves
'Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of grunge.' --Chuck Palahniuk
'Exhilirating ... a story that is hilarious and tragic and utterly gripping ... The rise of grunge was a part of the music industry's last hurrah and this book skilfully documents the inside story of that one final, fantastically excessive thrash.' --Rob Fitzpatrick, SUNDAY TIMES
'[A] lively, funny, melancholy and exhaustive oral history ... For all its eventual compromise and dissolution, Seattle was briefly an exhilarating pop cultural moment to rank with the greats. Yarm's labour of love has well and truly done it justice.' --Phil Harrison, TIME OUT
'A flannel-shirted soap opera ... The great virtue of Yarm's babel of voices is that it allows scores of other stories to be told and retold without judgment. You, the reader, can believe what you want to believe.' --Dorian Lynskey, OBSERVER
'Yarm ensures grunge's many tragedies never drown out the often sublime music that surfaced from this rainy burgh.'
--Stevie Chick, MOJO ****
'A timely account ... [with] vivid, foul-mouthed anecdotes of rivalry, excess and despair.' -- Arthur House, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year >> '[A] Herculean work of interviewing and editing which gives everyone a voice ... Yarm collates colourful, competing memories with some droll juxtapositions ... Yarm leaves the reader full of empathy for young men and women swept up in a cultural moment they couldn't control.' --Dorian Lynskey, Guardian
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Publishing exactly twenty years after the release of Nirvana's landmark Nevermind album, this will be the definitive word on grunge.
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If you are (or were) a fan of `grunge', the chances are that you will recognise the title of this book from the Mudhoney song `Overblown'. `Everyboy loves us' - it begins - `Everybody loves our town/...it's so overblown' sang Mark Arm, aptly describing the media circus surrounding Seattle and the `grunge' phenomenon. Everybody looked at Seattle as the next Mecca of rock, but how did it actually happen? What was it like from the inside?
That is exactly what former music journalist Mark Yarm set out to do with with this project: to make sense of grunge by asking the bands, the roadies, the soundmen, the girlfriends and the hangers on: what happened? He did so by compiling an oral history, entirely told by `witness accounts' rather than by his own authorial voice. The result is a compelling read, which will captivate you right from the first chapter - on how The U-Men once set fire to the stage - right until the end, when the grunge supernova implodes, leaving a string of casualties along the way.
This collection of interviews, loosely grouped by band but expertly interwoven in chronological order, offers an almost seamless narrative which has the page-turning quality of the best fiction. Yarm pieced ELOT together from both existing and new material; by doing so, he succeeded in creating an incredibly comprehensive `bible' of grunge, with cross referencing questions and answers and whose protagonists often give their own version of events only described a few paragraphs before. The result is often very amusing, with discordant opinions on what really happened and all people in question offering their own contradicting version. Predictably, anecdotes involving Courtney Love seem to invariably be cause for disagreement.
There are a lot of books about `grunge' out there but ELOT stands out because it lets its protagonists do the talking, instead of attempting to draw the kind of pseudo-sociological conclusions so beloved by popular culture writers. If you never had the chance to experience the early 1990s Seattle scene in person, this book is going to be the next best thing.
That is exactly what former music journalist Mark Yarm set out to do with with this project: to make sense of grunge by asking the bands, the roadies, the soundmen, the girlfriends and the hangers on: what happened? He did so by compiling an oral history, entirely told by `witness accounts' rather than by his own authorial voice. The result is a compelling read, which will captivate you right from the first chapter - on how The U-Men once set fire to the stage - right until the end, when the grunge supernova implodes, leaving a string of casualties along the way.
This collection of interviews, loosely grouped by band but expertly interwoven in chronological order, offers an almost seamless narrative which has the page-turning quality of the best fiction. Yarm pieced ELOT together from both existing and new material; by doing so, he succeeded in creating an incredibly comprehensive `bible' of grunge, with cross referencing questions and answers and whose protagonists often give their own version of events only described a few paragraphs before. The result is often very amusing, with discordant opinions on what really happened and all people in question offering their own contradicting version. Predictably, anecdotes involving Courtney Love seem to invariably be cause for disagreement.
There are a lot of books about `grunge' out there but ELOT stands out because it lets its protagonists do the talking, instead of attempting to draw the kind of pseudo-sociological conclusions so beloved by popular culture writers. If you never had the chance to experience the early 1990s Seattle scene in person, this book is going to be the next best thing.
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Having grown up on grunge and ending up touring supporting Jerry Cantrell on his boggy depot solo album tour with my own band, I have to say this book is the best grunge read out there, from start to finish it is really interesting and well put together. I had no idea Chris Cornell started out playing drums in the early days of soundgarden, I could rant on for ages, its brilliant! really brilliant!
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This book is a must-read for the generation that saw "grunge" burst into the public consciousness. A real page-turner, in the not-so-usual way. A thinking grunge man's book.
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This is a great big stonker of a book detailing all the minor and major players of Seattles grunge movement. Read more
Published 2 months ago by mister joe
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This book is basically written by the prominent 'grunge' musicians of the late 80's and early 90's. It is essentially a combination of interviews where the likes of Tad Doyle, King... Read more
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