- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 1 edition (Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060527900
- ISBN-13: 978-0060527907
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,297,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A satirical parody of the history of rock and its journalism follows the evolution of such genres as blues and punk while citing the factors, over-education, beliefs, sellouts, and egos that contributed to its most notable events. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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The phone rang in the post-noon dusk, and I answered it, because I'd told them not to call me unless somebody famous died. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
pretty vacant
30 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
Never Mind the Pollacks by Neal Pollack is alternately brilliant and trash, and if you are at all into the history of rock music, Thompsonian mania, sex, drugs, puking on shoes, f**king the establishment, riding the snake to the lake, and flipping birds or wearing sunglasses in every photograph ever taken of you, definitely read this book.
At the very least it's good for some seriously hard laughs, and even when he fails at what he's doing, it's like seeing your favorite band play a bad show--you still get the gist of what he was going for, and as is true with rock-and-roll in general, you just can't be on all the time.
Now, i'm going to go puke up 8 martinis and pass out cold.
Note: I am no relation to Mr Pollack. My surname has two O's.
At the very least it's good for some seriously hard laughs, and even when he fails at what he's doing, it's like seeing your favorite band play a bad show--you still get the gist of what he was going for, and as is true with rock-and-roll in general, you just can't be on all the time.
Now, i'm going to go puke up 8 martinis and pass out cold.
Note: I am no relation to Mr Pollack. My surname has two O's.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Like Sam Phillips, In Search Of The White Wail
5 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
Rock and roll is the people's music and in Never Mind The Pollacks, A Rock And Roll Novel by Neal Pollack, Neal Pollack, the critic, bounces off the people who make the music to always hilarious and often pointed effect.
When he stops bouncing he usually finds himself down and out, yet luckily beneath the soft white underbelly of the holy cow of rock and roll, its teats thankfully there to squirt its rejuvenating fluids into Pollack's grateful face. That and he's watched over by the magic bluesman, Clambone, as enigmatic yet down to earth as the blues itself.
Pollack often seems oblivious to his journey through rock, while we are fortunate enough to enjoy the likes of Elvis, Iggy, Dylan, The Stones, et al as they pass through the zonked out haze that is Pollack's world. But hey, that world is rock and roll.
Don't think Pollack is some insignificant Forest Gump-like character batted around existence like one of Gump's ping-pong balls: Pollack is important enough that another rock critic wants to write his biography. And though it seems the lame and effete Paul St. Pierre may never truly grasp Pollack's importance or meaning to the world they both inhabit, a final face off with his subject gives him a double shot of the rock and roll life that Pollack has lived and St. Pierre has only written about from a distance.
But screw the analyses. If you like to rock and like to laugh you can do both of these things until it hurts. Plus there's an apocalypse at the end. And it's not just some damn high school blowing up or something.
So, I rate Never Mind The Pollacks #1. With a bullet.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Like a Clam (With a Bone in It)
9 Oct 2003
Format:Hardcover
Never Mind the Pollacks is just like every other sanctimonious book that tells the history of rock 'n' roll and why we're supposed to care, but with one significant difference: this one is actually entertaining. I read it straight through in the course of one very empty day, which, in retrospect, probably was not a great idea, as this is a thing to be savored, but I couldn't help myself. I tried, Lord how I tried, but I simply could not help myself. So, if you're the least bit interested in the history of rock, or just enjoy being amused, or like seeing various icons skewered with needle-sharp wit, or merely enjoy buying things, this is the book for you!
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