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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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No wave was one step further away from the Rhythm n blues of punk into sculpturing noise into waves. This book charts the impact of a group of kids and young adults taking forward a belief with minimal musical training and screaming anger into each others bodies in New York. Drawing on a fusion of art, punk and avant garde, the Contortions, Teenage Jesus, Mars, DNA and all of the others created a huge sonic impact built on the legacy of Vega/Rev audience confrontation.
The results were stunning in the legacy, affecting like Kraftwerk a huge chunk of everything whih came after. Out of the mire tumbled Foetus, Neubauten, Laibach, Swans, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave in fact anything worthwhile and having some form of meaning in the 80s/90's to present.
This book compiled through the photos assembled by Thurston Moore is a pictory of events now rapidly fading into art/music history, paradoxically standing out because it has not been equalled since.
This book appeals to those who were around at the inception. It also should be part of the younger generations lexicon to remind them the older generation were at one time vital and full of meaning and they had a purpose. Then it may motivate people to do something or themselves. Looking back is a way to go forward, if only to learn the lessons so they are no longer repeated.
The results were stunning in the legacy, affecting like Kraftwerk a huge chunk of everything whih came after. Out of the mire tumbled Foetus, Neubauten, Laibach, Swans, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave in fact anything worthwhile and having some form of meaning in the 80s/90's to present.
This book compiled through the photos assembled by Thurston Moore is a pictory of events now rapidly fading into art/music history, paradoxically standing out because it has not been equalled since.
This book appeals to those who were around at the inception. It also should be part of the younger generations lexicon to remind them the older generation were at one time vital and full of meaning and they had a purpose. Then it may motivate people to do something or themselves. Looking back is a way to go forward, if only to learn the lessons so they are no longer repeated.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I never knew about the No Wave scene until I read this book. But I got it because I liked the photos and art within - facile I know! But this book explains the scene fully using a mixture of first-hand interviews, art and photos. The book is worth just buying for the photos and poster art.
What makes this book so interesting is that really lifts the lid on an underground scene that would otherwise would be unrecorded.
If you love music history or love poster art - then I could not recommend this more highly!
However, if you don't like art kids - then it's probably not for you.
Anyway, buy it!
What makes this book so interesting is that really lifts the lid on an underground scene that would otherwise would be unrecorded.
If you love music history or love poster art - then I could not recommend this more highly!
However, if you don't like art kids - then it's probably not for you.
Anyway, buy it!
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
eye candy and history
15 July 2008
Format:Hardcover
1970's New York, a time of polemic filth and fury with displaced art kids crashing head first into the detritus to form bands without which we would have no Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs or (insert a hundred names here). Framed around this incredible gathering of black & whites are interviews (conducted by the Thurston Moore and writer/editor/et cetera Byron Coley) with artists deep in the thick of said scene (i.e. James Chance, Glen Branca, Ikue Mori, Robert Quine and the ever-verbose Lydia Lunch), club owners, iconic groupies and passers-by, including Brian Eno who gives his perspective on the immortal Eno "produced" No New York compilation. Having been active participants during this era, the authors do a spectacular job of detailing the tenuous camaraderie, insular tension and the seeds of No Wave's demise. Not simply for those who know the difference between "No Wave" and "New Wave", the eye candy and history lessons make for an illuminating, universally appealing document.
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21 Sep 2009
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Legal o livro... um pouco chato o lance de ter um monte de entrevistas no meio da narrativa. Vc está lendo no fluxo, de repente um sujeito começa a dar um depoimento e passam 2 ou 3 páginas de fotos (incríveis, por sinal)... aí vc já não sabe exatamente onde, quando, etc... E podia ter mais free jazz (esse rótulo é um lixo, mas da pra entender do que estou falando). Não é o foco, mas as duas cenas estavam mais do que conectadas e isso é apenas mencionado.
Vale pelas fotos e o texto é lesgal... Se vc usar ele como "coffee table book" na sua sala de estar e uma menina chegar lá e não te achar um cara sensacional por vc ter ele ao invés de um do Matisse ou um de decoração de interiores é porque ela não vale a pena!!!
Vale pelas fotos e o texto é lesgal... Se vc usar ele como "coffee table book" na sua sala de estar e uma menina chegar lá e não te achar um cara sensacional por vc ter ele ao invés de um do Matisse ou um de decoração de interiores é porque ela não vale a pena!!!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The scene that never was
15 July 2009
Format:Hardcover
Basically if you were listening to music at the end of the 70's, beginning of the 80's, you had heard of all these people. Their records were available in most record stores world-wide, but nothing really became directly of it. This record documents this scene very well: we see a NY underground scene that intermingled with then and future celebrities (Iggy, Blondie, etc) but somehow did not connect. The whole scene centered finally on the Eno-produced No New York LP containing music by the more prominent acts in this book. While Eno seemingly had an eye on the future appraisal of the scene and merely wanted to document it (which shows as I wrote that EVERYBODY had heard of this scene, even my mom...). This book is surprising because while most of the rock books especially the ones covering this era tend to use mostly the same material and sources, this is fairly original stuff. It is based mostly (a little like PLease Kill Me) on personal recollections but without necessarily having a storyline. This does not matter since Moore and his collaborator get the vive of this underground scene beautifully. It is more a photo book with some essential anectdotes. Retrospectively a lot of intellectual bs has been put on the music that was really partly unlistenable and really hilarious stuff to annoy your parents or friends in the 70's who might like their rock music to be listenable. Mars and DNA is particularly atrocious as is some of the Lydia Lunch stuff (she was at the time the arhetypical indie queen and seems to have been a bad influence on everyone). Arto Lindsay ended up doing almost commercial stuff nowadays and Lizzy Mercier Descloux (God Bless her) had a huge afro-beat hit in France with "ou sont passees les gazelles". James Chance was more interesting and apparently still tours France. Anyway this is a splendid book, lovingly done by two people involved in a scene that existed while I was a teenager. I still have all these records and they are to be cherished because they really pushed some (not always artistic} boundaries by being simply too extreme. It was a scene that took itself way too seriously but which had some really very colourful characters. The book does indirectly explain on the one hand why they were extremely influential on the people who heard them, bought their records but failed to go beyond that for recognition. Anyway, it is also quite cheap for the work they have put into it and this kind of work must be supported.
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