- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (1 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684815133
- ISBN-13: 978-0684815138
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 22.1 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,485,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This photo-history charts the route alternative music has taken from its beginnings in early 1980s punk rock to its present pre-eminence. It includes information on over 60 bands, as well as indie labels and clubs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Lots of pictures, little content...
26 Feb 1997
Format:Paperback
This is the most comprehensive compilation of "alternative" bands that I have seen on the market. That is if you can reduce alternative music into a simple collection of pictures such as this. It all seems to be presumptuously based off of some preset definition of what can and cannot be classified as "alternative." I would have liked to see more descriptions of the actual bands instead of the totally unrelated text that skirts the borders of the pictures
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
thinking you'd learn some more abot 90's "alternative"?
20 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
I bought this book when it first came out,somewhere in the mid-to-late 90's i suppose,and was looking forward to some cool info about alot of the bands that i grew up with of whom turned me on to music that wasn't the outdated guns'n'roses or aerosmith that i was into so damn much untill i found out about the likes of soundgarden and mudhoney and so on. to be honest, i mainly bought this book for the photography to learn more about all of those different scenes in a visual sense which worked quite well, but the story severely lacks - spewing out all of the blunt kind of info that i bet everybody who kept their ears to the ground would already know.i'd give this book 4 stars if it was only photos, which should be the main reason for anyone to purchase
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The pictures tell the story.
10 Mar 1998
Format:Paperback
This book doesn't say anything new -- it's a shallow, alternative-by-numbers breakdown of the underground turned commercial. The pictures, however, are first rate. The Sassy magazine cover of Courtney blissfully kissing husband-to-be Kurt is a classic. For those of us who really care, a photo like that says it all.
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