Nicholas Rombes
Auteur de The Ramones' Ramones (33 1/3)
A propos de l'auteur
Nicholas Rombes is professor of English at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of several books on cinema and punk, including The Ramones (2005), and he is the editor of New Punk Cinema (2005). He also directed the feature-length lo-fi paranoid thriller The Removals (2016).
Œuvres de Nicholas Rombes
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rombes, Nicholas
- Autres noms
- Rombes, Nick
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Waterville, Ohio, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA - Études
- Bowling Green State University (BA)
Pennsylvania State University (MA & PHD)
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 175
- Popularité
- #122,547
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 24
- Langues
- 1
"Nah, I'm writing this long treatise on punk and..."
"Seriously, we need a book in this series on that first album."
"But punk...and treatise...and..."
"Think you can angle it toward the Ramones' first album?"
"...yeah."
I listened to the audio version of this, so it lends itself quite nicely to me being able to fraction out this book. So...the first two-thirds of this short work is about the larger context of the punk movement. Yes, Rombes does remember occasionally that this is supposed to be about the Ramones' first album, so he grudgingly inserts their name here and there, and circles around to them to include them, but he plays just as much lip service to the other bands that existed at the time, or preceded them. The Velvet Underground. The Sex Pistols. The Talking Heads. Blondie. The Dead Boys. The New York Dolls. Hell, even Black Sabbath gets more air time than you'd expect.
Finally, just when you think Rombes is going to run out the clock, he finally (perhaps accidentally) meanders around to a really short, mostly non-illuminating track-by-track run through of the album. It works out to about one-sixth of the book. As soon as that last track is discussed and forgotten, he angles right back on that bigger discussion of punk as a whole for the last sixth of the book.
So, despite the title, literally only one-sixth of this book focuses on one of the greatest albums of a decade full of great albums. And five-sixths is devoted to the author citing his reading sources and talking about everything except the album.
Self-indulgent crap.… (plus d'informations)