Eric Weisbard
Auteur de Spin Alternative Record Guide
A propos de l'auteur
Eric Weisbard is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the editor of two other EMP Museum publications, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, also published by Duke University Press, and This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at the Experience Music afficher plus Project. afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Œuvres de Eric Weisbard
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (Refiguring American Music) (2021) 7 exemplaires
Guns N' Roses: 'Use Your Illusion' I and II (33 1/3) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Relations
- Powers, Ann (wife)
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Critiques
A lot of nonsense, written by an author who neither appears to like the band nor has, by his own admission, listened to the album in years.
This is music journalism at its worst - ill informed, pretentious and self aggrandising.
For a much better experience check out Bill Janowitz's 'Exile On Main St' from the same series.
This is music journalism at its worst - ill informed, pretentious and self aggrandising.
For a much better experience check out Bill Janowitz's 'Exile On Main St' from the same series.
Kind of lame. No apparant guiding principles in selection or omission of artists or pieces within catalogues. Writing isn't bad, but neither is it great at any point. Totally scattershot, incomplete, and overall not very helpful as a reference guide.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 218
- Popularité
- #102,474
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 22
The difference was, I stuck around for the entire Ramones book. This one, I decided to bail. The author stated fairly close to the beginning that he wasn't going to even listen to the two albums until he got to the final chapter.
Warning sign #1.
When he then went off about crap about his sister, talking about her wedding, and spinning off to other equally unrelated topics, misquoted some of the albums lyrics, then mentioned the "memory criticism" method of talking about something without actually going back and—you know, taking the time to actually educate yourself about it first, as one does—I decided that, if the fucking author of this book, who presumably actually got paid to write this bullshit, couldn't be bothered to put in any actual work, why should I?
DNF at 38%.… (plus d'informations)