Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades. His byline has appeared everywhere from the Village Voice and Rolling Stone to Creem, Spin, and Vibe. Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist, unafraid to explore and defend genres that other critics look down on or ignore. His interviews with subjects ranging from the Beastie Boys, the Pet Shop Boys, Robert Plant, and Teena Marie to the Flaming Lips, AC/DC, and Eminem’s grandmother are unforgettable. His review of a 1985 Aerosmith album reportedly inspired the producer Rick Rubin to pair the rockers with Run DMC. In the eighties, Eddy was one of the first critics to widely cover indie rock, and he has since brought his signature hyper-caffeinated, hyper-hyphenated style to bear on heavy metal, hip-hop, country—you name it. Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic. Essential reading for music scholars and fans, it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century.
- Contents
- Foreword by Chuck Klosterman
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Predicting the Future
- Over and Out
- Rhymed Funk Hits Area
- Skin Yard: Skin Yard
- Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips
- Music That Passes the Acid Test
- New Kids in the ’90s: A Decade in the Life
- Radiohead: The Bends
- Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List
- Talking World War III Blues
- 2. Alternative to What
- Bombast in the Blood: Bad Religion
- Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones
- Punk’s First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones
- Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwe
- An Indie Rises Above: SST Records
- Slime is Money (Bastard)
- Big Black Give You a Headache
- Nirvana: “All Apologies"
- Wrong Is Right: Marilyn Manson
- Live: Tower Theater, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997
- City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico
- Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory
- Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight ’Em Off
- 3. Umlauts from Heck
- Five Great Beats-Per-Minute
- Seduce: Seduce
- Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power
- Top 40 That Radio Won’t Touch: Metallica
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help
- Mentors: Up The Dose
- Robert Plant, Technobilly
- Def Leppard’s Magic and Loss
- AC/DC’s Aged Currencies
- White Wizzard Escape Each Other
- 4. To the Beat Y’all
- Mantronix: Strange Loops
- Spoonie Gee: Unreformed
- Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development
- Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka
- From Taco Bell to Pachelbel: Coolio
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz
- Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z
- Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk And Disorderly
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003
- 5. Race-Mixing
- Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man From Georgia
- Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1983
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985
- Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip-Hop
- Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice
- Living Colour: Biscuits EP
- 3rd Bass: Cactus Love
- Teena Marie in Wonderland
- Shake Your Love: Gillette
- The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice
- Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem
- The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem’s Family Values
- Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz Of Brooklyn
- 6. Country Discomfort
- Yippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots
- John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On
- K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs From An Aging Sex Bomb
- The Temptations of Mindy McCready
- CMT
- Banda, Si, Por Qué No
- Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright
- Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith
- Brad Paisley Is Ready to Make Nice
- 7. Pop Muzik
- Cutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989
- People Pleasers: The Village People
- Arrivedérci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun
- Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby
- It Was In The Cards
- Pet Shop Boys’ Mad Behavior
- Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla
- Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass
- If It Ain’t Baroque, Don’t Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless
- They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice Girls and Gina G
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998
- 8. Singles Again and Again
- Sucking in the ’70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1–10
- Zager and Evans: “In The Year 2525”
- Radio ’86: Dead Air
- Radio On Reviews
- Ten Cents a Watusi
- Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue
- Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep
- Singles Jukebox Reviews
- The Year of Too Much Consensus
- The End?
- Index
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