Category: Music Books

Reviews: Music Books, Print

Marcus Gray Castle Communications PLC. Copyright Date: 1996 Review Date: 1999 I have to say I should have been tipped off when I read the back flap. It features a sensitive faux candid photo of the author coincidentally looking like a young relative of Malcom McLaren. It also says he is a full time rock […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on October 27th, 1999

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

And God Created Punk: Erica Echenberg and Mark P Virgin Books Copyright Date: 1996 Review Date: 1999 Grand prize winner in the “avoid the p-word” contest. Got a box of old photographs laying around? Cash in on the latest wave of commercial success for so-called punk bands. Virgin records must have a full time staff […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 27th, 1999

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain Grove Press Copyright Date: 1996 Review Date: 1998 Hands down the best book on the shelves with the word “punk” in the title, or printed anywhere between a cover for that matter. A must have for anyone with the faintest intrest […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on November 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Malcom Butt Plexus Publishing, London Copyright Date: 1997 Review Date: 1998 When I first picked up this book I thought it said “Sid Vicious, Rock N Roll Scar.” If only my disappointmnent was limited to misreading the title. I’m not sure who Malcom Butt is, and this book doesn’t bother explain who he is or […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 27th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Paolo Hewitt Bobcat Books Copyright Date: 1993 Review Date: 1998 I sit here loaded trying review this book The Jam: A Beat Concerto: The Authorized Biography by Paolo Hewitt. The same guy who wrote the liner notes for the “Jam Extras” CD. First things first. The Jam are “the only band that matters.” Or was […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 27th, 1998

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Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print

Edited by Chris Charlesworth Bobcat Books Copyright Date: 1993 Review Date: 1998 Originally published as two volumes in ’85 and ’88, this is the new combined edition with extra Madonna shots (pre Sex book). What you get is a bunch of pictures of loaded rock stars hanging out with wasted naked groupies. Not only do […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on August 27th, 1998

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Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Fuck You Heroes. Photographs 1976-1991 Fuck You Too: The Extras + More Scrapbook. By Glen E. Friedman Burning Flag Press Copyright Date:1993, 1996 Review Date: 1998 If you’re gonna shell out for these books you should spend the extra dough for the hardcover. Not that these are coffee table fodder, it’s just that they’ll probably […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 16th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

“England’s Dreaming. Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond.” is the full title of this longwinded analysis of the circumstances that led to birth of Punk with the Sex Pistols as the main focus. The first time I read this book I thought it was an over-intellectualized semi-masturbatory thesis paper as written by someone who […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Edited by F-Stop Fitzgerald, Written by Marian Kester. The unauthorized version? How about the unfufilled version? The first edition came out in 1983, with another published in 1990. This one is so thin that the other two must have been a joke. I can’t see the point in publishing it. What little content present is […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

This liitle (approx 4″ x 6″) hardcover is a part of the “Modern Icons” series brought to you by Richard Branson’s Virgin Publishing. Other artists in the series include Bob Marley, Kiss, and Led Zepplin. Basicly, these are impulse buy items targeted at middle class disposable incom. You’ve got your introduction, pros and cons, timeline, […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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