Best book based on a band

Motley Crue: The Dirt

it made me laugh, it made me cry...

but most important, It reminded me what rock n roll was suppose to be...

GOD BLESS THE CRUE

[Edited on May 14, 2004 by BitchBoi]

Lexicon Devil. Based more on Darby than the Germs... but hands down THEE best!!!

"Confusion is Next - the Sonic Youth Story"

"Heavier that Heaven" isn't really about the whole band I guess?

'wouldn't it be nice' the brian wilson autobiography (yeah right).


sex drugs & rock and rol before the fisrt paragraph ends!

damn i love that book. i crack up when i read the parts about them calling tommys girl bullwinkle or something

Also, "No One Here Gets Out Alive" (The Doors) never gets old. I've owned the same old beat up paperback copy since Junior High (before many of you were born).

MudBunny said:
Does a book about a genra count? Even if it doesnt, I'm listing this anyway... because it's one of the best books I've ever read


Well shit if we're going there you gotta talk about "England's Dreaming" and "Hip-hop Nation"

I'm going w/the genre theme: Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerard. If you haven't read it, shame.

I second that. One of the best books ever, and well informed.
I really didn't know about all the in fighting that took place in the scene. I have read the book to pieces twice.
I need a new copy.


[Edited on May 15, 2004 by sakita]

Thirded. Great book.

A DYSFUNCTIONAL SUCCESS -- by "WRECKLESS" ERIC GOULDEN

http://www.wrecklesseric.com

[Edited on May 15, 2004 by spudboy]

Best band based on a book: The Justified Ancients of Mumu.

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

Okay, how fucking cool is that? I gotta get one.

*still a proud owner of Big Smash!*

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield
You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke by Daniel Wolff
Without You: the Tragic Story of Badfinger by Dan Matovina
The Byrds: Timeless Flight by Johnny Rogan
Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons by Ben Fong-Torres
Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio by Andy Babiuk

...as for genres:

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin
Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution and Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock by Richie Unterberger
No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution by Will Birch
England's Dreaming : Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

...and everyone should read I Need More by Iggy Pop. One of the funniest books ever

i second "Our band could be your life"...

Here's my top music related books I've read in no particular order ...

Lords of Chaos

The Dirt -- Even if you don't care for Motley Crue much, the book is still great.

Our Band Could Be Your Life

Get In the Van -- Henry Rollins's diaries from when he when he was in Black Flag (the audio book is quite good too).

Moreso about the man behind the band than the band itself, but Deborah Curtis' Touching From A Distance is invaluable to any Joy Division fan, whether casual or devoted.


And yeah, Jon Savage's England's Dreaming is manna, too.

I can't wait for Simon Reynold's book on post-punk to be released.

I thought "England's Dreaming" was biased pretentious crap.

I don't see it it fits either of these judgements. First, Savage is more than happy to point out shortcoming of different groups, and how the "punk" movement, as it started, failed miserably.

And it's only pretentious if he flaunts the information he knows. He doesn't - just states the facts, plain and simple, which are more then entertaining/fascinating on their own.

Alright, let me begin this by saying that I love the Pistols and I love the Clash.
Now, with that said, the reason I say biased and pretentious is because he smooches both of those bands asses to embarrassing extremes while writing off other equally important bands of the era (the Damned, Sham 69 come to mind) as unimportant yobboes.

I rather just read this man's lyrics over some failed rock star's bias opinion about bands I like

Well, I don't think he writes off the Damned. He praises the one album the put out worthy of praise, and tells it pretty much like it is with the rest of their stuff. I doubt you'd find many serious music critics out there who would defend much of the Damned's back catalogue.

And, well, to be frank, Sham 69 were unimporntant yobboes. Of the worst kind. I'd rather listen to the Not Sensibles.

good 'un.