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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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- ISBN
- 9780307464439
- Book Title
- Everybody Loves Our Town : an Oral History of Grunge
- Item Length
- 9.7in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.9in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 31.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 592 Pages
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Twenty years after the release of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge , the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all. In 1986, fledgling Seattle label C/Z Records released Deep Six , a compilation featuring a half-dozen local bands: Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins, Malfunkshun, the U-Men and Skin Yard. Though it sold miserably, the record made music history by documenting a burgeoning regional sound, the raw fusion of heavy metal and punk rock that we now know as grunge. But it wasn't until five years later, with the seemingly overnight success of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," that grunge became a household word and Seattle ground zero for the nineties alternative-rock explosion. Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, record executives, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, club owners, roadies, scenesters and hangers-on who lived through it. The book tells the whole story: from the founding of the Deep Six bands to the worldwide success of grunge's big four (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains); from the rise of Seattle's cash-poor, hype-rich indie label Sub Pop to the major-label feeding frenzy that overtook the Pacific Northwest; from the simple joys of making noise at basement parties and tiny rock clubs to the tragic, lonely deaths of superstars Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. Drawn from more than 250 new interviews--with members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Hole, Melvins, Mudhoney, Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, L7, Babes in Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, TAD, the U-Men, Candlebox and many more--and featuring previously untold stories and never-before-published photographs, Everybody Loves Our Town is at once a moving, funny, lurid, and hugely insightful portrait of an extraordinary musical era.
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307464431
ISBN-13
9780307464439
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102828292
Product Key Features
Book Title
Everybody Loves Our Town : an Oral History of Grunge
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Music
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
1.9in
Item Width
6.5in
Weight
31.1 Oz
Item Weight
31.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3534.3.Y37 2011
Publication Date
2011-09-06
Reviews
"Yarm's affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years." - Kirkus Review, *Starred Review* "Hardcore fans of grunge will treasure this." - Publishers Weekly "Yarm, a former editor of Blender , interviewed more than 250 musicians, scenesters, and record business types to deliver a personal, comprehensive history of grunge music&Highly recommended." - Library Journal "Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of Grunge music. Here is a warts-and-elbows refresher course for those of us who still find our memories of the era a little hazy." ─ Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "A very noble record of the grunge scene-and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books." -Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and the forthcoming Resident Punk "Great oral histories are rare. Hewing a narrative from all those chaotic and often conflicting memories with testimony alone and no guide-prose or stage direction is difficult. Making that somehow intimate and epic is nearly impossible. When a writer pulls it off, as Mark has with Everybody Loves Our Town, it's really a gift: the subject or scene finally gets its definitive record and the reader gains what feels like a room full of brand new friends. One of the best rock reads in a very long time." ─Marc Spitz (co-author We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk , music blogger VanityFair.com). "In Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm collects and dispenses remarkable insights about a genre no one even wants to claim as their own. As a child of grunge who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt I loved this book; it clarified so many things about a sound and a time I thought I already knew." ─Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music "A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story--the glorious Nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world's biggest noise. Mark Yarm gives the definitive chronicle of how it all happened, and how it ended too soon. But the book also makes you appreciate how weird it is that this moment happened at all." ─Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock-n-roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf." ─Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind The Pollacks, "Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of Grunge music. Here is a warts-and-elbows refresher course for those of us who still find our memories of the era a little hazy." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "A very noble record of the grunge scene-and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books." -Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkand the forthcoming Resident Punk "Great oral histories are rare. Hewing a narrative from all those chaotic and often conflicting memories with testimony alone and no guide-prose or stage direction is difficult. Making that somehow intimate andepic is nearly impossible. When a writer pulls it off, as Mark has with Everybody Loves Our Town, it's really a gift: the subject or scene finally gets its definitive record and the reader gains what feels like a room full of brand new friends. One of the best rock reads in a very long time." Marc Spitz (co-author We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk, music blogger VanityFair.com). "In Everybody Loves Our Town, Mark Yarm collects and dispenses remarkable insights about a genre no one even wants to claim as their own. As a child of grunge ' who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt ' I loved this book; it clarified so many things about a sound and a time I thought I already knew." Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music "A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story--the glorious Nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world's biggest noise. Mark Yarm gives the definitive chronicle of how it all happened, and how it ended too soon. But the book also makes you appreciate how weird it is that this moment happened at all." Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tapeand Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock-n-roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf." Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind The Pollacks, âYarmâs affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years.â - Kirkus Review, *Starred Review* âHardcore fans of grunge will treasure this.â - Publishers Weekly âYarm, a former editor of Blender , interviewed more than 250 musicians, scenesters, and record business types to deliver a personal, comprehensive history of grunge music&Highly recommended.â - Library Journal "Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of Grunge music. Here is a warts-and-elbows refresher course for those of us who still find our memories of the era a little hazy." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "A very noble record of the grunge scene-and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books." -Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and the forthcoming Resident Punk "Great oral histories are rare. Hewing a narrative from all those chaotic and often conflicting memories with testimony alone and no guide-prose or stage direction is difficult. Making that somehow intimate and epic is nearly impossible. When a writer pulls it off, as Mark has with Everybody Loves Our Town, it's really a gift: the subject or scene finally gets its definitive record and the reader gains what feels like a room full of brand new friends. One of the best rock reads in a very long time." Marc Spitz (co-author We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk , music blogger VanityFair.com). "In Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm collects and dispenses remarkable insights about a genre no one even wants to claim as their own. As a child of grunge â who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt â I loved this book; it clarified so many things about a sound and a time I thought I already knew." Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music "A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story--the glorious Nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the worldâs biggest noise. Mark Yarm gives the definitive chronicle of how it all happened, and how it ended too soon. But the book also makes you appreciate how weird it is that this moment happened at all." Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock-n-roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf." Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind The Pollacks, "Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of Grunge music. Here is a warts-and-elbows refresher course for those of us who still find our memories of the era a little hazy." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "A very noble record of the grunge scene-and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books." -Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and the forthcoming Resident Punk "Great oral histories are rare. Hewing a narrative from all those chaotic and often conflicting memories with testimony alone and no guide-prose or stage direction is difficult. Making that somehow intimate and epic is nearly impossible. When a writer pulls it off, as Mark has with Everybody Loves Our Town, it's really a gift: the subject or scene finally gets its definitive record and the reader gains what feels like a room full of brand new friends. One of the best rock reads in a very long time." Marc Spitz (co-author We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk , music blogger VanityFair.com). "In Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm collects and dispenses remarkable insights about a genre no one even wants to claim as their own. As a child of grunge – who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt – I loved this book; it clarified so many things about a sound and a time I thought I already knew." Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music "A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story--the glorious Nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world’s biggest noise. Mark Yarm gives the definitive chronicle of how it all happened, and how it ended too soon. But the book also makes you appreciate how weird it is that this moment happened at all." Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock-n-roll's greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover's bookshelf." Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind The Pollacks, "Yarm's affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years." - Kirkus Review, *Starred Review* "Hardcore fans of grunge will treasure this." - Publishers Weekly "Yarm, a former editor of Blender , interviewed more than 250 musicians, scenesters, and record business types to deliver a personal, comprehensive history of grunge musicâŠHighly recommended." - Library Journal "Mark Yarm has assembled the gospels of Grunge music. Here is a warts-and-elbows refresher course for those of us who still find our memories of the era a little hazy." Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "A very noble record of the grunge scene-and an excellent addition to the growing library of oral history music books." -Legs McNeil, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and the forthcoming Resident Punk "Great oral histories are rare. Hewing a narrative from all those chaotic and often conflicting memories with testimony alone and no guide-prose or stage direction is difficult. Making that somehow intimate and epic is nearly impossible. When a writer pulls it off, as Mark has with Everybody Loves Our Town, it''s really a gift: the subject or scene finally gets its definitive record and the reader gains what feels like a room full of brand new friends. One of the best rock reads in a very long time." Marc Spitz (co-author We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk , music blogger VanityFair.com). "In Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm collects and dispenses remarkable insights about a genre no one even wants to claim as their own. As a child of grunge who spent a humiliating chunk of the 1990s in an Alice in Chains t-shirt I loved this book; it clarified so many things about a sound and a time I thought I already knew." Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music "A deeply funny story, as well as a deeply sad story--the glorious Nineties moment when a bunch of punk rock bands from Seattle accidentally blew up into the world's biggest noise. Mark Yarm gives the definitive chronicle of how it all happened, and how it ended too soon. But the book also makes you appreciate how weird it is that this moment happened at all." Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "A definitive, irreplaceable chronicle of one of rock-n-roll''s greatest eras. It should sit tall on any rock lover''s bookshelf." Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind The Pollacks "In an attempt to trace the real roots of grunge, journalist Mark Yarm compiled an exhaustive oral history from the people who lived it. In his book Everybody Loves Our Town, there are interviews with everyone from the early adopters to those that were late to the party, but nevertheless helped extend [grunge''s] shadow of influence by turning it into a look for the world to emulate." -The Fader "This massively readable tome gathers recollections from every grunge band you've ever heard of (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Melvins) and some you haven't (we hardly knew ye, Skin Yard)âŠThe genre's first truly comprehensive insider historyâŠIt's gossipyâŠand fascinating, with so much backstabbing and death it's like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had written about heroin addicts with bad hair." - Revolver (4 out of 4 stars) "An impressive display of reportorial industriousness⊠It's the feel-bad rock book of the fall."- Bloomberg Businessweek "Oral history is an art in itself. It's why Everybody Loves Our Town will endure as a classic of monumental scale."- Paste Magazine. " For hardcore fans or people just curious about what the fuss was all about, Mark Yarm's excellent new book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge" is well worth the read.
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-009192
Dewey Decimal
781.66
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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