Simon Reynolds





Simon Reynolds

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Simon Reynolds is one of the most respected music journalists working today, and his writing is both influential and polarizing. He draws on an impressive range of knowledge, and writes with a fluid, engaging style. His books Rip it Up and Start Again and Generation Ecstasy are well-regarded works about their respective genres, and RETROMANIA may be his most broadly appealing book yet. It makes an argument about art, nostalgia, and technology that has implications for all readerswhether diehard music fans or not. Its an important and provocative look at the present and future of culture and innovation."


Average rating: 3.99 · 2,396 ratings · 266 reviews · 22 distinct works
Rip It Up and Start Again
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,505 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Retromania: Pop Culture's A...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Generation Ecstasy
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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The Sex Revolts: Gender, Re...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Energy Flash
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 69 ratings2 editions
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Totally Wired: Post Punk In...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Bring The Noise
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Blissed Out
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1990
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Beijar o Céu
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006
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Better Than Chocolate: 50 P...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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“The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”
Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

“...noise annoys...”
Simon Reynolds, Blissed Out

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up experience, place a distance between itself and immediacy.”
Simon Reynolds



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