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There are bands that co...more...]]> 78040493 941470 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 16 21:20:06 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 21:29:46 -0800 2009
What I love best ...more...]]> 79342710 1070281 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Sun Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 17:44:14 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 12:30:25 -0800 2009 Our Band Could Be Your Life is the most absorbing book about music I have ever read. While it's not perfect, it's essential reading for anyone interested in independent music, be it of the era covered by this book (1981-1991) or today. Composed of about a dozen profiles of bands from across the c...more...]]> 48097351 266249 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 3 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 03 06:52:06 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:04:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 47244658 787522 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 3 0 false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 07:21:45 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 08:50:14 -0700 2009 of. (Embarrassing to admit as a Washingtonian). Still...more...]]> 3884520 110957 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 1 false Tue Jul 31 20:55:27 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 02:52:03 -0700 2007 38571099 1665585 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 0 false Mon Nov 24 16:51:57 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 17:01:31 -0800 2008 6
Basically Azerad ...more...]]> 42464653 1350809 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Jan 09 09:38:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 09:44:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 45791252 368259 534637 0316063797 9780316063791 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175610094m/534637.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175610094s/534637.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534637.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.18 92 2001 5 0 false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 20:13:17 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:41:41 -0700 2009 interested in, but ended up going cover-to-cover. Azerrad does an excellent job of bringing that time period up and immediate. I was musically coming of age about 5 minutes into when these bands started getting signed i...more...]]> 57983914 952436 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:50:42 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:53:23 -0700 2009
I learned stuff I didn't know (Greg Ginn and raymond Pettitbon are brothers? The HELL you say!) AND re-lived thi...more...]]> 57061338 2347164 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 0 false Sat May 23 09:52:31 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 09:55:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 35852201 1322529 534637 0316063797 9780316063791 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175610094m/534637.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175610094s/534637.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534637.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 21 09:40:56 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 17:01:30 -0800 2008 Spin magazine like it was my job (I was heartbroken when the changed the paper and made it smaller and took out "Genius Lessons"! END OF AN ERA, PEOPLE). It pretty much was, I guess, as an angsty-youth with the eyeliner and ridiculous clothes, and it recomme...more...]]> 32091239 1430578 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 05 09:39:38 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 11:39:48 -0700 2008
Because most of the bands in the book never were huge superstars, there is a hell of a lot out there written about them.

This book tells stories about life ...more...]]> 29305051 317173 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 3 0 false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 08:03:30 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 08:14:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 28889145 810832 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jul 31 11:32:12 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 11:50:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 28675141 1103479 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 29 17:01:08 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 17:25:35 -0700 2008
In this book he basically does a ...more...]]> 24616854 1055662 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 3 0 false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 09:29:19 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 09:21:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 21773117 991647 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 07 07:17:27 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 07:31:38 -0700 2008 Come As You Are, which was my primary source for an non-fiction essay I wrote in 7th grade about the band (yup), and Our Band Could Be Your Life plays on Azerrad's strengths as well as the success of that ...more...]]> 12934911 793790 29393 0316787531 9780316787536 249 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429m/29393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168029429s/29393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29393.Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_Scenes_from_the_American_Indie_Underground_1981_1991 4.22 1716 2001 5 0 false Sat Jan 19 18:58:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 22:04:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=534637