Molly's review
Rip It Up and Start Again
by Simon Reynolds
Molly's review
Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds
Molly's review
rating:
this is the best peice of music journalism i ever read. sentence-by-sentence, its clever and wry and occasionly brilliant. as a whole, it brings in london (or manchester, or cleveland, etc.) history and sociology into the history of post- punk and new wave without being overly grandious or obnoxious. v. entertaining. it compiles legendary and esoteric information about all the artists featured in it (for example: who knew that malcolm mclaren wanted to make a promotional movie of The Slits where The Slits get kidnapped and sold as sex slaves in Mexico?) but its analytical and critical enough to avoid being a fan book or banal laundry list of trivia.
