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The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
by Amy Wallace
Bowie doomed punk? Here I was thinking it was Mike Oldfield ;-)
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - MacGowan eating a Beach Boys LP. I'm surprised he didn't start writing songs about surfing in the River Liffey and driving in 409s with Dublin 'groovy chicks'
I'm just amazed he was able to bite off hunks of LP vinyl and masticate them with only, like, one and a half teeth. Here's the anecdote verbatim from the book:
One night Shane took a section of blotters of acid -- "I don't know how many, but it was very strong." In short, he imagined that the Third World War was beginning, that Ireland had become ruler of the world, and that he was Ireland's diplomatic attaché to the world's powers. "I got out the vodka and the caviar for the Russians. Not real caviar. What I had around. Lumpfish roe. The summit meeting was at my flat... [W]e decided to divide world power up between the blacks and the Irish. And in order to demonstrate the USA's cultural redundancy, I ate my Beach Boys Greatest Hits album. Kathy knocked on my door and my mouth was covered in blood. I said, 'Go away, can't you see I'm involved in the future of the world here?' I woke up and I thought the Third World War had happened and I was in Vienna... And it gradually dawned on me that I was in London and the Third World War hadn't happened. Then I realized I'd eaten my Beach Boys record."
Ha Ha Ha Ha - true - those one and a half teeth must be very strong. Maybe it's all that Guinness...a secret property no-one knew about.
That's a great anecdote. I shoulda figured he was tripping out of his skull. I originally thought he was on a Bushmills bender and did it on a dare or something.
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This is only "official" because franchise co-founder Amy Wallace is involved. Also, there's a seal of approval on the cover that announces, "GENUINE 100% PUNK!" which is true only if you are willing to include David Bowie, Television, Travis Barker, and Peter Wolf as "punks". What next? Coldplay? Air Supply? In other words, it's a bit soft on the edges, feels more like old fogeys reminiscing sometimes, which probably explains why the Clash (zzzzzzzz) appears in nearly every list.
A fistful of entertaining lists though:
Eric Friedl's 10 Things That Made Memphis Punk
Handsome Dick Manitoba's Top 24 Wrestling Rule Breakers (Fred Blassie at number 1 here)
Tim Warren's Top 10 Things That Doomed Punk Rock! (Number one: David Bowie, right on!)
6 Great Moments in Puking
Richard Meltzer's Beatnik Roots of Punk: A Reading List
Oh and the anecdote where Shane MacGowan eats his Beach Boys LP is pricel
A fistful of entertaining lists though:
Eric Friedl's 10 Things That Made Memphis Punk
Handsome Dick Manitoba's Top 24 Wrestling Rule Breakers (Fred Blassie at number 1 here)
Tim Warren's Top 10 Things That Doomed Punk Rock! (Number one: David Bowie, right on!)
6 Great Moments in Puking
Richard Meltzer's Beatnik Roots of Punk: A Reading List
Oh and the anecdote where Shane MacGowan eats his Beach Boys LP is pricel
Bowie doomed punk? Here I was thinking it was Mike Oldfield ;-)
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - MacGowan eating a Beach Boys LP. I'm surprised he didn't start writing songs about surfing in the River Liffey and driving in 409s with Dublin 'groovy chicks'
I'm just amazed he was able to bite off hunks of LP vinyl and masticate them with only, like, one and a half teeth. Here's the anecdote verbatim from the book:One night Shane took a section of blotters of acid -- "I don't know how many, but it was very strong." In short, he imagined that the Third World War was beginning, that Ireland had become ruler of the world, and that he was Ireland's diplomatic attaché to the world's powers. "I got out the vodka and the caviar for the Russians. Not real caviar. What I had around. Lumpfish roe. The summit meeting was at my flat... [W]e decided to divide world power up between the blacks and the Irish. And in order to demonstrate the USA's cultural redundancy, I ate my Beach Boys Greatest Hits album. Kathy knocked on my door and my mouth was covered in blood. I said, 'Go away, can't you see I'm involved in the future of the world here?' I woke up and I thought the Third World War had happened and I was in Vienna... And it gradually dawned on me that I was in London and the Third World War hadn't happened. Then I realized I'd eaten my Beach Boys record."
Ha Ha Ha Ha - true - those one and a half teeth must be very strong. Maybe it's all that Guinness...a secret property no-one knew about.
That's a great anecdote. I shoulda figured he was tripping out of his skull. I originally thought he was on a Bushmills bender and did it on a dare or something.