David's review
Rip It Up and Start Again
by Simon Reynolds
David's review
Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds
David's review
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Better than Reynolds articles because for the most he keeps himself out of it. It's also more coherent than his blog.
I learned about a lot of interesting bands from the late 70s San Fransisco industrial synth pop scene like Factrix, Nervous Gender, Tuxedo Moon and Savage Republic that I got into. I new the story of most of the major bands like Fall, Joy Division, and Wire but got a lot of funny, crazy anecdotes that put what they were doing in perspective. And I never knew that Throbbing Gristle had a feud with Whitehouse.
Only qualm is that it focused for much too long on Scritti Politti a band whose story and music are both incredibly boring. And I had the abridged U.S. edition which leaves out tons of chapters including one on Magazine.
I learned about a lot of interesting bands from the late 70s San Fransisco industrial synth pop scene like Factrix, Nervous Gender, Tuxedo Moon and Savage Republic that I got into. I new the story of most of the major bands like Fall, Joy Division, and Wire but got a lot of funny, crazy anecdotes that put what they were doing in perspective. And I never knew that Throbbing Gristle had a feud with Whitehouse.
Only qualm is that it focused for much too long on Scritti Politti a band whose story and music are both incredibly boring. And I had the abridged U.S. edition which leaves out tons of chapters including one on Magazine.
