Seth's review
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984
by Simon Reynolds
Seth's review
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Seth's review
rating:
This book would be more appropriately titled Post-Punk and Beyond. The usual post-punk bands are covered, but they also include Pere Ubu and Devo, which were arguable less post-punk than art rock in their own right. After all, both bands preceded the punk explosion and evolved somewhat outside it.
The second half of the book deals mostly with Goth and New Pop - bands like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, and ABC, Flock of Seagulls, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Post-post-punk, I guess. But then there are all sorts of other bands at least mentioned. It's really more about the British independent music scene in the early 1980s.
At any rate, it's a great book and a quick read; full of hilarious anecdotes and a look into the minds and egos of the British scene in the early 1980s.
The second half of the book deals mostly with Goth and New Pop - bands like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, and ABC, Flock of Seagulls, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Post-post-punk, I guess. But then there are all sorts of other bands at least mentioned. It's really more about the British independent music scene in the early 1980s.
At any rate, it's a great book and a quick read; full of hilarious anecdotes and a look into the minds and egos of the British scene in the early 1980s.
