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New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground, 1978-88

Paula Court,

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Why we're reading this: It's a great compilation of NY's best and most infamous bands: The Contortions, Suicide, Teenage Jesus & …more
[close] It's a great compilation of NY's best and most infamous bands: The Contortions, Suicide, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, even Frightwig.

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Jan 20, 2008 Andy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: rock-sleaze

Paula Court is an outstanding photographer and I'm surprised I never heard of her previously since I'm an old p-rock/new wave fossil myself! All of her shots are brilliant rock-crime scene-combat war zone classics and those that think they've seen it all haven't until they get their hands on her book.

Oh, and my wife (Rebecca Frightwig) is on page 152. Isn't she lovely? Right next to demonic Diamanda Galas. ...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Ray rated it it was ok

Nice pics. There is the occasional anecdote about how cheap it was to live in the lower east side in early 70's. More information about what these people did would be more interesting than what they looked like. ...more

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Jun 30, 2008 Rebecca rated it it was amazing

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