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I hate new music : the classic rock manifesto / by Dave Thompson.

by Thompson, Dave, 1960 Jan. 3-

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Backbeat Books, c2008.

Rock music -- History and criticism.

Rock music -- Miscellanea.

9780879309350 (cloth)

0879309350 (cloth)

xvi, 225 p. ; 23 cm.

Foreword. Jethro Tull slept here -- Preface. Welcome to the future -- Prologue. Is that a bustle in your hedgerow?, or, Are you just pleased to see me? -- Lenny Kravitz for president, or, Piss off, sonny, and take your vapid whining with you -- Selling postcards of the hanging, or, This is the end, distended friend -- The Titanic sails at dawn, or, More than more than a feeling -- Queen for a day, or, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango? -- Can you hear me, Cleveland?, or, Four ants cavorting on a stage seven miles away -- Fat and forty-plus, or, Had your Phil of Collins yet? -- Basically, it's about the essential futility of life as seen through the eyes of a man who thought he had everything, or, Tommy, it'll tear your will to live apart -- Clapton's still God, or, Would she still look so wonderful if she'd just burned your dinner? -- Weird scenes inside the tar pit, or, I've got eight tracks to hold you -- Hot rocking tonight, or, I know, let's make it a double album -- The curse of pepper, or, The worst record you've ever sworn was genius -- Grunge is gonna change the world, and jam bands will save us from ourselves, or, Papa's got a brand new shitbag -- Neil's still young, are you?, or, Hang him in the hall of fame (it's okay, the feet will stop kicking in a moment) -- Welcome back my friends to the show that seriously goes on forever, or, Don't forget to check your sell-by date -- Charity begins at someone else's home, or, One more push and I think we'll break the Ethiopian market wide open -- A glimmer of hope, or, Let it rut -- 17. Welcome to the machine, or, Thank Christ for the bomb -- Epilogue. Lennon : the final comeback -- App. 1. The classic rock manifesto : she gets the blokes because she smokes -- App. 2. The top 100 classic rock songs, 1968-1976.

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