Why I Am Not A Rockist by 'Plastic' Russell Bertrand

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Please submit other titles for the "Imaginary Library" of Rockism.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Such as

Rock and Rollability -Jane Austen (hopefully not already on ILBooks Jane A thread)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago)

"Rock and the City Solution" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago)

"A Farewell to Rock" by Ernest Hemingway

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Middlemarch-ine Music by George Eliot

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago)

And stockholm cindy breaks away from the pack!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Geezers and All the Young Dudes by Ivan-a-Rock Turgenev

― youn, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Rocky Jim by Kingsley Amis

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:37 (twenty years ago)

"The Red and the Black: On Tour with Blue Oyster Cult 1973" by Stendhal

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago)

the rockist manifesto by karl marx

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago)

sorry, that was just embarrassing. are there any moderators around?

― youn, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago)

"Charge of the Youth Brigade" (Canons to the left of them...)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Rockism in America, Alexis de Rocqueville

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago)

'Right On, Rock!' by Graham Greene

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rock by Raymond Chandler

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Carver?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I'll go away now. Now everyone know that I don't read actual books.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

Steal This Rock, Abbie Hoffman

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago)

How To Do Things With Rock J L Austin

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Rock Harvest , The Continental Rock, The Big RockoverDashiell Hammett

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago)

The Rockist Falcon

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:44 (twenty years ago)

The Rockist Inside Me- Jim Thompson

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:47 (twenty years ago)

The Rockist Theory of Alienation -- Mandel/Novack
The Rockist Manifesto

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago)

The Interpretation of Rock - Sigmund Freud
A Rockist's Apology - G H Hardy
The Stainless Steel Rockist Saves The World! - Harry Harrison

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Portrait of the Rockist As a Young Punk - James Joyce
My Rock and Welcome to It - James Thurber
Moonrocker - Ian Fleming

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Are You There, Cleveland? It's Me, Margaret.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Brilliant!

Goodbye Columbus, Hello Cleveland! - Phillip Roth

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

A Rockist Proposal - Jonathan Swift
The Tape of The Rock - Alexander Pope

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago)

To Kill a Rockist Bird

― Bumfluff, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Fear and Rockism in Las Vegas - HST.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago)

The Importance of Being Rockist - Oscar Wilde

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago)

"I'm the Only One Who Listens To REAL Rock" - Article, Nick Hornby

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Rockism

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago)

A Tale of Two Rockists-Chaz Dickens

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Samuel Beckett: Malone Rocks

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Gigs Past

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago)

James Joyce: Portrait of the Music Journalist As a Young Man

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago)

The Tape of the Rock by Alexander Pope wins, for me. Furthermore, I know it would be as withering a put-down of rock as any early 80s Scritti Politti interview.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Welcome to The Jungle, Baby, You're Gonna DIE! by Upton Sinclair

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I always liked Naomi Klein's anti-dance polemic, No Pogo.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Breakfast of Underdogs-Kurt Vonnegut

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Against Rockism: And Other Essays, Susan Sontag

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

"Kyuss, Queen of the Stone Age" by Edgar Rice Burroughs

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

An Essay Concerning Human Rockism, Hume
The Death of Prince- Machiavelli

(http://poptext.blogspot.com pimp yawn)

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

don't go home with your... rock on! by l.c.

― youn, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

The Sound and the Jury: The Judas Priest Story

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Sister Carrie Christian (She Was Just Seventeen), Drieser

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago)

And of course Anthony Powell's multi-volume A Arm-Crossing Half-Hearted Foot-Tap to the Music of Time.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Insincerity and Inauthenticity by Lionel 'Disco' Trilling

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Seven Types of Rockituity -William Empson
often misread as
Seven Types of Rock-it-to-it-to-me

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Rock-tical Criticism by I.A. Richards

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

To The Whitehouse - Virginia Woolf
Bleak House Music - Charles Dickens
Thus Spake Zappathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Discours sur la Methode Man - Rene Descartes
Geddyleeses - James Joyce
The Decline and Fall of the Hackney Empire - Edward Gibbon

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

haha!

The Labyrinth of Rockitude - Octavio Paz

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

License to Illiad - Homer

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Songbook - Nick Hornby

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Born to Run Rabbit Run - John Upsteen

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Stein und Zeit by Martin Heidegger

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Le rockisme est un humanisme by Sartre

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago)

also the author of Being and Rockingness

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Pierre=Rock, Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

*fist bump*

― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2017 04:54 (seven years ago)

wow amazing thread title

― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:55 (seven years ago)

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