Fargo Rock City C/D?

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I'm reading this book by Chuck Klosterman and enjoying it. Very fast, easy read that combines anecdotes from his life as a teenage metalhead in rural North Dakota with some sharp observations about the nature of metal (the mainstream, 80s glam side of it.)

I never had a metal phase, my high school bag was classic rock, but this book rings true. It strikes me that Klosterman is probably a big fan of Chuck Eddy (& I don't think it's just the metal appreciation), but I'm enjoying this book a lot more than Accidental Evolution... (can't find Eddy's metal book.) Klosterman has a way of writing about music usually considered "bad" that makes me think about it a little differently & understand why someone would be sucked into tha tworld.

Anyway, I'm just wondering if any of you had read it & wondered what your thoughts are.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 17 August 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

What other music books have taken this format, combining memoir w/ analysis? Any good ones?

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 17 August 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Coulda sworn we done this one back on Ye Olde ILM. Clearly we HAVE moved to a new generation! Viva! Or something

(In brief -- Chuck E. over Chuck K.; Chuck K. an interesting read but bends over backwards to defend things that don't seem to require either much defending or that much thought)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 August 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

So here is that other thread -- more opinions if you got 'em, please.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 19 August 2002 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What other music books have taken this format, combining memoir w/ analysis? Any good ones?

Fargo Rock City is better than Dance of Days, a book about the harDCore scene and how it produced Fugazi.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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