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| From | "fjeder" <fjeder@shiner22.net> |
| Subject | Re: Fargo Rock City |
| Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2003 09:53:55 +0200 |
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Hi there !
Coming from Denmark I never heard about this book.
I was part of the hair-metal (we called it poodle-rock, later) scene in Denmark back in the 80's, so I would really like to get my hands on a copy.
Does anybody know where I can get it ?
shineOn...:-)
Fjeder
www.shiner22.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu>
To: <audities@smoe.org>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:34 AM
Subject: Fargo Rock City
> Has this book been mentioned on the list? I'm thinking that I read a
> glancing reference to it a while back, but I heartily recommend this
> book to the list.
>
> Granted, it's about being a hair-metal band fan instead of a powerpop
> fan, but the experiences have got to be similar.
>
> Maybe it's growing up in a town of 613 people in Central Nebraska, just
> as he grew up in a less than 500 person North Dakota town, but I know
> where Chuck Klosterman is coming from. His basic thesis is that music
> simply IS, and the listener is the one who gives it any meaning. Punk
> has meaning because its listeners give it meaning. Classical has meaning
> because its listeners give it meaning. Jazz has meaning....you get the
> trend here, right. He claims that while 80's hair metal is predictable
> and repetitious and incestuous and has basically stupid lyrics, it is
> still important because it meant something to him at 15, and 18 and 21,
> and 28, and...
>
> I also agree with the point that he makes in the epilogue about Head
> East -- EVERYONE I knew in the 70s and 80s had at least one Head East
> album, usually two or three -- there's no way they only ever went Gold.
> (by the way, nobody ever seemed to really like Head East, they just had
> their albums -- probably because they were perennial openers for the
> bigger bands -- that's what kept bands like REO going until the schlock
> ballads broke them through)
>
>
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