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Bring the noise : 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip hop
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Bring the noise : 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip hop

Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: London : Faber, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It focuses on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. It  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Reynolds
ISBN: 9780571232079 0571232078
OCLC Number: 86167529
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiv, 428 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What's missing? The state of pop --
The Redskins, live --
Zapp, live --
Younger than yesterday: Indie-pop's cult of innocence --
Nasty Boys: rap --
Beat happening: "Beat happening" --
Backs to the future: The folk and country resurgence in alternative rock --
Hip hop and house singles reviews --
Husker Du: "Warehouse: songs and stories" --
Mantronix, interview --
The Smiths: A eulogy --
Public Enemy, interview --
LL Cool J, interview --
Dinosaur Jr, interview --
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, live --
Morrissey, interview --
The Pixies, interview --
Living Colour, interview --
Various artists: Sub Pop 200 --
The Stone Roses, interview --
The Caring Colonialists: A critique of 'World Music' --
Positivity: De La Soul, Soul II Soul, Deee-lite and New Age House --
Rap's reformation: Gansta Rap versus Conscious Rap --
Madchester versus Dreampop: Happy Mondays and Ride --
Manic Street Preachers, interview --
Pavement, live --
Nirvana, live --
N-Joi/K-Klass/Bassheads/M-People, live --
RRRRRRush!: Hardcore rave and London pirate radio --
Wasted Youth: grunge and the Return of 'Heavy' --
Welcome to the Jungle --
Let the Boys be Boys: Onyx interview/Gangsta rap is Oi! (1993) --
State of Interdependence: Britain, America, and the 'special relationship' in pop music --
MTV: The revolution will not be televised --
PJ Harvey, interview --
It's a Dogg's Life: Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog --
Against the grain: Thinking about the voice in pop --
Pearl Jam vs Nirvana --
The Beastie Boys, interview --
Post-Rock --
Swingbeat and the new R&B --
Ragga --
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, live --
Blur versus Oasis --
Pulp: different class --
R&B: The sound of 1997 --
Roni Size/Reprazent: New forms --
Feminine pressure: 2-Step and UK Garage --
King and Queen of the Beats: Timbaland and Missy Elliott --
Hate me now: Puff Daddy and the player hater syndrome --
For the love of money: Lil Wayne, Cash Money and New Orleans rap --
Street rap --
We are family: The rise of the rap clan and the hip hop dynasty --
Roots 'n' Future: The disappearing voice of reggae --
Euro: Trance music and the people-pleasing power of 'Cheese' --
Miles Davis: Live-Evil/Black Beauty/In Concert/Dark Magus --
Pure fusion: Multiculture versus monoculture --
Radiohead versus Brit-rock/Thom Yorke, interview --
2-Step and R&B critiqued --
Faves of 2000: Dancehall --
Historia electronica: The case for electronic dance music culture --
B-Boys on E: Hip hop discovers Ecstasy --
So Solid Crew: They don't know --
The Streets: Original Pirate material --
Who says the British can't rap? The UK's new wave of MCs confront American hip hop isolationism --
Rave-Punk: The genre soon-to-be-known-as grime emerges --
Rap videos and the 'One White Dude' --
Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner --
Kanye West --
Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz: Crunk Juice --
Mother Nature's Sons: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink --
Against all odds: 2005, grime's make-or-break year --
2005: The year black pop and white pop stopped talking --
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not --
Green-Eyed soul: Hot Chip and Scritti Politti.
Responsibility: Simon Reynolds.

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