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It Feels So Good When I Stop

By: Joe Pernice

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Its more than just the debut novel from the acclaimed singer and songwriter-it's "the best messed up love song you'll ever read." (Dan Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino, creators of The Gilmore Girls) Our hero is a talented but floundering musician with no job, no apartment, no wife (anymore), and a six-pack of beer. Stuck between responsibility and freedom, and apathy and success, he's seeking sanctuary at his sister's home in Cape Cod, agreeing to look after his two-year old nephew. Together the unlikely pair attracts the attention of a lovely young woman with a broken past all her own and the ability to shock our hero awake-or shake him to his core.

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1101133384

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9781101133385

It Feels So Good When I Stop

By: Joe Pernice

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The Smiths' Meat is Murder

By: Joe Pernice

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The Smiths' Meat is Murder

By: Joe Pernice

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm. In this brilliant novella Joe Pernice tells the story of an asthmatic kid's discovery of Meat is Murder. Here is a short exceropt: One morning as I was jogging my way past the bronze plaque commemorating the deaths of one student and one motorcyclist, my necktie flapping like a windsock, Ray floored the brake pedal of his Dodge as he closed in on me. Fifty mile an hour traffic came to a screeching, nearly murderous halt behind him. He leaned over and rolled down the passenger side window in one fluid motion. He dispensed with formalities while I marveled at the audacity of his driving and, tossing something at me, winked and said, "Here. I'm going to kill myself." He pegged the gas, leaving a surprisingly good patch of rubber for such a shitty car. In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter's last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette: "Smiths: Meat.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441132449

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9781441132444

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

By: Joe Harvard

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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

By: Joe Harvard

The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the recording process. With input from co-producer Norman Dolph and Velvets fan Jonathan Richman, Harvard documents the creation of a record which - in the eyes of many - has never been matched. EXCERPT In 1966, some studios, like Abbey Road, had technicians in white lab coats, and even the less formal studios usually had actual engineering graduates behind the consoles. Studios were still more about science than art. Clients who dared make technical suggestions were treated with bemusement, derision, or hostility. The Velvets were a young band under constant critical attack, and the pressure to conform in order to gain acceptance must have been tremendous. Most bands of that era compromised with their record companies, through wholesale revamping of their image from wardrobe to musical style, changing or omitting lyrics, creating drastically edited versions for radio airplay, or eliminating songs entirely from their sets and records. With Andy Warhol in the band's corner, such threats were minimized.

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169

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A&C Black

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0826415504

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9780826415509

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

By: Michael Blair,Joe Bucciero

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Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

By: Michael Blair,Joe Bucciero

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk's rules of rebellion. Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing Colossal Youth's artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the 20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover the intricacies of Young Marble Giants' idiosyncratic take on music in the post-punk age. Emerging from the gaps in between the notes are new ways of hearing the history of punk, the political and economic turbulence of the late 1970s, and the world that surrounds us right now.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501321145

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9781501321146

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

By: Joe Gross

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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

By: Joe Gross

In on the Kill Taker examines how the album became an alt-rock classic, and the difficulties leading up to the band's breakthrough success.

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1501321390

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9781501321399

The Smiths' Meat is Murder

By: Joe Pernice

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1441114254

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9781441114259

Planet Joe

By: Joe Cole

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Planet Joe

By: Joe Cole

Life on the road as seen through the eyes of Black Flag/Rollins Band roadie and Rollins confidante, Joe Cole. Tour journal documenting the final Black Flag tour and first Rollins Band tour.

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140

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2 13 61

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1880985098

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9781880985090

Prick Up Your Ears

The Biography of Joe Orton

By: John Lahr,Joe Orton

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The Biography of Joe Orton

By: John Lahr,Joe Orton

Profiles Joe Orton, the New Wave comic playwright who was brutally murdered by his homosexual lover in 1967

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Vintage

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0394753054

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9780394753058

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It Feels So Good When I Stop

It Feels So Good When I Stop

It Feels So Good When I Stop

It Feels So Good When I Stop

The Smiths' Meat is Murder

The Smiths' Meat is Murder

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

The Smiths' Meat is Murder

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Planet Joe

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