From the Velvets to the Voidoids
Subtitle: The Birth of American Punk Rock
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: May 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781556525759
Subjects: Punk; Rock Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Punk; Genres & Styles - Rock; History & Criticism - General; Music / Punk; Punk rock music; Punk rock musicians; United States
Notes: Contents:

Happiness is a warm drone (1961-5). the Theatre of Eternal Music - The Primitives -- The Velvet Underground - -- 

All the needles are on red! (1965-70). Exploding plastic inevitable - the Velvet Underground - Nico -- 

Energy freak-out freeform (1968-71). MC5 - the Stooges -- 

This is the modern world (1970--73). the Modern Lovers -- 

The underground jukeboxes (1972--4) -- Cinderella Backstreet - Mirrors - The Electric Eels -- Suicide is painless (1970-73. Suicide -- 

Trash! (1971-5). The New York Dolls - Wayne County -- 

From horizontal arsonists to neon boys (1967-73). The Neon Boys -- 

Jesus died for somebody’s sins . . . (1966-73). Patti Smith -- The Neon Boys turn on New York (1973-4). Television -- 

The Cadillac pulls out of the graveyard (1974-5). Patti Smith – Television -- 

Look out Cleveland! (1974-5). Mirrors - The Electric Eels - Rocket from the Tombs -- In the flesh (1973-5). Blondie -- 

Gabba gabba hey! (1974-5). The Ramones -- 

Down at the rock & roll club (1974-6). CBGBs - Max’s Kansas City - Club 82 - Performance Studio - Mother’s -- 

This is radio Ethiopia (1976). Patti Smith Group -- 

Living on Chinese rocks (1975-6). The Heartbreakers --

The Artistics come to town (1975-6). The Artistics - Talking Heads -- 

Looking into the heart of darkness (1975-6) -- Rocket from the Tombs - Pere Ubu -- 

Fuck art, let’s rock! (1972-7). The Dictators - Dead Boys - Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers -- 

A punk-rocker parade (1975-6). Punk - rock scene - New York Rocker - Hit Parader -- 

Instant sires from private stock (1976). Blondie - The Ramones - Talking Heads - Television Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Suicide -- 

The last adventure (1977-8). Television -- 

The final wave (1977-9). Patti Smith Group -- 

Into the void (1977-9). Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Suicide -- 

Doing the modern dance (1977-9) -- Pere Ubu - Friction – Devo -- 

Touched by the presence (1977-80) -- Blondie - Talking Heads - The Ramones -- 

Thrashing at the waves (1978-80). DNA - The Feelies - The Contortions - Lydia Lunch - The Plasmatics -- 

Postlude : after the fact/s -- Appendix 1: a CBGBs chronology -- Appendix 2 : bibliography -- Appendix 3 : dramatis personae -- Appendix 4 : discography.
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