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Rock and roll will save your life : a book by and for the fanatics among us (wit
Almond, Steve.
Adult Nonfiction ML3534.3 .A46 2010
Almond, Steve.
Adult Nonfiction ML3534.3 .A46 2010
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| Contents | Page |
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| Intro: Bruce Springsteen Is a Rock Star, You Are Not | p. 3 |
| Gratuitous List #1 - Bands Shamelessly Overexposed by the "Alternative" Press | p. 11 |
| Chapter 1 - The DF Starter Kit (No Assembly Required!) | p. 13 |
| Interlude: Paradise Theater, American Classic | p. 20 |
| Chapter 2 - Moving in Stereo | p. 23 |
| Reluctant Exegesis: "(I Bless the Rains Down in) Africa" | p. 27 |
| Chapter 3 - How I Became a Music Critic | p. 32 |
| Interlude: Why Covering the Grammys Is Not as Glamorous as You May Have Been Led to Believe | p. 40 |
| List #2 - Ten Things You Can Say to Piss Off a Music Critic | p. 44 |
| Chapter 4 - Configurations (or How the Industry F'd Us) | p. 45 |
| List #3 - Rock's Biggest Assholes | p. 54 |
| Chapter 5 - What Songs Do | p. 57 |
| Reluctant Exegesis: "Fade to Black" | p. 65 |
| Chapter 6 - Nil Lara Was Our Messiah | p. 69 |
| Interlude: Five Really Stupid Things I've Done as a Drooling Fanatic | p. 79 |
| Chapter 7 - On the Varieties of Fanatical Experience | p. 88 |
| List #4 - Rock's Top Ten Religious Freaks | p. 97 |
| Chapter 8 - How Hip-Hop Sounds in a Canyon | p. 99 |
| Interlude: Winter in America with Gil Scott-Heron | p. 107 |
| Chapter 9 - In Which Mr. Joe Henry (Rather Unwittingly) Becomes My Writing Coach | p. 112 |
| Interlude: A Mercifully Brief Survey of Prog Rock Lyricism | p. 116 |
| Chapter 10 - The Mating Habits of the Drooling Fanatic | p. 124 |
| Reluctant Exegesis: "All out of Love" | p. 133 |
| Chapter 11 - The Marriage of Fanatico | p. 137 |
| Interlude: The Kip Winger Canon | p. 144 |
| Chapter 12 - Burying the Dead with Ike Reilly | p. 148 |
| List #5 - Top Ten Covers of All Time | p. 164 |
| Chapter 13 - Why in God's Name Am I Managing a Band? The Boris McCutcheon Story | p. 167 |
| Interlude: A Frank Discussion of My Mancrush on Bob Schneider | p. 178 |
| Chapter 14 - How Dave Grohl Taught Me to Stop Whining and, Against Every Known Impulse in My Body, Embrace Happiness | p. 189 |
| List #6 - I See Your Muffin and Raise You a Pirate: The Many Silly Names of Rock Star Spawn | p. 199 |
| Chapter 15 - Dayna Kurtz Sings the World a Lullaby | p. 203 |
| Outro: Drooling Fanaticism in the Age of Actual Drooling | p. 211 |
| Appendix A - The Official Drooling Fanatic Desert Island Playlist | p. 215 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 219 |
| Permission Acknowledgments | p. 221 |
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