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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Auteur(s): Michael Azerrad
Narrateur(s): Phil Elverum, Stephin Merritt, Jon Wurster, Corey Taylor, Merrill Garbus, Michael Azerrad, Colin Meloy, Fred Armisen, Laura Jane Grace, Dave Longstreth, Jeff Tweedy, Jonathan Franzen, Sharon Van Etten
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The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include:
  • Sonic Youth, read by Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards)
  • Black Flag, read by David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors)
  • The Replacements, read by Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats)
  • Minutemen, read by Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
  • Husker Du, read by Colin Meloy (the Decemberists)
  • Minor Threat, read by Laura Jane Grace (Against Me)
  • Mission of Burma, read by Jonathan Franzen (award-winning New York Times bestselling author)
  • Butthole Surfers, read by Fred Armisen (comedian/actor)
  • Big Black, read by Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
  • Fugazi, read by Michael Azerrad (author)
  • Mudhoney, read by Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)
  • Beat Happening, read by Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields)
  • Dinosaur Jr., read by Sharon Van Etten (singer/songwriter)
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For those interested in the subject matter this is great music history. Amazing level of detail!

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Overall this is a very well written overview of the eighties to (very) early nineties indie music scene leading up to the explosion of Nevermind by Nirvana in 1991. I was fairly familiar with The Replacements, Dinosaur, Jr, Butthole Surfers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Fugazi and Minor Threat, having listened to them in high school, but less so with Mission of Burma, Big Black, Mudhoney and Beat Happening. The book covers overall context as well as more personal history behind characters like Henry Rollins, Steve Albini, Ian Mackaye and Calvin Johnson of K Records and the dynamics that make and break bands that put in immense effort to tour and live off their music. The book is as much about the struggles of starting and running an indie record label as it is about the trials and tribulations of life on the road in a cramped, run-down van in the pre-email, pre-cell phone days.

From a technical standpoint the narration is well-done overall, and the different narrators makes for good variety. For some reason one of the chapters had a word bleeped out repeatedly, despite the fact that other chapters were full of swear words. And Fred Armisen's narration sounds like he was recording in a broom closet or tiled bathroom, it's unfortunate that he didn't have a proper setup as I found the sound quality distracting.

Overall highly recommended to any fan of even some of these bands or indie, punk or grunge music in general.

Very well written, some technical issues

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Most of the readers got words & names wrong and had really bad, boring delivery.

terrible reading

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