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Summary: An excellent book on how the Punk culture got started
Review: An excellent book on how the Punk culture got started and where it's going to. On of the finest books I've read, both on the topic and in general.
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Summary: The Most True to Fact and Comprehensive Book of REAL R&R
Review: This is one of the best books about the beginings of punk. It doesn't ignore anything, because it is from the people who started it themselves. It discusses Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The MC5 , the Dictators, The Ramones, and The New York Dolls. It talks about what punk was intended to be, and complains about how it became what it never intended to become. If you want to learn more about punk, or just brush up on your name dropping, this is the book for you. It reads like a novel, and you won't put it down....
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Summary: More where that came from!
Review: Good stuff! People who want a further exploration of the "Fun With Dick And Jayne" chapter should check out Jayne County's "Man Enough To Be A Woman" available from Amazon ,the real masterpiece on the down town NY scene
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Summary: ILLUMINATING AND EMOTIONAL
Review: The Ramones were cartoon characters. Iggy was just a junkie madman. Sid and Nancy were just junkie idiots. Same with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan. At least, that's the popular perception of punk's major stars until you read this oral history of the movement. Read this, and suddenly these folks are no longer mere one-dimensional caricatures, but suddenly they're the passionate, misguided, and doomed twenty-somethings of their generation (and, hey, weren't we all?). Whether or not you listen to or even care for punk, this is a great read. I mean, even if you don't listen to music at all. Even if you're deaf. And if you're blind, have someone read it to you.
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Summary: "Please Kill Me" is the ultimate book about PUNK History
Review: I've just read "Please Kill Me" and it is amazing! Legs McNeil did a great job! The book isn't a kind of fairy tale, told by a ghost righter. There isn't only one authror. The authors are the people who lived that punk scence. Legs set the intreviews, from diferent people that faced that time, in stead of summarising the ideas.(Legs lived tha scene too, so he knows what he is talking about). You can see clearly what people lived and survived. This book is a must for anyone who is interested in PUNK.
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Summary: good hard look at punk
Review: but an even better book is "High On Rebellion Inside The Underground at Max's Kansas City" by Yvonne Sewell Ruskin, loaded with NY Dolls/Johnny Thunders, Psychotic Frogs,Jayne County,Cherry Vanilla, etc. THE REAL SCENE! YEAH!
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Summary: punks not dead
Review: in the past three years i have become deeply involved in the punk scene. i think that it is really interesting how the forefathers of this music came about. this is a book that even i couldnt put down and i dont have the longest attention span. i would recomend this book to basicly anyone, but all the people into punk would probably apreciate it more. its hard to find a good punk book but this definitely is one of them.
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Summary: this book is great
Review: of all the books i have ever read, this is one of the best i bought it at a little store on nantucket and was able to put it down for two days of straight reading. it's full of unkown facts and itgives the full Sid& Nancy story! Read This Book!!
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Summary: Punk meets the Enquirer
Review: If you want a good history of early punk, don't get this book. For one, there are countless omissions from the "scene," including Blondie, Talking Heads, the Modern Lovers, Pere Ubu, and countless others. Plus, there's little mention of the actual music.However, it's a great look at some of the most colorful people of the scene; especially Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, and Dee Dee Ramone. It was very absorbing, and I loved it.
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Summary: Well, what to say? Buy it or die!
Review: It's the best book about punkrock I ever read, and I've read a LOT
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