Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever'A must-read for any music fan' (Boston Globe)Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but between 1974 and 1978 virtually all forms of music were being recreated in New York City: disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the Minimalist classical composers, hip hop and punk. Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith arrived from New Jersey; Grandmaster Flash transformed the turntable into a musical instrument; Steve Reich and Philip Glass shared an apartment as they experimented with composition; the New York Dolls and Talking Heads blew away the grungy clubs; Weather Report and Herbie Hancock created jazz-rock; and Bob Dylan returned with Blood on the Tracks. Recommended by Nick Hornby, this fascinating and hugely inspiring book will be loved by readers of Just Kids by Patti Smith, Chronicles by Bob Dylan, How Music Works by David Byrne and The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross.'Can literature change your life? Yes ... along came Will Hermes, who cost me several hundred pounds on iTunes and ruptured my relationship with guitars' Nick Hornby, Believer magazine Will Hermes was born in Queens, in the city of which he writes. He is a senior critic for Rolling Stone, and also writes for the New York Times and the Village Voice. He was co-editor of SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music.--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition CD.

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Can literature change your life? Yes ... along came Will Hermes, who cost me several hundred pounds on iTunes and ruptured my relationship with guitars (Nick Hornby Believer magazine)

It was the best of times, it was the best of places: Will Hermes captures the creative incandescence of New York in those five years that changed music (Richard Williams)

Brings depth and discernment and an eye for odd detail, making his book an essential work of cultural history (Luc Sante) --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition CD.

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Broché: 368 pages
Editeur : Faber & Faber; Édition : Reprint (4 septembre 2012)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-10: 0374533547
ISBN-13: 978-0374533540
Dimensions du produit: 13,8 x 2,6 x 21 cm
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I bought this at the end (I hope!) of a long infirmity caused by a herniated disc. It's featured in a Nick Hornby book; Hornby suggests it with the warning that the reader might buy a bunch of music as a result. Good advice; good warning.

Hermes' knowledge is encyclopedic, and his ear for detail positively overwhelming. Set lists are laid out. Short movies are described in detail. Addresses and hotel room numbers are recollected. Amp and turntable cartridge numbers are cited. At some points, you think, good gracious, just STOP. But what points? How do I know what I want but someone else doesn't? (I skipped through most of the stuff about the jazz, because I know nothing about it. I ate the punk stuff with a tiny spoon and scraped out the bottom of the battered iron bowl.

I did indeed regularly launch songs and music to hear what I was reading. I listened to Latin music I've never heard before (even if you have) and relistened to punk that I have (RAMONES). The detail in the early days of rap is gorgeous, even if the DJ names blurred after a while.

Omnivorous music fans who, like me, are just old enough to have missed this era and who would be delighted to be led through it by a thoughtful, passionate guide will find it valuable.

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Phil

Fabulously Sprawling and Messy

11 janvier 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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This is a messy and sprawling account of the music in scene in New York at the beginning of the seventies. More experiential than a scholarly text, there are times the author doesn't sacrifice detail for clarity, but the effect captures the scene. It's not an expose, so the anecdotes help illuminate the scene and its players. The music we listen to now is a consequence of just a few years in New York and maybe a hundred people. This book helps make that case.

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Lisa Borders

Great anecdotes, frustrating lack of structure

26 mai 2015 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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I bought this book as research for a novel I'm writing. I loved the concept of focusing on this pivotal period in music in New York. And while there are some great nuggets buried in these pages, the fragmented narrative made for an unsatisfying read at times. I longed for an overarching narrative, something to tie this collection of anecdotes together. There really are some lovely gems in here, and I appreciated the exhaustive attempt to document this period in music history. But as another reviewer said, the book lacked both structure and depth.

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BPM NY

Moves Quickly

16 juillet 2013 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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As some other reviewers have noted, the book jumps around quite a bit. Initially, I found it really frustrating how quickly the author would jump from subject to subject, as I frequently wanted more depth than was provided. However, as the book developed, I found that the pacing of the book really helped reinforce the author's viewpoint of what these times were like, and all of the interesting acts competing for a young man's attention. And, as the book unfolded, there was a lot of depth provided on many different artists/subjects. I also liked that it was not just about the punk movement, but encompassed a wide range of other musics. All in all, a really great read, and very informative. It's really a shame that the Kindle edition was not full to all sorts of links to the different subjects, but there is a handy list at the end of suggested sources to get deeper into some of the subjects.

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Soulboogiealex

Tying the Knots

22 février 2013 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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I’ve often felt that in the mainstream rock press mainly ignored the advent of Hip Hop and Disco and overstated the importance of Punk Rock. The cultural significance of Hip Hop and Disco often found little appreciation with writers on popular culture. Only in recent years has Rolling Stone magazine begun to take Hip Hop serious for example, a mere 40 years after its conception.

Will Hermes book does a lot to place Hip Hop and Disco in the proper context. Not only does he seem to have a fond appreciation of the genres, he places them against a political and social economical backdrop that does a lot in explaining why the genres would grow as big as they did. Such insights were long overdue in writings about popular culture.

But the book even goes further than that. Will Hermes restores Bruce Springsteen’s place in the early seventies Rock and Punk scene. Because Springsteen became an act of mega proportions it is easy to forget how close he was to acts like the Tuff Darts, the Dictators and the Heartbreakers early in his career when he played the same joints as the Ramones and Patti Smith.

Hermes also analyses parallel developments in classical music, Jazz and Latin-American music. Minimalism seems to have been a common trend across the board as a response to the dire economical times.

Will Hermes often writes form the perspective as a fan, tells about his own experiences seeing some of the now legendary acts when they were just coming up, thus adding a contagious flavour to the book. But he also seems to have gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with the genres that did not necessarily play an important part in the soundtrack of his youth.

The book portraits a full picture of an era without coming of too academic. Though the book comes off as a bit fragmentary at times I applaud the author in how he avoids creating connections where there are none, but leaves the reader to discover the common thread. Will Hermes has managed an enthusiastic but to the point style, which left me curious for music I would not have considered listening to before reading this book. I highly recommend reading Love Goes to Buildings on Fire with a little help from Spotify, mister Hermes and the music will take you on a trip through the Big Apple that by now has (sadly) disappeared.

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