Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062233092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lizzy Goodman is a journalist whose writing on rock and roll, fashion, and popular culture has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and NME. She is a contributing editor at ELLE and a regular contributor to New York magazine. She lives in upstate New York with her two basset hounds, Joni Mitchell and Jerry Orbach.
You demolish it whole, like a bag of Funyuns.” (Las Vegas Weekly) . A perfect beach read, if there ever was one.” (Lenny Letter)“As far as I’m concerned this book is one of the truly great New York stories.” (Rob Sheffield, The Village Voice)“Terrific“ (Paste Magazine)“A vivid, kaleidoscopic, extremely fun ode to a moment in time that only just became the past.” (The Cut)“Sharp, funny and dishy oral historyGoodman does a wonderful jo
Amazon Customer said In Response to the Criticisms. Although I have not finished this book yet, I haven't been able to put it down. I have read a few of the critical reviews that do not like the way that the book is written, because it is an oral history full of quotes that are interwoven together to tell the story of various bands throughout the early "In Response to the Criticisms" according to Amazon Customer. Although I have not finished this book yet, I haven't been able to put it down. I have read a few of the critical reviews that do not like the way that the book is written, because it is an oral history full of quotes that are interwoven together to tell the story of various bands throughout the early 2000s. I personally like the oral hi. 000s. I personally like the oral hi. Steve said Terrific book. If you're a fan of rock music. Terrific book. If you're a fan of rock music, you'll love it through and through. Several of these reviews complain about it just being a collection of quotes - The style of book is called an oral history, much like the book about SNL called "Live From New York" and the one about ESPN called "Those Guys Have All the Fun" and the one abou. "Devoured This" according to Rich Walls. Hard to be objective when I love most the bands represented here, but I devoured this book. All the players are at the table--you can read the description--and somehow Lizzy Goodman's got them talking. Sure the parties are a hook, but read for the inspirations which fueled each band, the 60+ characters represented, and the book-long trib
Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war—and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend—and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scen