RTP-area local music and culture

["toenes" <c.toenes AT gmail.com>]

Didn't slog through this thesis as yet, but others include that Simon
Reynolds' book Blissed Out (depending on if you like Reynolds), and one
I'm looking forward to checking out, Mike McGonigal's (Chem
Imbalance/Yeti zines) 33 1/3 book on Loveless. Comes out in November, I
think.

He says he only uses the "s" word shoegaze once in the whole thing.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Bloody-Valentines-Loveless-33/dp/0826415482

Chris

country marxist wrote:
> I thought you might say that Chris, and I am glad you're now showing
> some restraint. And, your point is well-taken, but I did actually read
> (ok, skimmed) that guy's thesis, for some strange reason, because I
> have a million more important things I should have been doing last
> night. In fact, getting drunk and throwing darts at my neighbors would
> have been a better way to spend my time. But, I guess because I have
> been intrigued by the sound of MBV for so long as to know that Kevin
> Shields himself has given three separate explanations as to how he
> achieved getting certain sounds, to see this poorly researched thesis
> accept whatever explanation google comes up with first as the final
> word, well that's just crappy research, whatever your sources. And he
> doesn't list the Creation Records Story in his bibliography, which is
> supposed to be one of the few detailed sources about that time
> (although I haven't read it myself, because it went out of print at
> least via Amazon), yadda yadda yadda. To which you say, of course it
> sucks, it's a guy writing about a pop band..... I guess I read it to
> see what these kind of theses were really all about, since you hear
> about people writing about pop iconography and shit, and so here was a
> subject that on the surface might be interesting enough for me to
> read. But nope. It sucks.
>
> On 10/6/06, Chris Calloway <ifoufo AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- country marxist <countrymarxist AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Using fansites as primary sources? What has academia
> > > come to?
> >
> > everything is fa..., uh, nevermind.
> >
> > i had to do a doubletake. i first read your post as
> > "using fantasies as primary sources?"
> >
> > 3
> >
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