 |
 |
Sign in/joinLanguage: English [ others ]
Over forty million books on members' bookshelves.
|
Loading... Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rockby Jim DeRogatis
LibraryThing recommendationsNone. Member recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I'm a fan of Sound Opinions, and love some of Jim's other books. Thanks to this book I've discovered a ton of other bands which is great. I found the book a little long at times, and i'm not entirely sure I can quite define what psychedelic music is still...some of the bands listed I would have never categorized as psychedelic, but good music is good music. The one major bummer is that, from reading this book, you'd think that the US and England are the only two places that created and came out with great historic albums. Good read though. (  )MurphyJesus | Apr 23, 2009 |   0.025 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0634055488, Paperback)Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock is a history and critical examination of rock's most inventive genre. Whether or not psychedelic drugs played a role (and as many musicians say they've used them as not), psychedelic rock has consistently charted brave new worlds that exist only in the space between the headphones. The history books tell us the music's high point was the Haight-Ashbury scene of 1967, but the genre didn't start in San Francisco, and its evolution didn't end with the Summer of Love. A line can be drawn from the hypnotic drones of the Velvet Underground to the disorienting swirl of My Bloody Valentine; from the artful experiments of the Beatles' Revolver to the flowing, otherworldly samples of rappers P.M. Dawn; from the dementia of the 13th Floor Elevators to the grungy lunacy of the Flaming Lips; and from the sounds and sights at Ken Kesey's '60s Acid Tests to those at present-day raves. Turn On Your Mind is an attempt to connect the dots from the very first groups who turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, to such new-millennial practitioners as Wilco, the Elephant 6 bands, Moby, the Super Furry Animals, and the so-called "stoner-rock" and "ork-pop" scenes.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
Abebooks |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
