Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists—Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead—with Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of Rip It Up and Start Again, Bring the Noise tracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the immediacy of their moment while offering a running commentary on the broader enduring questions of race and resistance, multiculturalism, and division. From grunge to grime, from Madchester to the Dirty South, Bring the Noise chronicles hip hop and alternative rock’s competing claims to be the cutting edge of innovation and the voice of opposition in an era of conservative backlash. Alert to both the vivid detail and the big picture, Simon Reynolds has shaped a compelling narrative that cuts across a thrillingly turbulent two-decade period of pop music.
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Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists—Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead—with Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of Rip It Up and Start Again, Bring the Noise tracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the immediacy of their moment while offering a running commentary on the broader enduring questions of race and resistance, multiculturalism, and division. From grunge to grime, from Madchester to the Dirty South, Bring the Noise chronicles hip hop and alternative rock’s competing claims to be the cutting edge of innovation and the voice of opposition in an era of conservative backlash. Alert to both the vivid detail and the big picture, Simon Reynolds has shaped a compelling narrative that cuts across a thrillingly turbulent two-decade period of pop music.
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Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

by Simon Reynolds
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Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

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Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists—Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead—with Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of Rip It Up and Start Again, Bring the Noise tracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the immediacy of their moment while offering a running commentary on the broader enduring questions of race and resistance, multiculturalism, and division. From grunge to grime, from Madchester to the Dirty South, Bring the Noise chronicles hip hop and alternative rock’s competing claims to be the cutting edge of innovation and the voice of opposition in an era of conservative backlash. Alert to both the vivid detail and the big picture, Simon Reynolds has shaped a compelling narrative that cuts across a thrillingly turbulent two-decade period of pop music.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781593764012
Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Inc.
Publication date: 05/24/2011
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction x

Author's Note xiv

What's Missing? The State of Pop (1985) 1

The Redskins, live (1985) 9

Zapp, live (1986) 11

Younger than Yesterday: Indie-pop's Cult of Innocence (1986) 13

Nasty Boys: Rap (1986) 20

Beat Happening: Beat Happening (1986) 24

Backs to the Future: The Folk and Country Resurgence in Alternative Rock (1986) 27

Hip Hop and House Singles Reviews (1987) 31

Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987) Husker-Du 36

Mantronix, interview (1987) 38

The Smiths: A Eulogy (1987) 42

Public Enemy, interview (1987) 47

interview (1987) LL Cool J 57

interview (1987) Dinosaur 63

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, live (1988) 69

Morrissey, interview (1988) 71

The Pixies, interview (1988) 90

Living Colour, interview (1988) 97

Various Artists: Sub Pop 2oo (1989) 102

The Stone Roses, interview (1989) 104

The Caring Colonialists: A Critique of 'World Music' (1989) 108

Positivity: De La Soul, Soul II Soul, Deee-lite and New Age House (1990) 112

Rap's Reformation: Gangsta Rap versus Conscious Rap (1990) 116

Madchester versus Dreampop: Happy Mondays and Ride (1990) 120

Manic Street Preachers, interview (1991) 124

Pavement, live (1991) 132

Nirvana, live (1991) 134

N-Joi/K-Klass/Bassheads/M-People, Jive (1991) 137

RRRRRRush!: Hardcore Rave and London Pirate Radio (1992) 139

Wasted Youth: Grunge and the Return of 'Heavy' (1992) 142

Welcome to the Jungle? (1993) 145

Let the Boys be Boys: Onyx interview/Gangsta Rap as Oi! (1993) 148

State of Interdependence: Britain, America, and the 'Special Relationship' in Pop Music (1993) 152

MTV: The Revolution Will Not be Televised (1993) 157

PJ Harvey, interview (1993) 162

It's a Dogg's Life: Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg (1993) 168

Against the Grain: Thinking about the Voice in Pop (1993) 171

Pearl Jam vs Nirvana (1993) 174

The Beastie Boys, interview (1994) 178

Post-Rock (1994) 186

Swingbeat and the New R&B (1994) 194

Ragga (1994) 197

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, live (1995) 200

Blur versus Oasis (1995) 203

Pulp: Different Class (1995) 206

R&B: The Sound of 1997 (1997) 209

Roni Size/Reprazent: New forms (1997) 212

Feminine Pressure: 2-Step and UK Garage (1999) 215

King and Queen of the Beats: Timbaland and Missy Elliott (1999) 226

Hate Me Now: Puff Daddy and the Player Hater Syndrome (1999) 231

For the Love of Money: Lil Wayne, Cash Money and New Orleans Rap (1999) 236

Street Rap (1999) 240

We Are Family: The Rise of the Rap Clan and the Hip Hop Dynasty (2000) 243

Roots 'n' Future: The Disappearing Voice of Reggae (2000) 248

Euro: Trance Music and the People-Pleasing Power of 'Cheese' (2000) 264

Miles Davis: Live-Evil/Black Beauty/In Concert/Dark Magus (1997) 268

Pure Fusion: Multiculture versus Monoculture (2000) 272

Radiohead versus Brit-rock/Thom Yorke, interview (2000/2001) 282

2-Step and R&B Critiqued (2000) 301

Faves of 2000: Dancehall (2000) 306

Historia Electronica: The Case for Electronic Dance Music (2001) 312

B-Boys on E: Hip Hop Discovers Ecstasy (2001) 330

So Solid Crew: They Don't Know (2002) 336

The Streets: Original Pirate Material (2002) 339

Who Says the British Can't Rap? The UK's New Wave of MCs confront American Hip Hop Isolationism (2002) 342

Rave-Punk: The Genre Soon-to-be-Known-as Grime Emerges (2002) 347

Rap Videos and the 'One White Dude' (2003) 352

Boy in Da Corner (2003) Dizzee Rascal 355

Kanye West (2004) 358

Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz: Crunk Juice (2005) 362

Mother Nature's Sons: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink (2005) 365

Against All Odds: 2005, Grime's Make-Or-Break Year (2005) 377

2005: The Year Black Pop and White Pop Stopped Talking (2006) 387

Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) 390

Green-Eyed Soul: Hot Chip and Scritti Politti (2006) 398

Bonus Material 403

M.I.A.: Piracy Funds What? 405

Notes on the Noughties: Is M.I.A Artist of the Decade? 407

The People vs. Vampire Weekend 411

Notes on the Noughties #2: When Will Hip Hop Hurry Up And Die? 414

Bring the Noise: A Listening List 419

Acknowledgements 431

Index 433

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