If they like something, they’ll describe it and cross-reference it. If they hate it, they’ll pick it apart, citing specific inexcusable faults of the CD/band.
His sexual exploits are explicit and often perverse, but carry with them what Richard Hell nails as “a kind of resigned, Christ-like vulnerability to love.”
What makes a magazine consisting of the wit, wisdom, and misheard sentences of the residents of nursing homes one of the best publications in the country?
Popoff has invested six years analyzing these nearly 3,700 records, carefully logging his impressions of the music and the climate of the culture at the time.
As far as car bombs, street fighting, and creatively cheating the government go, Abbie Hoffman’s authoritative guides to pig-hunting are far more educational.
Gray goes beyond the glitteringly-illustrated fan-loving texts and the jumble of apocryphal internet mutterings to create a complete academic survey of R.E.M.