Rather than write anything new, the band work methodically to add to a billowing cloud shaped and sharped like barbed wire tumbleweed rolling over squishy English duskscapes.
I didn’t need the cover art to tell me that MTV had something to do with this. It’s precisely the kind of self-conscious, slumming, incomprehensible attempt at “hipness” they’re constantly trying to sell.
Once I began to view the book as a story and not a typical rock book, my initial question was answered. Stapinski may not be a rock star, but she’s a terrific, funny writer, and a good storyteller.
Generation S.L.U.T. (which stands for “Sexually Liberated Urban Teenager”) is a fictional story, mainly about American youth and sex, but it hits harder on issues of teenage suicide, drugs, violence, politics, and war.
Turn On Your Mind is an expanded reprint of DeRogatis’s out-of-print first book, which was originally published in 1996 with the title Kaleidoscope Eyes.
Live at Knebworth – entitled Live Summer 2003 outside of the UK (not released in the U.S. under any title) – features the highlights of the performances over 375,000 people saw over the three nights in August 2003.