Lollipop Magazine

A Whore Just Like the Rest – The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer – Review

June 1, 2000

These two books are simply the best accounts probably ever written, on the Golden Age of Rock Journalism. Yeah, there really was such a thing.

This is Orson Wells – Review

September 1, 1998

To many, Orson Welles is best known for three things: War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, and as a (barely) walking fat joke during the last few years of his life.

Pink Floyd – Through the Eyes of… The Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes – Review

March 1, 1998

Samples of some most entertaining rock writing that, at best, inserts those same elements the band carefully filtered out of the actual albums.

It Crawled From the South: An REM Companion – Review

September 1, 1997

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.

Transformer – The Lou Reed Story – Review

July 1, 1997

The story as Bockris tells it fits snugly in the space reserved for biographies of other driven, creative men – brilliant in art, an ungodly pain to be around.

The Accidental Evolution of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Review

July 1, 1997

Not quite the Aesthetics of Rock for the ’90s as some have claimed (Joe Carducci’s Rock and the Pop Narcotic is) – it falls a little closer to Meltz’s Gulcher.

All American Music – Composition in the Late 20th Century – Review

July 1, 1997

His goal seems to be to illuminate the minds of his readers about the practices of influential composers, to make them accessible and vital.

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom the Golden Age of Rock – Review

November 1, 1996

20 years out of print, Awopbop still holds up as a reminder of the true imperatives of rock ‘n’ roll, before commerce and significance reared their ugly heads.

The Dark Stuff – Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1995 – Review

September 1, 1996

Nick Kent is the closest the UK ever came to producing a Lester Bangs.