Is there anyone who has written about music over the last few decades who manages to be so brilliantly contrary? To write with such cauterizing, strident and beautiful prose? To be so unrepentedly full of bullshit? Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism will convince you that the answer is no. (Selected as a Best Nonfiction Book of 2011) “Chuck Eddy. Rock And Roll Always Forgets is a wonderful collection of some of his most controversial and well constructed works.” - Vanessa Bennett, Verbicide “Chuck Eddy has created a stunning portfolio of sometimes gracious and impressed comments and brutally honest and painful criticisms. He's a musical anthropologist, but also, archeologist, digging up the remains of musicians past, lest we forget.” - Emily Savage, San Francisco Bay Guardian Yet, he approaches each band like he's the first to have discovered it. Each article included in Rock and Roll Always Forgets-culled from Eddy's vast back catalogue of music journalism articles, beginning with the early 1980s-is packed with cultural references, touchstones, facts, witty asides, a dash of snark, and acknowledgments of once-obscure acts. “Chuck Eddy glides through music criticism like a grumpy fanatic. Rock and roll may always forget, but Chuck Eddy’s work should often be causing trouble in mind.” - Chris Estey, KEXP Even if you still have stacks of those old rags, and remember those cranky lines Eddy could italicize (where most would cowardly spit them out sideways). deepness here, perhaps more than most University Press books ever have contained within. et on RARAF: There is plenty of fun strut and 4 a.m. “ mother-lode of vibrant writing that captures the passionate energy of having a long-term love affair with America’s most unruly and pervasive art forms.” - Marc Campbell, Dangerous Minds Rock And Roll Always Forgets is entertaining and thought-provoking as only Eddy can achieve.” - Rev. Essential reading for music scholars and fans, it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century. Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic. In the eighties, Eddy was one of the first critics to widely cover indie rock, and he has since brought his signature hyper-caffeinated, hyper-hyphenated style to bear on heavy metal, hip-hop, country-you name it. His review of a 1985 Aerosmith album reportedly inspired the producer Rick Rubin to pair the rockers with Run DMC. His interviews with subjects ranging from the Beastie Boys, the Pet Shop Boys, Robert Plant, and Teena Marie to the Flaming Lips, AC/DC, and Eminem’s grandmother are unforgettable. Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist, unafraid to explore and defend genres that other critics look down on or ignore. His byline has appeared everywhere from the Village Voice and Rolling Stone to Creem, Spin, and Vibe. Labor and Working-Class History AssociationĬhuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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