And, in the spirit of Our Band Could Be Your Life, it’s taken solely from the bands’ catalogues on independent labels. Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981–1991 (USA: Little Brown, 2001). One response to “Our Band could be your life.” charles says : April 25, 2012 at 4:31 am. In honor of this book's tenth anniversary, Azerrad put together a special concert at Bowery Ballroom with contemporary bands and artists to perform the music of bands covered in the text. Here's my rave: While reading this 500-page history of '80s indie-rock, I only resorted to something lighter to avoid putting my back out. It chronicles the careers of several underground rock bands who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional independent record labels. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 CD release of "Our Band Could Be Your Life - A Tribute To D Boon And The Minutemen" on Discogs. So here’s a playlist of two songs by each of the 13 bands in Our Band Could Be Your Life. The Los Angeles Times listed it as one of "46 Essential Rock Reads." Our Band Could Be Your Life. "[9], The book review website Baby Got Books said "If you graduated high school (or were at least supposed to graduate) any time between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s and have any interest whatsoever in music, you absolutely must read this book. And, in true DIY spirit, I decided to do it myself: I wrote a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown, 2001), which told as much of the story of the ’80s indie scene as I could pack into a mere 501 pages. I thought that someone should do something about this. 50+ videos Play all Mix - Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen YouTube Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime RARE 1987 Remix (Full Album) - … None of these bands got much coverage in mainstream rock magazines while they were doing their most innovative and vital work, and Azerrad has done a great job of gathering ex-bandmembers up for revealing interviews...However, the book collapses under the weight of its own in-crowd cool."[11]. Fascinating stuff. While it tells the story of bands that truly lived the indie/punk lifestyle, it also sheds a brand new light (not always favorable) on the people in those bands. Azerrad wrote the book on indie music. Before I'm overcome by the niggles, let me give Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life its well-earned thumbs-up. Our band could be your life : scenes from the American indie underground, 1981-1991. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad. Archive; Subscribe; Questions? librarianreadseverything. A list of studio albums by the 13 bands profiled in the 2001 book Our Band Could Be Your Life : Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by music journalist Michael Azerrad. "I thought, This is insane. The book is dedicated to the lives of D. Boon (Minutemen) and Bob Stinson (The Replacements). It’s a collection of stories about people creating amazing art out of sheer compulsion and love of the process. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad. The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. It chronicles the careers of several underground rock bands who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional independent record labels. Azerrad conducted many interviews with band members, and also conducted extensive research of old fanzines, as well as more mainstream newspapers and books. But no, I hadn’t temporarily lost consciousness and missed the part about an entire decade’s worth of deep, rich and profoundly influential underground music; it simply wasn’t there. A collection of phrases that strike me as (mostly terrible) possible names for bands, rappers, albums, etc. Playlists A list of studio albums by the 13 bands profiled in the 2001 book Our Band Could Be Your Life : Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by music journalist Michael Azerrad. So when I began thinking about a long-overdue audiobook version of Our Band Could Be Your Life, I thought it would be great to have musicians who were inspired by the bands in the book, or the book itself, read the different chapters. It got up to punk — and then skipped directly from Talking Heads to Nirvana. For the D. Boon tribute album, see, Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen, "Indie's New Guard Celebrates Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life", "We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)", "Revisiting the book that immortalized the '80s indie punk rock scene", "Replacements, Sonic Youth, Fugazi to be Honored at 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' Concert - Rolling Stone", "Robert Christgau: Getting Their Hands Dirty: Michael Azerrad's "Our Band Could Be Your Life, "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991", "Slipknot's Corey Taylor & others narrating 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' audiobook", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life&oldid=1012206095, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 March 2021, at 04:44. Get this from a library! The title comes from the opening line of "History Lesson – Part II", an autobiographical song written by Mike Watt of Minutemen, one of the bands featured in the book. Getting Their Hands Dirty. Indignant, I thought to myself, “Someone should do something about this!” And, in true DIY spirit, I decided to do it myself: I wrote a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown, 2001), which told as much of the story of the ’80s indie scene as I could pack into a mere 501 pages. #double nickels on the dime #minutemen #our band could be your life. I’ve been working in, around, or with music for about ten years of my life. "[10] Another writer states that "As music history, this book is important. I’m going to add this book to my TBR list! We Jam Econo – full-length Minutemen documentary from 2005; References. Stream OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE by Michael Azerrad Audiobook available May 21, 2019, a playlist by HachetteAudio from desktop or your mobile device OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE is a sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing and faith that is already being recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right. (The book even made an impact on a couple of non-musicians: novelist Jonathan Franzen and comedian Fred Armisen, both of whom read chapters in the audiobook.). I stole/borrowed the name This Band Could Be Your Life from the book ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991’ written by Michael Azerrad. Published in 2001, Our Band Could Be Your Life is a history lesson on the beginnings of indie rock, long before it was even called that. If you like what you hear, by all means dig deeper: there’s much more where that came from. [12] The narrator for each chapter is an artist who has cited their corresponding chapter's musical act as a major influence on their own art, with Azzerad himself reading the chapter on Fugazi. "[7], In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, "In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures....Our Band Could Be Your Life passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups...Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians' war stories—and this bare-bones movement was full of them. And I had, appropriately enough, a DIY moment and I thought, Maybe I should do it."[1]. ISBN 0-316-78753-1; Michael T. Fournier, Double Nickels On The Dime – 33 1 ⁄ 3 Series (USA: [Continuum], 2007) ISBN 0-8264-2787-1 Our Band Could Be Your Life - Page 2 show list info. And it’s been like that ever since, right up to the present day. Book Description. Mr. narrator, this is Bob Dylan to me. Our Band Could Be Your Life show list info. In a frank and revealing new memoir, the British folk-rock pioneer and six-string giant assesses his trailblazing tenure in Fairport Convention. TALK: Michael Azerrad. Mike Mills, B-52’s singer Kate Pierson and more go inside ‘Out of Time.’. Got A Good One? my story could be his songs. Get this from a library! If you want to take one, it's yours if your promise to send me a link to add when you've actually got songs. Sometime in the late ’90s, I was sitting on my couch watching a multi-part documentary about the history of rock. On May 21, 2019, the Our Band Could Be Your Life audiobook was released. OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE narrates, down to the homemade posters and tour van repairs, how these bands gradually built up an audience large enough to make. Composed of about a dozen profiles of bands from across the country, it's long-form journalism at its best. Videography from "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991" by Michael Azerrad According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era "it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana. Our Band Could Be Your Life, c'est l'histoire encore inédite de la révolution musicale qui se produisit juste sous le nez des années 80 reaganiennes - quand un petit réseau très actif de groupes, labels, fanzines, stations de radio et autres éléments subversifs stimulèrent de nouveau le credo punk d… [6] In 2009, Paste magazine named the book one of the 12 best music books of the decade. I wrote the book to right a wrong of omission, and to provide the backstory to my previous book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, but it’s hard to predict the impact of things like books, and before long, musicians of all kinds were telling me how much the book inspired them, even if they weren’t into all or even some of the bands in the book. Did I black out for 10 minutes? flyingoverrussia. This is the story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties—when a small but sprawling network of bands—including Black Flag, the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Beat Happening—along with labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives, re … In a review of the book in the Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau wrote, "...Let me give Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life its well-earned thumbs-up. Narrators and their chapters include: This article is about the book. Here's my rave: While reading this 500-page history of '80s indie-rock, I only resorted to something lighter to avoid putting my back out. All 13 profiles are page-turners. Our band could be your life : scenes from the American rock underground 1981-1991. The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content — making it a trusted source for music and culture. The inspiration for the book occurred when Azerrad was watching a miniseries about rock music history. [2] The song, which is on the album Double Nickels on the Dime, details the band's working class origins and populist sentiments: "Punk rock changed our lives." #History Lesson - Part II #The Minutemen #Double Nickels on the Dime #our band could be your life. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the most absorbing book about music I have ever read. 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