Stuff
Product Details
Scribner, April 2001
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0743406567
ISBN-13: 9780743406567
Description
Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.
Kirkus ReviewsThis is what Lester Bangs would have written had he been a farmboy raised on a diet of Skid Row and KISS. Unfailingly smart and demonically opinionated...
Marc Weingartenauthor of Station to Station: The History of Rock and Roll on TelevisionKlosterman's hilarious heavy metal odyssey will flick the Bic of every headbanger who's ever found salvation in a great Mötley Crüe riff. His sly, swaggering prose struts across the page like Axl Rose in his prime.
Ronin Roauthor of Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row RecordsWith a style as hilarious as it is thought-provoking, Chuck Klosterman delivers an authoritative, impressive debut.
Omaha World-Herald, December 29, 2009
...One Day,? ?Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim? and ?When You Are Engulfed in Flames.? Chuck Klosterman wrote mostly about rock ?n? roll, pop culture and his own experiences with the people involved in his five essay and article ...
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