BOC: fakes? SFG liner notes revelation

[Douglas Pearson]

On Fri, 4 May 2001 20:33:46 -0400, albert bouchard
<ir004728 at MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
[quoting ceres at sirius.com]
>>Joe Carducci summed it up pretty well in his BRILLIANT book, 'Rock and the
>>Pop Narcotic' (highly, highly recommended to the very intelligent fans on
>>this list):
>>
>>"Extra points awarded here for hiding behind what was taken to be crypto-
>>fascist fascia when in fact they were all five foot Jews from New York"
>
>Oh he's so full of shit. I am not a fan of this book.

If he wrote that kind of shit about my wife (uh ... waitaminit ...), I'd
feel the same way, too.  (He is NOT a fan of Village Voice music critics.)

>He's the only pseudo fascist in that paragraph.

Heh heh ... THAT's the truth! (Although next to a certain fanzine editor in
Western PA [who edits a GREAT 'zine, despite his -uh- world outlook],
Carducci IS a tree-hugging feminist socialist multi-culturalist ... but he
doesn't have the excuse of having lived his whole life in his mother's
basement.)

As for his book 'Rock and the Pop Narcotic', it's the *only* place I've
ever read someone accurately describe the essence of what makes great rock
and roll GREAT (or really even try).  Even though the second half of the
book (where he dissects what makes the great bands tick and describes many
comprehensively) is definitely more essential than the first (where he
spends too much time, yep, attacking Village Voice critics and
feminists/multiculuralists/blahblah), someone needs to take to task those
who write about everything *except* the music in their criticism (hello,
Gina Arnold!).

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com