Journey to the Centre of the Cramps
By: Dick Porter
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biog…
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1. Rip it Up and Start Again
By: Simon Reynolds
4.08
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more
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- music
- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
2. The Family
By: Ed Sanders
3.90
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
3. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
By: Lol Tolhurst
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover
"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
4. From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
By: Clinton Heylin
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
In a thorough chronicle of the American underground punk and New Wave rock scene, noted music criti… read more
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- music
- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
5. The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
By: Legs McNeil , Jennifer Osborne , Peter Pavia
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
A raucous and revealing oral history of the birth of the adult film industry, The Other Hollywoodpe… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Revenge of the Rose (Elric, #9)
By: Michael Moorcock
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Revenge of the Roseis Michael Moorcock's newest, most captivating novel of Elric, the mad albin… read more
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7. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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8. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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- music
- punk
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"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
9. My Friend Dahmer
By: Derf Backderf
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer sin… read more
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10. The Gangs of New York
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Herbert Asbury
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a n… read more
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11. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
12. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
13. Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock
By: Legs McNeil , None
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest p… read more
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14. Napalm & Silly Putty
By: George Carlin
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
I THINK I AM, THEREFORE I AM. I THINK. In Napalm & Silly Putty, George Carlin, the thinking person'… read more
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15. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
16. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- music
- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
17. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
18. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
19. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
20. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
21. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
22. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
23. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
By: Tom Beaujour
4.07
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
24. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
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"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
25. Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir
By: Kid Congo Powers
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experience… read more
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- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1)
By: Jeff Noon
3.72
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
In a distant, tattered future an old woman, a young girl and mechanical man embark on a slow voyage… read more
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27. Noise Floor (The Vinyl Detective, #7)
By: Andrew Cartmel
4.16
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expe… read more
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- music
28. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
29. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
By: Steve Turner
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
30. Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
By: Sam McPheeters
4.13
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on wh… read more
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- music
- punk
- biography
- nonfiction
"Until YOT, conservatism thrived in the germy corners of punks scenes. When it popped up in public, it took the forms of extremists, usually skinheads, people whose shitty behavior forced a fight or f…"-Sam McPheeters, Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
31. Journey to the Centre of the Cramps
By: Dick Porter
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biog… read more
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- biography
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