Description
In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.
About the Author
Eric Weisbard has been writing about music since 1989. He edited the Spin Alternative Record Guide and was a senior writer there for ten years. At Experience Music Project, the Seattle music museum, he put together the travelling exhibit "Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights" and organized the annual pop music conference.
Reviews
An astute scholar of the pop marketplace as well as of pop music, Eric Weisbard tackles Guns N' Roses' 1991 double album Use Your Illusion ... choosing to write first about how it exists in the pop cultural landscape-both as a conservative inversion of rock's countercultural aims and as a colossal monument that closed out the 1980s and ushered in the alternative '90s ... ultimately and begrudgingly respects the band's ridiculously outsize ambitions. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *
Book Information
ISBN 9780826419248
Author Eric Weisbard
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 96g