Year of Publication: 2001
Author: Michael Azerrad
Genre or theme: Underground Music
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0-316-78753-1
English language
Format: EPUB
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad. 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.
The inspiration for the book occurred when Azerrad was watching a miniseries about rock music history. According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era "it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana. "I thought, This is insane. Did I black out for 10 minutes? I thought that someone should do something about this. And I had, appropriately enough, a DIY moment and I thought, Maybe I should do it."
The book focuses on 13 bands:
Black Flag (from Hermosa Beach/Los Angeles, California)
Minutemen (from San Pedro/Los Angeles, California)
Mission of Burma (from Boston, Massachusetts)
Minor Threat (from Washington, D.C.)
Hüsker Dü (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota)
The Replacements (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Sonic Youth (from New York City, New York)
Butthole Surfers (from San Antonio, Texas)
Big Black (from Evanston/Chicago, Illinois)
Dinosaur Jr. (from Amherst, Massachusetts)
Fugazi (from Washington, D.C.)
Mudhoney (from Seattle, Washington)
Beat Happening (from Olympia, Washington)
WELCOME
EPIGRAPH
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: BLACK FLAG
CHAPTER 2: THE MINUTEMEN
CHAPTER 3: MISSION OF BURMA
CHAPTER 4: MINOR THREAT
CHAPTER 5: HÜSKER DÜ
CHAPTER 6: THE REPLACEMENTS
CHAPTER 7: SONIC YOUTH
CHAPTER 8: BUTTHOLE SURFERS
CHAPTER 9: BIG BLACK
CHAPTER 10: DINOSAUR JR
CHAPTER 11: FUGAZI
CHAPTER 12: MUDHONEY
CHAPTER 13: BEAT HAPPENING
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY MICHAEL AZERRAD
EXTRAORDINARY PRAISE FOR MICHAEL AZERRAD’S OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE
NEWSLETTERS
COPYRIGHT
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