Please Kill Me

Overview

Prologue : All tomorrow's parties : 1965-1968 -- pt. I.I wanna be your dog : 1967-1971 -- Poetry? You call this poetry? -- The world's forgotten boys -- The music we've been waiting to hear -- Your pretty face is going to hell -- There's a riot going on -- Real cool time -- Jailhouse rock -- Fun house -- pt. II. The lipstick killers : 1971-1974 -- Personality crisis -- Land of a thousand dances -- The poetry all-stars -- A doll's house -- Raw power -- Billy Doll -- Open up and bleed -- Separation anxiety -- pt. III. The piss factory : 1974-1975 -- Go Rimbaud! -- Down at the Rock & Roll Club -- 53rd & 3rd -- So you wanna be (a rock 'n' roll star) -- The death of the Dolls -- Why don't we call it punk? -- Chinese rocks -- Metallic K.O. -- pt. IV. You should never have opened that door : 1976-1977 -- Blitzkrieg bop -- England's scheming -- The passenger -- London calling -- Fun with Dick and Jayne -- Who said it's good to be alive? -- The fall -- pt. V. Search and destroy : 1978-1980 -- Because the night -- Young, loud, and snotty -- Anarchy in the USA -- Sonic reducer -- Tuinals from hell -- Too tough to die -- Frederick -- Epilogue : Nevermind : 1980-1992 -- Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- Exile on Main Street -- Born to lose -- No more junkie business -- The marble index -- The end -- More depraved testimony -- Cast of characters -- Afterword to the Tenth-anniversary Grove Press edition

Details

Publisher

Grove Press

Published

2006

Pages

452

Language

EN

Categories

History / United States / General, Music / History & Criticism, Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Music / Genres & Styles / Punk, Music / Genres & Styles / Rock, Social Science / Popular Culture

ISBN-13

9780802142641