Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music
By Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo (MTV Press, 224 pages, $32.00)
BY Brian Joseph Davis
September 17, 2008 15:09
[Note to readers: This review should be read out loud to an up-tempo polka beat while the chorus is shouted by as many bald, shirtless men as are available.]
Minor Threat’s Lyle Preslar is a major label A&R fiend
Tesco Vee is collecting his old age pension
What better gravestone for your dead scene
Than a coffee table book published by MTV?
Resist nostalgia! There’s nothing more bourgeois
Resist nostalgia! You remember the look but not the cause
Resist nostalgia! Even Proust had complicated issues with it
Resist nostalgia! This book is slick but utter bullshit
In the 1980s MTV was as bad as the Klan
Never played black artists, let alone hardcore bands
Is giving Reagan some boots and a devil lock
A final act of negation from punk rock?
Resist nostalgia! Hardcore was more than just badly played thrash
Resist nostalgia! This is memorabilia in exchange for your cash
Resist nostalgia! Hardcore was an independent cultural network
Resist nostalgia! This book is bait hiding the end of a hook
(mosh breakdown)
MTV should be happy counting bills
Earned by the Hitler youth from The Hills
Instead of co-opting something 20 years past tense
Does that make any business sense?
Resist nostalgia!
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