Simon Reynolds (Author of Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984)

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Simon Reynolds

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 19, 1963

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Music, Art

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Simon Reynolds is one of the most respected music journalists working today, and his writing is both influential and polarizing. He draws on an impressive range of knowledge, and writes with a fluid, engaging style. His books Rip it Up and Start Again and Generation Ecstasy are well-regarded works about their respective genres, and RETROMANIA may be his most broadly appealing book yet. It makes an argument about art, nostalgia, and technology that has implications for all readerswhether diehard music fans or not. Its an important and provocative look at the present and future of culture and innovation." ...more

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WHEN MATTS MAKE BOOKS

This is quite a long-running series, now!聽Not talking about the When Mates Make Books聽posts, of which there are countless, but specifically聽When Matts Make Books.聽Matthew Ingram has done a bunch, the prolific bugger that he is: the two blog compendiums The Big Book of Woe聽and聽 The Bumper聽 Book of Woe; the 1970s Lost Rock Albums monograph; his first print book&

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Average rating: 4.03 · 17,231 ratings · 1,150 reviews · 48 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 4.08 avg rating — 8,912 ratings — published 2005 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past 3.84 avg rating — 2,942 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture 4.11 avg rating — 1,545 ratings — published 1998 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century 3.98 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews 3.95 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds, Joy Press 3.88 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring The Noise: 20 Years of writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop 3.67 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today 3.82 avg rating — 191 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Despu茅s del Rock: Psicodelia, Postpunk, Electr贸nica y Otras Revoluciones Inconclusas 4.01 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound by Simon Reynolds, Peter Shapiro (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: nostalgia, transience

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“The avant-garde is now an arri猫re-garde.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: music

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“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: life, morrissey, music, nostalgia, past, pop, pop-culture, present, retro, smiths, time

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