Stranded : Rock and Roll for a Desert Island

Marcus, Greil

9780306806827

ISBN 10: 0306806827 / 0-306-80682-7
ISBN 13: 9780306806827

Publication Date: 1996

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In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rockincluding Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, Simon Frith, and Robert Christgaua question: What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected inStranded,twenty passionate declarations that, appropriately, affirmed the solitary and obsessive activity that rock listening had become. Here are salutes, elegies, thank-you notes, and love letters to records such as the Rolling Stones'Beggars Banquet, the Ramones'Rocket to Russia,Captain Beefheart'sTrout Mask Replica, Something Else By the Kinks,and out-of-print classics by the Ronettes, Little Willie John, and Huey 'Piano' Smith; the whole is supplemented with Marcus's own invaluable annotated fifty-page discography, a "Treasure Island" of rock and roll.Strandedremains a classic of rock and roll literature, and perhaps the best possible answer to the question: What one rock and rollbookwould you take to a desert island?


 

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