Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed
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Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed

Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed

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Kim Cooper (Contributor) David Smay (Contributor)  

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Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's TheMagical World Of The Strands, John Trubee's TheCommunists Are Coming to Kill Us, John Phillips's WolfKing of L.A., and Michel Magne's Moshe MouseCrucifiction?You will when you read Lost in theGrooves, a fascinating guide to the back alleys off the pop music superhighway. Pop music history is full of little-known musicians, whose work stands defiantly alone, too quirky, distinctive, or demented to appeal to a mass audience. This book explores the nooks and crannies of the pop music world, unearthing lost gems from should-have-been major artists (Sugarpie DeSanto, Judee Sill), revisiting lesser known works by established icons (Marvin Gaye's post-divorce kissoff album, Here MyDear; The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle), and spotlighting musicians who simply don't fit into neat categories (k. mccarty, Exuma). The book's encyclopedic alphabetical structure throws off strange sparks as disparate genres and eras rub against each other: folk-psych iconoclasts face louche pop crooners; outsider artists set their odd masterpieces down next to obscurities from the stars; lo-fi garage rock cuddles up with the French avant-garde; and roots rock weirdoes trip over bubblegum. This book will delight any jukebox junkie or pop culture fan. 51 Illustrations, black and white
Kim Cooper and David Smay are founders/coeditors of the fanzine, Scram, which is devoted to pop music obscurities. Scram was an editor's choice in Factsheet 5 for "unusually great writing" and sited by LA Weekly as a best-of-LA publication. They are coeditors of BubblegumMusic Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History ofPrepubescent Pop from the Banana Splits to BritneySpears.
  • Contributor: Kim Cooper
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138156951
  • Number of Pages: 296
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 453
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2016-12-02
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Kim Cooper and David Smay are founders/coeditors of the fanzine, Scram, which is devoted to pop music obscurities. Scram was an editor's choice in Factsheet 5 for "unusually great writing" and sited by LA Weekly as a best-of-LA publication. They are coeditors of BubblegumMusic Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History ofPrepubescent Pop from the Banana Splits to BritneySpears.

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