Lost in the Grooves
Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed
Published on 6. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-415-96998-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Lost in the Grooves is a genre-surfing Smithsonian of overlooked musical marvels. Without fetishizing obscurity for its own sake, the Guide sidesteps cynical cool vs. uncool upsmanship and celebrates castoffs -- by both the forgotten and the famous -- which exude trend-transcending merit. Each entry compels you to seek out the music." -- Irwin Chusid, WFMU DJ and author of Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of OutsiderMusic"Caprice is everything, and SCRAM's lost grooves are a music geek's very heaven. The zinester spirit of lauding the officially uncool lives on in this eminently dip-worthy collection." -- Barney Hoskyns, author and editor of Rock's Backpages, The Online Library of Rock &Roll
"Kim Cooper and David Smay have scored again with their invaluable guide to the best sounds you've never heard. Impeccably researched, refreshingly subjective, they almost make being obscure as much fun as being rich and famous. Of course, they forgot to mention my band.." -- Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves
"Scram is truly a resource for those musicians just outside the windows of top-forty-land, those songwriters and guitar slingers looking for an outlet for their own particular brand of art. Accordingly, Lost in the Grooves takes up where Scram leaves off -- a compilation of ruminations from 75 critics and music aficionados detailing their favorite slices of the scene... Lost inthe Grooves is not a book for fans mad about one band or one particular singer. Instead, this is a book for the serious music fan, for those serious students of the art form curious about who-influenced-who and what sound rose out of what region. Like turning on a radio station and listening to a feverish wounded-voiced DJ tell you the reason behind every record you never heard, there's 20 new things to be learned on every page here
." -- Electric Review
"What makes Lost in the Grooves a real groovy read is the honest passion its contributors exhibit for their lost-and-found faves.
." -- Mojo Magazine
"Music trivia fans who enjoy the offbeat and odd get all the stories behind these selected notables-but-not-greats. Highly recommended
." -- Bookwatch
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
51 s/w Abbildungen
51 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96998-7 (9780415969987)
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Persons
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.
Content
Reconsider, Baby.; Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins; A; The Action; Adam and the Ants; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass; Alvin and the Chipmunks; Appaloosa; The Auteurs; B; The Barry Sisters; Joe Bataan; Peter Baumann; The Beach Boys; Be-Bop Deluxe; The Bee Gees; Colin Blunstone; Willie Bobo; Curt Boettcher; Boogie Down Productions; James Booker; The Boys From Nowhere; Brick; Ian Brown; Buckner & Garcia; Richard Buckner; Dorsey Burnette; C; Jackie Cain & Roy Kral; John Cale; Glen Campbell; Captain Beefheart; Cardinal; Aaron Carter; Johnny Cash; The Chills; Lou Christie; Gene Clark; Cock Sparrer; Cockney Rebel; David Allan Coe; Leonard Cohen; Sam Cooke; Costes; Joe E. Covington's Fat Fandango; The Cowsills; Marshall Crenshaw; D; Terence Trent D'arby; Blossom Dearie; Deerhoof; Sugar Pie Desanto; The Dictators; Bo Diddley; Tim Dog; Dogbowl; Swamp Dogg; Johnny Dowd; Dream Lake Ukulele Band; Dream Warriors; Dummy Run; E; The Electric Chairs; The Embarrassment; Roky Erickson & the Aliens; Esquerita; Ex-Girl; Exuma; F; Fastbacks; The Feelies; The First Team; The Flamin' Groovies; Flesh Eaters; Flo & Eddie; Brigitte Fontaine; Fools Face; I, Brute Force; Fortune & Maltese and the Phabulous Pallbearers; Roosevelt Franklin; Frijid Pink; Fugu; Lewis Furey; G; Slim Gaillard & Bam Brown; Diamanda Galas; Game Theory; Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes; Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson; Marvin Gaye; Bobbie Gentry; Robin Gibb; Gibson Bros; Harry "The Hipster" Gibson; The Go-Betweens; Godz; Graham Gouldman; The Gun Club; H; Hackamore Brick; Butch Hancock; The Handsome Family; Roy Harper; Michael Head & The Strands; Hearts & Flowers; Herman's Hermits; The Hollies; The Honeycombs; The Hot Dogs; The Housemartins; I; The Incredible Moses Leroy; The Idle Race; The Individuals; J; The Jacksons; Henry Jacobs' Music & Folklore; The James Gang; Jan and Dean; Jandek; Jan Dukes De Gray; Jeanette; Jefferson Airplane; Johnny Jenkins; Josefus; Juicy Groove; K; Paul Kantner; Kas Product; Andy Kim; Junior Kimbrough; King Crimson; The Kinks; Klaatu; Klymaxx; L; The Lee Harvey Oswald Band; The Leopards; Bob Lind; The Lipstick Killers; Los Locos Del Ritmo; Los Machucambos; The Loud Family; M; The Magic Fingers of Merlin & His Trio; Michel Magne; Michael Mantler; Mariano & The Unbelievables; Curtis Mayfield; Paul Mccartney; K. Mccarty; Megadeth; The Mekons; Middle of the Road; Kylie Minogue; Miracle Legion; Mr. Fox; Monitor; Monty Python; Pamelo Mounk'a; N; Ron Nagle; Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys; Willie Nelson; Neutral Milk Hotel; The New Blockaders; Andy Newman; The New York Rock Ensemble; Billy Nicholls; Harry Nilsson; The Nourallah Brothers; O; Phil Ochs; Old 97S; The Only Ones; Yoko Ono; Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; The Orgone Box; P; Dolly Parton; The Partridge Family; Pentangle; Pere Ubu; Linda Perhacs; John Phillips; Pink Floyd; Plush; Poco; Michel Polnareff; Poster Children; The Potatomen; Prince and the New Power Generation; R; Mark Radice; The Ramones; The Raspberries; Lou Reed; Nino Rejna and His Hawaian [Sic] Guitars; Emitt Rhodes; Jonathan Richman; Rico; Rock Fantasy; Rodriguez; George Russell; S; Sagittarius; Bridget St. John; Salem 66; Russ Saul; Schoolly D; Scientist; Marvin Sease; Sesame Street; Sex Clark 5; Sonny Sharrock; Judee Sill; The Silos; Frank Sinatra Jr.; Sir Douglas Quintet; Siren; Patrick Sky; Sleep Chamber; Sloan; Sparks; Spirit; Vivian Stanshall; The Stark Reality; Frankie Stein and His Ghouls; Meic Stevens; Suckdog; Supreme Dicks; Swervedriver; Sylvester; T; Television Personalities; The Temptations; 10CC; Jake Thackray; Thin Lizzy; The Three Suns; Cal Tjader; John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America; The Tubes; V; Various Artists; V-3; Vulgar Boatmen; W; Loudon Wainwright III; Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Jimmy Webb; Tony Joe White; White Noise; The Who; Dennis Wilson; Roy Wood's Wizzard; The Wylde Mammoths; X; Xanadu; Y; Zalman Yanovsky; Yes; Dwight Yoakam; Yung Wu; Z; Warren Zevon