This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco

In 1977, the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with "Anarchy in the UK," and transformed popular music forever. Along with that song, every one of these singles helped reshape style, language, and performance. This is the story of how music and the world change, how bands reach a peak and dominate the scene briefly before fading away, about the undeniable power of certain records ("Smells Like Teen Spirit," for example). Here are punk and grunge, disco and rock, funk and electronica, rap and hip-hop. Every incisive, illuminating, and outspoken essay defies the accepted standpoint of music journalism. From Elvis Costello's Alison and The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive to Bjork's Hyperballad and Missy Elliot's The Rain, it's a truly provocative read.

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Cassell

This is the companion volume to 'This is Uncool' in which Garry Mulholland moves from singles to albums.

Fear of Music: The Greatest 261 Albums Since Punk and Disco

Orion Pub Co

If there had been a music book of the year award in 2002, Garry Mulholland’s This is Uncool: The Greatest 500 Singles Since Punk and Disco would have walked away with the honors.

Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco

From Quadrophenia to Mamma Mia!, the rock 'n' roll movie captures the best and worst of a music's moment in time. In Popcorn, acclaimed author Garry Mulholland takes a close look at the successes and failures of this film phenomenon by deconstructing the likes of Derek Jarman's Jubilee while considering the mass appeal of movies such as Footloose and Grease. Part serious critical appreciation, part celebration of B-movie trash, Popcorn is sure to be the first and last word on the rock movie.

Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Orion Publishing

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland challenges the accepted standpoint of music journalism to produce an entertaining, nostalgic and provocative read. Incidentally, the title comes from a 1977 entry in the book by the Rezillos.

Pembury House Publishing

From BLACKBOARD JUNGLE to QUADROPHENIA, from 8 MILE to ABBA: THE MOVIE, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie.Garry Mulholland turns his focus away from classic records to the best, the worst, the weird and the completely deranged from the world of the rock movie. Part serious critical appreciation, part celebration of B-movie trash, Garry Mulholland's inclusive approach is the key to his success. He is as comfortable deconstructing the likes of PERFORMANCE, GIMME SHELTER or JUBILEE as he is celebrating FOOTLOOSE or JAILHOUSE ROCK. As he writes: ' ... Anyone who rejects the joy that the likes of GREASE or DIRTY DANCING or FAME have brought millions of people without even attempting to engage with why such unapologetic trash works can't really be that interested in filmgoers at all.'

From Badlands to Napoleon Dynamite and West Side Story to Twilight, a critical reevaluation of a much maligned genre
Doing what film critics have been loathe to do since the 1950s, this book takes the entire subculture of teen movies seriously, making a constant and compelling argument that Grease and A Nightmare on Elm Street tell viewers a great deal more about modern life and human nature than Citizen Kane and The Godfather. A fundamental way of coping with adolescence, there are many teen movies that have becomes rites of passage to view, yet until now there has been no book that explores this successful movie subgenre with any depth. Arguing that Scream is the smartest meta-movie ever made and Mean Girls is a series of skits on the death of feminism, this book seeks to create a pantheon of the very finest teen movies, including The Breakfast Club, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Fame, Heathers, National Lampoon's Animal House, Rebel Without a Cause, and more.

Stranded at the Drive-In: From The Breakfast Club to The Social Network: The 100 Best Teen Movies

In 1977, the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with “Anarchy in the UK” and transformed pop music forever. Along with that song, every one of these singles helped reshape the culture’s style, language, and performance. This is the story of how music and the world change, how bands reach a peak and dominate the scene briefly before fading away, and about the undeniable power of certain songs (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” for example). Here are punk and grunge, disco and rock, funk and electronica, rap and hip-hop. Every incisive, illuminating, and outspoken essay defies the accepted view of music journalism. From Elvis Costello’s “Alison” and The Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” to Bjork’s “Hyperballad” and Missy Elliot’s “The Rain”, it’s a truly provocative read.

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This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco

Fear of Music: The Greatest 261 Albums Since Punk and Disco

Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco

Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies

This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco

Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies

Stranded at the Drive-In: From The Breakfast Club to The Social Network: The 100 Best Teen Movies

This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco