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Title: Vacant: A Diary of the Punk Years 1976-1979 by Nils Stevenson, Ray Stevenson ISBN: 0-500-28103-3 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Slice of Life
Comment: This book is an excellent photo journal of the early Britpunk era. As the writer was the early manager of Siouxsie and the Banshees, he has included many pics of Siouxsie, along with all the major people during the scene back then. I think this book is a good companion not to "Please Kill Me" (as a previous reviewer mentioned) but to Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming". I say this because Savage's book is all about the British punk scene during the late 70's and he talks about all of the people who appear in photo form (and write their own little notes) in "Vacant"; "Please Kill Me" is really about the American punk scene which was totally different. I agree that Nils Stevenson's journal entries are a little disjointed and don't always connect with the photos being shown, but it doesn't seem to matter all that much because many of the people he mentions are pictured more than once in the book anyway. The quality of the photos, even the live concert shots, are exquisite. The still shots are crisp, with detail that makes them look like they were taken just yesterday. I definitely recommend this book for people interested in the early British punk scene; the photos alone are well-worth the price of the book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Photos, Mediocre Text
Comment: The authors of this book should have done one of two things. A) Just included the photos and limited the accompanying text to descriptions of the photos or B) Beefed up the journal entries considerably to make them worth reading. The photos are excellent, but Nils Stevenson's disjointed text doesn't really explain what's going on in the photos and gives an extremely choppy image of his and Ray's day-to-day life w/in the punk scene. Some of the entries only contain one or two lines apiece. So although the photos are excellent, the reader doesn't get to know very much about the subjects except maybe those whose own writing was profiled. But don't let this discourage you from buying this book, just don't buy it for the text.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book For Those Interested In Brit Punk and Photography
Comment: This book is a great one if your into the '77 sound of the early british punk scene. It's a great companion to the Punk magazine book and "Please Kill Me." It seems to be a bit more honest than "Please Kill Me" and less pretenious also (though I still enjoy "Please Kill Me"). The photographs that accompany the text of the diary are great and really show the shoot from the hip attitude that punk music and art had at the time. I would recommend this book for young kids first getting into punk as a primer on the who's who, and also to old timers to get a glipse at their long loved heroes.
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Title: England's Dreaming : Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage ISBN: 0312288220 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs : The Authorized Autobiography Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols by John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman ISBN: 031211883X Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982 by George Gimarc ISBN: 031216968X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: We're Desperate: The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy, SF/LA 1978-1980 by Jim Jocoy, Thurston Moore, Exene Cervenka ISBN: 1576871568 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:Suburbia ASIN: B00004Y3WH Publisher: New Concorde Home Video Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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