Title

Gimme something better : the profound, progressive, and occasionally pointless history of Bay Area punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day / [interviews by] Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor.

Publication

New York : Penguin, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boulware, Jack.
• Tudor, Silke.

Description

xvi, 489 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Geschichte
• Interviews
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biography
• Punk culture > California > San Francisco > History
• Punk rock music > California > San Francisco > History and criticism
• Punk rock musicians > California > San Francisco > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-489).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction / Jesse Michaels -- Prologue: Turds on the Run -- Part I 1. I Gave My Punk Jacket to Rickie -- 2. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue -- 3. Baby, You're So Repulsive -- 4. Teenage Rebel -- 5. Giddyup Mutants -- 6. Holidays in the Sun -- 7. You Are One of Our Lesser Audiences -- 8. Kick Out the Jams -- 9. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables -- 10. No One's Listening -- 11. Ha Ha Ha -- 12. Beer-Drinking Brothers from Different Mothers -- 13. Thank You, Good Night, Get Out -- Part II 14. We Are the Kings Now -- 15. Better Living Through Chemistry -- 16. Grandma Rule -- 17. Blitzkrieg Bop -- 18. Gimme Something Better -- 19. Berkeley Heathen Scum -- 20. Dan with the Mello Hair -- 21. Goddamn Motherfucking Son of a Bitch -- 22. High Priest(s) of Harmful Matter -- 23. Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight? -- 24. Beers, Steers and Queers: The Texas Invasion -- 25. Welcome to Paradise -- 26. Island of Misfit Toys -- 27. Crossover -- 28. Let's Lynch the Landlord -- 29. Fucked Up Ronnie -- Part III 30. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean -- 31. A Chronology for Survival -- 32. Sleep, What's That? -- 33. Journey to the End of the East Bay -- 34. 10 Seconds of Anarchy -- 35. Two Blocks Away -- 36. Ever Fallen in Love -- 37. You Put Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter -- 38. Ripped from the Headlines -- 39. Rise Above -- 40. All I Know Is What I Don't Know -- 41. Unity -- 42. White Picket Fence -- 43. Up the Punks! -- 44. Going to Pasalacqua -- 45. No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith -- 46. Runnin' Riot -- 47. Outpunk -- 48. My Boyfriend's a Pinhead -- 49. Shield Your Eyes -- 50. ...And Out Come the Wolves -- 51. I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But My Mom Won't Let Me Get One) -- 52. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone -- 53. Longview -- 54. He Who Laughs Last -- 55. Rock 'n' Roll High School -- Who's Who -- Source Index -- Acknowledgments.

ISBN

• 9780143113805
• 0143113801

LCCN

^^2009031041

OCLC

318411427

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library