Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock [Paperback]

Stewart Home (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Codex Books (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1899598014
• ISBN-13: 978-1899598014
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,595,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Punk? As ****!, May 9, 2000

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D. Hill (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock (Paperback)

Home champions the fast-and-loud end of the punk-rock spectrum, covering groups from the Early Days that don't usually make it into the more recent "History-of-Punk" tomes. Intelligent without being over-intellectualized (Greil Marcus this guy ain't), opinionated but not self-consciously so, not afraid to cover topics such as Oi! & Skrewdriver (and even less afraid to point out the absurdity of same when need be; the chapter on the latter is a hoot), entertaining, and quite readable. Half the price of the latest Punk-bandwagon-jumping book and at least twice as good.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The real thing..., February 16, 2001

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jdoher (San Diego, CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock (Paperback)

This book is the perfect cure for the people who think punk started with green day, this book will also wipe the smiles off the faces of the hippie/punk historical revisionists who try to make punk out to have been some kind of leftist political movement. In this book stewart covers all the street level english bands that really made up the scene back in the day. He also goes into the REAL politics and psychology that dominated the minds of the early punks. Can you say OI?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More corrupting than Pet Shop Boys, March 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock (Paperback)

Stewart Home is a card-carrying member of the underground death-art corprophiliac cult called the Lettrists, formed out of fans of the proto-punk French band The Situationists. Home is a shady and frightening character who has way too much fun doing his thing, but this book tells a good story that connects Queercore to Ian Stewart's Skrewdriver. Is he serious? That's not the point. The point is to buy his book so he can age gracefully with those royalty checks coming in the mail.