Essay. Sired by '70s punk and nurtured through the indie '80s, the losers' revolution broke big in the '90s. Upstarts like Nirvana changed the whole climate of the music business; stalwarts like Sonic Youth and the Meat Puppets finally had their day in the sun. Yet when the alternative became the mainstream, the scene that spawned the music collapsed under the weight of its own contradiction. OPTION, the acclainmed music magazine published by Scott Becker, was there to capture the saga. Sometimes playful, occasionally painful, and always passionate, these profiles from the pages of OPTION --written by the country's top music journalists -- trace the rise and fall of the best bands of the '90s.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great rock reading,
By "squishy66" (Los Angeles, california USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: We Rock So You Don't Have to: The Option Reader#1 (Paperback)
Option had an interesting history. Originally called OP, the magazine attempted to cover everyting, letter by letter, getting partly through the alphabet before giving up and re-inventing itself as an indie label: SubPop. At that point Becker took over and continued it as probably the most balanced indie rock magazine of its era.
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