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Klosterman's highly touted debut has as much to do with Fargo, N.D., as the Coen brothers' slice of Americabre, Fargo. That is, nothing at all, really. Misleadingly titled to cash in on Fargo's cinematic mystique, Klosterman's memoir about growing up a sexually repressed metalhead, with a humiliating (mom-dictated) Richie Cunningham haircut is actually set in Wyndmere, N.D. Klosterman starts up with a bang ("You know, I've never had long hair"), shifts gears often (from memoir to music criticism, somewhat jarringly at times), and rarely idles. Ultimately, though, Klosterman, ironic throughout the book, does not write with enough sincerity to prove his thesis "that all that poofy, sexist, shallow glam rock was important." Granted, it's a daunting task to write a hymn of praise to the genre that spawned David Lee Roth so the author wisely stretches his pop-culture references like taffy. In the final chapter Klosterman, now an arts critic for Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, quotes a friend's definition of a "guilty pleasure" "something I pretend to like ironically, but in truth is something I really just like" to explain how he really feels about glam metal. His closing summation of what metal means to isolated kids in the heartland will strike a power chord for many readers. (May)Forecast: Klosterman has tapped a gold mine. Fans of 1980s M”tley Cre, Poison and Ratt are pushing 30 and 40 and seeking a nostalgia trip. Also, Gear magazine will run an excerpt of the book along with a conversation between Klosterman and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler.

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Let it be known that Fargo Rock City does not detail a burgeoning music scene in North Dakota's largest city (population: 70,000). Nor is it a yarn about a heavy metal band gigging across the frozen tundra of the Red River Valley. Rather, it's one Middle American's memoir of growing up with and loving 1980s heavy metal (e.g., Ratt, Poison, and Guns 'n' Roses). In other words, this book is for the myriad metal-heads from Fargo to Phoenix who inked "M?tley Cr?e" on their notebooks during high school study halls. The music, film, and culture critic at Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, Klosterman uses refreshingly candid language: reading his debut is like overhearing a drunken discussion between two music fans. He nicely blends metal music theory with compelling tales of self-realization. Perhaps more than a memoir, this is a seriocomedic defense of a culture that was only cool to those who participated in it. Recommended for all public libraries, especially those in the heartland.
- Robert Morast, "Argus Leader Daily," Sioux Falls, SD
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3.0étoiles sur 5 small town bustout, Juil 19 2004
Par C M H (Churubusco, IN) - Voir tous mes commentaires
As an '80's kid growing up in rural Indiana, there weren't a lot of ways to imagine the world outside. T.v. was stupid, the movie theater was forty minutes away, and even the local library wasn't all it was cracked up to be. My conduit for fantasies of a faster, more glamorous life was the radio.

It was the same for Mr. Klosterman, as told in Fargo Rock City. The glam-metal bands of his time set out a full plate of crashing chords, easy women, and free-flowing booze. He (nor I,)never tasted any of those things personally, but the bands painted a vivid enough picture to focus on a better life in the wide world - after high school, when your mom could no longer dictate your hairstyle.

This is a light read, certainly. Mr. Klosterman's book is meant as no more than a remembrance of things past. Even his dissection of what separates "poseur" bands from the "real rockers" is a throwback - what is easily recognized as rock marketing today could get you in fistfights with your Slayer-loving brethren back in '88.

So scratch your itch for "serious" lit elsewhere - Fargo Rock City is meant for fun, and Mr. Klosterman does an admirable job of providing it.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Why yes, I am ready to rock. Thanks for asking., Juil 2 2004
Par Justin Gaines "Corporate Rocker" (Atlanta, GA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This is one of the best metal-related books I've ever read. It focuses on the 80's hair metal scene and it's affect on pop culture, as well as seeing how that music reflected the society of that time. It's interesting material, and it also happens to be one of the funniest books around. This book made me laugh out loud several times, earning me some interesting looks from my fellow metro passengers. Imagine all of the times you and your buddies have joked about Kiss's shameless self-promotion, Axl Rose's antics, or Kip Winger's teeth, and factor in some witty social commentary, and you have the spirit of this book. If you grew up with 80's metal, Fargo Rock City is required reading.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Big Hair, Little Substance, Avril 2 2004
Par Timothy A. Rundquist (Fergus Falls, MN United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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With a title like "Fargo Rock City," and especially with a subtitle promising "A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota," I was excited about this book. I was psyched to read about what it was actually like to be a teen head-banger in the homeland of Lawrence Welk. Serenading the cows with power ballads in the milking barn? Starlit, wheatfield PBR-fueled dissections of Led Zeppelin album covers?
However, there was not so much of that anecdotal gold as protracted, self-righteous, even (God forbid) *intellectual* defenses of glam metal, or hair metal, or whatever you want to call it. The genre, by definition, defies such analysis; I'm sure that David Lee Roth or someone similar would be the first to tell you that he was an entertainer, not an artist. So, what you get with this book is, unfortunately, not so much of an "odyssey" as a diatribe.
What works in "Fargo Rock City" are the rural-life anecdotes that the author does choose to include, like his first slow-dance to a Poison song. What does not work are the attempts to rationalize the borderline-misogyny, faux-Satanism and other prevalent aspects of the genre, and to ridicule those who might actually find such aspects offensive. Worse still, the author seems to believe that those who generally would rather have listened to U2 and REM during the same era entirely lacked a sense of humor: I liked those bands, and others that seemed to have more than half a brain amongst them-- but I also thought that Ozzy, David Lee and some of the others were a hoot. The "darker" groups like Danzig and (later) Marilyn Manson were never really my cup of tea, but I certainly didn't look down my nose at those who chose to buy their records.
It would have been a far better book if the author had quit hiding behind his rationalizations, but instead had shouted from the mountaintop (a difficult task in his exceedingly flat home state): "Hey, I freely admit that hair metal was really, really, stupid- but so what!" In the end, "good" music is whatever you like, nothing more: a sentiment that seems to be lost on the author.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 How kitsch is our sincerity.
My roommate lent me this book, which I believe he bought on a lark in Union Station (DC), to distract himself during the nine-hour train ride to Boston. Lisez davantage
Publié le Juil 5 2004 par justinchend

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the best I've ever read
Never having had the slightest interest in metal when I was growing up, I had no reason to pick up this book until someone I trusted actually sent me his copy. Lisez davantage
Publié le Mars 15 2004 par Paul Pearson

2.0étoiles sur 5 Don't waste your time or money...
I have a different background and upbringing than Chuck Klosterman, but we are the exact same age. Much of what he wrote about in "Fargo Rock City" I can relate to: replace... Lisez davantage
Publié le Mars 11 2004

4.0étoiles sur 5 Remember the '80s?
At the very end of his Midwestern memoir/history of hair metal Klosterman writes: "Very often, I inexplicably embrace the same ideas I just finished railing against: Part of... Lisez davantage
Publié le Fév 1 2004 par A. Ross

5.0étoiles sur 5 And I didn't even listen to heavy metal (in public)
Chuck Klosterman's book of heavy metal criticism is really a book about himself. He reveals, by writing about the music he loved growing up, all the attachments teenagers make to... Lisez davantage
Publié le Nov. 18 2003 par Clinton Williamson

4.0étoiles sur 5 Very funny autobiography/rock criticism book
"Fargo Rock City" is an autobiographical look at how the heavy metal bands of the 80's affected the author, Chuck Klosterman, during his youth in North Dakota. Lisez davantage
Publié le Sep 10 2003 par E A Glaser

5.0étoiles sur 5 We need more books like this one
This book is great because it's so personal. If you don't like 1980s heavy metal, you should read this the same way you'd read about tribal customs in central Africa or Irish pub... Lisez davantage
Publié le Aoû 23 2003 par SPM

2.0étoiles sur 5 Many errors keep this at about a two star book
I learned early on in the book there would be several errors and I was not disappointed. On top of that everything I read I knew inside and out and feel most fellow lovers of... Lisez davantage
Publié le Aoû 7 2003 par Vince Perri

4.0étoiles sur 5 Chuck is a Rock God -- Honestly
At first, I was a bit disappointed by the book and then I read the epilogue. Why wasn't it more of a memoir? Why was it filled with so much analysis? Lisez davantage
Publié le Jui 18 2003 par Robert Wellen

3.0étoiles sur 5 Fun, but includes a MAJOR error!
This book is a fun keepsake on a good time in music. HOWEVER, in Chuck's description of Poison's video "Nothing But A Good Time", he is actually describing the video for "I Want... Lisez davantage
Publié le Jui 2 2003 par grinlv

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