Sure enough, this book is very readable because it's full of a bunch of successful/inspired/crazy people saying interesting things. But while reading Meet Me In The Bathroom is a pleasant enough experience it is also a stone-cold bummer because: damn, man, I don't want my generation to descend up its own butthole the same way that the Boomers did. Quick Review "Meet Me in the Bathroom" is an enthralling oral history of NYC's music scene from 2001 to 2011.
The book details the transformation of iconic rock bands after 9/11. Lizzy Goodman captures the chaos and creativity surrounding bands like The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem." Title: Meet Me in the Bathroom Author: Lizzy Goodman Genre: Music, Nonfiction, Biography, History Pages. Every generation of New York rockers romanticizes its era.
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In the juicy new book Meet Me in the Bathroom, the early 2000s was the golden age. New York remains the lead character; sanitised by its Prohibition-style 90s crackdown, changed forever by 9 ⁄ 11 (the book's most gripping section) then the internet as the Lower East Side is swallowed by gentrification, leading to today's flourishing Brooklyn scene. Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it-including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend-and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of.
Basically, Meet Me in the Bathroom is the history of the gentrification of rock 'n' roll, or what became of it, or what's (not) left of it. My beef is with the bands, music and style (or lack thereof), not with the book itself. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 is an oral history which details the rebirth of the New York rock scene in the new millennium, written and compiled by music journalist Lizzy Goodman.
Meet Me in the Bathroom | CBC Books
It was published in May 2017 by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. [1] The book is named after the Strokes song of the same name from their 2003 album. Gain a complete understanding of "Meet Me in the Bathroom" by Lizzy Goodman from Blinkist.
The "Meet Me in the Bathroom" book summary will give you access to a synopsis of key ideas, a short story, and an audio summary. Meet Me in the Bathroom is an oral history of a game changing decade for the Big Apple. Beginning with The Strokes and ending with Vampire Weekend, journalist Lizzie Goodman has assembled a painstakingly detailed account of what it was like to witness the rebirth of garage rock as well as the rise of electro and all the other weird little bands.
Meet Me In The Bathroom - BrooklynVegan
Meet Me in the Bathroom has appeared on many band forums since its release, especially those bands who are currently working on new albums. (We fans need something to tide us over while we wait not-so-patiently). I first heard of this book via The Killers subreddit but it's appeared on others since (a bit of a chicken versus egg story as I've discovered/rediscovered many bands since.
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