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3.2 AVERAGE
3.2 AVERAGE
As entertaining as eating a bag of Doritos, and will stick with you about as long.
delightful collection of anecdotes about working in the slowly failing record business that is about music and the strange realities of corporate culture and what it does to us. the nicknames for his coworkers were great, the details of every meeting & strange encounter with bosses and assistants very true & incredibly amusing. I will say if you get easily embarrassed for others, this may be hard for you as he's often behaving a bit ridiculously. plus, the look into the various musicians he worked with and what the music people actually know or think about them was a nice bit of insider knowledge.
This book made me laugh out loud on the subway. I think it will amuse anyone who has ever held down a corporate job. Although it's very funny, it's also somewhat depressing, dealing as it does with corporate b.s. and the death of the music business as those of us over 30 grew up thinking of it. The farsical book group discussion questions he made up himself are spot-on.
There is one transcendent passage in this book, where the author attends an Iggy Pop concert. Pick it up for that, the rest is dross. Self-consciously arch and constantly reaching for a postmodern hip ironic remove, it succeeds instead in painting a too-accurate picture of what reality TV has given us in lieu of interesting books.
It started out funny but got kindof old towards the end. The writing was packed with big words and sometimes felt like it was trying too hard :P
An amusing account of a gentleman working for the record industry.
Terribly dull, he is not funny in the least. And stop apologizing for swearing!
Rock On is the story of Dan Kennedy's bewildering employment experience at Atlantic Records. The highlight for me was his dialogue, which had the true ring of the idiotic things we say under pressure and hear when we are too nervous to process information.
There are humorous episodes of awkward exchanges with co-workers, random run-ins with bands that were hugely famous (once up on a time) and the inevitable crushing of an idea by the all-powerful tech department (server-side technology! back end architecture!).
Funny stuff for the fans of the comedy of awkward.
There are humorous episodes of awkward exchanges with co-workers, random run-ins with bands that were hugely famous (once up on a time) and the inevitable crushing of an idea by the all-powerful tech department (server-side technology! back end architecture!).
Funny stuff for the fans of the comedy of awkward.