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A review by prismotron
Pulp's This Is Hardcore by Jane Savidge
4.25
i could easily make this review my own essay on this is hardcore, but i will refrain from doing so. i say easily because i did in fact do that, but a moment of clarity hit me like a train and i deleted this big fat paragraph i'd written in a daze. anyway.
i'd bought this the instant i was made aware of its release. i usually wring my hands a little bit buying a book from this series blind, but as a chronic 33 1/3 collector and a chronic Cockhead (coining that) i'm not going to omit my second favorite pulp album from my collection. duhhh. thankfully pretending i'm carefree and dangerous paid off, this is absolutely one of my favorite entries yet. so many fantastic quotes, cultural insights from the author, and the perfect pulp-esque dry wit to carry the reader through the bleak history behind the album. i also didn't know savidge worked as one of their publicists going in, it makes her commentary that much better!!! especially the anecdotal chapter on one of The Greatest Album Openers of All Time, "The Fear." i absolutely devoured this one. i think the prelude and the postlude lost me a little though, they felt slightly hokey -- but thankfully not so offensive that it turned me off completely. pretty really good. phew.
i'd bought this the instant i was made aware of its release. i usually wring my hands a little bit buying a book from this series blind, but as a chronic 33 1/3 collector and a chronic Cockhead (coining that) i'm not going to omit my second favorite pulp album from my collection. duhhh. thankfully pretending i'm carefree and dangerous paid off, this is absolutely one of my favorite entries yet. so many fantastic quotes, cultural insights from the author, and the perfect pulp-esque dry wit to carry the reader through the bleak history behind the album. i also didn't know savidge worked as one of their publicists going in, it makes her commentary that much better!!! especially the anecdotal chapter on one of The Greatest Album Openers of All Time, "The Fear." i absolutely devoured this one. i think the prelude and the postlude lost me a little though, they felt slightly hokey -- but thankfully not so offensive that it turned me off completely. pretty really good. phew.