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Simon Reynolds

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 19, 1963

Website

http://blissout.blogspot.com/

Twitter

SimonRetromania

Genre

Music, Art

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Simon Reynolds is one of the most respected music journalists working today, and his writing is both influential and polarizing. He draws on an impressive range of knowledge, and writes with a fluid, engaging style. His books Rip it Up and Start Again and Generation Ecstasy are well-regarded works about their respective genres, and RETROMANIA may be his most broadly appealing book yet. It makes an argument about art, nostalgia, and technology that has implications for all readerswhether diehard music fans or not. Its an important and provocative look at the present and future of culture and innovation." ...more

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STILL IN A DREAM - interviews, reviews, podcast + radio appearances, translations + American edition

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Average rating: 4.02 · 18,763 ratings · 1,297 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 4.06 avg rating — 9,501 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past 3.85 avg rating — 3,049 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture 4.11 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century – The Definitive Cultural History of David Bowie, T. Rex, and Theatrical Icons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews 3.95 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today 3.79 avg rating — 301 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds, Joy Press 3.88 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring The Noise: 20 Years of writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop 3.69 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Después del Rock: Psicodelia, Postpunk, Electrónica y Otras Revoluciones Inconclusas 4.03 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound by Simon Reynolds, Peter Shapiro (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: nostalgia, transience

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“The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: music

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“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

tags: life, morrissey, music, nostalgia, past, pop, pop-culture, present, retro, smiths, time

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