A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow bu A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Soc...
| Title | : | Smash!: Green Day, the Offspring, Rancid, Nofx, and the '90s Punk Explosion |
| Author | : | Ian Winwood |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Music |
| ISBN | : | Smash!: Green Day, the Offspring, Rancid, Nofx, and the '90s Punk Explosion ISBN |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 pages pages |
Smash!: Green Day, the Offspring, Rancid, Nofx, and the '90s Punk Explosion Reviews
Comprehensive, entertaining, but a bit full of itself. Winwood loves telling us that ?this author? hung out with all the bands and heard all the music. Somehow, I feel like a lot more of the story of the nineties could be told, since this book is so short. ...
Well- written. A bit of a Green Day lovefest. Otherwise pretty good when talking about punk in 80?s being ?underground ? and then punks rise to popularity in the 90?s. ...
Really enjoyed this book on punk music getting a huge comeback in 1994 thanks to big albums by Green Day (Dookie), The Offspring (Smash) and Bad Religion (Stranger than Fiction). Those three bands are talked about a lot, as well as NOFX, Rancid, Social Distortion and Operation Ivy to n...
Feh... Well written, but I have no real affinity for any of the bands covered here other than Social Distortion, who only merit a handful of pages. Now if Ian Winwood could flesh that out into an entire book, that would really be something! "...prior to Green Day and The Offspring, ...
The prologue of this book seemed a bit jumbled. It was difficult to read at first, and had me worried that the entire work would not have a flow. Once you get past that part it became much easier to follow, and get into. If you are a fan of any of the bands included it is definitely a ...
Required reading. An essential survey of some of the greatest music ever made and a thorough telling of a watershed moment in music history. What?s more, the author gives credit where credit is due to the greatest band in the universe: ??most of these events, and perhaps all of t...
Fairly underwhelming, and a bit hagiographic. Felt let down, content wise. ...
You would think that a book with the name of Offspring's album would have more Offspring but this is 90% Green Day, 1% Offspring, and 9% the author talking about himself. It really is one giant defense of why Green Day is punk. Who cares? The author even contradicts himself when he say...
Fucking awesome. ...
This could have been a great book if it wasn?t so extremely focused on Green Day. The Offspring gets the second spot but there is so little mention of all the other bands from the ?90?s punk explosion?. And then to make things worse it just skips a decade and goes into a ?...
Bad Religion. Social Distortion. The Offspring. Green Day. Rancid. NOFX. Pennywise. Epitaph Records. If these names mean anything to you, you should read this book. ...
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As Ian Winwood states in the Intro to this fine history of the time ?when punk broke? ? there are many books dealing with the birth of punk in the 1970s but not many of the time when punk actually became popular in the USA. This book rectifies the situation by focusing on some of...
Exhaustive and opinionated, this tracks the second wave punk scene from grubby dives to stadiums with a passion and knowledge that makes me want to hear all those albums and bands I'd missed. My only gripe is how the book just suddenly cuts out at 1995 with an epitaph (no pun intended)...
Hey-ay, come out and play! This first-of-its-kind look into the pop/punk explosion of the early 1990s is a head-banging read. In the midst of Nirvana's slaughter of the hair metal bands of the 80s, punk music inspired by the innovators of the 70s and 80s rose up through the alternative...
A friend recommended this book to me, because I'm a huge Green Day fan. I have to say, this book did not disappoint me at all. I gained a greater appreciation for the Offspring, Nofx and Bad Religion, who I will admit, I didn't know very much about. I also learned the truth behind Gree...
As somewhat of a note to myself, I listened to this as an audiobook. When I was in middle school, I wasn't really into music at all. When day when I was riding the bus, I saw the band name "Green Day" vandalized into the bus. I had heard of the band before, but had no idea what they...
Ahh...a trip down memory lane is always as nice as a walk in the park. I suddenly remember the gods who gave me one hell of a childhood and whose influence would carry on to adulthood. This book was so well written, it really allowed me to reconnect with memories as a 90's kid witnessi...
I was eager to read this because its subject is due for comprehensive revisiting. I have not read any other Ian Winwood books, and unfortunately I am not eager to after this. In terms of content, information and detail, it is a great idea. But the author refuses to get out of his own w...- I enjoyed this immensely! Brought me back to high school when I first discovered punk rock. ...
Turns out, I don't care about Green Day. Shame they're the bulk of the book. Lots of forbidden Bad Religion lore, though. Winwood's kind of fawning, but he swears artfully enough to remain credible as both a journalist and a grown-up punk kid. The afterword about playing pool with ...
An interesting read from start to finish, and definitely one of the best punk rock books I?ve read. What I thought would be a thorough examination of the 90?s punk boom was predominantly the highlights of that era. The story of Lookout Records, the rise of Epitaph and the dominance...
A very fun ride for those who love the genre and grew up listening to certain bands. The author unleashes names, places, and facts in a way similar to an epic journey and gives a chronological perspective to the events. There is a lot of Green Day, the entire origin story of Epitap...
This book moves along at a steady pace, flicking between bands and is interspersed with old interview content which really keeps it interesting. I thought it was the right length and my only criticism is that I wanted more Rancid but hey, the author stated at the outset that they were ...
Meh, 1/3 interesting early years stuff 1/3 justifying the bands not selling out 1/3 rise to fame. I think there's too many stories to be told here resulting in everything not quite being enough. ...- The story itself was interesting and had spots of humor. Winwood had a mix of formal and informal writing styles, which I generally liked because it made it more readable, but which sometimes seemed jarring when it jumped between the two, sometimes within the same sentence. Overall, an...
If you're looking for an encyclopedia entry explaining how punk went mainstream in the 90s, this is not the book for you. This distills down the era to the core bands - Green Day, The Offspring, Operation Ivy/Rancid, NOFX and Bad Religion, along with the key players and labels, namely ...- Very interesting, for a fan For a fan of Punk, especially mid-90's US Punk, it's a very entertaining read. Most of the stories are already well known but it's nice to read a chronological story, pulling it all together. Having said that... Whilst it's understandable that the book...
- This book was so fun! I don't know much about Bad Religion, I picked this up for Green Day but it's presented really well in an easy to read style. I kept reading choice bits out loud, because goodness punk had a rough go in the 1980s and early 90s. It was also really fun to see refere...
This is a great detailed book. How he writes the history and time frame of the band?s forming in California and how they are all interconnected was fascinating. The only reason for a 4 star is that is harshly jumps from 2004 and largely focuses on American Idiot, while the other ba...
