In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.
Eric Weisbard has been writing about music since 1989. He edited the Spin Alternative Record Guide and was a senior writer there for ten years. At Experience Music Project, the Seattle music museum, he put together the travelling exhibit "Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights" and he organized the annual pop music conference.
An astute scholar of the pop marketplace as well as of pop music,
Eric Weisbard tackles Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 double album Use Your
Illusion … choosing to write first about how it exists in the pop
cultural landscape—both as a conservative inversion of rock’s
countercultural aims and as a colossal monument that closed out the
1980s and ushered in the alternative ‘90s … ultimately and
begrudgingly respects the band’s ridiculously outsize
ambitions.
*Pitchfork*
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