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Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with

zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and

heap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place their

allegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’s

leading cultural critics, humorists, music journalists, and

musicians themselves take sides in thirty of the all-time juiciest

“who’s better” musical disputes.

Marc Spitz on the Smiths vs. the Cure: “If the Smiths are its James

Dean, the Cure are the Marlon Brando of modern rock.”

Gideon Yago on Nirvana vs. Metallica: “Here is why Nirvana will

always be a better band than Metallica. It’s not because they hit

harder (they do). It’s not because they are tighter (they’re

definitely not). . . . It’s because Metallica is fundamentally

about respecting rules—of metal, of production, of technicality—and

Nirvana is about breaking those rules down in the pursuit of

innovation. Metallica was metal. Nirvana was something else.”

Touré on Michael Jackson vs. Prince: “[Prince] was the wild son of

Jimi, the younger brother of Rick James and Richard Pryor, the

ultrasexual black Casanova who told you up front that he had a

dirty mind . . . Michael held the opposite appeal. His music was

often about escaping through dance or being hopeful about the

world, and he came across as super-innocent.”

Russ Meneve on Bruce Springsteen vs. Bon Jovi: “I really, truly

mean it when I say, Mr. Springsteen, no disrespect . . . you are a

legend. But in the Battle a da Jerz, when that thick chemical-waste

smoke clears and the overly sprayed mall hair parts, the Jov man is

the last man rockin’.”

Whitney Pastorek on Whitney Houston vs. Mariah Carey: “Frankly, dry

recitations of figures are just too easily negated by simple things

like, say, bringing up someone’s horrible taste in choosing movie

roles. Watch, I’ll do it right now: Yes, Mariah has seventeen

number one singles, and Whitney only eleven. But Whitney made The

Bodyguard, which is basically a classic, and Mariah starred in

Glitter, a colossal suckfest of crapitude that should disqualify

her on the spot.”

FOREWORD    vii

Rob Sheffield

INTRODUCTION    ix

Sean Manning

R.E.M. vs. U2    

Dan Kois

PHIL SPECTOR vs. TIMBALAND

Michaelangelo Matos

THE SMITHS vs. THE CURE    

Marc Spitz

WHITNEY HOUSTON vs. MARIAH CAREY   

Whitney Pastorek

THE ROLLING STONES vs. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Richard Hell

JAYZ vs. NAS   

Tom Breihgn

BAND AID vs. USA FOR AFRICA   

Dan heRo

……

SEAN MANNING is the editor of The Show I’ll Never Forget: 50

Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience. His

writing has appeared in New York Press, The Brooklyn Rail, and

BlackBook.

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Providing journalists, humorists and artists the opportunity to

weigh in on rivalries across the music spectrum, this compendium

from Manning (The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their

Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience) tackles match-ups obvious

(Elton John vs. Billy Joel, Van Halen vs. Van Hagar, Britney Spears

vs. Christina Aguilera) and idiosyncratic (Ennio Morricone vs.

Bernard Herrmann, Devo vs. Kraftwerk, Michael Jackson vs. Prince),

if not downright agenda-driven (former Bob Marley publicist Vivien

Goldman pitting her client and friend against Bob Dylan). The

impressive range of acts is matched by its variety of styles, from

Matt Diehl's academic approach to Radiohead vs. Coldplay, to the

rock snobbery of Marc Spitz's The Smiths vs. The Cure, to the

stand-up comic ramblings of Russ Meneve on a Bruce Springsteen-Bon

Jovi "Battle a da Jerz." Though some essays suffer from overkill

(Katy St. Clair's nonsensical Abba vs. The Bee Gees, the graphic

novel treatment given The Album vs. The Single by Daphne Carr and

Scott Gursky), well-executed pieces like Manning's intimate Phil

Collins vs. Sting pick up the slack. Sure to start more arguments

than it settles, this is a fun book for music fans with a broad

palette.

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed

Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

书籍介绍

Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and heap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place their allegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’s leading cultural critics, humorists, music journalists, and musicians themselves take sides in thirty of the all-time juiciest “who’s better” musical disputes.

Marc Spitz on the Smiths vs. the Cure: “If the Smiths are its James Dean, the Cure are the Marlon Brando of modern rock.”

Gideon Yago on Nirvana vs. Metallica: “Here is why Nirvana will always be a better band than Metallica. It’s not because they hit harder (they do). It’s not because they are tighter (they’re definitely not). . . . It’s because Metallica is fundamentally about respecting rules—of metal, of production, of technicality—and Nirvana is about breaking those rules down in the pursuit of innovation. Metallica was metal. Nirvana was something else.”

Touré on Michael Jackson vs. Prince: “[Prince] was the wild son of Jimi, the younger brother of Rick James and Richard Pryor, the ultrasexual black Casanova who told you up front that he had a dirty mind . . . Michael held the opposite appeal. His music was often about escaping through dance or being hopeful about the world, and he came across as super-innocent.”

Russ Meneve on Bruce Springsteen vs. Bon Jovi: “I really, truly mean it when I say, Mr. Springsteen, no disrespect . . . you are a legend. But in the Battle a da Jerz, when that thick chemical-waste smoke clears and the overly sprayed mall hair parts, the Jov man is the last man rockin’.”

Whitney Pastorek on Whitney Houston vs. Mariah Carey: “Frankly, dry recitations of figures are just too easily negated by simple things like, say, bringing up someone’s horrible taste in choosing movie roles. Watch, I’ll do it right now: Yes, Mariah has seventeen number one singles, and Whitney only eleven. But Whitney made The Bodyguard, which is basically a classic, and Mariah starred in Glitter, a colossal suckfest of crapitude that should disqualify her on the spot.”