Welcome to Litsy!

Wow! Bleak, sensational, sad. So much talent wasted by pain, excess, and addiction. The format is brilliant, the history raw, and the pace compulsive. Hard to put down, I‘ll be thinking of this one for a long while. If you are an 80‘s punk kid, I highly recommend! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Kinda cool watching ACL and reading about the history of punk. How far #livemusic has come!

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 153th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

It is too bad these bands had such destructive habits they would have made amazing music for decades.

Game by @Eggs
I saw this posted by @TheNeverendingTBR and I decided to play

I have to post a song that always pumps me up, so... Do you remember rock and roll radio? 🤟
I can't resist to Ramones ❣

https://youtu.be/Gi9a7IdRiBI

Between this book and the No Dogs in Space podcast, my knowledge of punk is going to skyrocket.

The internet is lousy with "oral histories" of subjects that barely merit a brief paragraph, a phenomenon I'm willing to wager owes itself in no small part to this book, one of the most influential pieces of music writing ever, and maybe the only way one can do a "true" history of a subculture so familiar now to mainstream society, yet whose beginnings are mired in myth and legends. This was like my teenage Bible!

Forgot to post this Little Free Library I stumbled across a few days ago while walking around with a friend. I noticed the LFL first and then the tagged book. Definitely an eye catching title! Curious, I looked it up—turns out it‘s a history of Punk. Anyway, I like the barn look...especially in the middle of the city!

A looooong read! But members from my fav RnR bands kept cropping up, and that was so cool! 🤘

I‘m now declaring this book 100 pages too long! 😩😩😩

I‘m happy if there‘s coffee on one side, and books on the other! :)

”Me and Fred Smith had been in #rival neighborhood bands in Lincoln Park, a suburb of Detroit.”

#QuotsyMar19 #31DaysOfNonFiction

Then one day, they said, “Okay, I think he‘s ready.” And then they gave me this other injection and I started feeling not so good. And they took me and put me in this room, and I was like, “Wait a minute, it‘s rubber … I‘m in the RUBBER ROOM!” By then I was starting to kick and #bounce around like a rubber ball—and they‘d come every half an hour and open the little window, and watch me, until I stopped moving. #QuotsyJan19

Trying to get caught up with #riotgrams after spending the whole weekend feeling like 🤢. Just a couple of #music themed nonfiction titles from my shelves, heavily influenced by my blue-haired youth.

No, honey, I didn't fuck nobody on the road, and by the way, I gotta go to the VD clinic.

Not a request, though - actually - please do not kill me. Interesting, sometimes disgusting, sometimes infuriating, read. But mostly a #rorygilmoreread.

#10questions from @LazyOwl
1. Read about Litsy on BookRiot
2. Long before I could read - our parents always read A LOT for us
3. Anne of Green Gables and everything by Anne Cath. Vestly
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. Sewing
6. Criminal Minds
7. ElfQuest
8. 100 books in a year on Goodreads
9. Nope
10. My parents ❤

I think this is my #mostanticipated for August. Been meaning to read it for å long time - it always makes me think about Jess from Gilmore Girls 😍 #backtoreading #teamjess #gilmoregirls #anditsaugust @RealLifeReading @Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck

There are MANY fresh-from-the-store unshelved books missing from this picture but this is my happy place. Bottom left shelf is one my favorites and a mini ode to Gillian McCain and NY punk #shelfie #riotgram @bookriot

#rockinmay day 17 - #londoncalling

Who didn't have a punk phase in high school? Mine wasn't some much about rebellion as it was listening to The Ramones and The Clash on my discman while on a class trip to London.

Somehow nearly all my music biographies (and many of my LPs) have achromatic covers. I guess I have a type.

#blackandwhitecovers #maybookflowers

This from Malcolm McLaren is as good as anything I've read to sum up rock and roll and being young. #punk #nonfiction #greatquotes #stickittotheman

I'm liking this one so much more than i thought I would- so well researched and readable. I've even listened to some of the music! #rorygilmorereadinglist

Came back from a trip to find this (extremely exciting) book mail! (!!!)

Epic and necessary for any music fan.

Speaking of books about punk rock ... I won a copy of Please Kill Me, and I couldn't be more excited! 🎉 This oral history is one of the defining books about the punk scene, and I've been meaning to get a copy of my own for a while. 🎉 Thanks, @thelithub & @GroveAtlantic ! You've made me a very, very happy girl.

Nothing like hearing the stories first hand, from around the time things actually happened. No revisionist history here. Just crazy stories from the early days of the NYC punk scene! And great photos to boot!