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Title: Meet Me in the Bathroom
Subtitle: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Author: Lizzy Goodman
Narrator: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-23-17
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 163 votes
Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music
Publisher's Summary:
Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war - and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.
Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it - including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend - and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many other musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock and roll.
Members Reviews:
Best music book I've ever read.
Couldn't put it down. I learned more about the origins of one of the most important 10yrs in recent music history than any other resource I've ever seen. Immediately joins the pantheon of must-read music books.
Rates with the best rock bios.
Found myself pausing this read quite often to look up songs on Spotify. As much as I enjoy the oral history part of this book, it's Goodman's analysis of the music and the environs it sprang from that I appreciate most. Will most likely listen to this one again, and soon.
Not For Old man
Would you try another book from Lizzy Goodman and/or Charlie Thurston and Nicol Zanzarella ?
Did not understand and did not find the story interesting
Would you ever listen to anything by Lizzy Goodman again?
No
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Moved to fast to follow the story
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Nothing
nothing earth shattering in the book
a basic compilation of various articles and interviews. the thread is thinly stretched to include artists not from NYC. failed miserably at capturing the essence of the city at that time
All stories from the ppl that lived through it!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend the physical book. At first I didn't like the sound of the narrators.
