In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92

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• "The songs were about autonomy and pleasure, verbal nonsense and emotional facts, comradeship and isolation, resentment and pleasure, avoiding rape and getting drunk, city streets and feminist pride: fragments of everyday life thrown together with determination and abandon. There is no analogy for this music in the records of any other pop group."
  (über die schweizerische all female Post-Punk-Band Kleenex/Liliput) · Christian_alternakid
• "Joy Division's music had always communicated chaos, despair, doubt, and fear: "The Myth Of Sisyphus" with the pages why you shouldn't kill yourself ripped out." (S. 212) · Christian_alternakid
• Writing in August 1977, Lester Bangs may have gotten it right: "We will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis." (S. 159) · Christian_alternakid
• When rock'n'roll no longer produces a version of itself worth banning, none of it will be worth listening to. (S. 362) · Christian_alternakid
• Even less explainable, now, is that at the heart of this side is a performance that as pure sounds as the greatest rock'n'roll recording ever made. (...) Across more than ten years of listening to "Complete Control", one reaction has always come first: disbelief. Disbelief that mere human beings could create such a sound, and disbelief that the world could remain the same when it's over (S. 365 über The Clash und ihre Single Complete Control) · Christian_alternakid