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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

7 best books like Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music (Irwin Chusid): The Basketball Diaries, Queer, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Ugly Man, Super-Cannes, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World, A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer

The Basketball Diaries
AuthorJim Carroll
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...
Queer
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0330300164
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
AuthorBrendan Mullen
ISBN0609807749
Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...
Ugly Man
AuthorDennis Cooper
ISBN0061715441
Angsty little boys who have rape-death fantasies run into angsty bigger goys who fantasize about being the active part of the rape-torture-murder scene. And then the angsty little boys die at the hands of the angsty bigger boys. Over and over and over, this man has the temerity to tell the same stupid...
Super-Cannes
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0312306091
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his...
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
AuthorClinton Heylin
ISBN0140179704
Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...
A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
AuthorRichard Meltzer
ISBN0306809532
He is one of the inventors of rock criticism. His first book, The Aesthetics of Rock (acclaimed by Greil Marcus as "a disemboweling of rock's soft white underbelly"), became an instant cult classic when published in 1970. And for the next thirty years he fearlessly expanded the boundaries of music writing....
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