Dimensions
130 x 198 x 70mm
A Handbook of Irrefutable Pop Greatness 1991-1998
Most music books tend to view the nineties as little more than a footnote to pop history. Ben Thompson's 'Seven Years of Plenty' starts afresh from 1991 - the year of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines'. And where guitar-bands were singularly the dominant force up to and including the eighties, the advent of sampling, digital technology and the explosion of dance music and club culture in the early nineties has led to a fragmentation of the "independent . . . cutting-edge" music scene.
Charting this development with enthusiasm, verve and razor-sharp prose, Ben Thompson's 'Seven Years of Plenty' features profiles of, and interviews with leading lights such as Portishead, Tricky, Pulp, Blur, Suede, Goldie, Pavement, the Aphex Twin, Underworld and A Tribe Called Quest; and members of the New Underground such as Tortoise, Will Oldham, Baby Bird, A Guy Called Gerald and Arab Strap. It's as neat a summary of the world of nineties music as Lester Bangs provided for the seventies in 'Psychotic Reactions' and 'Carburetor Dung'.
