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Our Band Could Be Your Life
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Our Band Could Be Your Life

''Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991'' is a book by Michael Azerrad. It chronicles the careers of several underground rock bands who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional independent record labels. Azerrad conducted many interviews with band members, and also conducted extensive research of old fanzines, as well as more mainstream newspapers and books.
The inspiration for the book occurred when Azerrad was watching a miniseries about rock music history. According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era "it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana. "I thought, This is insane. Did I black out for 10 minutes? I thought that someone should do something about this. And I had, appropriately enough, a DIY moment and I thought, Maybe I should do it."
The title comes from the opening line of "History Lesson – Part II", an autobiographical song written by Mike Watt of Minutemen, one of the bands featured in the book. The song, which is on the album ''Double Nickels on the Dime'', details the band's working class origins and populist sentiments: "Punk rock changed our lives." The book is dedicated to the lives of D. Boon (Minutemen) and Bob Stinson (The Replacements).
The book focuses on 13 bands:
*Black Flag (from Hermosa Beach/Los Angeles, California)
*Minutemen (from San Pedro/Los Angeles, California)
*Mission of Burma (from Boston, Massachusetts)
*Minor Threat (from Washington, D.C.)
*Hüsker Dü (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota)
*The Replacements (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota)
*Sonic Youth (from New York City, New York)
*Butthole Surfers (from San Antonio, Texas)
*Big Black (from Evanston/Chicago, Illinois)
*Dinosaur Jr. (from Amherst, Massachusetts)
*Fugazi (from Washington, D.C.)
*Mudhoney (from Seattle, Washington)
*Beat Happening (from Olympia, Washington)
In honor of this book's 10th Anniversary, Azerrad had put together a special concert at Bowery Ballroom with contemporary bands and artists to perform the music of bands covered in the text. For example, Ted Leo played Minor Threat and Titus Andronicus played The Replacements.
==Reviews==
In 2006 ''The Observer'' rated ''Our Band Could Be Your Life'' as one of the 50 best music books ever written. In 2009, ''Paste'' magazine named the book one of the 12 best music books of the decade. The ''Los Angeles Times'' listed it as one of "46 Essential Rock Reads." In a review of the book in the ''Village Voice'', critic Robert Christgau wrote, "...Let me give Michael Azerrad's ''Our Band Could Be Your Life'' its well-earned thumbs-up. Here's my rave: While reading this 500-page history of '80s indie-rock, I only resorted to something lighter to avoid putting my back out. All 13 profiles are page-turners."
In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, "In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures....''Our Band Could Be Your Life'' passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups...Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians' war stories—and this bare-bones movement was full of them."〔http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/books/notes-from-underground.html〕 ''Times Benjamin Nugent said it was "A timely reminder that Cobain and company were merely a key regiment in the motley alt-rock army...''Our Band Could Be Your Life'' narrates, down to the homemade posters and tour van repairs, how these bands gradually built up an audience large enough to make record labels and critics take notice."
The book review website ''Baby Got Books'' said "If you graduated high school (or were at least supposed to graduate) any time between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s and have any interest whatsoever in music, you absolutely must read this book. While it tells the story of bands that truly lived the indie/punk lifestyle, it also sheds a brand new light (not always favorable) on the people in those bands. Fascinating stuff."〔http://www.babygotbooks.com/2008/08/25/our-band-could-be-your-life-2〕 Another writer states that "As music history, this book is important. None of these bands got much coverage in mainstream rock magazines while they were doing their most innovative and vital work, and Azerrad has done a great job of gathering ex-bandmembers up for revealing interviews...However, the book collapses under the weight of its own in-crowd cool."〔http://www.culturevulture.net/Books/OurBand.htm〕

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