Kill Your Idols

A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics

 

Contributors and Contents

 

Foreword

 

The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

— Jim DeRogatis

 

The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

— Jeff Nordstedt

 

The Beach Boys, Smile

— Dawn Eden

 

The Who, Tommy

— Steve Knopper

 

The MC5, Kick Out the Jams

— Andy Wang

 

The Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo

— Steven Stolder

 

Captain Beefheart and & His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica

— Jason Gross

 

Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

— Marc Weingarten

 

Led Zeppelin, untitled (“IV”)

— Adrian Brijbassi

 

Neil Young, Harvest

— Fred Mills

 

The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street

— Keith Moerer

 

The Eagles, Desperado

— Bobby Reed

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

— Leanne Potts

 

Gram Parsons, GP / Grievous Angel

— Chrissie Dickinson

 

The Doors, The Best of the Doors

— Lorraine Ali (with Jim DeRogatis)

 

Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

— Burl Gilyard

 

Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

— Chris Martiniano

 

Patti Smith, Horses

— Melanie Haupt

 

Bob Marley & the Wailers, Exodus

— Dave Chamberlain

 

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours

— Jim Walsh

 

Paul & Linda McCartney, Ram

— Tom Phalen

 

John Lennon / Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy

— Allison Stewart

 

The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks . . . Here’s the Sex Pistols

— Jim Testa

 

Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

— Marco Leavitt

 

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

— David Sprague

 

Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.

— Rob O’Connor

 

Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Imperial Bedroom

— Michael Corcoran

 

Various artists, My Greatest Exes

— Carmιl Carrillo

 

U2, The Joshua Tree

— Eric Waggoner and Bob Mehr

 

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

— Arsenio Orteza

 

Nirvana, Nevermind

— Anders Smith Lindall

 

The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

— Rick Reger

 

Radiohead, OK Computer

— David Menconi

 

Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

— Allison Augustyn

 

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