Conversations with Greil Marcus

Index

207 Adam and the Ants, 5 Adams, Ryan, 151 Adverts, the, 37, 115 Agee, James, 130, 196–97 Albini, Steve, 74 Alphaville: “Big in Japan,” 150; “Forever Young,” 150 Altman, Billy, 133 American Beauty, 141 American Quarterly, 190 American Studies, 190–93 American Studies Association, 190 Anabaptists, 44 Anderson, Laurie, 86 Anderson, Paul Thomas, 138 Apthecker, Bettina, 11, 12 Arendt, Hannah, 18, 24; On Revolution, 22 Arnold, Gina: Kiss This, 154; Route 666, 154 Artell, Linda, 13 Artforum, 28, 35, 56, 128 Astaire, Fred, 107 Avalon, Frankie, 109 Baker, Frankie, 109 Ball, Hugo, 189; “Karawani,” 103 Band, The, 3, 7, 28, 33, 119, 120; The Basement Tapes, 194 Bangs, Lester, 28, 31, 35, 127–28, 131, 132–33; influence of, 38–39, 92–93 “Barbara Allen,” 162–63, 168 Bardacke, Frank, 14 Barron, Chris, 138 Beat, the, 108; “Stand Down Margaret,” 82, 249; “Twist and Crawl,” 149 Beatles, the, 6, 7, 29, 81, 109, 110, 119, 197; Anthology, 152 Beck, Midnight Vultures, 141–42 Believer, The, 196 Berry, Chuck, 66, 91, 110, 188–89, 197 Big Sandy, Dedicated to You, 150 Bikini Kill, 94 Blondie, 37 Bloomfield, Mike, 140 Bonnie and Clyde, 169–70 Boogie Nights, 138 Book of Amos, 143 Booth, Junius Brutus, 181 Bowie, David, 181 Brains, the, “Money Changes Everything,” 87, 149 Bramen, Carrie Tirado, 190 Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters, 143 Brethren of the Free Spirit, 44 Brodsky Quartet, 85 Brooks, Van Wyck, 191 Brown, Cecil, 160, 161 Brown, Denis, 102 Brown, Pat, 18 Brownstein, Carrie, 139 Bruce, Lenny, 59, 196, 199 Buckingham, Lindsay, 80 Buckley, Jeff, 165, 166 Index 208 INDEX Burroughs, William, 29 Bush, George W., 157, 195 Bushell, Garry, 101 Byrds, 29 Cabaret Voltaire, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 134 California Magazine, 3, 35 Campbell, Luther, 61, 62 Captain Beefheart, 4–5, 31; Trout Mask Replica, 75–76 Chapin, Harry, 77, 81 Christgau, Robert, 6, 28, 30, 38, 39, 41, 132, 145, 149, 154 Clash, the, 4, 5, 37, 72, 82–84, 92, 113, 114; Combat Rock, 83; Cut the Crap, 83–84; London Calling, 83, 149; “Rock the Casbah,” 83; “This Is England,” 84; “We Are the Clash,” 83 Clinton, Bill, 116, 122, 174, 192 Clooney, George, 152 Clover, 84 Coady, Francis, 205 Cobain, Kurt, 73, 74 Coen brothers, 152 Cohen, Hennig, The American Culture, 190 Collier, Peter, 25 Come, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, 150 Communist Party, 163 Cooke, Sam, One Night Stand: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 149 Corrs, the, 155 Costello, Elvis, 38, 72, 84–85, 99, 115, 117; “All This Useless Beauty,” 150; Armed Forces, 117; Emotional Fascism, 117; “Everyday I Write the Book,” 150; Goodbye Cruel World, 40; The Juliet Letters, 85; King of America, 85, 150; “Let Them All Talk,” 150; My Aim Is True, 84; “Sleep of the Just,” 86; This Year’s Model, 85; “Tramp the Dirt Down,” 85; “Watching the Detectives,” 85 Counting Crows, “Mr. Jones,” 150 Couples, 147 Cox Family, 152 Crawdaddy, 30 Creedence Clearwater Revival, 41 Creem, 142 Crime and Punishment, 198 Crowe, Cameron, Almost Famous, 131, 146–47 Crudup, Billy, 147 Crystals, the, 96 Dadaists, 44, 46–50, 102 Daft Punk: “Digital Love,” 139; Discovery, 125, 139–40; Homework, 150 Davis, Miles, Birth of the Cool, 137 Davis, Wes, 187 Dean, James, 69 “Delia’s Gone,” 159 DeLillo, Don, White Noise, 68 Dellums, Ron, 19 Delta Five, the, 73, 82 Democratic Party, 158–59 Denby, David, 170; “My Life as Paulette,” 171, 172 Dennis, Patrick, Auntie Mame, 107 DeRogatis, Jim, 148 Devil’s Dream, The, 143 Dion, 109 DJ Shadow, Endtroducing, 150 Doors, the: “LA Woman,” 206; “Light My Fire,” 206; “Road House Blues,” 206 Douglass, Frederick, 179 Drabble, Margaret, The Ice Age, 88 Duke, David, 70 Dylan, Bob, 7, 10, 34, 97, 115, 116, 119–22, 128, 152–53, 188–89, 202–3; “Ballad of a Thin INDEX 209 Man,” 203; Basement Tapes, 194; Blonde on Blonde, 120; Blood on the Tracks, 120; “Desolation Row,” 203; “The Drifter’s Escape,” 153; Empire Burlesque, 120; Good As I Been to You, 120, 121, 143; High Water, 153; Highway 61 Revisited, 85, 153, 202–3; Infidels, 120, 153; “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry,” 203; “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” 203; Knocked Out Loud, 120; “Like a Rolling Stone,” 153, 203; Live 1966, 119; “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” 153; “Masters of War,” 121; Oh, Mercy...