Reddit reviews Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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Louder Than Bombs is in my Top 25 albums of all time. Marr is kind of an afterthought (in some ways) as the guitar stuff sounds pretty straight forward, but the shit he's doing on guitar is incredibly complex.
I'm the jackass that thought DinoJr was coming to Pier 6. Oh, hey, you a reader? This is one of the best music books I've ever read.
It's a book by Michael Azerrad that chronicles 13 different indie bands from the 1980's including the Surfers, Minutemen, Fugazi, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, etc. Hey, and it's only 12 bucks at Amazon!
Pretty much everything referenced in Michael Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life.
There's a book about indie bands in the time period surrounding the Smells Like Teen Spirit music video debut that includes a lot of material on Dinosaur Jr. Read it.
I would look for something like a coffee table book, maybe if there's a "pictorial history of the bass guitar" or something like that. Or a biography of his favorite bass player or band. I remember I got a book years ago called Our Band Could Be Your Life about the punk/indie scene in the 80's that was a really great read; I was a little kid in the 80's and teenager in the 90's, so this book profiled all the bands that set the stage for the grunge & alternative music I listened to in the 90's. Something like that for his favorite genre of music would be a great gift.
They — along with bands like Fear, Minor Threat, Mission of Burma, Minutemen, The Replacements, and other late 70s/early 80s DIY-era acts—had a massive impact on the industry and indie artists. It's really where the idea of the independent label and the indie artist really picked up and became perceived as viable.
OP and anyone else interested in this topic, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It's a must read if you'd like to learn everything you can about this topic. And extremely entertaining I might add. I've read it over a dozen times and have "noted" it to hell and back, haha.
You make a nice point here, and I'd like to clarify it a bit.
Goth was more of an offshoot from Post-Punk. Joy Division and Killing Joke (along with Wire (my favorite band of all time), Pere Ubu, Bauhaus, Gang Of Four, Magazine, etc., etc., etc.) set the ground work for Goth, Industrial, American Independent Rock (thinking here of bands profiled in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life), and many others, in wonderful and profound ways.
No, they definitely formed in St. Paul ( https://www.allmusic.com/artist/h%C3%BCsker-d%C3%BC-mn0000639053 )
If you want some insight on Husker Du (and the Replacements), check out, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991. It's a great read.
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Band-Could-Your-Life/dp/0316787531
I tend to avoid mindless rock god memoirs. I'd highly recommend these...
It's about a period just before NOFX came along but this is a brilliant book, Our Band Could Be Your Life about bands like Minutemen, Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers, The Replacements. Might be worth thinking of if you've a bit of money left at the end.
I was going to suggest a framed gig poster too but there's not too much choice of NOFX ones. Have a look at Richard Goodall Gallery based in Manchester and see if they've any other bands he likes