Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

A music history unlike any other:

Few books have captured my attention like "Please Kill Me." This book goes from Punk's early influences (The Velvet Underground, MC5) smoothly transitions into the hey-day of American Punk (The Stooges, The Dolls, Ramones) and then finally takes you down as the Punk movement lost its steam. (The death of Johnny Thunders/Sid Vicious)

The first hand accounts presented within will have you laughing so hard tears will be streaming down your face, while also giving gut-wrenching tales of the demise of so many... more info

Read it before you die...:

Although it's occasionally a bit boring, this book is easily one of the best 'punk' reads on the market (or off it, for that matter). Oral biographies are usually easier to swallow, and in any event, there's enough information from many of the original sources to validate the book's existance.

In other words, it wasn't some hack writer who had nothing better to do except rummage through morgue files and try to make a buck off the names of some dead junkies. Although I was never personally a fan, the VU... more info

Better to burn out than fade away:

"Please Kill Me" is a beautifully arranged oral history of punk music in America. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain are heroes for clipping together hundreds of interviews and making it not only coherant (it reads like everyone is in the same room together), but visceral - when Stiv Bators gets in a knife fight on the street or the Ramones pee into Johnny Rotten's soda, you're right there with them. It's a great read, and totally entertaining.

And something else, too. McNeil and McCain have the benefit of... more info

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