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As one can gather by now, I have become a fan of Michael Bracewell. Probably because I share certain obsessive interests with him. Which is basically British pop culture. But since he's British, he has sort of an inside view of that world."When Surface Was Depth" is about the 1990's. One may think "what was exactly the 1990's? For me a walk in the fog, but things were happening in the UK in 'sort' of a big way. London was back to the 1960's with bands like Oasis, Blur, and even Pulp (my favorite...
great title doesn't really live up to its expectations - it's not the all-encompassing story of the 90s i thought it would be. but still a lot of interesting insights in music, fashion, consumer culture, societal changes.
Eugh, pedantic, pretentious prick! When someone has a serious hard-on for the word zeitgeist and uses it on literally every other page, you know they're an arsehole! This book is total tosh. Music and culture in the 1990's?!!! Apart from fleeting snide mentions of Oasis, Blur, Pulp and the Spice Girls, the author then "reflects" on anything but the 1990's! Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, and obscure members of punk clash groups! He veers from denigrating "popular culture" to ruminating sycophantically ab...
