Japrocksampler

"JAPROCKSAMPLER", half a history book, half a music critic, deeply inspired and unrepentant to Lester Bangs, is an eye-opening study of Japan's rock and underground music from the postwar period to the mid-1970s. Julian Cope - former frontman of The Teardrop Explodes and creator of a long solo musical career - presents us, in a style that oozes erudition, humor and passion, a hitherto unknown universe of bands of iconoclasts of all kinds that produced some of the most amazing rock sounds of all time. The book is complemented by a top 50, where the author selects and comments on the best Japanese rock albums of all time. In short, a capital work on a terrain as unexplored as it is fascinating as the underground music of Japan.