Alternate Universe Record Collection

by [Anonymous]

$14,500 · Offered by Biblio

n.p.: n.p., 1990. Very good plus.. Stunning and extensive collection of original artwork, album covers, and two lengthy reference books - all describing a vast imaginary world of 20th century rock-and-roll that never existed. Introducing the auto-fanfictive outsider art of The Indoor Kid - a Henry Darger of Greil Marcuses, Syd Barrett of Daisy Ashfords, Robert Christgau of Richard Dadds - who fell through the pages of ten thousand music magazines into a wonderland of his own making. The anonymous creator (hereafter The Artist) fashioned an entirely fictitious musical universe. From dozens of albums drawn and collaged over actual LPs (as well as what might perhaps best be described as concept art for those albums) to extensive accompanying commentaries whose tone owes a great deal both to zines of old and the once-popular Encyclopedias of Rock, the impression is one of carpeted suburban bedrooms and children longing to escape both backwards into lost decades and forwards into the autonomy and sexuality of imagined adulthood. The Artist's mock-authoritative assertions of judgment and offhand omniscience speak of a child raised by a stacks of ROLLING STONE and CREAM in lieu of the foundling's traditional pack of wolves. His major fascinations - psychedelia, the particular flavor of British whimsy that preceded it, and hippie-tinged heavy metal of the Zeppelin-Black Sabbath era- are all in line with this lineage, and with the character of the solitary late-'80s adolescent. THE DR

• Publisher: n.p.
• Year: 1990
• Binding: unknown

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