In the Fascist Bathroom

Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992

Greil Marcus

    Introduction

    Prologue: The End of the 1960s

    Two Late Beginnings

    Johnny Rotten and Margaret Drabble

    The End of an Antichrist: Sex Pistols, Winterland, San Francisco, 14 January 1978

    1977-1979

    Elvis Costello: The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, 16 November 1977

    The Clash

    Doom Squad

    From 1979, Remove 7, Add Zero to 9, Then Wait

    Dead Air

    Live at the Roxy

    Gang of Four

    Logic

    Rock Death in the 1970s: A Sweepstakes

    1980

    Fear in the Marketplace: Real Life Rock Top Ten 1979

    Hi, this is America.

    War in the Catamaran

    Plague Disco

    Ripped to Shreds

    It's Fab, It's Passionate, It's Wild, It's Intelligent! It's the Hot New Sound of England Today!

    Love and Death in the American Novel

    Elvis Costello's Bill of Rights

    The Roots of Punk, #783

    Yes Nukes

    Success and Failure in the Wilderness

    Suspicious Minds

    The Next President of the United States

    1981-1982

    Life and Life Only

    Songs of Random Terror: Real Life Rock Top Ten 1980

    Ideal Home Noise

    Crimes Against Nature

    The Au Pairs in Their Time

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    Charts of the Gods

    Food Fight: Real Life Rock Top Ten 1981

    Life After Death

    Dial Twisting

    from Elvis Costello Repents: The Rolling Stone Interview

    Badlands

    1983-1985

    The Mekons Story

    In the Fascist Bathroom

    Free Speech, #1

    Imperial Margarine

    Gone with the Wind

    Four More Years

    400,000 More Years

    Corrupting the Absolute

    Number One with a Bullet

    Less Than Zero

    The Last President of the United States

    1986

    Alone and Forsaken

    The Last Broadcast

    King of Nebraska

    Flat, Toneless and Tiresome

    Hum-drum

    Sand in Your Mouth

    U.S.A. Combat Heroes

    The Return of King Arthur

    Free Speech, #2

    1987-1992

    Born Dead

    The Return of Iron Butterfly

    Judgment Day

    Music

    More Bad News

    Groovy Hate Fuck

    Punk Is Where You Find It

    An Echo

    The Assassin

    Chapters from History

    Three Premature Endings

    The Return of the Ranter

    The End of the 1980s

    The Return of the Antichrist

    Epilogue: A Brief Return of the 1960s: Real Life Rock Top Ten Spring 1991

    I am a Cliché

    Citations

    Acknowledgments

    Permissions

    Index

  • Cover: In the Fascist Bathroom
  • A photo of the author

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History (both from Harvard), and The Shape of Things to Come, The Old, Weird America, Mystery Train, and other books.