Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics

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The evil step child of Stranded (Knopf's original book of rock criticism), Kill Your Idols is a collection of 35 essays about allegedly great rock albums that this new generation of critics loathe.

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