Reviews
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011, by Lizzy Goodman
brookebartolovich's review against another edition
5.0
Reading this amped me up for my move to NYC, and as a fan of so many of these bands and people it didn’t disappoint. A large sentiment of this book is how much the city has changed in the last decade, but I am in awe every time I walk out of my apartment and know I’m living in the history of some of the greatest music imaginable.
Beautiful storytelling with so many integral points of view. I loved how it included managers, executives, friends, lovers, and journalists, it gave a full picture of the cityscape and most importantly the music.
Every time I go to 2A I’m going to think of The Strokes
Beautiful storytelling with so many integral points of view. I loved how it included managers, executives, friends, lovers, and journalists, it gave a full picture of the cityscape and most importantly the music.
Every time I go to 2A I’m going to think of The Strokes
kerryanndunn's review against another edition
5.0
I don't even know where to begin to review this monster of a book. It is tremendous. As someone who was 23 years old at the turn of the century, someone whose favorite band was The Strokes and then Interpol, and then Yeah Yeah Yeahs, someone who has seen all those bands and many others mentioned in this book many many times live, this book spoke to me on a level that no other music biography/memoir/oral history/treatise ever has. The nostalgia is strong with this one. And getting these behind the scenes stories straight from everyone's own mouths is enlightening, shocking, and engaging. Everyone did some level of drugs and everyone is some level of asshole. Well, practically everyone. Anyway, I really loved this book. You should read it.
darcygreyheart's review against another edition
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
library_jones's review against another edition
3.0
This was not an easy book to rate. There are sections of the book I really enjoyed (I'm a big fan of The Strokes, so I loved that they are basically the central group in the book), but there are long sections that bored me with excessive details about groups and artists that I'm not really interested in. Maybe that's on me for not being into LCD Soundsytem, and maybe I should give them a shot.
The subtitle promises NY rock and roll from 2001 - 2011, but there is actually a long (about 100 pages or so) section dealing with the NY rock scene prior to 2001. It's important to give some background, but 100+ pages of shady clubs and drugs before even meeting any of the bands I wanted to read about was not the way I wanted to start this book.
Like a few other reviews, I was a little thrown off by the book's format. The first few chapters were making me want to run back to the cast of characters pages, before I eventually gave up on that and just went with it. Even with all of my complaints, I did enjoy much of the book. There were some great insight into and interviews from bands like The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Kings of Leon. I can only hope that there will be another interesting rock scene that I'll be reading about someday.samanthamurk's review against another edition
5.0
Great book! I loved loved the stories and the way it was written as dialogue was rly cool!