by Greil Marcus
Mabe, Joni, 32–33
Macdonald, Kevin, 519
MacEwen, William, 139–40
Mack, Lonnie, 19, 71
Mackenzie, Kent, 403
MacLise, Angus, 452
MacManus, Declan, 382
Macy, Caitlin, 226
“Madeline” (Weeks, R.), 196
“Madison Blues” (James, Elmore), 121
Mad Men (TV show), 419
Madonna, 9, 49, 63, 76, 136, 268, 344
Madonna: Drowned World Tour (Madonna), 268
Mad Peck, 21–22
Mad Peck Studios—A Twenty-Year Retrospective (the Mad Peck), 21–22
Madsen, Michael, 85
Madsen, Virginia, 62
Mad TV, 360
“Maggot Brain” (Funkadelic), 126
“Magic and Loss: The Summation” (Reed, L.), 96
Magnetic Fields, 169
The Magnificent Tree (Hooverphonic), 225
Magnolia (Anderson, P.), 188
Magritte, René, 215
Mahoney, Mary Lou, 61
Mahurin, Matt, 11
“Major Stars Not So Crucial as Concept Trumps Celebrity” (Carr, D.), 351
Make Yr Life (Butchies), 365
Malan, Rian, 206
Malevich, Kasimir, 228–29
Mall (Gang of Four), 81
Mamet, David, 493
The Manchurian Candidate (film, Frankenheimer), 35
Manet, Edouard, 5
The Man From Elysian Fields (film, Hickenlooper), 324–25
Mango boutique, 185
Manic Street Preachers, 294
Mann, Aimee, 168
Mann, Michael, 85, 264
“Man of Constant Sorrow” (Arthur), 318
“Man on the Moon” (R.E.M.), 118–19
Marah, 199
Marc Cohn (Cohn, M.), 88
Marclay, Christian, 301, 355, 491
Marcus, Cecily, 273, 520, 522
Marcus, Emily, 213–14, 300
Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost (Burning Spear), 97–98
Margolick, David, 224
Marie, Teena, 10
Marietta (Schad), 159
“Marin Center Presents: Ian Anderson Plays Jethro Tull” (advertisement), 385
Marine Research, 170
Marinetti, Filippo, 59
Markey, Dave, 115
Marley, Bob, 80, 92, 107, 180, 254–55
Marsh, Dave, 57, 141, 353
Marsh, James, 142–43, 167, 383
The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem), 205
Martin, Philip, 395
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Red, White and Blues—A Film by Mike Figgis, 356–57
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Soul of a Man—A Film by Wim Wenders, 356–57
“Mary-Christ,” 66
Masked and Anonymous (Charles, L.), 353
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 47, 269
Mass Romantic (New Pornographers), 264–65
Master and Everyone (Billy), 339
MasterCard (advertisement), 215
Masters of the Delta Blues—The Friends of Charlie Patton, 93–94
“Masters of War” (Dylan), 332
“Masters of War” (Amendola & Bozulich), 346–47
“Matchbox Defined” (15.60.75, aka the Numbers), 435
Maters, Dary, 26
Mathus, James, 278, 347
Matinee (film, Dante), 116–17
Matricidal Sons of Bitches (Friedberger, M.), 480–81
Mau, Bruce, 9
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 237–38
Maybe, Ellyn, 427
Maynard, Ken, 426
Maynard, Lee, 38
Mazzy Star, 145
“Mbube” (Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds), 206
McArdle, Shannon, 395
McBride, Jim, 51
McBride, Martina, 136, 358–59
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 456–57
McCarthy, Kevin, 223–24
McCartney, Paul, 63, 238, 355–56
McCarty, Kathy, 146
McClary, Susan, 74
McCord Museum, 305
McCormack, Patty, 170
McCready, John, 256
McCrumb, Sharyn, 75–76, 142
McCulloch, Derek, 382
McDaniel, Mel, 15
McDermott, Catherine, 23
McDonald, Bruce, 102
McDowell, Ronnie, 60
McGee, Sam, 328–29
McGinn, Colin, 143
Mcgrath, John, 124–25
McGuinn, Roger, 160, 261
McKeever, Ted, 24–25
McKinney, Devin, 382
McLachlan, Sarah, 202
McLaren, Malcolm, 97, 425
MCMXC a.D. (Enigma), 81
McNamara, Robert, 171, 367–68
McNaughton, John, 136–37
McSweeney’s, 253
McTell, Blind Willie, 84
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells (James, T., & Fitzpatrick), 428–29
“Me and the Devil” (Scott-Heron), 449
“Me and the Wildwood Rose” (Carter, C.), 435
Mecca Normal, 86
Media crisis logos, 273–74
“Media Pack Keeps Condit on Tightrope” (Salladay), 288
Mekons, 6, 8–9, 10, 31, 56, 57, 86, 124, 131, 189, 326–27, 420, 457–58, 460–61
Mellencamp, John, 26, 39, 51, 224, 349, 435
Mellers, Wilfrid, 29
Melodians, 117
Melrose Place (TV show, Starr, D.), 162
Melvins, 101, 201
Mémoires (Debord), 146
Memoirs of a Dada Drummer (Huelsenbeck), 80
“Memphis, Egypt” (Mekons), 56
“Memphis Blues Again” (Mud Boy & the Neutrons), 22
The Memphis Blues Again: Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs (Withers), 282, 295
Memphis Slim, 73
Menace II Society (film, Hughes Brothers), 120
Menand, Louis, 275
Menconi, David, 286
Mendes, Sam, 406, 520
Mendoza Line, 287, 334, 368, 372
Mengert, Christina, 477
Menlove Avenue (Lennon), 15
Mension, Jean-Michel, 277
Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 204–5
Merchant, Natalie, 362
Mercury Sable (advertisement), 8
Merhige, E. Elias, 220
Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (Cantwell, D.), 509
Merlis, Mark, 143–44
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (Bragg & Wilco), 213
Merritt, George, 139–40
Merry Christmas from the Sonics/Wailers/ Galaxies, 15
Mertens, Wim, 21
“Messin’ with the Kid” (Saints), 157
Metal Box (Public Image Ltd.), 88
Metallica, 183–84, 231
Metric, 357
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 196, 257–58
Me Without You (film, Goldbacher), 319
Meyer, Tom, 415
Meyerson, Harold, 99–100
Michael, George, 120
Michael Pitt and the Twins of Evil, 366–67
Michelob (advertisement), 20
Middle-aged man shaking a cardboard coffee cup full of change like maracas, 229
Middle Cyclone (Case), 412
“Middle of Nowhere” (House of Schock), 35
Midler, Bette, 3
Midnight Oil, 40, 60
Midnight Vultures (Beck), 183
Midway Stadium/Ticketmaster (advertisement), 157
Midwood, Ramsay, 329
Mikanowski, Jacob, 479
Milarde (TV show), 249
Mildred Pierce (TV show, Haynes), 448–49
Miller, Buddy, 288
Miller, Dennis, 152–53, 198
Miller, Julie, 288
Miller, Peter, 478
Miller, Scott, 258
Miller’s Crossing (film, Coen Brothers), 76
“Millionaire” (Mekons), 124
; Milman, Joyce, 21
Milo, Francesco, 277
“Mind Reader Blues” (Lee, Bertha), 280–81
Minimal Man, 58
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 48
Minstrel of the Appalachians—The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Jones), 4
Minutemen, 17
Mirador (Tarnation), 155
Mirah, 288, 372–73
Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra, 372–73
Mirror Man Act 1: Jack & the General (Thomas, Pale Orchestra), 172
Misow, 23
The Missing Person (film, Buschel), 423–24
Mississippi Delta Bluesman (Edwards, H.), 235–36
Mitchell, Anaïs, 495–96
Mitchell, Duke, 335–36
Mitchell, Joni, 434
Mitchum, Robert, 214
Moaners, 388
“Mob Rule” (Carman), 187
Moby Grape, 121–22
Modern Lovers, 125
Modern Times (Dylan), 386
“Modest $100 Million Proposals, for Better or Verse” (Clover), 335
Mohr, Jay, 174
Mold the Gold (Pink Nasty), 388
Money, Eddie, 14, 18, 63, 491
“Money (That’s What I Want)” (Strong), 490
“Money Changes Everything” (Lauper), 264, 438
Money Talks (Gang of Four), 72
Monkees, 258
Monkey Hips and Rice (“5” Royales), 131
Monotones, 48
Monroe, Bill, 216
Monroe Brothers, 216
Montgomery, Patrick, 79
Monty Python, 35
Moody, Bill, 314
Moody Blues, 10
Moonglows, 50, 51
“Moonshiner” (Dylan), 83
Moore, Arthur, 364
Moore, John, 94, 268
Moore, Mandy, 382
Moore, Monte, 53
Moore, William, 432
Moreland & Arbuckle, 499
More Love Songs (Wainwright), 22–23
More Than Food restaurant, 210
“More Than This” (10,000 Maniacs), 158
Morey, Dave, 108, 325
Morgan, Teddy, 179
Mori, Ikue, 218
Morissette, Alanis, 183
Morning Edition (radio show), 234–35, 357, 370
“Morocco” (Hope), 106
Morris, Erol, 367–68
Morrison, Jim, 66, 101
Morrison, Van, 28, 38, 65, 76, 89, 246–47, 299–300, 412, 474
Mortensen, Viggo, 464
Morton, Brian, 90, 361, 386–87
Morton, Colin B., 231
Moses, Mark, 21
Mosley, Walter, 104, 412, 504
The Most Radical Gesture—The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (Plant, S.), 103
Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem), 172
“Motherless Child” (Johnson, B.), 432
“A Mother’s Last Word to Her Son” (Phillips, W.), 461–62
Moths, Regina, 112–13
Mötley Crüe, 59
Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann), 259
Move Into the Villa Villakula, 145–46
Moveonpac, 332
Mowry, Jess, 99
Moyle, Allan, 71–72
MP, 309
Mr. Airplane Man, 363
Mréjen, Valérie, 519
“Mr. Fritter” (Tunstall), 406
Mr Hudson, 434
“Mr. Jones” (Counting Crows), 125
Mr. R & B, 57
Mr. Scarface Is Back (Scarface), 98
Mr. T Experience (street flyer), 10
Ms. Dynamite, 370
MTO Plays Sly (Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra), 461
MTV. See Music Television
Mud Boy & the Neutrons, 22, 127, 131
Mugge, Robert, 189
Muhly, Nico, 441–42
Mukherjee, Bharati, 158
Mukherjee, Robin, 493
Muldaur, Maria, 247–48
Muldoon, Paul, 333, 385
Mule School (Pink Nasty), 367
Mulholland Dr. (film, Lynch, D.), 271–72
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, D., & Badalamenti), 280
Münch, Christopher, 101
The Murder of Emmett Till (TV show, Nelson, S.), 338
Murphy, Eddie, 47
Murray, Charles Shaar, 66
Murray, Pauline, 17
Murray-Dodge Hall, Princeton University, 387–88
Musgraves, Kacey, 494
“Music, the Universal Language” (Associated Press), 173
“Music Albums Chart, Billboard/Soundscan, February 9 through 15” (New York Times), 368
Music for Men (Gossip), 421
Music for Pleasure—Essays in the Sociology of Pop (Frith), 40
Music from the Film “A Rage in Harlem”, 94
Music in a New Found Land—Themes and Developments in American Music (Mellers), 29
Music Man—Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, and the Triumph of Rock ’n’ Roll (Wade & Picardie), 63
Music Television (MTV), 56, 57
Muslim Gaze, 18
Muszynski, Joseph, 477
Muzak, 87
My Best Yesterday (Olson), 313
“My Boyfriend’s Back” (Alice Donut), 66
“My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (Clarkson), 491
Myein (Hamilton, A.), 182–83
“My Ex-Fiancé” (Brenner), 150
My Face for the World to See (Hayes), 501
My Halo at Half-Light (Snakefarm), 464
“My Happiness” (McDowell & St. Gerard), 60
“My Head’s in Mississippi” (ZZ Top), 75
Myles, Eileen, 145–46
My Life (Dement), 133–34
My Life in Heavy Metal (Almond), 296
“My Old Kentucky Home,” 419
“My Red Self” (Heavens to Betsy), 103–4
My Ride’s Here (Zevon), 303
Myrmidons of Melodrama (Shangri-Las), 456
My Sin, 50
“My Sin” (My Sin), 50
“My Sister” (Juliana Hatfield Three), 130
“My Son John” (Reilly), 389
“Mysteries of Love” (Cruise), 18
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV show), 143, 148–49
“Mystery Train” (Butterfield & the Band), 301
Nahon, Alexandre, 483
Nairobi Sailcat, 127
Naked (film, Leigh), 129–30
Napster, 231
Nash, Alana, 512
Nashville Radio (Langford), 384
National Antiseptic (James Mathus & His Knockdown Society), 278
National Polyphonic Chorus of the Blind, 309
Natural Born Killers (film, Stone, O.), 137
“Natural’s Not in It” (Gang of Four), 383–84
Natural Spiritual Orchestra, 52
NBC Today (TV show), 55
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (Neal Pollack & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts), 288
“Nebraska” (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), 456–57
“Nebraska” (Springsteen), 220–21
The Need Is Dead (Need), 189
Neff, John, 343
Negativland, 89
Negatones, 367
Negro Streets at Dawn (Mud Boy & the Neutrons), 131
Negulesco, Jean, 360–61
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 72–73, 92, 135, 476, 490
Nel, Philip, 504
Nelson, Ricky, 62–63
Nelson, Stanley, 338
Neshat, Shirin, 225–26
Network Associated Coliseum, 209
Neuwirth, Bob, 185
“Never Again” (Zorn), 128
Never Before (Byrds), 32
“Never Did No Wanderin “ (Folksmen), 346
Never Go Home (Great Crusades), 327
Never Mind Bono Here’s the Edge, 291
Neville, Aaron, 60, 85
Neville, Morgan, 269, 496
“New Age” (Pauline Murray and the Storm), 17
The New Book of Rock Lists (Marsh, D., & Bernard, J.), 141
New Favorite (Alison Krauss and Union Station), 269
New Kids on the Block (Catalano), 56
The New Life (Girls Names), 504
Newman, Randy, 39–40, 42, 79, 226, 270, 308–9, 343, 357, 360, 389, 396, 449–50, 466, 482
New Monkeys (New Monkeys), 29
New Order, 15, 274, 334
New Orleans, 344–45
“New Orleans Wins the War” (Newman), 39–40
“A New Political Generation” (Shogren), 56
New Pornographers, 264–65, 346, 350
Newport Folk Festival, 318–19
“New Railroad” (Crooked Still), 511
“A New Shade of Blue” (Bobby Fuller Four), 187
“New Shoes” (Nutini), 389
“New Town” (Slits), 20
New York (Mekons), 31
New York’s a Lonely Town When You’re the Only Surfer Boy Around, 304–5
. . . Next Stop Is Vietnam—The War, on Record: 1961—2008, 440
Ne-Yo, 427
Nicholson-Smith, Donald, 277
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Present Lawless Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 487
Nieves, Evelyn, 276–77
The Night (Bernstein, M.), 501–2
Nighthawk, Robert, 242
Nightlife (Pet Shop Boys), 177
Nightline (TV show), 62, 76
Night of the Living Dead (Savini), 347
Night on Earth (film, Jarmusch), 101
Nike (advertisement), 21, 152
Nine Lives (Plant, R.), 386
Nineteen Forty-five, 344
1968: A Student Generation in Revolt—An International Oral History (Fraser), 36
“1972” (Wilson Sisters), 9
1984 (Surveillance Camera Players), 198
“1990s Celebrate the Century” (U.S. Postal Service), 204
1992—The Love Album (Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine), 102
“1970s Celebrate the Century” (U.S. Postal Service), 184
94Diskont (Oval), 151
Nirvana, 90, 96, 111, 141, 150, 517–18
NKOTB, 134
No Better Than This (Mellencamp), 435
“Nobody” (Williams, B.), 432
No Depression in Heaven—An Exploration of Harry Smith’s “Anthology of American Folk Music”, 251–52
No Direction Home—The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (Shelton, R.), 12
A Nod to Bob: An Artists’ Tribute to, Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday (tribute album), 253–54
“No-Fly List Ensnares Innocent Travelers” (Garthright), 349–50
Noise—The Political Economy of Music (Attali), 13
Nokia cell-phone ring menu, 175
“No Love” (Eminem & Lil Wayne), 444–45
“No Love Lost for Worst of ‘96” (Lasalle), 152
NOMMO African American Author Series, 513
“No More Auction Block” (Dylan), 82–83
No Need to Argue (Cranberries), 139
“No Nose Job” (Digital Underground), 97
Nordan, Lewis, 133
“No Regrets” (Quartzlock), 41
No Rest in Peace for Chester Burnett (1910–76) or, Can White Men Sing the Blues, Part #4789, 209–10
