--- product_id: 4887332 title: "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever" brand: "will hermes" price: "KD 9.96" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/4887332-love-goes-to-buildings-on-fire-five-years-in-new store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever **Brand:** will hermes **Price:** KD 9.96 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by will hermes - **How much does it cost?** KD 9.96 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/4887332-love-goes-to-buildings-on-fire-five-years-in-new) ## Best For - will hermes enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted will hermes brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever ## Images ![Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FOvkZXWWL.jpg) ![Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51teTVm8w4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tying the Knots *by S***X on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013* I’ve often felt that in the mainstream rock press mainly ignored the advent of Hip Hop and Disco and overstated the importance of Punk Rock. The cultural significance of Hip Hop and Disco often found little appreciation with writers on popular culture. Only in recent years has Rolling Stone magazine begun to take Hip Hop serious for example, a mere 40 years after its conception.Will Hermes book does a lot to place Hip Hop and Disco in the proper context. Not only does he seem to have a fond appreciation of the genres, he places them against a political and social economical backdrop that does a lot in explaining why the genres would grow as big as they did. Such insights were long overdue in writings about popular culture.But the book even goes further than that. Will Hermes restores Bruce Springsteen’s place in the early seventies Rock and Punk scene. Because Springsteen became an act of mega proportions it is easy to forget how close he was to acts like the Tuff Darts, the Dictators and the Heartbreakers early in his career when he played the same joints as the Ramones and Patti Smith.Hermes also analyses parallel developments in classical music, Jazz and Latin-American music. Minimalism seems to have been a common trend across the board as a response to the dire economical times.Will Hermes often writes form the perspective as a fan, tells about his own experiences seeing some of the now legendary acts when they were just coming up, thus adding a contagious flavour to the book. But he also seems to have gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with the genres that did not necessarily play an important part in the soundtrack of his youth.The book portraits a full picture of an era without coming of too academic. Though the book comes off as a bit fragmentary at times I applaud the author in how he avoids creating connections where there are none, but leaves the reader to discover the common thread. Will Hermes has managed an enthusiastic but to the point style, which left me curious for music I would not have considered listening to before reading this book. I highly recommend reading Love Goes to Buildings on Fire with a little help from Spotify, mister Hermes and the music will take you on a trip through the Big Apple that by now has (sadly) disappeared. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful Detail on an Intense Moment in Pop Music *by W***T on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015* I bought this at the end (I hope!) of a long infirmity caused by a herniated disc. It's featured in a Nick Hornby book; Hornby suggests it with the warning that the reader might buy a bunch of music as a result. Good advice; good warning.Hermes' knowledge is encyclopedic, and his ear for detail positively overwhelming. Set lists are laid out. Short movies are described in detail. Addresses and hotel room numbers are recollected. Amp and turntable cartridge numbers are cited. At some points, you think, good gracious, just STOP. But what points? How do I know what I want but someone else doesn't? (I skipped through most of the stuff about the jazz, because I know nothing about it. I ate the punk stuff with a tiny spoon and scraped out the bottom of the battered iron bowl.I did indeed regularly launch songs and music to hear what I was reading. I listened to Latin music I've never heard before (even if you have) and relistened to punk that I have (RAMONES). The detail in the early days of rap is gorgeous, even if the DJ names blurred after a while.Omnivorous music fans who, like me, are just old enough to have missed this era and who would be delighted to be led through it by a thoughtful, passionate guide will find it valuable. ### ⭐⭐ Everything but what matters *by G***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013* "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire" is a social history of music, of a sort. Except it's not a history, it's a set of anecdotes laid out consecutively through a five year time period that, as the subtitle indicates, changed the world of music. Not a bad premise at all, considering that the period saw the advent of punk music, the repetitive minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and the creative melding of roots-jazz, fusion and free music in the loft-based jazz avant-garde. Hermes tells you when and where people played, and what records they put out, seasoned with some of his personal experiences, but tells you almost nothing about the music.It's a problem for what purports to be a music history. But then this is music history Rolling Stone style, where it's about who know who and who slept with who and what dugs they took. You'll never know about any developments of rhythm, structure, harmony, anything, because pop-music critics like Hermes, whether they may have good 'taste' or not, don't know how music is made, how musicians listen and work together. So while you can read about so-and-so musician playing such-and-such music, you have no idea what the quality was, how they got there and why it matters. His knowledge of pop music is decent enough, he has heard enough of minimalism to appreciate it, he can't hear jazz and his coverage of latin music is dutiful and seems mostly about music he's never heard.The book actually makes little attempt to connect any of these different musics, except in the obvious and unsurprising affinity between artists like Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. There is a forced epilogue that all of a sudden makes and argument for aesthetic cross-fertilization, but it's nothing more than an assertion and, in a city and era when so many musicians were moving between pop, jazz and latin, he has absolutely no example of ideas moving between those genres. It's interesting enough to read as it goes along, but leaves no impression at the close. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/4887332-love-goes-to-buildings-on-fire-five-years-in-new](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/4887332-love-goes-to-buildings-on-fire-five-years-in-new) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-15*