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'{{for|the British officer|David Stubbs (RAF officer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} '''David Stubbs''' (born 13 September 1962 in [[London]]) is a British music journalist.( He is also a MASSIVE FUCKING TOOL !!! He grew up in [[Leeds]] and in the early Eighties was a student at the [[University of Oxford]] where he was a close friend of [[Simon Reynolds]]. The two were part of the Oxford-based collective that in 1984 launched the pop journal ''Monitor'' and then in 1986 both joined ''[[Melody Maker]]'' as staff writers. Stubbs remained at ''Melody Maker'' for a dozen years. He combined his serious writing career with writing the humorous "Talk Talk Talk" section, which featured the character of '''Mr Agreeable'''<ref name="Zero Books"/> who would insult [[sacred cow (idiom)|sacred cow]]s with barrages of swear words (asterisked out to comply with [[IPC Media]] regulations).{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} ==Career== Stubbs has written for t''[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]]'' magazine, the ''[[NME]]'' (late 1990s and early 2000s), and as editor of ''[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/newsid_4644000/4644435.stm|title=Live 8: ¿fiesta o compromiso?|date=2 July 2005|publisher=[[BBC Mundo]] |language=es |access-date=24 May 2018|work=BBC News}}</ref> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The Times]]'' and the football magazines ''Goal'' and ''[[When Saturday Comes]]'', where in the guise of the "Wing Commander", Stubbs covered their ill-fated [[2006 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] campaign, followed by their failure to qualify for [[Euro 2008]]; the reports were sufficiently popular for Stubbs to augment them with further characters.<ref name="Zero Books">{{cite web | url=http://www.zero-books.net/authors/david-stubbs | title=David Stubbs Author Profile | publisher=[[Zero Books]] | access-date=26 May 2018}}</ref> He has also contributed to many of the themed special editions of ''Uncut''. He has written about musicians such as [[Jimi Hendrix]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avoir-alire.com/article.php3?id_article=6252|title=Jimi Hendrix|access-date=24 May 2018}}</ref> and [[Eminem]] in the ''Stories Behind Every Song'' series.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} In 2009, his book on 20th century [[avant-garde music]] was published, entitled ''Fear of Music: Why people get [[Rothko]] but don't get [[Stockhausen]]'' ([[Zero Books]], Winchester: UK, 2009),<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Fear_of_Music.html?id=JB5l4uKJknUC&redir_esc=y | title=Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen | publisher=John Hunt Publishing | author=Stubbs, David | year=2009 |pages=135 | isbn=1-8469-4179-2}}</ref> which was the subject of an evening of lectures at the [[Tate Britain]].<ref name="Zero Books"/> The title may have been taken from the third studio album by [[Talking Heads]], ''[[Fear of Music]]''. He was among 42 who contributed essays to the bestselling ''[[The Atheist's Guide To Christmas]]'', which also featured [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Derren Brown]], [[David Baddiel]] and [[Charlie Brooker]].<ref name="Zero Books"/> In 2014, Stubbs published a comprehensive critical history of German post-[[psychedelic rock]] of the 1970s, ''Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany''. This was followed in 2018 by a similarly large-scale study of [[electronic music]], ''Mars by 1980''.<ref>https://www.soundonsound.com/news/mars-1980-book-chart-evolution-electronic-music</ref> == Publications == * ''Cleaning Out My Closet: [[Eminem]] : the Stories Behind Every Song'', [[Thunder's Mouth Press]], 2003 * ''Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen'', [[John Hunt Publishing|Zero Books]], 2009, {{ISBN|1-8469-4179-2}} * ''Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010'', Zero Books, 2010 * ''Future Days: [[Krautrock]] and the Building of Modern Germany'', [[Faber and Faber]], 2014 * ''1996 and the End of History'', [[Repeater Books]], 2016 * ''Mars by 1980'', Faber and Faber, 2018 * ''Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to [[Skrillex]]'', Faber and Faber, 2018 ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.mr-agreeable.net/ <nowiki>David Stubbs [Mr Agreeable]</nowiki>] *{{twitter|sendvictorious|David Stubbs @sendvictorious}} *[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidstubbs Profile at ''The Guardian''] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stubbs, David}} [[Category:1962 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British male journalists]] [[Category:British music journalists]] [[Category:British sportswriters]] [[Category:Melody Maker writers]] [[Category:The Guardian journalists]] [[Category:The Times people]] [[Category:Writers from Leeds]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:People educated at Mount St Mary's Catholic High School, Leeds]] {{UK-journalist-stub}}'