Reader’s index

Altered State

Every song, film and book the book names — in the order it names them.

Matthew Collin’s history of Ecstasy culture and acid house names hundreds of records, films and books along the way. This index pulls them out chapter by chapter, keeps them in the order they appear, and gives each one the sentence that introduces it — set exactly as printed.

The book

Serpent’s Tail, 1997. Revised edition 2009, with a foreword written a long time afterwards.

How to use it

Filter any chapter by title, artist or kind. Every link opens a search, so it works wherever you are.

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Works

Songs

Film & TV

Books

Foreword
(a long time afterwards) Looking back on a culture that had not yet peaked 0 works →
Prologue
a night in the eighties Manchester, 1988: the first pill, and what it did 0 works →
1
the technologies of pleasure Disco, Chicago house, Detroit techno and the making of MDMA 22 works →
2
summer of love Ibiza, Shoom and the summer Britain changed key 9 works →
3
magical mystery tour Orbital raves, entrepreneurs and the tabloid backlash 13 works →
4
journey to the east Football terraces, the north and the spread of the drug 3 works →
5
freaky dancing Manchester, the Haçienda and the price of Madchester 21 works →
6
techno travellers Free festivals, sound systems and the Criminal Justice Act 9 works →
7
urban blues Hardcore, jungle, UK garage and the London underground 10 works →
8
the chemical generation Superclubs, casualties and the culture going overground 13 works →