this book is about 80's muisc....anyone read it????

https://books.google.com/books?id=mNxe-SD0Qi0C&pg=PT168&lpg=PT168&dq=girls+who+listen+to+duran+duran&source=bl&ots=E7R62R6OBN&sig=NMbfuDDZxyC5BWG4Km9ZLANxqT4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqsI3CitXTAhVF7YMKHZXPAVcQ6AEIYjAO#v=onepage&q=prince&f=false

luvsexy4all said:

Well, I've read it--I don't remember the Prince chapter right now, but I really liked the book. And Rob Sheffield's other books, Love Is a Mixtape (about his relationship with his first wife--some laughter, some great stuff about loving music, and some gut-wrenching tears) and Turn Around Bright Eyes (some of the same) are also great. I haven't read his On Bowie (which came out last year) or the new Dreaming the Beatles (which just came out last week or so), but I'm sure they're good, and I've also enjoyed his music columns through the years in various magazines--had one called Pop Life for quite a while in Rolling Stone. He writes mostly about TV now for them, and since I watch very little TV anymore (and usually mostly after the fact), I'm rarely up to date with what he's talking about in those pieces. But I like him and generally find what he says about pop culture at least somewhat interesting. I wouldn't encourage reading a chapter or two in isolation, though--read the whole book, whatever he says about Prince in it will make more sense in context.

EddieC said:

Well, I've read it--I don't remember the Prince chapter right now, but I really liked the book. And Rob Sheffield's other books, Love Is a Mixtape (about his relationship with his first wife--some laughter, some great stuff about loving music, and some gut-wrenching tears) and Turn Around Bright Eyes (some of the same) are also great. I haven't read his On Bowie (which came out last year) or the new Dreaming the Beatles (which just came out last week or so), but I'm sure they're good, and I've also enjoyed his music columns through the years in various magazines--had one called Pop Life for quite a while in Rolling Stone. He writes mostly about TV now for them, and since I watch very little TV anymore (and usually mostly after the fact), I'm rarely up to date with what he's talking about in those pieces. But I like him and generally find what he says about pop culture at least somewhat interesting. I wouldn't encourage reading a chapter or two in isolation, though--read the whole book, whatever he says about Prince in it will make more sense in context.

Mixtape was a really good book.

Rob Sheffield's books are so great when it comes to pop music and relating them to real life. Both Talking To Girls About Duran Duran and Mixtape were excellent reads. There was a good amount of Prince stuff in TTGADD. How could you talk about the mid-80s and not include Prince??