Totally Awesome 80s : A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade
Totally Awesome 80s : A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade
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Who could forget the decade that brought us AIDS, Milli Vannilli, teen slasher movies, and a sitting U.S. president with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease? Well, I guess that question answers itself, but for those who wish to remember, no finer source can be found than Totally Awesome 80s, by Matthew Rettenmund, the man who brought us Encyclopedia Madonnica. This loving but ironic catalog of the most important cultural events of the 80s is fittingly slim, flashy, and shallow, covering mostly the poppiest movies, songs, and political actions of the era that told us "greed is good."
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"Matthew Rettenmund, with his sharp eye and his knowing prose, sounds like one of the freshest voices on the block."--
The New York Times Book Review"Matthew Rettenmund not only gets it all down, he gets it all right."--Kurt Loder, MTV News, on
Encyclopedia Madonnica"Matthew Rettenmund is a clever and witty new writer."--Greg Johnson, author of
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Music Books
Totally Awesome 80s : A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade
Books:
- Trapped! the Story of Floyd Collins: The Story of Floyd Collins
- What's Your Poison?: Addictive Advertising Of The '40s - '60s
- 50 Facts that Should Change the World
- Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration
- Agile Software Development with SCRUM
- Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board
- All-American Ads of the 50s
- American Idol Season 4: Behind-the-Scenes Fan Book : Prima's Official Fan Book
- Antonio Carlos Jobim Anthology/00312477
- Art of Contrary Thinking
Books
books
Books
- The Daguerreotype : Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science
- Rhythm, Music, and the Brain; Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research)
- Oscar Peterson
- STL Pocket Reference
- Lawmaking and the Legislative Process : Committees, Connections, and Compromises
- Immobilized Affinity Ligand Techniques
- Introducing Evolution (Introducing (Icon))
- Salambo
- Powers Vol. 6: Sellouts
- Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection: Tarts & Pastries (Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection , Vol 9)
- Memories of a Lifetime: Family History : Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
- Mother's Almanac Goes to School
- Reckoning with the Beast : Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Sciences)
- Natural Coincidence : The Trip from Kalamazoo
- Miami-Dade Co. Fl Atlas
- German Books: Deutsche Bücher ~ 60
- Kinder feiern Ostern
- Katasterplankarte. 25 24 Rechts, 56 72 Hoch. M. Gladbach, Lungenheilstätte
- Inside Com (Microsoft Programming Series)