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Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982

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This is an essential guide to the music that was called new wave and post punk, which, by the way, was THE real "alternative" music, not the junk they label "alternative" today. Not only is this book thoroughly entertaining but it's a great reference source. It has all the acts from that era, from commercial (The Cure, Depeche Mode) to hopelessly obscure (Girls at Our Best, Hurrah!, Freshies, New Musik, et.al.) It comes with a bonus CD that has some nice interviews and snippets of featured artists' songs.

Wow -- what an unbelievable labour of love. Like his first book "Punk Rock Diary", George Gimarc has managed to chronical the day to day doings of hundreds of bands (some known, some who are just names to most us) during two of the most pivotal years in modern music. If you like Post Punk/New Wave music, buy this book!

This book is nothing REALLY special, just the dates of all (or 99% of them) punk releases of 1980 - 82 period. No articles, nothing on the performers themselves.

So, why 5 stars???

Well, the book comes with a CD (if you buy used make sure it is still included). On it is basically an hour+ long rockumentary! With a lot of tracks (half of them are not full-length though), rare interviews from performers (like Siouxsie And The Banshees and Psychedelic Furs) and a great narrator THE CD ALONE is worth the price of the book. And worth mentioning that the CD is UNIQUE, you can not get it elsewhere!

So, look at this product as a great one-of-a-kind collector's CD with a book of records as a bonus. If you like Punk, BUY THIS ONE!

this is a great document,even better is "High On Rebellion; Inside the Underground At Max's Kansas City" by Yvonne Sewell Ruskin, loaded with NY Dolls/Johnny Thunders,Psychotic Frogs,Jayne County,Cherry Vanilla,etc THE REAL SCENE!Yeah!