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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music (Virgin Encyclopedias of Popular Music)

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If your a NewWave fan I recommend this instead of "Virgin Encyclopedia for Indie and New Wave" which is a much weaker reference than this. "Eighties Music" contains useful, if occasionally biased, reviews of many of the greatest bands, as well as smaller bands, of the 80s. Entries are occasionally very insightful, like the XTC entry. As a major NewWave/80s fan, I heartily recommend this book.

I had high expectations for this book which it just doesn't come close to achieving. The information on the musicians inside is rather basic and nothing you probably won't already know if you are a fan of any of them. There are no pictures at all inside and the text is written in a rather boring way. I had hoped to be able to look up songs or movie soundtrack albums in the index and see who actually sang them so I could order them on Amazon or somewhere but only artists are listed in the index and the book does not contain soundtrack albums at all. A very poor effort of what could have been a great and handy beneficial reference tool.