I Wanna Be Sedated, takes a mischievous look at the decade's major genres ( Punk, Disco, Heavy Metal, Funk & Art Rock).
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Phil Dellio is a public school teacher. He writes about music, movies, and baseball, and once interviewed Martin Degville of Sigue.Sputnik.
Scott Woods is a full-time freelance music writer and part-time record store employee. He edits the Web site RockCritics.com from his home in Toronto.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An entertaining run through the music of the seventies.,
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This review is from: I Wanna Be Sedated: Pop Music in the Seventies (Paperback)
Despite the title of "pop music", it covers a tremendous range of styles many of which never made the charts. The authors parody everything from the ex-Beatles and the Stones, to punk, disco, funk, heavy-metal, singer-songwriters, etc. Like the great Beatles parody, "The Rutles", the more trivia you know the funnier it is (The writers did their homework). The humor is similar to the Rutles jokes as well as reminding me of Dave Barry's writing. The chapters usually begin with humorous comments on whatever subject and soon slip into cornball puns about the songs or musicians. Not a work of great literary importance, but I laughed aloud at least once a chapter while reading it on my lunch hour. Recommended for anyone who's brainpan has been clogged (like mine) with too much useless seventies music trivia.
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A work of great literary importance,
By Earl B "ebravonz" (Auckland New Zealand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Wanna Be Sedated: Pop Music in the Seventies (Paperback)
This book deserves more than one review in 12 years. The writers do indeed know their stuff!The chapter that's mostly about Rod Stewart is entitled "Think of me and try not to laugh" and it's written with affection. And there's a chapter that's mostly about K-Tel. Remember K-Tel???
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