MAD WORLD: AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEW WAVE ARTISTS AND SONGS THAT DEFINED THE 1980s - PAPERBACK - BOOK 2023 NOMINEE

MAD WORLD: AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEW WAVE ARTISTS AND SONGS THAT DEFINED THE 1980s - PAPERBACK - BOOK 2023 NOMINEEMad World is a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song but leads to stories of their history and place in the scene, ultimately painting a vivid picture of this colorful, idiosyncratic time. Mixtape suggestions, fashion sidebars, and quotes from famous contemporary

" and the little single that could

Both landmark albums took metal in a new direction in the early 1980s

7 Everywhere I Go

Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album

and the web converge to create something new

I'll Never Leave You

which alone was enough to ward off most rockers

whose writing has appeared in The New York Times

4 I Don't Want You to Pretend

Volume 2 is a compilation album issued by RCA Victor in November 1959

readers will travel back in time to the great rockin' nights hosted in this small town

He starred alongside Danny Glover and Stacy Keach in John Sayles’ 2007 film Honeydripper