Reviews

The New Trouser Press Record Guide (Third Edition) by Bud Kliment, Mark Fleischmann, Harold DeMuir, Wayne King, Karen Schlosberg, Elizabeth Phillip, Kathy Haight, Robert Payes, John Walker, David Sheridan, Steven Grant, Graham Flashner, Michael Pietsch, Regina Joskow, John Leland, David Fricke, Scott Isler, Charles P. Lamey, Altricia Gethers, Jack Rabid, Jim Green, Jon Young, Andrea 'Enthal, Ira A. Robbins, Richard Gehr, Terry Rompers, Dave Schulps

voya_k's review

3.0

I'm glad I didn't have this thing as a lodestar as a music-obsessed teen in 1989. 'Beloved by teenage girls' is about the worst thing this guy can say about a band, which is regressive and lame. However, as a self-confident middle aged lady who is extremely sure about my own taste, I can enjoy the hilarous haterade dispensed by this book without taking it too seriously. Maybe I'll add some quotes later -- this guy defecates all over The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus etc.