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Title: Who Can It Be Now : The Lyrics Game That Takes You Back To The 80s One Line At A Time by Peter T. Fornatale, Frank R. Scatoni ISBN: 0-684-85630-1 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 12 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brought Me Back 1980s Teen Memories
Comment: I was one of those 1980s teenagers who watched MTV when it used to play music videos 24 hours daily, and this book has a lot of the music artists who performed on MTV, including the song titles in the book. It even has a picture of Ronald Reagan, the Rubik's Cube, and other 1980s nostalgia that I remember so well. Oh yeah, it also made me remember seeing Courtney Cox on that Bruce Springsteen music video doing that swinging dance on his stage when I read about Bruce in this book...also that old Madonna look complete with the Boy Toy belt and wedding dress. :) If you want to remember the great music artists of the 1980s, their songs, and the memories, get this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun & Nostalgic Trip Back to the '80s
Comment: "Who Can It Be Now?," named after the Men at Work song, is just over 200 pages of music and pop culture trivia taken from the '80s. Most of the book is devoted to just one-liners (not the entire song), with the lyric on one side of the page and the song title, band/artist, and bits of trivia on the opposite side. Some of the sections in the book feature one-hit wonders (like Kajagoogoo {"Too Shy"} and Toni Basil {"Mickey"}), actors-turned-singers (like Patrick Swayze {"She's Like the Wind" in 'Dirty Dancing'} and Rick Springfield), as well as bits of movie, TV, and celebrity trivia, but only if it pertains to a certain '80s song. There are also lots of black-and-white photos (pretty much on every page) of singers/performers/actors, like Debbie (Deborah now) Gibson, Michael and Janet Jackson, Mr. T, Weird Al, and the Brat Pack, just to name a few.
Despite some of the catty remarks and photo alterations (see Mary Lou Retton and Lionel Richie), this book will certainly make you laugh and reminisce if you're a child of the '80s. It's hard to digest all of the info in this book in one sitting (flipping back and forth between the lyrics and answers does lose its appeal after awhile), but halfway into it, you'll be dusting off your old CDs/cassettes/vinyls and playing them while reading this book. The only gripe I have is that there's no index or table of contents to find certain pages quicker; other than that, "Who Can It Be Now?" is a fun and nostalgic trip back to the '80s. Worth reading if you're an '80s fanatic like I am.
Rating: 5
Summary: These are the best... of... Tiiiimes
Comment: If my review title makes you scratch your head and say to yourself, "hmmm, where do I know that from?", you should really buy this book. (It's from Styx.) Anyway, this book is a little tongue in cheek, obviously, but it does more than just make fun of Tommy Tutone, Bananarama, The Human League, songs like 867-5309 Jenny, etc. It has dozens of little quizzes, where you see the lines from songs on one page, and then when you flip to the next page you find out the names of the groups that sang them. Interspersed throughout the book are tons of little articles (blurbs, really) about various groups, which tell you, in all likelihood, more than any human would ever want to know about, say, Spandau Ballet. But it's still a good book. I recommend the living daylights out of this one, it's hilarious, especially at parties.
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Title: Say Anything: The Movie Quote Game That Takes You Back to the '80s One Line at a Time by Frank R. Scatoni, Peter Thomas Fornatale ISBN: 0452281474 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Totally Awesome 80s : A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade by Matthew Rettenmund ISBN: 0312144369 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Totally Awesome 80s TV Trivia Book : by Michael D Craig ISBN: 0595183859 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 09 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Totally Awesome 80s Pop Music Trivia Book : by Michael-Dante Craig ISBN: 0595170102 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What's That From? : The Ultimate Quiz Book Of Memorable Movie Lines Since 1969 by Jai Nanda ISBN: 0312141459 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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