Talking to Girls About Duran Duran : : one Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Music / Sheffield, Rob
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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The author of Love is a Mix Tape returns to share the soundtrack to his eighties adolescence. When he turned 13 in 1980, Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music and himself, and here he offers a glimpse into his transformation from pasty, geeky "hermit boy" into a young man with his first girlfriend, his first apartment, and a sense of the world. It's all here: Inept flirtations. Dumb crushes. Deplorable fashion choices. Members Only jackets. Girls, every last one of whom seems to be madly in love with the bassist of Duran Duran. Sheffield's coming-of-age story has a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. These songs--and Sheffield's writing--will remind readers of that first kiss, that first car, and the moments that shaped their lives.--From publisher description.

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Kajagoogoo submitted by Caser on September 1, 2010, 8:41am The first point to know about Rob Sheffield's book is that you don't have to be 'Hungry Like the Wolf' to enjoy it. In fact, you don't even need to have been alive during the 1980s to laugh along with him at the one-hit cassingles, or the New Wave hair, or the shoulder pads of the Regan era. What Sheffield argues best in his second book is that the one true currency in the '80s was pop culture for the teen set.

All the William Hurt and Mickey Rourke adult films with the "baby oil" sheen were terrible, whereas the John Hughes movies where there was even a chance that Judd Nelson would pump his fist on a football field were awesome. Bands weren't afraid to look or sound absolutely ridiculous for a hit or for an audience (especially if you were trying to go New Wave). And Sheffield loves the one hit wonders of this decade as much as the Princes, Madonnas, and U2s, so be ready to relive songs you might have only heard once at a wedding, like Haysi Fantayzee's "Shiny Shiny," Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby Got Back" or Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy."

Admittedly, the best chapters are those where Sheffield discusses music and pop stars that I too love, like his on-again-off-again relationship with Morrissey, or listening to nothing but Purple Rain while driving an ice cream truck, but I liked the other chapters as well. Now sing with me: "her name is Rio and she dances on the saaaaaand."