Mad World, An Oral History Of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The Eighties

Hi guys, welcome back to Big Blog Theory, I hope you’re all doing well. A few days ago, I finished reading a book called Mad World, An Oral History Of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The Eighties. The foreword was written by Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran, one of my time favourite eighties bands and the afterword was written by the artist, Moby, Lori Majewski and Jonathon Bernstein. This book was about new wave music in the eighties and in every segment there was a band or a singer from that time talking about their journey through fame, their music, how they formed and other stuff too. One thing I really liked was that in every segment, it was based on their number one hit, which I thought was quite interesting. This book was amazing, I really enjoyed reading it, it’s a fantastic read. I also really loved it because this book had most of my favourite bands and singers from the eighties, I think that also played a part in it as well.

This book was really interesting too, so many great bands, so many great singers, so many great songs. We have bands like Adam and The Ants, Duran Duran, New Order, ABC,  Devo, Echo and the Bunny men, Spandau ballet, The Human League, Heaven 17, Dexy’s midnight runners, Bow, Wow, Wow, The Waitresses, The Normal, Kajagoogoo, The Psychedelic Furs, Depeche Mode, Berlin, Soft Cell, A Ha, A Flock Of Seagulls, Joy Division, Yazoo, Tears for Fears,  Modern English, The Smiths, Orchestral Manouvres in the dark, Ultravox, I,N,X,S, Thompson Twins, Animotion and Band Aid. It was really interesting reading about these bands. This book also had segments about singers and artists like Gary Numan, Kim Wilde and Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones. This book was so well put together, I enjoyed every minute of it, even if they were one or two groups that I don’t really listen to that much, it was still really interesting.

I got this book for my previous birthday and I really loved it. My sister and my dad knew how much I love this kind of stuff, I’ve always been interested in learning about certain decades, like the sixties, the seventies and the eighties. I think it summed it up, pretty well. I now know so much more about my favourite artists, bands and duos from the eighties. New Wave is a very fascinating topic indeed, so much to learn. If there are any eighties new wave fans out there, who thoroughly enjoy this stuff like I do, then you’ll love this, I’ll be reading this again, without a shadow of a doubt, awesome book. I don’t want to give too much away, because I want you, lot to see all this stuff for yourself, get your hands on it, you won’t be disappointed.

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