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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <link rel=stylesheet href="/rxgau.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW"> <title>Robert Christgau: Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#e0ffff"> <table width="100%" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10> <tr><td colspan=2 bgcolor="#1010e0"> <a class=xlnk href="/"><img class=xlnk src="/rxgau.gif" width=287 height=47 alt="Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics"></a> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#1010e0" valign=top> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 border=1> <tr><td class=xlnk nowrap><a class=xlnk href="/cg.php">Consumer Guide:</a>   <a class="xlnk" href="/xg/web/cgusers.php">User's Guide</a>   <a class="xlnk" href="/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php">Grades 1990-</a>   <a class="xlnk" href="/xg/bk-cg70/grades.php">Grades 1969-89</a>   <a class="xlnk" 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distilling enthusiastic nonstop listening into incisive, knowledgeable, sometimes hilarious judgments. Christgau's guide to the records of the 1980s, the first and only book to survey the decade's popular music, reviews and letter-grades some 3,000 albums. His search for exciting music is wide-ranging, not just what is narrowly defined as "rock,", but also pop, country, rap, blues, rock-related jazz, and the panoply of world musics, especially reggae and African genres. <h3>Table of Contents</h3> <table width=100% bgcolor=white border=0 cellpadding=5> <tr><td> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/ack.php">Acknowledgments</a> Introduction <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_decade.php">Decade</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_mproc.php">Music Processing</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_post.php">Postpunk-Postdisco Fusion</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_meaning.php">The Meaning of Rock</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_mgap.php">Music Gap</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_canons.php">Canons and Listening Lists</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/in_howto.php">How to Use This Book</a> Consumer Guide--Albums of the '80s    <a href="/get_chap.php?k=A&bk=80">A</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=80">B</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=C&bk=80">C</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=D&bk=80">D</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=E&bk=80">E</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=80">F</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=G&bk=80">G</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=H&bk=80">H</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=I&bk=80">I</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=J&bk=80">J</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=K&bk=80">K</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=80">L</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=80">M</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=N&bk=80">N</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=O&bk=80">O</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=P&bk=80">P</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=Q&bk=80">Q</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=80">R</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=80">S</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=T&bk=80">T</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=U&bk=80">U</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=V&bk=80">V</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=80">W</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=X&bk=80">X</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=Y&bk=80">Y</a> <a href="/get_chap.php?k=Z&bk=80">Z</a> Appendices <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/app_howto.php">How to Use These Appendices</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/further.php">Subjects for Further Research</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/dnce.php">Distinctions Not Cost-Effective</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/meltdown.php">Meltdown</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/newwave.php">New Wave</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/comps.php">Compilations</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/rocklib.php">Rock Library: Before 1980</a> The A Lists    <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1980.php">1980</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1981.php">1981</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1982.php">1982</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1983.php">1983</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1984.php">1984</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1985.php">1985</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1986.php">1986</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1987.php">1987</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1988.php">1988</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/a-1989.php">1989</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/glossary.php">Glossary</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/credits.php">Credits</a> </td></tr></table> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/corrigenda.php">Corrigenda</a> <a href="/xg/bk-cg80/missing.php">The Parts They Left Out</a> <h3>Links</h3>  <ul> <li>Amazon.Com <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306805820/qid=1002775957/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_2_9/102-7850796-7384105"> Product Info</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0306805820/customer-reviews/ref=ce_dpr_r_4/102-7850796-7384105#tab-link"> Reviews</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="/images/cg80s-b.jpg">Larger Front Cover</a></li> </ul>  </td> </table> </body> </html>