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Noel Hudson is a book editor and writer for television, radio, magazines and newspapers. He has played lead guitar in such notable ensembles as Mule's Lips, Hawaiian Howard and the Indoor Plants, the Louisville Sluggards, and currently in the jazz-funk quartet Bebopamoeba. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Well-illustrated with CD covers and other images, this book lists thousands of pop and rock music band names from more than 30 countries, arranged in irreverent categories with notes on origins, genres and best album titles. Fully indexed.

Savannah Schroll Guz - Library Journal

Hudson (Unforgettable Canada) has amassed an entertaining jumble of facts behind several thousand band names from 30 countries. The names are organized into 28 idiosyncratic themes, like "Shock Your Mama" and "Rock & Role-Playing." However, for easier alphabetical location, they are also fully indexed. While consistently noting each band's hometown, bite-sized entries, sadly, follow no set format and only sporadically include critics' statements and band interview quotes. Often-but not always-do readers find band member names and name explanations. However, the book is richly illustrated with full-color vintage concert posters and album cover art. For pop culture-focused collections only.

Table of Contents

Preface

A Few Things First

The Animals

The Fabulous Housepets

On Maggie's Farm

The Birds

Got Aqualung?

The Spider to the Fly

Wild, Wild Mammals

Reptiles & Amphibians

The Plants

When Trees Leave

Get Thee to a Shrubbery

Back to the Garden

Food & Drink

Where to Eat

Breakfast Specials

The Lunch

Menu

Soups & Salads

A Nice Fruit Plate

Your Entrée

Choice of Vegetable

The Dessert Cart

Enough to Drink

The Human Body

Some of Its Parts

Blood on the Hidden Tracks

Hit My Crazy Bone

Woe 'R' Us

Woe, Misery & Sorrow

Tragedy, Pain & Failure

Shiny Happy People

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gleeful

Yeah Yeah Yeah (Yeah Yeah!)

Your Family Tree or Mine

Mom, Dad & the Relatives

Oh, Baby Baby

Siblinghood

Artefacts from the Teen Age

Love & Lust

Tainted Love

Untainted Love

Naming Names

Welcome to the Couch

My Beautiful Brain Laundrette

Madness: The Two-Step Beyond

Rock & Role-Playing

Jocks & Surfers

Poets & Beatniks

Heroes & Superheroes

Enough About Me, Let's Talk About My Hair

On the Outs with the In Crowd

Dyed & Coiffed Up

All the Fashion

Our Biggest Sale of the Season

Accessorize! Accessorize!

Shock Your Mama

Innuendo & Out the Other

Sugar & Spice

Snakes & Snails

Sexual Acts & Preferences

Horror Chiller Monster Thriller

Vampires

Ghosts

Ghouls

Cannibals

Monsters

Dead: Grateful or Ungrateful?

Dead Dead

Undead Dead

Popular Weaponry

Warm Gun

Cold Steel

Punch-Outs

Blow-Ups

Poisons

Crimes & Punishments

It Was My Evil Twin

I Fought the Law and the Law Threw the Switch

Building a Better World

Excuse Me While I Scrape the Sky

Living for the City

Ever Upwards We Must Spruce

We've Got the Power

Electricity

Gas

Steam

Nuclear

Department of Transportation

Get Your Motor Running

Parts & Pile-Ups

Trains & Planes

Eve of Destruction

Anarchy Loves Chaos

Burn Baby Burn

Pollution & Plagues

Introduction to Religion

Gods, Faith, Souls & Afterlives

Christianity, the Church, Saints & Angels

Non-Christians, Heathens & the Hellbound

Arts & Letters

The Same Old Song and Dance

Your Shutter is Bugging Me

Sorry I'm Booked

Bands Are People Too

Writers, Artists & Musicians

Stars of Stage & Screen

Leaders, True or False

Dead People in Encyclopedias

A Rogue's Gallery

Bands of Color

The Monochromes

Alternative Points of Hue

I Need My Space

This Space for Rent

I Wanted to Be a Spaceman

Alien Invaders

Does Your Robot Bite?

A Planet of One's Own

Placed & Misplaced

You Are Here

We Are Not Heres

The Best of the Bands

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Bibliography

Index