I'm gonna be so honest I am biased because this was required reading for a course I hated, but also I was reading this at the same time as I read American Psycho and in parts they sound so similar. Except for the fact that the author of this book doesn't like Huey Lewis and The News very much. Speaking of the author's taste, it's not egregious but I feel like he holds female musicians to a much higher standard than male ones and it gets a little grating. Finally, a matter of personal preference, when there are full chapters dedicated to artists I don't like and one derogatory sentence or no mention at all about artist's I do like. Well. I think it does do a good job of describing the events that led decades to sound a certain way, but that's about all the good it does.