Let's Do It

[An] exuberant celebration of the silly and the sublime. Stanley's writing delights and surprises, and his description of the music makes you want to dance to it. -- Sarah Larson, The New Yorker A landmark celebration, rumination and encapsulation of just about everything worth knowing - and arguing - about the pop landscape. A book for the ages. -- Matt Damsker, USA Today A roller-coaster ride through pop history that encourages readers to look deeper into offshoots of 'pop' and performers they might not be so familiar with. -- The Houston Press An ambitious undertaking. Stanley's bold positions connect pop's many dots in fresh and fascinating patterns. -- Christian Science Monitor An immensely entertaining pop-music survey course. Engagingly opinionated and often very, very funny. Joyful, smart, and addictive, just like the best pop songs, and a must for music fans everywhere. -- Booklist (starred) Bob Stanley loves and finds surprising connections between a thousand kinds of pop. He makes me want to run to the nearest record store?and move in. --Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields Quixotic and kaleidoscopic, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! serves up erudite irreverence on every page. Like its sprawling subject, it invites everyone in for a listen. -- The Dallas Morning News Stanley is as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it. -- Mikael Wood, The Los Angeles Times Stanley provides an intriguing view of the shifting ground of pop music. -- Publishers Weekly Tells the story of American and British pop music almost as engagingly as the songs themselves. -- Glenn Gamboa, Newsday This book will be remembered and deserves to be. -- Robert Christgau, Barnes & Noble Review Totally delicious and [full of] why-didn't-I-think-of-that connections. We're incredibly lucky to have this detailed map. -- David Kirby, Wall Street Journal Zips through decades of dance tunes and teenage heartthrobs with an affectionate ebullience. As good a story of pop music as a fan could hope for. -- The Washington Post Praise for Bob Stanley's Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ties together the disparate strands of pop's shape-shifting history to create a vivid living document of the music of our lives. --Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever Like War and Peace but with a beat. Endlessly readable. [Stanley's] passion and humor make Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! a delicious read even, or rather especially, when it upends your own views. -- The Boston Globe Rich with musical history lived, worked, and felt. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is smart, funny, surprisingly deep for just how broad it is, but, most of all, for stars and songs great and small, it is full of love. -- Joshua Joy Kamensky, Los Angeles Review of Books