Books by Chuck Eddy

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy brings lost, ignored, and maligned pop music to the fore, considering marginalized styles and artists right alongside pop music's heavyweights like Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, and Taylor Swift.

A comprehensive guide to rock, revealing the roots of rap, disco, power ballads, bubblegum, suburban country and noise-rock. The book examines the similarities between disco and garage rock, and between reggae and heavy metal, as well as whether songs can really "mean" anything.