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Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard

10 best books like Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard (Tom Reynolds): Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, Bigfoot: I Not Dead, It's Complicated: The American Teenager, Spying on Miss Muller, The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics, The World According to Mimi Smartypants, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears, When Broadway Went to Hollywood, The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present, The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes

Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
AuthorBen Westhoff
ISBN1569766061
Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T call southern rap “garbage,” but they’re probably just jealous, as artists like Lil Wayne and...
Bigfoot: I Not Dead
AuthorGraham Roumieu
ISBN0452289564
In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to Me Write Book, Bigfoot returns from exile to share his inspiring, hilarious, and often deeply disturbing experiences as a misunderstood forest gentleman and tragic media darling. These entertaining and often grizzly stories stand not only as a testament...
It's Complicated: The American Teenager
AuthorRobin Bowman
ISBN1884167691
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride,...
Spying on Miss Muller
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0449704556
Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Müller. Half-German and half-Irish, she's as beautiful as a movie star. But ever since their country, Ireland, went to war with Germany, they don't feel the same way. In fact, the girls now think there's something...
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics
AuthorGideon Defoe
ISBN1408802228
'Look, you have to understand - piracy isn't like other jobs. One minute you're swimming in pearls and eating diamonds instead of cereal, the next you're clinging to a raft made from dead pygmies without a penny to your name.'

Things are looking heartily bleak for the Pirate Captain; his bank...
The World According to Mimi Smartypants
AuthorMimi Smartypants
ISBN0060786361
Just who is this Mimi Smartypants, anyway?

She's 30 (but looks younger), 5'1" (but looks taller). She's never faced a situation she couldn't comment about -- especialy online! She lives in Chicago with her husband, LT, and her large cat, The Cat -- not to be confused with Kat (female friend,...
Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears
AuthorKim Cooper
ISBN0922915695
Hmm. I wanted to like this book more, but I just couldn't. I had a number of problems with the book, not least of which is that the authors had a pretty squishy idea of what should be counted as bubblegum music. The Archies? Definitely. Partridge Family? I'd buy that. But Duran Duran? Paul Rever & The...
When Broadway Went to Hollywood
AuthorEthan Mordden
ISBN0199395403
When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises...
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present
AuthorScott Plagenhoef
ISBN1416562028
FROM THE BRAIN TRUST BEHIND PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM -- THE WEBSITE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECLARED "AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE IPO D GENERATION'S LEXICON, A MUST-READ" -- A FRESH GUIDE TO THE 500 BEST SONGS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS.

Named the "best site for music criticism on the web" by The New York Times...
The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes
AuthorWillie Nelson
ISBN0375758607
If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life—the good and the bad—and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through...
The Girl in the Song: The Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics
AuthorMichael Heatley
ISBN1569765308
Women have long inspired rock artists, but what do fans really know about these muses? The Girl in the Song focuses on the girlfriends, wives, rivals, exes, groupies, celebrities, mothers, children, and even complete strangers who inspired 50 of rock’s greatest songs. Who was the Emily in Pink Floyd’s...
What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide
AuthorJana Riess
ISBN0787969222
Jana Riess takes an academic look at the spirituality of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, using the stories and style of everyone's favorite vampire slaying heroine to explore personal spirituality, the friends who help us (and, hopefully, are helped by us) on our spiritual journeys, the mentors who shape...
Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan
AuthorLorna Jowett
ISBN0819567582
During its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer attracted a wide range of viewers and almost unprecedented academic interest. Sex and the Slayer explores one of the most talked-about topics in relation to this pioneering TV series--gender. As fantasy, Buffy potentially opens up a space for alternative...
It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
AuthorTristan Donovan
ISBN1250082722
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification?

In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the...
Madonna: Like an Icon
AuthorLucy O'Brien
ISBN0060898968
Material Girl. Immaculate sexpot. Kabbalah enthusiast. British mum.

She has defied categorization for three decades and remained one of our greatest living pop icons

Madonna: Like an Icon is a groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's...
She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
AuthorGillian G. Gaar
ISBN1580050786
Gillian G. Gaar’s critically acclaimed, breakthrough book, the first full history of women in rock and pop ever written, became an instant classic upon its publication in 1992. Arranged chronologically and told with impassioned detail, She’s A Rebel charts a half century of women performers...
Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
AuthorChuck D
ISBN0316430978
A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.

In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive...
Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One
AuthorCharles Addams
Charles Addams was renowned for his depictions of love (or lack thereof) in his cartoons. The passion of Morticia and Gomez Addams, the lonely desires of Fester, the numerous grim and ghastly fights between husband and wife -- all found their way into Addams's signature drawings. Addams's concept...
Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
AuthorJohn Sellers
ISBN0743277082
John Sellers was powerless to resist the call of indie rock -- once he finally heard it. In this hilarious and revealing memoir, Sellers meticulously charts his transformation from a teenage headbanger rebelling against his Dylan-obsessed father to a thirtysomething fixated on the obscure Ohio...
Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire
AuthorGlenn Yeffeth
ISBN1932100334
What can I say? Intelligent discussion and analysis of a really cool TV show?
Right up my alley. I am an intelligent, educated person who reads books but is also unrepentantly addicted to TV.
I couldn't put this down. I'm pleased that several
of the essays even talk about why the writer didn't...
Wiped!: Life with a Pint-size Dictator
AuthorRebecca Eckler
ISBN0812976401
“Pregnancy was a 90-minute massage compared to life now.”

After her little bundle of joy, Rowan (aka The Dictator) arrives, Rebecca Eckler wonders when the promised “rewarding” part will kick in. She wasn’t supposed to trade in tight jeans for baggy sweatpants, or give up the dream...
Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists
AuthorAngus Cargill
ISBN0571241727
Hang the DJ is a great little compendium made up by music aficionados who give their top ten lists of music. This may not be their top ten favourite songs but songs that they deserve to be put in a list (a personal favourite was Top Ten songs that Feature Stuttering).

I will admit that Hang the DJ...
Just the Tips
AuthorMatt Fraction
ISBN1632151782
Just in time to come down everybody's chimneys this holiday season, the creators of Sex Criminals are proud-ish to present Just the Tips, a curated collection of tips, tricks, moves, advice, suggestions, stories, and confessions, how-tos, do's, don'ts, and do-agains-but-slower-this-times from...
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