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Enough with the 80s

David Ingram (Brunel): "Go to the forest and move": 1960s American Rock Music as Electronic Pastoral. Elizabeth Carroll (Appalachian State): The Answer to the Atom Bomb: Rhetoric, Identification, and the Grateful Dead. From Ecclectica, a special issue on Syd Barrett. From Atlantis, Jorge Sacido Romero and Luis Miguel Varela Cabo (Santiago de Compostela): Roger Waters’ Poetry of the Absent Father: British Identity in Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Death on the Installment Plan: An essay on growing old gracefully the Rolling Stones way. Enough with the 1980s: Nostalgia is all the rage, and maybe that's not a good thing. From Cracked, a list of the 20 worst album titles of all time and the 25 most ridiculous band names in rock history.