Quotable Pop Book

This Is How We Do It

We'll Take Sweden (ABBA)

You Are a Walking Antique (Age)

Could've Been the Whiskey, Might've Been the Gin (Alcohol)

Zooropa (Animals)

Never Mind the Pollocks (Art)

More Quotes About Buildings and Food (Avant-Garde)

Why Do Words Suddenly Appear? (Bacharach and David)

Hanging On in Quiet Desperation Is the English Way (Brit-Speak)

We Come From the Land of the Ice and Snow (Canada)

We're on a Mission, You Better Just Listen (Causes)

We Love the Way Puccini Lays Down a Tune (Classical Music)

My Name Is Rob, I Got a Real Funky Concept (Concepts)

Gonna Buy Five Copies for My Mother (Critics)

We Dance Just as Good as We Want (Dancing)

Parking Cars and Pumping Gas (Day Jobs)

Hail Satan! (The Devil)

Studio 54, Where Are You? (Disco)

Don't Pick Fights With the Bullies or the Cads (Dissing)

A Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar Has Given Us the Call (Drugs)

How Wonderful Life Is While I'm in the World (Ego)

Madam Onassis Got Nothin' on You (Fame)

Wish I Was Your Mother (Family)

Everything We Do, We Do It for You (Fans)

We Get the Funniest Looks From Everyone We Meet (Fashion)

Every Time I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think of You (Food)

Your Mirror's Gettin' Jammed Up With All Your Friends (Friendship)

The Girls Are All Around But None of 'Em Wanna Get With Me (Girls)

Would I Write a Book or Should I Take to the Stage? (Goals and Aspirations)

Pretzel Logic (Gobbledygook)

Women and Children First (Groupies)

Our Little Group Has AlwaysBeen and Always Will (Groups)

I'm Not Sick, But I'm Not Well (Health)

The Ballad of Tommy Lee and Judas Priest (Heavy Metal)

Epistle to Hippie (Hippie Talk)

I'm Henry VIII, I Am (History Lessons)

Some Boys Named Sue (Homosexuality)

Germfree Adolescents (Hygiene)

Tombstone Blues (Immortality)

Tommy Mottola Gets His Tonsils Out (The Industry)

You're the Inspiration (Inspirations)

Edumacation Ain't for Me! (Intelligence)

You Talkin'to Me? (Interviews)

My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style (Jazz)

Jesus and Mary Chain Are Just Alright With Me (Jesus and Mary Chain)

We Knocked 'Em Dead in Dallas (Jewishness)

We Ain't No Joke (Keeping it Real)

Based on a Novel by a Man Named Lear (Literacy)

We Get Paid to Do the Wild Thing (The Live Experience)

Most of Them Are Beautiful But So Obsessed With Gloom (Loneliness)

They Want to Know What Love Is (Love)

Exiles in Guyville (Masculinity)

What's It All About? (Meanings and Messages)

My Name Is Bill and I'm a Head Case (Mental Health)

TV Party Tonight! (Multi-Media)

Into the Mystic (Mysticism)

Puffy-Puffy Bo-Buffy, Banana-Fana Fo-Fuffy, Fe-Fi Mo-Muffy ... P. Diddy? (Names)

We Dig Snow and the Rain and the Bright Sunshine (Nature)

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Negativity)

Opposites Attract (Odd Couples)

Crazy Horses (Osmonds)

Celebration of the Lizard (Penises)

Bob Dole's 115th Dream (Politics)

It's All Too Beautiful (Positivity)

Even Better Than the Real Thing (Product Placement)

Gettin' Iggy With It (Punk)

I Look All White But My Dad Was Black (Race)

Queen Latifah Approximately (Rap)

Mutiny on the Bounty's What We're All About (Rebellion) 1

The Words to a Sermon That No One Will Hear (Religion)

20-Way Tie for Last (Self-Deprecation)

You Say Neato, Check Your Libido (Sex)

Where's That Confounded Bridge? (Songwriting)

They Are Talking About the Space Between Us All (Spirituality)

Being for the Benefit of Tom Kite (Sports)

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Technology)

Just the Three of Us (Threesomes)

A Trumpet You Can Blow and a Book of Rules (Tools of the Trade)

Watchers of the Sky (UFOS)

Kicking In Chairs and Knocking Down Tables (Violence)

Sage Against the Machine (The Final Word)

Index

Bibliography and Other Sources

The Editors and The Illustrator