While the photographs in this book are fabulous, the book itself is poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly researched. There are many typos and grammatical errors in the text. Most of the "research" was just taken from other books about the Talking Heads. The thing I find most offensive is that the book is titled, "The Stories Behind Every Song" but the "stories" are no more than guesses made by the book's author as to what he thinks the songs could be about. "Oh ummm David Byrne was PROBABLY dating Adelle Lutz when Speaking In Tongues was recorded so I think she was the girlfriend in Girlfriend is Better!!". Ridiculous! This book is total trash. Leaf through it for the pictures at the store, but don't waste your money.

This book is pretty much worthless. There are some snippets of band history that are interesting, but the line from the title "The Stories Behind Every Song" is completely misleading, insofar as I was expecting _the band's_ take on their work. Instead, the author provides us with his pretty lame and obvious interpretations of the lyrics. I suppose this book is OK if all you want is the historical pictures of the band, but the text is weak at best.

I was expecting research and interviews, or at least quotes from other interviews. Instead I got descriptions of the songs and sometimes wild conjecture or ridiculous interpretations of the lyrics. Example: the title Found A Job has nothing to do with the lyrics. Huh? The writing "style" is on a middle school level. How did this get published? I'll keep it for the pictures only.

This is a book with photos and not much else. It would have been interesting if it lived up to its promise, but it does not begin to do so.

We're led to believe that the author is going to discuss the songs. For many of the songs he just quotes a line from the lyrics, and describes the sound. He doesn't offer much to us other than that.A lot of the song descriptions last only a paragraph or two.The pictures and the biographical information about the band members was fun, but the book was a huge disappointment to me.In my opinion, this was some very lazy work.

Brilliantly portrays a life and place most Americans can only imagine. Beginning to end...a riveting account of one of America's worst urban nightmares.- Brett Peruzzi, Ebooks Reviews