A review by dave_daines
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman

5.0

I have no idea how I didn't come across this book until 20 years after it was released. Chuck Klosterman was born in 1972 like me. He grew up in rural North Dakota, I grew up in rural Oregon and then suburban Utah... but we grew up listening and loving the same music. Like me, he obsessed and geeked out on his favorite bands. While his obsessions went from Motley Crue to Guns n Roses, mine went from Van Halen to Judas Priest. He discusses all those bands and many, many more in the kind of detail that is probably not enjoyable if you're not nostalgic about it. I definitely don't agree with all of his opinions, but that's kind of the point - I still argue with my high school buddies about the relative merits of the music we grew up on.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that grew up to the sounds of AC/DC, Kiss, Poison, Cinderella and Metallica. It's even better if you bounce around in Spotify pulling up the bands and songs he's writing about.