Nöthin’ But a Good Time Parties Like It’s 1989
Nöthin’ But a Good Time takes readers on a loud tour of the monster decade of the ’80s, but not for the reasons you’d think.
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock
March 2021
The 1980s: a decade of decadence, glam metal, and what later became known — first disparagingly, and then embraced — as hair metal. Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Guns N’ Roses. Going by many of the chapters,
Nöthin’ But a Good Time seems to live up to the book’s title, from the Poison song, but with ëxträ ümläüts for ëxträ mëtäl. As the majority of this oral history, a phrase the authors wisely eschew, the chapter titles are direct quotations from the book’s huge cast of rock stars, managers, photographers, record executives, and more.