Nick Hornby wrote High Fidelity, About a Boy, and most recently a book called Songbook, collecting his essays of pop music criticism. This http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/opinion/21HORN.html?pagewanted=1&th
is a link to a good opinion piece in the NYTIMES about the need for Rock and Roll to be fun sometimes. You might need to 'register' with the NYT to read this but it's free and painless.