[1]The first edition of the book features biographies and discographies of the acts which gained the attention of the public during the existence of SFR Yugoslavia, including information about their activity after the breakup of the country.

In the foreword, Janjatović states that, thanks to the changed political situation and the Internet, the bonds between scenes of former Yugoslav republics were reestablished.

[5]Ivačković wrote: When I received the news that Janjatović is working on this book, i made the expression of a bodybuilder who just dropped the heaviest weight on his foot.

I'm not saying that busts of Janjatović should be erected in all larger cities of former Yugoslavia, but one thing is certain: with the appearances of his book the competition for the biggest achievement in the field of Yugoslav rock literature is closed, forever.

[5]Milan Vlajčić, in the review published in Serbian newspaper Politika, wrote: Janjatović's writing is knowing, fastidious when needed and always interesting.

[6]Ivan Marković, in the review published in Bosnian newspaper Oslobođenje, wrote: One thing is certain: this book will find its place in many homes, but in the media houses as well.

Younger colleagues, who are just starting to write about events on the rock scene, will have an irreplaceable tool in their work, which will help them exclude all possible factual mistakes.

[7]Zvezdan Georgijevski, in the review published in Macedonian magazine Puls, wrote: A book you must have, if for no other reason than as a memory of the years of lead, when we were a country with one of the strongest rock scenes in Europe.

[...] About two pages about Parni Valjak and less than a page about Prljavo Kazalište are approximately proportional to Bijelo Dugme, but it is simply offensive to give the same space to entire careers of leading Croatian bands with rich discography, and to the stories about youth deliqts and problematic political statements of Bora Đorđević.

[5]On the other hand, in the review published in Serbian newspaper Naša Borba, Srđan D. Stojanović wrote: The main flaw of Janjatović's book is the fact that he is impressed with western parts of former SFRY, so almost all the bands from garages and basements of Slovenian villages got articles in this encyclopedia, while even some discographically relevant bands from inner Serbia were left out.

[14]In the review published in Bosnian magazine Slobodna Bosna, Edin Avdić wrote: Although Janjatović had an apolitical approach, if we bear in mind everything that happened in the last seven or eight years on the territory of the country that broke up, YU Rock Encyclopedia lacks information about national-chauvinistic engagements of some bands.

', is what Croatian writer Zoran Ferić said to Janjatović, reacting to controversies that followed the appearance of the first edition of his Ilustrovana Yu-rock enciklopedija 1960–1997, in the spring of 1998.

Aware of the fact that he is not impeccable, he is continuing his, now already ex-yu, rock journey, crowning it with the third, this year's edition of something that, in this form, has not been seen on the territory of the former SFRY, but also beyond it.