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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

byLester Bangs

Genres: Music

Who is this book for? Readers interested in music criticism and rock history.

Topics MusicCritiqueCultural Commentary
MoodReflective, Humorous
HumorOccasional Humor
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, 'What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.'

Language

en

Published on

12/04/2014

Pages

386

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781781252772

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