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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By Lester Bangs

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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

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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.'
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2014-12-04
Publication Date:
2014-12-04
Publisher:
Profile Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781252777
ISBN13:
9781781252772
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
337 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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