Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs–the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s–edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.
Customer Review: Was he serious?
Interesting bathroom reading. But those of us who have grown up will see it for what it is. Glorified navel-gazing: “This music was IMPORTANT because I was around to see it.” The book serves as an interesting time capsule. Reading this, one can smell the weed, taste the day-old pizza, see the semen-stained poster of Kerouak on the wall, hear the inebriated Mr. Bangs talking to himself at 3 a.m. Hey, it’s was just music. A bunch of kids banging their guitars around. I loved it and still love it. But my guess is anyone who really feels it is important that The Troggs receive their props hasn’t made much of a life for himself in the decades since.
Customer Review: The Only Book You Will Ever Need
If you are at all interested in Rock And Roll, buy this book.
The cover is in tatters. I should have got a hardcover version. I carried this book with me wherever I went for months.
But enough effusive praise; the real reason you should get this book is because the words, the diction, the sheer energy in the sentences are rare indeed, especially in the nonfiction world. This is a primer for writing itself. I wish I would have read this when I was in High School.
The purchase pays for itself (intrinsically) with the chapter focusing on his correspondences between Lou Reed. Part Pop Culture history, part hyperbolic onslaught, part soap opera, part Oedipus, these pages are packed with drama.
For weeks my boyfriend and I had the TV off and we read to eachother in bed. You won’t be disappointed.
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