Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

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

• Authors: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
• Assisted by: Marcus Greil (Editor), Greil Marcus (Introduction), Marcus Greil (Introduction)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9781781252772
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-277-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Serpent's Tail Classics; Serpent's Tail Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Essays, Pop Music, Popular Music