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.'
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Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung
By Lester Bangs
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.'
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