Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Lester Bangs was one of Rock-n-Roll's greatest chroniclers but I found this collection of writing a bit heavy and meandering. Probably good for hard core Bangs fans, I guess I just can't sign up for that club.......more

For those who don't know Lester Bangs was a music journalist back in the days when magazines like Rolling Stone really mattered. He was immensely good at what he did writing about music, bands and records like they really mattered and bringing life and wit to his subject. He also had great instincts......more

Lester Bangs is the only rock critic whom musicians truly accepted as one of their own. It’s no wonder: He lived like them and he died like them, overdosing on pills at age 33. Most importantly, he wrote as they played. His wildly energetic prose reads unlike any other contemporary writer, much less......more

Not my jam. At all. Not only this isn't what I expected at all, but this is barely criticism. These are long, chaotic tirades about drugs, the music industry and sometimes there is a cool story about a musician inserted in there like when Iggy Pop picked fights at his own show, but otherwise. This is......more