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For rockers whose tastes demand more than Madonna and who remember back before Bruce, this is a gem. By turns insightful and hilarious, these collected essays by the late, legendary Banks (mostly accumulated from hard-to-come-by journals like Creem ) constantly astound. If your mind can embrace a shrewdly perceptive essay on the Troggs with the title "James Taylor Marked for Death," you also deserve to read the title essay on the Count Five's first album, some amazingly antagonistic love/hate interviews with Lou Reed, and so on. Add to all this a whacked-out sprung prose style (and vocabulary) that would make Gerard Manley Hopkins gasp for air, and you havewellwhat you have. For larger music collections, this is, like, highly recommended. Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty . P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
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A collection of popular music articles, written by the rock journalist Lester Bangs. Artists covered include The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Ramones and The Clash.
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A wonderful, extensive collection of writings by Lester Bangs, a great, dead rock critic from the 70's. During the decade he championed a range of socially-unacceptable bands, moving from Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground to Punk, and on to the New Wave, whilst simultaneously informing the public against such contemporary delights as Chicago, and James Taylor. As you turn the page you can see him change as a writer and as a person - originally writing in a sub-Beat jive-style he sharpens up as the decade wears on, and you feel sorry that he didn't live to see the rest of the 80's and the 90's. Quite what he would have made of grunge, MTV, Madonna, acid house, I don't know.
Unlike many other rock critics, Bangs gives the impression that he actually likes music, that he still has faith, and that he doesn't want to use rock writing as a vehicle for self-promotion. Coming off as an American John Peel, you can even forgive the casual racism of some of the earlier pieces, especially as he recants later on in the book. Not all of it works very well - some of the more freeform pieces make you realise why Editors exist, and a lot of the book depends on whether you share his philosophy on rock (basically, but not entirely - good music comes from the heart, even when it isn't 'good', and not necessarily the head).
Besides, any book with a whole chapter devoted to Lou Reed's legendary 'Metal Machine Music' is worth a read.
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Bangs' article on The Godz may well be the most hilarious ever on any rock band. The mere memory of it cracks me up. Their music was so godawful I blasted one of their lps apart with a BB gun. Kinda wish I'd read this first. Oh well, thanks, Lester. The world isn't the same after you've read Lester Bangs and you can't say that about many writers!
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I love Lester Bangs' unrestrained style: the passionate torrents of words, the extravagant metaphors and the unique insight. Above all, his contagious enthusiasm serves to drive one back to the music - to listen, enjoy and appreciate again and again.
Apparently this book does not contain all of his best work but I intensely enjoyed the tales of his various encounters with Lou Reed, the pieces on No Wave (Reasonable Guide To Horrible Noise), Peter Laughner, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, as well as his hilarious warnings against James Taylor and Barry White.
Apparently this book does not contain all of his best work but I intensely enjoyed the tales of his various encounters with Lou Reed, the pieces on No Wave (Reasonable Guide To Horrible Noise), Peter Laughner, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, as well as his hilarious warnings against James Taylor and Barry White.
Just sometimes, he loses me when the writing becomes impenetrable and he goes off on too many tangents, as in pieces like "Fragments 1976 - 1982" and "Ten Post-Lib Role Models for the 80s" from the chapter titled Unpublishable. Where I do not agree with him, as in his (perhaps tongue-in-cheek?) endorsement of Reed's "Metal Machine Music," he still makes me laugh. Bangs would also have made a great novelist as is evident from the excerpt from Maggie May (1981).
To understand Lester and the background to this compilation, I recommend reading Jim DeRogatis' excellent biography "Let It Blurt" at the same time, as it also contains an impressive bibliography of his work and articles about him.
I look forward to more Big Bangs - more of his remarkable writings being made available in compilations.
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Honest, hilarious, and harrowing
This book contains some of the finest rock journalism ever written. What it reveals about the man who wrote it is even more interesting. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
A fascinating collection of ramblings
The writing throughout this book is wonderfully entertaining, whether Bangs is serving up praise or hurling daggers, and the limited but vivid glimpse one gets of what Bangs was... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
How to Rip Off Lester Bangs Without Trying OR Lou Reed Kills
Lester Bangs got it right. He was the only rock critic who wrote with the rhythm of rock 'n' roll and felt to his absolute core every note. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 1999 von R. Conroy
what all rock criticism should be
It's not a little ironic that Lester Bangs died in 1982, the year of the final (real) Clash album. Did passion in rock die the same year as passion in rock criticism? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
READ THIS BOOK!
The definitive collection of one of the twentieth century's greatest prose writers. Yoy owe it to yourself to read this book.
Veröffentlicht am 24. November 1999 von Art Turner
excellent reviews that sometimes rambled
This book contains some excellent reviews of early alternative music (Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Kraftwerk, etc. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Singing the song of the soul
Truth is stranger than fiction because reality precedes and includes imagination. What constitutes reality is unlimited and undefinable. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Talented, But This Guy Needs An Editor
Plus: If it weren't for Bangs bands like The Stooges and MC5 would've never gotten their due (actually, they still haven't). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Lester Bangs and "Psychotic Reactions"
I never actually met the guy. But I devoured every published word of his between 1974, when I first discovered his work in CREEM , to his untimely passing in New York in 1982. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Mai 1999 von G.T. Tyson IV
Stunning work by the best writer in Rock
This book is the chronicle of a great writer who never wrote a great book. Instead, Lester Bangs spent his unfortunately short life writing about rock music for magazines like... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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