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Title: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste : A Lester Bangs Reader by JOHN MORTHLAND, LESTER BANGS ISBN: 0-375-71367-0 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Big Bangs
Comment: This + PRACD = essential purchases for Lesterphiles. Trying to choose between the two is like trying to choose between "In a Silent Way" and "Fun House". or "The Ramones" and "The Clash". It's ALL essential. Be greedy.
Rating: 4
Summary: More Bangs for your bucks
Comment: Its a rock n roll tragedy that it's taken this long for more Lester Bangs to be collected under a book cover. John Morthland's offering doesnt quite match up to Marcus' "Psychotic Reactions" in that it doesnt tell a(his) story;it's "The Best Of Lester That Wasn't In Psychotic Reactions..." instead. Which is not a bad thing at all;you get Lester's first review of the MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" album, scathing dissections of Bob Dylan and the Beatles' sociological signficance in the wake of their breakup,and his ironic pining for Anne Murray. Also on heightened display here is his utter negativity and despair during the seventies that characterized most of his output during that period. Im reading Meltzer's "Whore Just Like The Rest" now, and even though Im getting into it more, Meltzer may have been the firstest, but Lester was the bestest. Youngins who think rock selling out is a new concept better take a listen to Lester and realize the rock ship was sinking before she even got out of the dock.
Rating: 5
Summary: Supercharged rock writing
Comment: The rock writer Joh Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions And Carburettor Dung, the first collection of the writings of Lester Bangs, rock 'n roll's most influential critic and the one who defined the genre.
The book is divided into the following sections: DRUG PUNK, including previously unpublished writings on Andy Warhol and autobiographical ruminations on Bangs' adolescence; HYPES & HEROICS includes pieces on the MC5, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Grace Jones, Patti Smith's album Horses, Wire and Jello Biafra.
PANTHEON contains pieces on The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, Nico's Marble Index album, Brian Eno, Jim Morrison and Lester's famous review of Lou Reed's notorious Metal Machine Music album. TRAVELOGUES includes impressions of his trips to Paris, Jamaica, Austin and California.
The last chapter is titled RAVING, RAGING AND REBOPS and contains writings on the roots of punk, The Mekons (Bad Taste Is Timeless) and an excerpt from the previously unpublished All My Friends Are Hermits from 1980.
Lester's adrenalin charged writing has lost none of its appeal. He wrote with an enthusiasm that transcends the decades. I highly recommend this book to all rock fans that are passionate about the music. I also recommend the great biography by Jim DeRogatis, titled Let It Blurt: The Life And Times Of Lester Bangs and The Dark Stuff by Nick Kent.
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Title: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock'N'Roll by Lester Bangs ISBN: 0679720456 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Let it Blurt : The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic by Jim Derogatis ISBN: 0767905091 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman ISBN: 0743236009 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Sound and the Fury : 40 years of Classic Rock Journalism: A Rock's Backpages Reader by Barney Hoskyns ISBN: 1582342822 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 04 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:On the Beach ASIN: B00009P1O0 Publisher: Warner Brothers Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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