Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung / by Lester Bangs ; edited by Greil Marcus.
| Author/creator | Bangs, Lester |
| Other author | Marcus, Greil. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987. |
| Description | xviii, 386 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: Two testaments. Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung: a tale of these times -- Astral weeks -- Part II: Blowing it up. Of pop and pies and fun: a program for mass liberation in the form of a stooges review, or, Who's the fool? -- James Taylor marked for death -- Do the Godz speak Esperanto? -- Part III: Creemwork: frauds, failures, and fantasies. Chicago at Carnegie Hall, vols. 1-4 -- Black Oak Arkansas: keep the faith -- White witch -- John Coltrane lives -- The guess who: live at the paramount -- James Taylor: one man dog -- The incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and became mixed-up zombies, or, The day the airwaves erupted -- Jethro Tull in Vietnam -- Screwing the system with Dick Clark -- Slad: sladest -- My night of ecstasy with the J. Geils band -- Johnny Ray's better whirlpool -- Barry White: just another way to say I love you -- Kraftwerkfeature -- David Bosie : station to station -- Part IV: Slaying the father. From untitled notes on Lou Reed -- Le us now praise famous death dwarves, or, How I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake -- How to succeed in torture without really trying, or, Louie Come home, all is forgiven -- The greatest album ever made -- From untitled notes on Lou Reed -- Part V: Slaying the children, burying the dead, signs of life. Iggy pop: blowtorch in bondage -- I saw God and or Tangerine dream -- Where were you when Elvis died? -- Peter Laughner -- The clash -- Richard Hell: death means never having to say you're incomplete -- Growing up true is hard to do -- The white noise supremacists -- Sham 69 is innocent! -- New Year's Eve -- Otis Rush mugged by and iceberg -- Thinking the untinkable about John Lennon -- A reasonable guide to horrible noise -- Part VI: Unpublishable. Fragments -- from Notes on PiL's Metal box -- From "All my friends are hermits" -- Review of Peter Guralnick's Lost highway: journeys & arrivals of American musicians -- From Notes for review of Peter Guralnick's Lost highway -- From "The scorn papers" -- From "Women on top: ten post-lib role models for the eighties" a book proposal -- From "Maggie May" -- Part VII: From Untitled notes. |
| Abstract | These essays written by a legendary music critic examine rock performers and bands including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Chicago, the Clash, James Taylor, and Iggy Pop. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Many of the essays in this work were originally published in Creem. |
| LCCN | 87045122 |
| ISBN | 039453896X |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3534 .B315 1987 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |