Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung /
by Lester Bangs ; edited by Greil Marcus.
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1987.
- xviii, 386 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1987. Includes index.
pt. 1. Two testaments. Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung : A tale of these times -- Astrel Weeks -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Creemwork - frauds, failures, and fantasies. Chicago at Carnegie Hall, volumes I, II, III & IV -- 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 -- Slade : 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 Bowie : Station to Station -- pt. 4. Slaying the father. from Untitled notes on Lou Reed, 1980 -- Let 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, 1980 pt. 5. 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 is hard to do -- The white noise supremacists -- Sham 69 is innocent -- New Year's Eve -- Otis Rush mugged by an iceberg -- Thinking the unthinkable about John Lennon -- A reasonable guide to horrible noise -- pt. 6. Unpublishable. Fragments, 1976-1982 -- from Notes on Pil's Metal Box, 1980 -- from "All My Friends are Hermits," 1980 -- Review of Peter Guralnick's Lost Highway : Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians -- from Notes for review of Peter Guralnick's Lost Highway -- from "The Scorn Papers," 1981 -- from "Women on Top : Ten Post-lib Role Models for the Eighties," a book proposal, 1981 -- from "Maggie May," 1981 -- pt. 7. Untitled. from Untitled notes, 1981
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