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	Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" was a 1971 essay by Lester Bangs, later collected in a book of the same name (ISBN 0679720456).
		The essay, which talks about what would usually today be called garage rock, contains the phrase, "...punk bands started cropping up who were writing their own songs but taking the Yardbirds' sound." This is believed one of the first uses of the word "punk" to refer to a type of rock music.
		A large section of the essay is concerned with the imagined long career of the garage band the Count Five, after their hit "Psychotic Reaction", In fact, the band split after one album, and their other records are entirely a product of Bangs' imagination.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Psychotic_Reactions_and_Carburetor_Dung (171 words)

	Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
		As Marcus points out in his introduction, PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG is not a document of Bangs's writing so much as an attempt to set down what his writing was about, which was rock& roll and his own visceral response to it.
		PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS contains pieces from Bangs's early-1970s days at Creem magazine--a publication he assisted in molding into a scathing counterblast against the commercialism and hypocrisy of the music industry--as well as from New York's Village Voice and the British New Musical Express.
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : Compiled by Greil Marcus, his onetime editor at...
	www.cdqingshan.com /336215.html (420 words)

	THE WONDERFUL ART OF VULGARITY - New York Times
		PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG By Lester Bangs.
		Rock critics are generally held in contempt by their high-culture counterparts, and the rock audience seems interested in little more than consumer tips - buy this record, don't buy that one.
		In this context, ''Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung'' amounts to a cultural event.
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	Tucson Weekly: Rock-And-Roll Heaven (March 5 - March 11, 1998)
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the result of Marcus' work, is a fine testimonial to Bangs' talent, and every page reminds discophiles just how lost they are without him all these years later.
		The title essay--its name combines those of two albums, circa 1967, by the now all-but-forgotten protopunk band Count Five--illustrates the qualities for which Bangs will most be missed: a quick wit, a wandering style, and a gift for coining flawless phrases.
		Lester Bangs' greatness as a critic lay in his drawing the right moral lessons from popular music and culture and choosing the right friends and enemies, excoriating millionaire rock stars for their arrogance and mediocrity while championing artists whom less imaginative critics ignored.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/03-05-98/book1.htm (713 words)

	Amazon.fr : Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader: Livres en anglais: Lester Bangs,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Achetez ce livre et Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung de Lester Bangs !
		Serving as a companion to the 1987 collection Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, this volume is a selection of 54 pieces, some of which have been recently uncovered.
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung de Lester Bangs
	www.amazon.fr /Main-Lines-Blood-Feasts-Taste/dp/0375713670 (470 words)

	Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site.
		So in the end, Lester Bangs and Psychotic Reactions was, and remains, about Life as much as the essential purity of rock'n'roll's na¥ve questioning yelp of awakening; about the great rolling fall from grace and self-doubt.
		But maybe most of all, and what matters more than anything else, is that Psychotic Reactions is simply the poetry of a great writer who just happened to write about Rock music.
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is re-published by Serpents Tail
	www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/2001/dec/bangs.html (583 words)

	Lester Bangs (1948 - 1982)
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988) - Lester Bangs
		"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" was a 1971 essay by Lester Bangs, later collected in a book of the same name.
		A large section of the essay is concerned with the imagined long career of the garage band The Count Five, after their hit "Psychotic Reaction".
	www.jahsonic.com /LesterBangs.html (1089 words)

	Amazon.ca: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: the Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'n'roll As Literature and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I can't judge whether this tome (or the newer release, "Mainlines") is a truly comprehensive and accurate portrayal of Lester Bangs, since I only became aware of his work long after his death.
		What I can say is that "Psychotic Reactions" is an endlessly fascinating, hilarious, depressing, sardonic, joyful, frightening, and unique collection of material from one of the greatest non-fiction writers of our time.
		Not to sell "Psychotic Reactions" short (perish the thought)--yes, I bought the first copy I saw; no, I'm not sorry yet; yes, I agree wholeheadedly about the section on the Clash....
	www.amazon.ca /Psychotic-Reactions-Carburetor-Dung-Literature/dp/0679720456 (1563 words)

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		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage) - The Right Gift For Him
		Book / Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage)
		The late Lester Bangs has become one of the more improbable pop culture icons out there - a posthumous star critic whose value as a cultural commentator (or literary figure) could be endlessly debated.
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	'Psychotic Reaction' band to stage reunion
		In a typically loopy tribute for Creem magazine, "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung," the late rock critic dreamed up a five-record career for the Five featuring such forgotten gems as "Schizophrenic Rainbows: A Raga Concerto," an ambitious album track clocking in at 27 minutes.
		A surf and frat-party band in its genesis, the Count Five hit the big time when their delirious Yardbirds-y stomp "Psychotic Reaction" clawed its way to No. 5 on the Billboard chart in late 1966.
		Rhythm guitarist John "Sean" Byrne, who originated much of the band's material (including "Psychotic Reaction"), will also be on hand for the reunion.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/13/PK47335.DTL&type=printable (556 words)

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		Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung / by Lester Bangs ; edited by Greil Marcus.
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage)
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	Books of The times - New York Times
		The point of view is unabashedly subjective - hyperbolic, occasionally nasty (he dismisses James Taylor as ''a spoiled rich kid'' who ''doesn't care about anything in particular except himself, the love he's found, his dog, and the lanes and pastures in his neighborhood,'' and almost always provocative.
		Whether one agrees with him or not, it's clear that he brings a moral fervor to everything he writes, that he's capable of conveying both his intellectual responses to a given song or album, and his own, more immediate emotional reactions.
		Bangs's enthusiasm, coupled with his style, results, from time to time, in the sort of fatuous passages that a stoned adolescent might write.
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	Erowid Library : The Erowid Review » Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic
		Psychotic Reactions contains essays on all of these, but discusses everyone else too, including John Coltrane, Barry White, Elvis Presley, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and James Taylor.
		Psychotic Reactions will exhaust some readers with this nonstop iconoclasm (literally, “idol smashing”); as Bangs wrote about Richard Hell, “The only trouble, and what limits his necessity, is that his intelligence, so awesome in possibility, is finally reduced to the torment it revels in.”
		Because he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, or to change it, any summary of his taste or critical judgments is fatuous and self-defeating.
	www.erowid.org /library/review/review.php?p=126 (330 words)

	Psychotic Reaction Tab by Count Five @ Ultimate Guitar Archive
		+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- + Artist: Count Five Song: Psychotic Reaction #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song.
		You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# The inspiration for one of the landmarks in rock criticism, Lester Bangs' legendary 'Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung'.
		Note, however, that the Count Five only recorded one album; the others mentioned therein are all figments of L.B.'s imagination.
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /print.php?what=tab&id=65152 (233 words)

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	New Lester Bangs book out - organissimo jazz forums - This is the place to discuss the band, jazz, and more!
		In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs’s work.
		Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart.
		Psychotic Reactions is a hilarious volume, and I've had it since '89.
	www.organissimo.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=2900 (538 words)

	The College Hill Independent
		Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste is more accessible than the first volume of Bangs' oeuvre, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, which shifts gears so often that it is something of an arduous reading experience.
		Mainlines is far more consistent in tone and quality, and includes many lesser-known (yet nonetheless enjoyable) album reviews and music features that were not included on Psychotic Reactions.
		Greil Marcus structured Dung in a pretentiously byzantine manner while John Morthland takes a more pedestrian approach, thankfully allowing Bangs' writing to take center stage and producing a more successful aesthetic result.
	www.brown.edu /Students/INDY/alpha/article_old.php?id=175_4_3 (1211 words)

	The Count Five : Psychotic Reaction (Debut Album) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		And frankly, despite Bangs' wild-eyed prose in praise of Psychotic Reaction, there would be some justice to that disappearance: This album really isn't all that great!
		And they certainly get major cool points for being hip to the Who in 1966, recording "My Generation" and "Out in the Street" before almost anybody in the U.S. knew who Pete Townshend was; unfortunately, that goodwill is negated by the sheer incompetence of both covers.
		And really, that's the problem with most of Psychotic Reaction; Count Five were not in any way a particularly talented band outside of Ellner's vocals and, occasionally, John "Mouse" Michalski's gnarly lead guitar.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,69606,00.html (326 words)

	Lester Bangs - Music Books at Randy's Rodeo
		Psychotic Reactions is truly essential reading, if only for the strange, riveting, confrontational conversations between Bangs and his fallen idol, Lou Reed.
		If Psychotic Reactions earned Lester Bangs a place of honor among his peers, Let It Blurt - and its attendant media huzzahs - very nearly placed Bangs in the pantheon of public opinion.
		DeRogatis does a great job, though, and his book is a perfect companion for Psychotic Reactions.
	www.randysrodeo.com /books/bangs.php (657 words)

	Erowid Library : The Erowid Review
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung collects about 350 pages of vintage essays by Lester Bangs, whose rock-critic career lasted from 1969 to his death in 1982.
		Psychotic Reactions contains essays on all of these, but discusses everyone else too, including John Coltrane, Barry White, Elvis Presley, Kraftwerk, Tangerine … [ read more ]
	www.erowid.org /library/review/review.php?list-reviews-for-book=psychotic_reactions_carburetor_dung (123 words)

	Books: Critical Mass (The Boston Phoenix . 07-24-00)
		On April 30, 1982, Lester Bangs the rock critic was discovered dead in his NYC apartment and Lester Bangs the legend was born.
		Maybe the legend wasn't fully formed until six years later, in October of 1988, when the Greil Marcus-edited collection of Bangs's writings -- Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -- was published by Vintage Books.
		And maybe the legend had already begun to overshadow the human critic in that early spring of 1982, when Bangs wrote his last few words before moving on from this world, for reasons that to this day remain unclear, in a manner befitting a legend.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-24-00/boston_books_2.html (1503 words)

	0679720456 - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As Marcus points out in his introduction, PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG is not a document of Bangs's writing so much as an attempt to set down what his writing was about, which was rock & roll and his own visceral response to it.
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage) (Qty: 25)
		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage) (Qty: 10)
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	GoNE MaGAzinE - by Rockstar
		Psychotic Reactions is a superb companion read to 'Please Kill Me'.
		It will leave you mourning the passing of a legendary rock critic who died in a wrok related accident in 1982.
		You will love this book and I haven't even told you about all the classic interview/arguments with Lou Reed or the riveting piece on Peter Laughner's tragic life and death.
	www.rockstar.co.nz /Gone/bookreview_psychotic.asp (414 words)

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		Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs, Serpent’s Tail, 1852425326, £11.99
		In Psychotic Reaction some of the Lou Reed pieces are gathered together under the title ‘Slaying the Father’.
		But Bangs’ relation to Reed (as above) is more like that of a younger brother, appalled by the behaviour of his sibling, so appalled that he wants most of all to behave that way himself, but also appalled at himself for wanting that, and in the end distanced enough – maybe - to save himself.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: Books: Lester Bangs,Greil Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Collected work of Lester Bangs, the passionate, brilliant, and inspirational writer, who was immortalised in the film Almost Famous.
		Psychotic Reactions collects Lester Bangs' most wired, passionate writing on legendary figures in music history, including Barry White, Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, and Lou Reed: 'I always wanted to emulate the most self-destructive bastard I could see, as long as he moved with some sense of style.
		To his writing he brought the talents of a great novelist and became one of the most celebrated writers in the history of music journalism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Psychotic-Reactions-Carburetor-Lester-Bangs/dp/1852427485 (865 words)

	Lester Bangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And so I've long lamented the fact that this essay wasn't included in Greil Marcus' excellent collection of record reviews and essays by Lester Bangs entitled Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, which was published by Vintage Books in 1987, five years after Bangs' death at the age of 34.
		Without this essay, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung can't do something Lester Bangs himself worked very hard to do: namely, show how and why the extreme musical experiments of the late Seventies and early Eighties were inspired by, based upon and even staged in rebellion against the extreme musical experiments of the late Sixties.
		I hope this explains why I have spent the time and effort necessary to (once again?) bring Free Jazz/Punk Rock to the attention of readers of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung and other fans of Lester Bangs' writing.
	www.notbored.org /bangs-note.html (487 words)

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