{"product_id":"psychotic-reactions-and-carburetor-dung","title":"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, 'What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: 2014, UK\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Profile Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 416\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781781252772\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1781252777\u003cbr clear=\"all\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lester Bangs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44314614006026,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781781252772.jpg?v=1676722645","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/psychotic-reactions-and-carburetor-dung","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}