← Older revision Revision as of 21:30, 29 September 2006 Line 14: Line 14: *"Never mind that they came on like a bunch of sixteen-year-old punks on a meth power trip...." ("The ((MC5)): ((Kick Out The Jams))", 1970) *"Never mind that they came on like a bunch of sixteen-year-old punks on a meth power trip...." ("The ((MC5)): ((Kick Out The Jams))", 1970) *"... then punk bands started cropping up who were writing their own songs but taking the Yardbirds' sound and reducing it to this kind of goony fuzztone clatter". ("Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", 1971) *"... then punk bands started cropping up who were writing their own songs but taking the Yardbirds' sound and reducing it to this kind of goony fuzztone clatter". ("Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", 1971) - *"Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100%, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation." ("A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise", 1980)   ==Legacy== ==Legacy== Line 33: Line 32: "...I’m really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there’s something inherently, even violent about it, it’s wild and raw and all this. On the other hand, the fact is that ‘Sugar Sugar’ is great Rock 'n' Roll, and there’s nothing rebellious about that at all. I mean that’s right from the belly and heart of capitalism..." "...I’m really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there’s something inherently, even violent about it, it’s wild and raw and all this. On the other hand, the fact is that ‘Sugar Sugar’ is great Rock 'n' Roll, and there’s nothing rebellious about that at all. I mean that’s right from the belly and heart of capitalism..." - '''Lester Bangs''' 1980 on rebellious nature of rock’n’roll. Taken from a (http://www.cousincreep.com/lester.htm 1980 interview) + '''Lester Bangs''' 1980 on the rebellious nature of rock’n’roll. Taken from a (http://www.cousincreep.com/lester.htm 1980 interview) "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." "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." '''Greil Marcus''' (editor of the first Bangs anthology ''Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung'') on the second anthology, ''Mainlines, Blood Feats and Bad Taste''. Taken from the cover of the paperback original. '''Greil Marcus''' (editor of the first Bangs anthology ''Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung'') on the second anthology, ''Mainlines, Blood Feats and Bad Taste''. Taken from the cover of the paperback original.   +   + *"Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100%, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation." (Lester Bangs, "A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise", 1980) ==Selected works== ==Selected works==