Bangs, Lester:  Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Part One | Two Testaments

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: A Tale of These Times (1971)

Astral Weeks (1979)

Part Two | 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? (1970)

James Taylor Marked for Death (1970)

Do the Godz Speak Esperanto? (1971)

Part Three | Creemwork – Frauds, Failures, and Fantasies

Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Volumes I, II, III, and IV (1972)

Black Oak Arkansas: Keep the Faith (1972)

White Witch (1972)

John Coltrane Lives (1972)

The Guess Who: Live at the Paramount (1972)

James Taylor: One Man Dog (1973)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up

Zombies, or, The Day the Airwaves Erupted (1973)

Jethro Tull in Vietnam (1973)

Screwing the System with Dick Clark (1973)

Slade: Sladest (1973)

My Night of Ecstasy with the J. Geils Band (1974)

Johnny Ray’s Better Whirlpool (1975)

Barry White: Just Another Way to Say I Love You (1975)

Kraftwerkfeature (1975)

David Bowie: Station to Station (1976)

Part Four | 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 (1975)

How to Succeed in Torture Without Really Trying, or, Louie Come Home,

All Is Forgiven (1976)

The Greatest Album Ever Made (1976)

from Untitled Notes on Lou Reed, 1980

Part Five | Slaying the Children, Burying the Dead, Signs of Life

Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage (1977)

I Saw God and/or Tangerine Dream (1977)

Where Were You When Elvis Died? (1977)

Peter Laughner (1977)

The Clash (1977)

Richard Hell: Death Means Never Having to Say You’re Incomplete (1978)

Growing Up True is Hard to Do (1978)

The White Noise Supremacists (1979)

Sham 69 is Innocent! (1979)

New Year’s Eve (1979)

Otis Rush Mugged by an Iceberg (1980)

Thinking the Unthinkable About John Lennon (1980)

A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise (1981)

Part Six | Unpublishable

Fragments, 1976-1982

from notes on P.i.L.’s Metal Box, 1980

from “All My Friends Are Hermits”, 1980

Review of Peter Guralnik’s Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of

American Musicians, 1980

from Notes for Review of Peter Guralnik’s Lost Highway, 1980

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

Part Seven | Untitled

from Untitled Notes, 1981