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and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bangs, Lester.

Mainlines, blood feasts, and bad taste : a Lester Bangs reader / edited by John Morthland.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-48789-6

1. Rock music—History and criticism. I. Morthland, John. II. Title.

ML3534.B314 2003

781.66'09—dc21 2003040392

www.anchorbooks.com

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Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments

DRUG PUNK

from Two Assassinations and a Speedy Retreat into Pastoral Nostalgias

A Quick Trip Through My Adolescence

from The Great El Cajon Race Riot and Two Friday Night Parties

HYPES AND HEROICS DRUG PUNK

The MC5: Kick Out the Jams //

Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra

Canned Heat: The New Age

Dandelions in Still Air: The Withering Away of the Beatles

Blood Feast of Reddy Kilowatt! Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Without Insulation!

C’mon Sugar, Let's Go All-Nite Jukin’ with Wet Willie

Bob Dylan's Dalliance with Mafia Chic: He Ain’t No Delinquent, He's Misunderstood

Anne Murray: Danny's Song

Helen Reddy: Long Hard Climb //

Grace Jones Beats Off

Stevie Nicks: Lilith or Bimbo?

Art Ensemble of Chicago: Rated G

Ian Hunter: The Coots Are Alright

The Grooming of David Johansen

Patti Smith: Horses

Better Than the Beatles (And DNA, Too)

Dead Boys Almost Count Five

On the Merits of Sexual Repression

David Byrne Says “Boo!”

A Bellyful of Wire

Jello Biafra Is No Cretin

If Oi Were a Carpenter

PANTHEON

I Only Get My Rocks Off When I’m Dreaming: So You Say You Missed the Stones Too? Cheer Up, We’re a Majority!

1973 Nervous Breakdown: The Ol’ Fey Outlaws Ain’t What They Used to Be—Are You?

It's Only the Rolling Stones

State of the Art: Bland on Bland

Kind of Grim: Unraveling the Miles Perplex

Miles Davis: Music for the Living Dead

Captain Beefheart's Far Cry: He's Alive, But So Is Paint. Are You?

Deaf-Mute in a Telephone Booth: A Perfect Day with Lou Reed

Monolith or Monotone? Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music //

Your Shadow Is Scared of You: An Attempt Not to Be Frightened by Nico

Jim Morrison: Bozo Dionysus a Decade Later

Bring Your Mother to the Gas Chamber!

Eno Sings with the Fishes

John Lydon Across the Border

TRAVELOGUES

Killer Frogs in Transatlantic Blitz: A Franco-American Chronologue Starring Les Variations

Innocents in Babylon: A Search for Jamaica Featuring Bob Marley and a Cast of Thousands

Death May Be Your Santa Claus: An Exclusive, Up-to-Date Interview with Jimi Hendrix

from Notes on Austin

California

RAVING, RAGING, AND REBOPS

Admit It, You Like to Kick Cripples, Too (Especially if You Are One)

Everybody's Search for Roots (The Roots of Punk, Part 1)

Back Door Men and Women in Bondage

liner notes to It Falleth Like Gentle Rains from Heaven— The Mekons Story

Every Song a Hooker

Bad Taste Is Timeless

An Instant Fan's Inspired Notes: You Gotta Listen

Bye Bye Sidney, Be Good

from All My Friends Are Hermits //

Trapped by the Mormons

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