Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung
Essays examine rock performers and bands including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Chicago, the Clash, James Taylor, and Iggy Pop
Print Book,English, ©1987
Knopf : Distributed by Random House, New York, ©1987
Review
xviii, 386 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 24 cm
9780394538969, 9780679720454, 039453896X, 0679720456
15654176
pt. I : two testaments
Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung : a tale of these times
Astral weeks
pt. II : 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?
James Taylor marked for death
Do the Godz speak Esperanto?
pt. III : Creemwork : frauds, failures, and fantasies
Chicago at Carnegie Hall, vols. 1-4
Black Oak Arkansas : keep the faith
White witch
John Coltrane lives
The guess who : live at the paramount
James Taylor : one man dog
The incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and became mixed-up zombies, or, The day the airwaves erupted
Jethro Tull in Vietnam
Screwing the system with Dick Clark
Slad : sladest
My night of ecstasy with the J. Geils band
Johnny Ray's better whirlpool
Barry White : just another way to say I love you
Kraftwerkfeature
David Bosie : station to station
pt. IV : slaying the father
From untitled notes on Lou Reed
Le us now praise famous death dwarves, or, How I slugged it out with Lou Reed and stayed awake
How to succeed in torture without really trying, or, Louie Come home, all is forgiven
The greatest album ever made
From untitled notes on Lou Reed
pt. V : slaying the children, burying the dead, signs of life
Iggy pop : blowtorch in bondage
I saw God and or Tangerine dream
Where were you when Elvis died?
Peter Laughner
The clash
Richard Hell : death means never having to say you're incomplete
Growing up true is hard to do
The white noise supremacists
Sham 69 is innocent!
New Year's Eve
Otis Rush mugged by and iceberg
Thinking the untinkable about John Lennon
A reasonable guide to horrible noise
pt. VI : unpublishable
Fragments
from Notes on PiL's Metal box
From "All my friends are hermits"
Review of Peter Guralnick's Lost highway : journeys & arrivals of American musicians
From Notes for review of Peter Guralnick's Lost highway
From "The scorn papers"
From "Women on top : ten post-lib role models for the eighties" a book proposal
From "Maggie May"
pt. VII : from Untitled notes
"The work of a legendary critic: rock 'n' roll as literature and literature as rock 'n' roll."--Cover
"Many of the essays in this work were originally published in Creem"--Title page verso