absorbthemoment 's review for:

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs

5.0

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I suspect it wouldn't matter what Bangs was reviewing. He could have reviewed furniture and it still would have been great simply because his voice was so strong and his prose were so well-constructed. For my money, his more narrative features like his frenemy encounters with Lou Reed and covering the punk scene in England rank up there with the work of Gleason, Thompson, Wolfe, Ebert, and whoever . Even that short fiction piece, "Maggie May," is bitchin' writing and has dialogue that would be just as at home in a jaded French New Wave classic. One can't help but wonder what the sharp tongued devil might have gone on to write if he had lived longer.