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Lester Bangs
American Critic
Born: Dec 14, 1948
Died: Apr 30, 1982
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. Lester Bangs
Politics Become Air Easier Wear Shake Like Involved Read Fists Manifesto Then Much Communist Your Mao Chairman Chairman Mao Actually Things Button
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. Lester Bangs
You First Think Sold Independent Thousand Between Like Know Talk Terms Couple Underground Go Labels Five Stooges Mean Them Really Iggy Twenty Twenty-Five Things Albums Two
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Lester Bangs
Hate Jazz Clark Admit He Like Whether Stanley Playing
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. Lester Bangs
Music Changes See Particular Any Popular Popular Music
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. Lester Bangs
You Ugly Evil Everything Worse Everywhere Television Boring Horrible Mass Mass Media Know Stinks Just Really Rotten Media Here
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. Lester Bangs
You People Before Radical Society Would More Take Had Part Sort Inevitability Coming Truly Lot Historical As Far As Far Then Use Larger Conscience Thing Start
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. Lester Bangs
Good You Creative Yourself Words Moral Something Only Recreate Come Like Also Doing Up Artistic Maybe Decent Use Original Even Basically
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Lester Bangs
Work Future Art Time Great Own Every Faces Toward Great Work Eternity Two
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. Lester Bangs
Women Men Men And Women Corporations Purposeful Fail Which Theater Social Realize Organizations Productive Lives
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. Lester Bangs
Will Grass Wave Kids See Something Resurgence Over New Bands Afford America Maybe Anymore Mean Roots Whole Grass Roots Garage Thing Level Start
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. Lester Bangs
Great Clash About Beyond Great Thing Course Answers Searching Keep Thing
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. Lester Bangs
You Noise Feedback Everyone Had Like Reaction Rock James Acid James Taylor Against Acoustic Taylor Tone Early
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. Lester Bangs
Schizophrenic Wild Say Would About Something Raw Because Hand Yes Really Inherently Even Violent
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices. Lester Bangs
Think Kids Would Would-Be Something Prices Like Ticket Afford Where Happened Interesting Mean Interesting Thing England Sudden Thing

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