This is kind of fascinating in that, just a few years later, Bangs was acknowledging/addressing this sort of thing in The White Noise Supremacists.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
As a Bangs fan, by the way, I would say that I think he was always a fairly serious and fairly normal critic and I'm not sure how often the alleged inability to take serious things seriously was ever that characteristic of his writing as a whole.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link
But, nabisco, even his Lou Reed essays/wrestling matches avowed the moralism of the Velvets over the easy chuckles of, say, Sally Can't Dance.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
He's always struck me as a dull, predictable, and aesthetically conservative writer.Yeah, and sententious, too.
― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Musically, Marsh's taste has always been narrower than Christgau's.
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link