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It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any...

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if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've belie...

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They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the...

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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and ...

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Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time ...

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward ete...

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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my ...

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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

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Lester Bangs

Journalist

Born: 1948-12-13

Died: 1982-04-30

Lester Bangs (December 13, 1948 — April 30, 1982) was an American journalist best known for his rock music criticism.More