Was Lester Bangs a good critic?

>"Kick Out the Jams" sounds like Barret Strong's "Money" as recorded by the Kingsmen. The lead on "Come Together" is stolen note-for-note from the Who's "I Can See for Miles." "I Want You Right Now" sounds exactly (down to the lyrics) like a song called "I Want You" by the Troggs, a British group who came on with a similar sex-and-raw-sound image a couple of years ago (remember "Wild Thing"?) and promptly disappeared into oblivion, where I imagine they are laughing at the MC-5.

Robert Christgau > Lester Bangs

>>70201601
Damn. Bangs really sucked, then.

>>70201467
Funny thing is that he later changed his mind about MC5

And yes he was a good critic.

>>70201198
Scaruffi-lite

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>>70201198
He's everything this faggot wants to be

>>70201198
He was coarse, insultive, vicious and didn't give a fuck about other people's opinions. So yes, he was a great critic.

I don't know. You tell me. Was Creem worth reading back in the 1970s?

Bangs actually wrote detailed essays on albums instead of lazy, two-sentence insults like Christgau, also he did eventually warm to Black Sabbath and his review of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a classic of music journalism.

Of course dying young probably helped his image and that he didn't turn into a senile lunatic giving As to Soulja Boy albums.

i never heard of him so probably not

>>70201198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqo6scHOwc
He's entertaining both to read and listen to, I think he's a good critic.