Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (essay)  

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"...punk bands started cropping up who were writing their own songs but taking the Yardbirds' sound."--"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" (1971) by Lester Bangs

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"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" (1971) is an essay by Lester Bangs, later collected in a book of the same name (ISBN 0-679-72045-6). The essay, which talks about what would usually today be called garage rock, contains the phrase, "...punk bands started cropping up who were writing their own songs but taking the Yardbirds' sound." This is believed one of the first uses of the word "punk" to refer to a type of rock music. A large section of the essay is concerned with the imagined long career of the garage band the Count Five, after their hit "Psychotic Reaction", In fact, the band split after one album, and their other records are entirely a product of Bangs' imagination.

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