Lester Bangs dismissed it as a " critical but impotent " fantasy and said the closest thing to a funny line was " often them a helping hand of open telephone wires ".

Lance Bangs ( born September 8, 1972 ) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R. E. M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, and Pavement.

His closest friends are Curió, a store barker in Shoemaker's Hollow, who paints his face like a clown to attract people, Bangs, a towering Black who makes his living as a card sharp, Private Martim, a soldier who had been discharged from the army who lived off the generosity of the women he was frequently engaged to, and Breezy, who supported himself catching frogs and selling them to medical researchers for experiments.

In a review for Rolling Stone magazine, rock critic Lester Bangs felt Sabbath was " just like Cream!

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

" In the essay, Bangs credited the band for having released several albums — Carburetor Dung, Cartesian Jetstream, Ancient Lace and Wrought-Iron Railings, and Snowflakes Falling On the International Dateline — that displayed an increasing sense of artistry and refinement.

In a Village Voice article published on March 7, 1976, Bangs argued that some could have considered there to have been an open contract on Gallo for his shooting of gangster Joe Colombo almost a year previously.

This definition does not take into account that some of Bangs ' stories took place in the afterlife.

The Associated Shades are a group of famous dead people appearing in some of John Kendrick Bangs ' works.

* Thomas " Tommy " Bangs: An eleven-year-old boy who means well, but manages to get himself into some kind of trouble constantly.

Lester Bangs wrote in 1982, " Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics.

Many commentators, notably rock critic Lester Bangs have argued, however, that Gallo was well known as a vicious Mafioso whose documented career was not accurately reflected in the song's lyrics.

" In 1982, Lester Bangs argued for a reassessment, saying, " Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics.

As rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in a review of the group's Super Hits album, " A song like ' Soul Deep ' is obvious enough, a patented commercial sound, yet within these strictures it communicates with a depth and sincerity of feeling that holds the attention and brings you back often.

Although when originally released, Fun House was not a big seller for either the band or Elektra Records, the album ended up being a favorite of critics like Lester Bangs and magazines like Creem.

In the 1980 Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, writer Lester Bangs paid tribute of a kind to the group:

Real people who appear in Promethea include Aleister Crowley, John Dee, Austin Osman Spare, and John Kendrick Bangs ( who in the comic is distantly related to Sophie Bangs ).

The same year saw Waits provide spoken word contributions to Devout Catalyst, an album by one of Waits ' greatest influences, Ken Nordine, on the songs " A Thousand Bing Bangs " and " The Movie.

* Lester Bangs ' review of the album for Creem

* " Bangs ", a song by They Might Be Giants on the album Mink Car

" Rolling Stone reviewer Lester Bangs was more critical of the album, however, saying that " What's really interesting is not that such narcissistic slop should get recorded, but what must be going on in the minds of the people who support it in such amazing numbers.

Rolling Stones critics Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs jointly reviewed it and concluded: " Moondance is an album of musical invention and lyrical confidence ; the strong moods of " Into the Mystic " and the fine, epic brilliance of " Caravan " will carry it past many good records we'll forget in the next few years.

* In 1980 Lester Bangs recorded the album Jook Savages on the Brazos with the Austin punk group The Delinquents.

Upon its release, critic Lester Bangs writing for Rolling Stone called it a " ridiculous, overbearing, pretentious album ".

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.

" She Bangs " is a song performed by Ricky Martin, from his 2000 album Sound Loaded.

Sound Loaded was the follow-up to Martin's 1999 crossover breakthrough album Ricky Martin and " She Bangs " was released to radio in advance of the album as its first single.

In the USA, Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone favourably appraised the album in the context of other musical works concerned with space, going on to describe the music as " monotone jammings with hypnotic rhythms and solos unravelling off into ... well, space.

" She Bangs the Drums " was the second single from The Stone Roses ' debut album.

The single used a noticeably different mix of " She Bangs the Drums " to the album version.

Lester Bangs described the album as appealing to a " new audience, the ones that teethed on feedback and boogie ," acknowledging that Beefheart's previous work was " a bit beyond the attention span or interest of the average listener.

No singles were released from the album, but a video for " Tied A Reed ' Round My Waist " was filmed in San Pedro by veteran video director Lance Bangs.

Lester Bangs favourably reviewed the album in Rolling Stone, writing that it was " the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power.

Bangs and Crashes, an album of remixes, b-sides and live tracks, was released in 1986, and included the track " One Way Street " which was part of the Rocky IV soundtrack.

In the essay " Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage " critic Lester Bangs calls the album a " documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control.

Lester Bangs reviewed the album for Rolling Stone in 1978 and commented: " Wavelength is a very nice record.

It has however only recently begun to flourish in UK clubs, due to the " Bangs and Works Volume 1 " compilation on the Planet Mu label.

Bangs has also been heavily involved in the filming and production of MTV's Jackass television series and its subsequent movies.

He has aired an ongoing series of short ( often music-related ) documentaries on VBS. TV since 2007 in the form of his show " Bangs ".

Hung has appeared in an episode of the MTV Show, Celebrity Deathmatch, where he battles Ricky Martin ( who performed the original " She Bangs ").

Her work has been collected in the book Dori Stories ( ISBN 0-86719-375-1 ), which also includes memorial tributes, including the story " Dori Bangs " by Bruce Sterling, which imagines a future marriage between her and music critic Lester Bangs ( whom she never met ).

Deerhoof has done extensive remixing for other artists, including Maroon 5, Asobi Seksu, Xiu Xiu, The Givers, Shugo Tokumaru, Starfucker, Delta 5, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, A. U., Parenthetical Girls, Royal Bangs, People Get Ready, Megaphonic Thrift, E. D.

The story was first published in the British magazine Knave, and has also been included in his short story collections Angels and Visitations ( 1993 ) and Smoke and Mirrors ( 1998 ), and in the anthology Bangs & Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World.

Despite it being known for its military presence, the area has boomed into a satellite community of Seoul, with shops, cinemas, restaurants and bars, PC bangs and DVD Bangs.

Williams has also presented several documentary programmes: Mark Williams ' Big Bangs on the history of explosives, a follow-up to previous series Mark Williams on the Rails, Industrial Revelations and More Industrial Revelations.

Rather, she hopes Bangs will not report what she has told him.

Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem, and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal by J. K. Bangs is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy.

" Bangs also remarks that " Morrison has said in at least one interview that the song has nothing to do with any kind of transvestite – at least as far as he knows, he is quick to add – but that's bullshit.