“You see, dear reader, so much of what's doled out as punk merely amounts to saying I suck, you suck, the world sucks, and who gives a damn — which is, er, ah, somehow insufficient.Don't ask me why; I'm just an observer, really. But any observer could tell that, to put in in terms of Us vs. Them, saying the above is exactly what They would want you to do, because it amounts to capitulation.”

—  Lester Bangs

"The Clash" (December 1977), p. 225
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)

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American music critic and journalist 1948–1982

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