"...Verdict: Lester Bang’s Astral Weeks, best album review of all time. Rock critics, like all writers, have rituals. When Lester Bangs (1948-1982) set about to write an album review, he would listen to the album incessantly for a week straight at all hours of the day, at varying stages of inebriation, at both poles of his bi-polarity, in sleeping, in waking, and, yes, in love-making, love-quarreling, and self-pleasuring. He would become one with the music. After nightfall on the last day of the week, the album would be abruptly turned off."
Lo! The Greatest Album Review by Philip Francis (Video)
Astral Weeks by Lester Bangs from "Stranded" (1979)
2008 August: Lester Bangs
2010 April: Creem
2011 Janurary: Astral Weeks
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