Lester Bangs and the Delinquents

The Profile

American collaboration between rock critic/musician Lester Bangs and Austin punk band the Delinquents, documented on the 1981 album Jook Savages on the Brazos (Live Wire).

Recorded in roughly sixteen hours; released on Live Wire; sound draws on British punk energy, Richard Hell, and Stooges-style garage-blues. Tracks noted in reviews include Nuclear War, I'm In Love With My Walls, Give Up The Ghost, Kill Him Again, Day of the Dead, Legless Bird, Grandma's House, and I Just Want to Be a Movie Star.

A collaboration between critic Lester Bangs and Texas punk band the Delinquents, captured on the album Jook Savages on the Brazos. The review praises Bangs’s obsessive, incisive approach and notes his famed clashes with Lou Reed. The album, influenced by British punk, Richard Hell, and Stooges-style grime, was recorded in sixteen hours and released on Live Wire. Highlights include I Just Want to Be a Movie Star and raw garage-blues cuts like Kill Him Again and Day of the Dead.