If the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader (ed. Anchor, 2008) - ISBN: 9780307487896