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July 1972
Volume 4, Number 2
The Christgau Consumer Guide
The Dean of American Rock Critics picks up the pieces of the rock. It's a thrill a minute time: Will he or won't he give the new Count Five album an A+... We're not stupid, ya gotta turn to the right page ta find out.
lettering by Robert Christgau
The Beat Goes On
The Rolling Stones roll again (complete with itinerary); Cloaks, but mostly daggers, In LA; Alice Cooper and Ann Landers? Who'd a thunk it; Bruce Johnston and Doris Day? Curiouser and curiouser; Mar y Sol—the festival that never should have been; & more!
Looney Toons
Some quasi–formal introductions to some new, creemy institutions.
incest by Dave Marsh
Dr. John Says: "Gumbo Ain't No Zydeco"
But it sure is fonky. The master of gris gris recalls a better time, in New Orleans and elsewhere.
rack creole by Dave Marsh
Letter From Britain
England's great T. Rex dilemma.
teenybopping with Simon Frith
"The Critics Kept A-Knockin' But The Stars Kept A-Rockin' (And the Chopin' Didn't Get Very Far)"
Confessions of an actual Beach Boys fan; coming to terms with your roots for real. Surf and sand in Chicago, New York and almost everywhere but California.
alienated mythology by Tom Smucker
The Great Indochina Medicine Show: Do You Know the Way To San Diego, Jose?
How to avoid political conventions; catching flak from hysterical mau–maus of the left, CREEM's ace whiz, trapped in a prison of everyone's division, turns to the only answer left.
parabola by Craig Karpel
Bring Your Mother To The Gas Champer: Ozzy Osbourne Speaks
A Black Sabbath view of America; part two of the great downer angst. Commentary by the stars.
vivisection by Lester Bangs |
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Cover Photos by Bob Jenkins (top) & Lisa Gottlieb (bottom)
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CREEM Charlie Auringer | Lester Bangs | Robert Christgau | Robbie Cruger | Ben Edmonds | Alison Karpel | Craig Karpel | Barry Kramer | Greil Marcus | Dave Marsh | Richard Pinkston | Richard Siegel | Jaan Uhelszki | Connie Warren |
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