On the other hand, his obsessive search for music that displays the qualities he regards as intrinsic to rock music leads him to champion such relatively obscure bands as Saint Vitus, Bloodrock, Sproton Layer and The Sylvia Juncosa Band.
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Rock and the Pop Narcotic is a 1991 book of popular music criticism by Joe Carducci.
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Only Robert Christgau in the Village Voice praised it in public, calling it "important if not terribly good".
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Carducci's tendency was directly counter to the politically progressive and relatively mainstream attitude of such writers as Dave Marsh or Greil Marcus, neither of whom answered the charges Carducci made against them (of ignoring quality music for political reasons).
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