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96 Tears

Tim Footman, Tangents, December 2002

I FELT A RUSH of nostalgically bad haircuts and Proustian army surplus anoraks while reading Alistair [Flitchett]'s consideration of C86. Nostalgia also for the days when a music magazine compilation could define a moment, rather than crawl out of the offices of a major record company with the MD's bodily fluids all over it.

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