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I wanna be Bobby's grrl

Barbara Ellen, The Times, 21 January 2000

SUGGESTING THAT you might like the new Primal Scream album, Exterminator (Creation £14.99) is a bit like saying that you might enjoy having a helicopter explode in your living room. The latest offering from Bobby Gillespie and the Scream is not comfortable listening, more a case of extreme psychological indigestion, brought on by the complacent state of modern British rock music.

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