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Jam Today

Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 May 1979

THE DISTANT echo of faraway voices playing faraway games — who'd have thought that a rock'n'roll music for fun and against privilege would have somehow spawned the self-indulgent insular mind games that occupy today's music writers and 'genuine new wave musicians', the cold and uninvitingly pompous twats with all the answers in formulas we're not smart enough to understand.

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