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Lemonheads: Varshons

Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2009

THE COVERS ALBUM is traditionally either or both an indicator of complete creative stasis, or of the onset of monumental hubris. It's why any credible list of the very worst records ever made must include several such artefacts: Annie Lennox's Medusa, The Beautiful South's Golddiggas, Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls and, of course, Duran Duran's Thank You, eternally and vexingly memorable for a reading of Public Enemy's '911 Is A Joke' as belief-beggaring as it was description-defying.

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