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Ramones: Animal Boy

John McCready, New Musical Express, 24 May 1986

THERE ARE but two reactions to a Ramones record. When it mumbles something like 'I Need Psychiatric Treatment', as they do here, you will either spin in rapture, babbling freely about their wonderfully understated self mockery or mutter a "you're not kidding, son" and skedaddle.

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