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Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona (Sire) ***½

Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 27 June 1991

AS THROWING Muses has developed, so have the band's imperatives. On the Muses' first album, Kristin Hersh and Tayna Donelly, the group's two singer-songwriters, were barely post-adolescent girls trying to command the hormonal swirl of their lives: "Fuck you, stand up!" they bark in a militant moment.

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