Blow Monkeys: Do The Atom Drum Bop
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 29 September 1984
I KNOW the dismay and disgust with pop music is getting a mite predictable round these parts, but it does seem that new nadirs are being dragged every week the industry's conveyor-belt goes by.
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