Ciccone Youth: Youth Programming (Bastards)
Jack Barron, NME, 10 September 1988
THE LAST THING I remember before unconsciousness descended like a gun-butt to the head was Thurston Moore's evil grin and his instruction, "Relax, nothing bad is going to happen to you. HakaHakHak!....."
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