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From Z to A and Back Again, or: QUANTITIES AND LEER

Ian Penman, The Wire, July 1995

I CANNOT FOR the pop life of me see why anyone over the age of 17 would ever want to listen to Frank Zappa again, never mind revere him as a deep and important artist, never mind worship at the tottering edifice of his recollected, remastered and repackaged works.

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