Lindsey Buckingham: Law And Order (Elektra)
Gene Sculatti, Creem, February 1982
ONE WAY TO assess the relative merits of any time frame is the measurable presence of oddballs. And, hey, it's no secret that oddball content in rock has dropped to its lowest postwar levels of late.
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