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MC5: Babes In Arms (ROIR cassette)

Cynthia Rose, NME, 20 August 1983

IDEALLY VLADIMIR Mayakovsky should be sitting down to this review, because never before or since has there been a band quite like the MC5 – and because this "comprehensive retrospective" assembled by former 5 Fender-bender Wayne Kramer actually puts across some of their spasms that shook the world.

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