Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)
Edwin Pouncey, NME, 8 July 1989
REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe with a mixture of pleasure and pain.
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