Pop Will Eat Itself: No One Likes Us, We Don't Care
Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 11 March 1995
SO NO ONE likes Pop Will Eat Itself, and they don't care. Not strictly true, of course – after all, they've enjoyed a good dozen Top 30 hits since their inception nearly 10 years ago. And now they're playing stadiums in America with their biggest/hippest fans, the extremely big and hip Nine Inch Nails. But still that underdog air surrounds PWEI.
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