Power Pop part 2: The C&A Generation In The Land Of The Bland
Jon Savage, Sounds, 18 February 1978
TICK TOCK f – the clock/the pendulum swings...Oh it's so inevitable in post-punk letdown – the Pistols' 'split': sooooo symbolic – that attempts would be made to swing us back; to divert us from the more difficult task of facing the present and the future, into nice nostalgic alleyways. Play in safety, children!
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