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R.E.M.: Rock City, Nottingham

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 January 1984

REM's presence as a genuine group staunchly committed to rock's most crucial attitude, this being the simple desire to play a little honest loud-hearted music for one's peer group, makes them special and very necessary indeed.

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