Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth: Warrior
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1984
THIS RECORD SHOULD come in a plain white package, like generic elbow macaroni; it has every 1984 mainstream (AORMTV) rock mannerism so down pat that it is, in a bizarre kind of way, a significant achievement.
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