Stiff Little Fingers: Nobody's Heroes (Chrysalis) ***
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 1 March 1980
ONCE YOU adjust to the crappy cover and the initial sense of anti-climax you realise this is mostly an alright album, although it's frustrating and only half-realised.
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