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Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 7 August 1980
PAINTED IN CONTRASTING shades of urban blight, suburban boredom and rural decay, Michigan is perfect primitive rock & roll territory: a place where nothin' to do ain't an attitude but a fact.
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