The Adverts: Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 February 1978
ONCE UPON a time, the fastest way of revealing yourself as an Old Fart Who Didn't Understand The New Wave was to allege in even the mildest and most non-derisive terms that occasionally the musicianship left something to be desired.
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