The B-52s: The B-52s (Island)
Paul Rambali, NME, 30 June 1979
ANYONE WITH even half an ear cocked to the dialogue that surrounds the music must have heard by now that they're living in some sort of new golden age of pop: naive, zestful, transient and confusing. A period of musical adolescence. Anything goes.
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