Yes: The Band That Punks Say Is A 'No'
John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1980
Question: Do you imagine it impossible to sum up in a single word all that rock's third generation, that is, the punks and their new wave legatees, detested about the rock of the '70s?
Total word count of piece: 1168
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