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Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time (Wiiija/All formats)

Paul Moody, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997

THINK BACK. Remember when dissing Morrissey mattered, Huggy Bear were considered to be avant-garde situationists and Tony Parsons was happily sounding the death knell on that archaic musical form 'guitar rock'? Oh, those were the days, when you could see Jacob's Mouse twice in a week and still get a Blood Sausage thrown in for free.

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