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Ian Hunter: Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Sony Legacy)

Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, July 2000

A LONG LONG TIME ago, I can still remember how the music used to make me smile. But then the '50s came along and wiped out the big band era. Ever since then it's been one noisy noxious descent after another into a harrowing abyss of electronic sonic exotica, with only sparse spots of melodious brilliance providing relief on the way down.

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