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Moby Grape: Vintage: The Very Best Of Moby Grape

Jon Savage, MOJO, November 1993

MOBY GRAPE BEGAN IN 1966, arguably the decade's peak; they fell apart in 1969, a time of madness, desolation, dread. Between the optimism of ‘Hey Grandma’ and the utter desperation of ‘Seeing’ are 46 cuts: they tell the story of five young men who thought that they could do anything and who ended up nowhere.

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