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Scorpions: Savage Amusement (Mercury); Living Colour: Vivid (Epic)

J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1988

ADMIT IT — most of you would no sooner listen to metal than volunteer for root canal work. Metal is nasty, noisy, brutish, the kind of rock that tempts you to sound like your parents: "Turn that garbage down!"

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