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The Box Tops: Dimensions, Nonstop, Super Hits

Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 27 December 1969

THE BOX TOPS? Are you serious? Those yokel hacks grinding out rattly pop for the tyrannical Top 40? Those squeaky-clean goons in paisley scarves and blue blazers, mugging with obscene cuteness for all the folks back home on all those corny album covers? Even their name is lame!

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