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The Mighty Lemon Drops: World Without End (Chrysalis/Blue Guitar LP/cassette/CD)

Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 13 February 1988

WITHOUT BEING patronising I kind of feel sorry for this lot. Anybody who was fortunate enough to be involved in C86 — the 'movement' that spawned a generation of mediocrities — deserves some sort of sympathy. It was after all a 'scene' essentially created by a jaded press who'd run out of things to write about and who hyped far too many bands much too early in their careers with the result that most became stunted.

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