"Getting involved with punk was a reaction against everything that was in the air at the time, so getting Magazine together was a reaction against punk... I just don't like movements. I'm just perverse." Howard Devoto.
This song still sounds perverse and very unusual still. It's what comes of reading Dostoevsky, Kafka and Camus as a teenager and changing your behaviour accordingly. Julie Burchill hated Magazine and Devoto which always makes me want to listen to them more. John McGeogh is wonderful here as he was in pretty much everything he ever played. The rest of the band are great too. As is Devoto. Sometimes Magazine lose me but on their best songs they're unstoppable.
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