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| | The commitments | | Guardian Unlimited Arts |
 | | Whereas the prevailing pop-cultural mood was giddily celebratory, this album escorted its listeners through such themes as genocide, communism and fascism, capital punishment, the hypocrisy underlying the American dream, anorexia, self-harm and suicide. |
 | | The album will be rereleased early next month, packaged in a luxurious 10th anniversary edition and newly tagged as 'a triumph of art over logic'. |
 | | This album, by contrast, bluntly contended that the Manics and their audience were complicit in just about all the horrors it described. |
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