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| | The Observer | OMM | Metal box, P.I.L. |
 | | Metal box is what happens when you put three poverty-stricken screw-ups and a selection of bullied drummers in the studio late at night, feed them bad drugs and - for the group's informal leader - the bad memories of a dead best friend and mother and the messiest band break-up in rock history. |
 | | But until Metal Box, if your rock noise didn't keep to the three-minutes-and-a-chantalong chorus point, then the only directions were metal, the avant-garde or the most discredited of all genres in the wake of punk - progressive rock. |
 | | Metal Box does what Coltrane's A Love Supreme did for jazz and Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On did for soul - it proved that the uncompromising cutting-edge could be made accessible, even catchy. |
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