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| | Cooler Than You: The Pop Group (column) |
 | | That is not to say that the music of the Pop Group consists of wholly unheard-of-before elements, but it is to say that their unique assemblage of sound is so particular and peculiar as to relentlessly defy an easy or difficult--pigeonhole. |
 | | I first heard the Pop Group, coming late to the game, on a Rhino compilation, Scared to Dance, one of three "Postpunk Chronicles" (the other two being Left of the Dialfeaturing Mission of Burma, REM, Cocteau Twins and Wire--and Going Undergroundfeaturing the Go Betweens, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Soft Boys, and Pere Ubu). |
 | | Where the Birthday Party was the disorder and aggression of punk amped up to a psychotic level, the Pop Group was the sound of true revolution. |
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