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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
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RECORDS
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LETTERS
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CHRISTINA AMPHLETT
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DIRT WORK BEHIND THE SCENES
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ROCK ’N’ ROLL NEWS
Such is your affection for the one song of the Call’s that everyone’s heard—the one that struck you as a wondrous marriage of the Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, and Larry (“Boney Maronie”) Williams— that you go to see them on a week night at a grotty little nightclub in a Northern California town so small that four of the City Council’s six members are barnyard animals.