Screw the purists, screw the anti-war jazz aficionados, screw the jazz critics who have never understood anything about this record. This wasn't punk mocking jazz, as Arto has been tired of saying for 30 years (because he has never improvised jazz), but jazz rhythms and standards subjected to the New York-NO treatment - which, in Lydia Lunch's words, "had nothing to do with punk."
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