My favourite album: The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers

Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Michael Hann hails a proto-punk classicIt starts with the name: the Modern Lovers. I can't think of a more perfect name for a band: if rock'n'roll was about romance and the forward motion of popular culture, that name captured the promise of the music in as economical a form possible. It continues with the cover: no glossy photo, or Storm Thorgerson faux-pro...

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