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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Predicting the Future | |
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| Over and Out | |
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| Rhymed Funk Hits Area | |
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| Skin Yard: Skin Yard | |
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| Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips | |
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| Music That Passes the Acid Test | |
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| New Kids in the '90s: A Decade in the Life | |
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| Radiohead: The Bends | |
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| Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List | |
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| Talking World War III Blues | |
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| Alternative to What | |
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| Bombast in the Blood: Bad Religion | |
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| Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones | |
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| Punk's First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones | |
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| Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwest | |
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| An Indie Rises Above: sst Records | |
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| Slime is Money (Bastard) | |
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| Big Black Give You a Headache | |
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| Nirvana: "All Apologies" | |
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| Wrong Is Right: Marilyn Manson | |
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| Live: Tower Theater, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997 | |
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| City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico | |
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| Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory | |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight 'Em Off | |
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| Umlauts From Heck | |
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| Five Great Beats-Per-Minute | |
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| Seduce: Seduce | |
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| Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power | |
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| Top 40 That Radio Won't Touch: Metallica | |
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| Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help | |
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| Mentors: Up The Dose | |
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| Robert Plant, Technobilly | |
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| Def Leppard's Magic and Loss | |
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| Ac/Dc's Aged Currencies | |
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| White Wizzard Escape Each Other | |
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| To The Beat Y'all | |
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| Mantronix: Strange Loops | |
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| Spoonie Gee: Unreformed | |
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| Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A. | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development | |
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| Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka | |
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| From Taco Bell to Pachelbel: Coolio | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz | |
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| Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z | |
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| Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk And Disorderly | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003 | |
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| Race-Mixing | |
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| Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man From Georgla | |
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| Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1983 | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985 | |
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| Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip-Hop | |
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| Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice | |
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| Living Colour: Biscuits Hp | |
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| 3rd Bass: Cactus Love | |
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| Teena Marie in Wonderland | |
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| Shake Your Love: Gillette | |
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| The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice | |
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| Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem | |
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| The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem's Family Values | |
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| Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz Of Brooklyn | |
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| Country Discomfort | |
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| Yippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots | |
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| John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On | |
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| K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs From An Aging Sex Bomb | |
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| The Temptations of Mindy McCready | |
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| CMT | |
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| Banda, Si, Por Qu? No | |
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| Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright | |
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| Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith | |
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| Brad Paisley Is Ready to Make Nice | |
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| Pop Muzik | |
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| Cutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989 | |
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| People Pleasers: The Village People | |
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| Arrived?rci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun | |
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| Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby | |
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| It Was In The Cards | |
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| Pet Shop Boys' Mad Behavior | |
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| Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla | |
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| Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass | |
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| If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless | |
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| They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice Girls and Gina G | |
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| Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998 | |
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| Singles Again and Again | |
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| Sucking in the '70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1-10 | |
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| Zager and Evans: "In The Year 2525" | |
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| Radio'86: Dead Air | |
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| Radio On reviews | |
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| Ten Cents a Watusi | |
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| Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue | |
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| Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep | |
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| Singles Jukebox reviews | |
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| The Year of Too Much Consensus | |
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| The End? | |
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| Index | |