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Well, here I am again with another year-end recap thing. fifteen pages into the paper and my brain has been melted’ by essays, so -- Over the year I've reviewed over 80 albums (that's the best of which you can see on the opposite my rating system is

‘em below. For those who don't know, the reviews by other people on the next few pages might be out of any number -- I just haven't got the time to figure them out.

Anyway,merry Christmas and all that;

It's 2am,

I'm

hope you check out a few of these

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