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Title: I waited ten years for this?!?!?
Review: I devoured the Consumer Guides for the '70s and '80s and had been looking forward to this for, seriously, the '90s. What a huge disappointment. Christgau's arrogance at abandoning the pithy but comprehensive reviews and understandable letter grades of the past books is his own take on a cliche he obviously became too close to--the bloated, creatively bankrupt but ever-greedy wasted rock diva. Don't indulge him.
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