Jukebox Jury

Rock Star OF THE YEAR

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THE
YEAR

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IN
MUSIC
2008

Meltdown OF THE YEAR

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The 40 Best Albums

OF THE YEAR

Voice OF THE YEAR

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The Annual Report

Change! Crisis! Hope! Meltdown! You betcha! The past 366 days (happy belated leap year!) have been such a roller-coaster ride of apocalyptic dread and yes-we-can positivity that we can all be excused for swapping holiday bubbly for a nice glass of warm milk. But even for a year that saw both Axl Rose and Kevin Shields emerge from weirdo-exile, there were some blessedly familiar constants: Albums were released, many of them quite good. Lil Wayne made 13 of them. And we all relearned the valuable lesson that a year should be measured not by its highs or lows, but by its delicious creamy center.

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References:

http://SPIN.COM

http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses

http://www.myspace.com/kkevinsshields

http://www.myspace.com/lilwayne

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