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Are These the Good Times?

By Rob Hamilton

Jackson Free Press | February 29, 2008

While the Presidents of the United States maintain their sunny optimism with “These Are the Good Times People," the album is not nearly enough to nudge them out from under Weird Al’s imposing shadow.

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