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Big Muff | ||||
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Released | 1998 | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 39:07 | |||
Label | Toxic Records | |||
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Big Muff is an album by The Killer Barbies. It was released in 1998 on Toxic Records. [1]
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