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The magazine stated that Goodwill (as well as the other standouts) is "uniquely effective, innovative or valuable."
Rock seems to have its own mile-wide streak of goody-goody moralism (with some standouts like Janis Ian, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby who are nothing but).