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Gigantic is listed on Pixies's Surfer Rosa. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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1988
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Where Is My Mind? is listed on Pixies's Surfer Rosa. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Debaser is listed on Pixies's Doolittle. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Here Comes Your Man is listed on Pixies's Doolittle. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Monkey Gone to Heaven is listed on Pixies's Doolittle. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Wave of Mutilation is listed on Pixies's Doolittle. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Cut Your Hair is listed on Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Feel the Pain is listed on Dinosaur Jr.'s Without a Sound. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Gold Soundz is listed on Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Range Life is listed on Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Caring Is Creepy is listed on The Shins's Oh, Inverted World. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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New Slang is listed on The Shins's Oh, Inverted World. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Such Great Heights
The Postal ServiceRelease year not establishedDate review open
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Such Great Heights is listed on The Postal Service's Give Up. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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The Postal ServiceRelease year not establishedDate review open
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The District Sleeps Alone Tonight is listed on The Postal Service's Give Up. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Sam Fender's songwriting repeatedly returns to North Shields and the surrounding Newcastle community where he grew up. His debut Hypersonic Missiles appeared in 2019, followed by Seventeen Going Under. For the third...
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100% is listed on Sonic Youth's Dirty. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Sugar Kane is listed on Sonic Youth's Dirty. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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Youth Against Fascism is listed on Sonic Youth's Dirty. This is recording/album context, not a claimed personal songwriting inspiration.
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