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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10000000/newsid_10004800/10004881.stm

The article is bobbins, but does include this amusingly comprehensive sentence:

"The Rakes, The Twang, The Rascals and The View all returned, or emerged, with new albums and braced the climate or split up."

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[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This article seems to be the equivalent of a lot of head scratching about how Cast, Shed Seven and Kula Shaker could possibly have failed to sell a load of records in 1999.