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THEY might be responsible for influencing some of the most excruciatingly whiny pop-punk purveyors of the 1990s — Green Day, the Offspring, Blink 182 and Barenaked Ladies — but some groups of that ilk are just about good enough to get away with it. Weezer are one and They Might Be Giants are another.
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