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The band's anything-goes approach to writing songs ran parallel to its everthing-goes approach to listening in general. Robinson, Cross, and Krauth loved switching one another on to stray strands of pop -- the left-field funk of ESG, the ballads of Burt Bacharach, random novelty recordings, whatever. The more disparate the better. "Phil and Bridget were always listening to the cool new bands," Robinson says. "Where I would, like, bring tapes of Paul Williams into the van. And they'd bring Stereolab's first album."

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