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"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics."

Stephen Malkmus, American Musician

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"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics."

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