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The Softies: Holiday in Rhode Island

Devon Powers, PopMatters, 11 September 2000

SIGH. THE SOFTIES. Sometimes it's so great to know exactly what you're getting in a band. Take the Butthole Surfers, or the Beastie Boys. Names like that don't — can't — lie. And we wouldn't want them to.

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