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like because your ears are just going 'EEEEEEEEEEEEE'. And I don’t think that's a very happy song." McCormack later expanded on the song's evolution, indicating it had come together at a soundcheck at
Melbourne's Public Bar in 1994. "In a moment of panic I remembered I had been working on a little guitar riff that sounded a bit like "
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Australian songs of the 1990s, saying, "The furious pace at which this song hurtles is exhausting, its cavalcade of motifs completely overwhelming. How they managed to bring it all together into something so perfectly succinct truly beggars belief."
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284:"Apartment"
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133:Producer(s)
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19:"Apartment"
707:1995 songs
696:Categories
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348:References
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659:Apartment
329:position
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226:Reception
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164:Apartment
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466:4 August
445:Double J
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157:"Alone"
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462:. ARIA
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276:Length
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107:rooArt
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