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| | Salon | Sharps and Flats |
 | | The sellout claim is only a half-truth (their former label, Epitaph, wasn't exactly a basement-run outfit), but more importantly, the band's music doesn't really sound much like punk streamlined Mötorhead is closer to the truth, and if that sounds like a great idea, you certainly won't hear a better band doing it. |
 | | But Lemmy Lite isn't really much to aspire to, and on "Ixnay on the Hombre" the Offspring do little to transcend it. |
 | | Ironically enough, "Ixnay"'s brightest and most incisive moment is one they had little to do with. |
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