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| | Presidents of the United States of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | And that's where Seattle's Presidents of the United States of America (singer/bassitarist Chris Ballew, guitarist Dave Dederer, and drummer Jason Finn) positioned themselves three years ago, when their quirky homonymous debut was released on a tiny indie label called PopLlama. |
 | | They were the band to see that year at Austin's annual South by Southwest music conference, and the hype translated into a deal with Columbia, who re-released The Presidents of the United States of America, scored three Top 40 hits with it, and went on to sell four million copies. |
 | | Like the Presidents of the United Sates of America, irony couldn't save the Buggles from becoming unwitting victims of their own success and the fact that, except where Weird Al Yankovich is concerned, novelties have an inherently short shelf life. |
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