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* OneOfUs: Sally Rodgers is clearly a bit of a sci-fi fan.

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* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: ''The Apple'', natch.

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* GratuitousSpanish: "Musica De Amor", which is a cover of an English-language song "Love Music".



* NotChristianRock... but JesusWasWayCool
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* CoverVersion: "Musica De Amor" (original by Lloyd Price, via another cover by Sergio Mendez), "Que Tal America" (Two Man Sound).

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* GenreShift: In 1988 they were a funky jazz ensemble. By 1990 they'd gone futurist disco, and by 1994 they had largely settled down to the chillout style they're most famed for (but with the occasional throwback to their earlier material). In TheNewTens they've turned rather avant garde.

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* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Duende'' is a very chilled-out album full of SillyLoveSongs and hippy meanderings... except that right in the middle there's suddenly a weird and harsh track that sounds like a mix of hip-hop and electro [[GenreThrowback circa 1982]] and topped with uncharacteristic lashings of lyrical snark.

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* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Duende'' is a very chilled-out album full of SillyLoveSongs and hippy meanderings... except that right in the middle there's suddenly a weird and harsh track "It's Ovah" that sounds like a mix of hip-hop and electro [[GenreThrowback circa 1982]] and topped with uncharacteristic lashings of lyrical snark.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: ''Duende'' is a very chilled-out album full of SillyLoveSongs and hippy meanderings... except that right in the middle there's suddenly a weird and harsh track that sounds like a mix of hip-hop and electro [[GenreThrowback circa 1982]] and topped with uncharacteristic lashings of lyrical snark.
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* ShoutOut: A Man Called Adam and the song title "Bread, Love and Dreams" are pinched from films, "Barefoot In The Head" comes from a novel by Brian Aldiss.
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* MagicFromTechnology: Though it's not explained what "The Chrono Psionic Interface" is or does, it seems to be an example of this.
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* BreakupBreakout: Paul Daley, who played percussion in an early line-up of the band, went on to greater fame with Music/{{Leftfield}}.
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Chillout pioneers. Released a load of singles (and remixes) and three albums: ''The Apple'', ''Duende'' and a half-new, half-best-of collection ''All My Favourite...''.

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*HowDoYouLikeThemApples: ''The Apple'', natch.
*OneOfUs: Sally Rodgers is clearly a bit of a sci-fi fan.
*SillyLoveSongs: "Porcupine", "Estelle"
*StockSoundEffects: those waves at the end of "Barefoot In The Head".
*UnpluggedVersion: "Barefoot In The Head 04".

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