The genesis of the 1991 album Queer was listening to De La Soul's 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
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Spin said the band claimed to have named themselves after a device that Mozart tried (unsuccessfully) to invent to type out his music.
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Allen's list of "important records" as of 1995 included De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, Massive Attack's Blue Lines and "anything from Nick Cave and The Fall."
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