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Feeling Strangely Fine I have a special fondness for this trio mostly because of their local-band-makes-good story. I caught an early show (when they went by the name Pleasure) and was impressed enough to figure that if they didn't have some national success there was something seriously wrong with the record industry. (Of course, there is something seriously wrong with the record industry, but it doesn't seem to have affected them.) I find Dan Wilson's hooks on the first two albums irresistible enough to shrug and smile at the rock star posing he affects on stage.