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... that alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song "Crackity Jones" about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student? ... that the band Green Day has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Music Video Awards? ... that Canadian band Article One took their name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after hearing about it on U2's Vertigo Tour? ... that in two decades Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger, The Go-Betweens, and Hoodoo Gurus? ... that "Quasar" by The Smashing Pumpkins was once described as "a rambunctious, wailing beast of a song"?