"""We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,"" leader John Doe told CNN in 2004. His Los Angeles-based band, X, got lumped in with the punks, but their influences included rockabilly and country. It was their ""scary"" style and singer Exene Cervenka's otherworldly voice that made such songs as ""Los Angeles"" and ""Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"" fit with the overall scene."
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