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The first major indie band to cross over into the mainstream, The Smiths jemmied open the floodgates for future battalions of swaggering misfits. The affected androgyny of Suede's Brett Anderson, the nerdy gesticulations of Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and the world-weary paranoia of Radiohead's Thom Yorke all owe a debt to Morrissey's paradigm of the socially alienated pop-star weirdo.