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Replying to a few suggestions:
String Cheese are certainly versatile, and good at what they do, but taken individually, none of it is really different.
There are a lot of satirical songwriters around; Weird Al just happens to be the best known.
I always thought Ben Folds Five sounded a lot like the Whitlams
Careful with Floyd; they were far from alone in their genre. The difference with them is that they were the only ones to make the genre sound any good at all.
Jethro Tull have an unmistakeable sound, but only because of the recorder. Take that away, and you'd easily confuse them with any of a dozen other bands from the era. The instrument is unusual; the sound isn't.
We also need to distinguish between unique and unmistakeable. Eddie Vedder's voice is unmistakeable, but Pearl Jam aren't really unique. Likewise, anything composed by Jim Steinman and anything played by The Who. By the same argument, I would deny that TMBG, The Doors or TOOL are unique, even though they are all unmistakeable and talented. They are all examples of established genres; they just happen to be remarkable instances thereof.
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