Bands who are other Bands
Posted by Springer on 10 July 2008 - 12:02pm.
Isn't it amazing the amount of bands that are Other Bands!
When I heard the new Fleet Foxes album it just hit me that they were really the Cosmic Rough Riders playing Enjoy the Sunshine in 2000.
And there are lots. Plenty of groups whose sound has been pilfered and made successful by someone else.
The obvious Joy Division/ Interpol/Editors
Even Roger McGuinn thought he had heard a lost Byrds Classic when he heard Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers American Girl.
Any more come to mind.
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Fleet Foxes
Never mind the 'Foxes being a Cosmics throwback (Cosmic Rough Riders were much better)-
I had to buy the Fleet Foxes album on the back of all the top reviews they were getting and bugger me if it's not just a load of damp old hippy prog.
And with this video
They've only gone a recreated the Old Grey Whistle Test circa 1973.
Damn them all to hell!!!!!
Jeez you're right
Baggy Woolly jumpers present and correct. I liked it though but not what I'd say was original.
But as I was trying to say, what is anymore ?
it's age
it's age isn't it? Shouldn't stop us looking though, it's fab when you find something new and exciting, even when you're in the foothills of middle age.
Big Star/Teenage Fanclub...
When I first heard "New Generation" by Suede, I could have sworn it must have been a Hunky Dory outtake.
Well there's only 3 chords
I mean what do we expect. I think the Fleet Foxes sound pretty good, it's not earth shattering but it certainly tickles my ear drums in a pleasant kind of way. I mean the Beatles plundered 50's rock and roll and Motown and soul and indian and folk and arty cut up and Dylan etc etc etc. I guess the trick is to turn it into something that sounds new and original. The problem is once someone does that, then thousands of other brain dead bands and musicians slavishly copy that style. So, for example, the likes of Hendrix, Zeppelin and even Nirvana find something fairly original only to have the record companies (at the time) sign sound-a-like bands on the dotted line and copy the template until it is finally beaten to death by sheer, boring repetition. Is there anything more depressing than going into your local music store on a Saturday afternoon and hearing the guitarists hammering out the same old geetar wankery over and over again. God help the poor sales people in these places. Anyway rant over and now its back to the rubber room!!
My point isn't about the chords.
It's about the sameness of the music. Not just the style but a carbon copy of the sound. Yes The Beatles plundered but they made something unique.
The Byrds plundered The Beatles and others and made something unique.
Then there was Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, Fountains of Wayne, Jayhawks, Nada Surf, Cosmic Rough Riders, etc.......etc.
And Fleet Foxes sound is very Cosmic Rough Riders right down to the vocals.
Very good, nice, pleasant but really The Same.
But you are spot on IMHO about "same old geetar wankery".
The NME lot
The Enemy, The View, The Fratellis...
Close your eyes
I've mentioned this before, but it's the same singer, same band, just 15 years apart:
Cripes
I never put those back to back before. Unbelievable! And then again ...not!
Let's see...
Primal Scream/The Rolling Stones
Oasis/Status Quo
Blur/Chas n Dave
Elastica/Wire
You forgot. . .
Duffy/Lulu.
Hold Steady
The poundshop Springsteens.
Too True
They remind me of The Australian Pink Floyd.
Obviously not musically, but in a pub band sort of way.
Absolutely
Who'da thunk the border between frantic and tiresome was so paper-thin. Have their mothers never heard of tartrazine?