Trades Description flouting rock and roll
Posted by Niks on 10 April 2008 - 4:35pm.
I was a bit annoyed when I finally got round to hearing Cajun Dance Party recently and found that there isn't anything even remotely Cajun about them and that they are, in fact, just another coma inducingly tedious indie rock band. You know the sort, skinny jeans... angular guitar... shouty vocals...zzzzzzzz...
It is also very doubtful that James Brown or George Clinton were an influence on Grand Funk Railroad and the Eagles of Death Metal are not death metal (nor indeed bird of prey).
Any other bands who should be reported under the trades descriptions act?
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Cowboy Junkies....
....conjure up rather more a Dandy Warholian vibe than they are, which made the T shirt slightly challenging in,o my god, 88 or whenever.
Slow, gentle folk-rock (without the rock)
Could that band have a more inappropriate name if it tried?
That was the point
They are neither Cowboys nor Junkies. Similarly 10,000 Maniacs.
Aha!
So thats what it was about. That makes so much more sense. Thanks for explaining that one.
P.S. I can't find where I was challenged to diss Steely Dan. How very dare you! Diss the Dan indeed, I love "All Around My Hat"!!
Customs
I bet it cost them a lot of trouble at customs with that name stencilled on all their equipment boxes.
Oasis
are in fact, a wadi.
Barenaked Ladies...
...Bare faced lies!
Joy Division
and Half Man Half Biscuit
Alabama 3 - No, and no.
Also:
Walker Brothers, Puppini Sisters etc etc.
10,000 maniacs (that would have been some live act).
Mental As Anything
Of course, they were anything but.
Sonic Youth
must be in their 50s by now.
See also Teenage Fanclub. And The Railway Children.
Yes
No
The Smiths.
Not a Smith in sight.
The Abyssinians. Not from Abyssinia.
Jethro Tull. Seed drill already invented some years previously.
They Might Be Giants. Then again they might not.
Presidents of the United States of America. No you're not.
Crash Test Dummies. Looking good, all things considered.
Ben Folds Five
Missing two members
Faithless: have a song called "God is a DJ."
The Indigo Girls: lack unusual skin tones.
Garbage: Actually quite good.
The Flaming Lips: no combustible faces as yet.
Enigma: not at all difficult or puzzling, unless you're trying to stay awake whilst one of their albums are playing.
Ben Folds Five
Isn't it a card playing reference?
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead:
A corpse-strewn path has yet to play a role in the identification of these Texan art-rockers who are still known, if at all, by their music and their name, which is an outrageous fib.
The Bambi Molesters: Have yet to be convicted of forcing themselves upon doe-eyed woodland animals.
Jonathan Fire*Eater: Presumably the enigmatic asterisk was once attached to a footnote that read: Not really a fire eater.
Not relevant, but anyway...
Talking about footnotes, if you want to read the most inspired use of them, then get your hands on Graham Chapman's book "A Liars Autobiography Volume 6."