All this time I thought Mansun’s ‘Taxlo$$’ was the most obvious homage to the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’ Then along comes The Jam picking up the slack that Taxlo$$ lacks. Check out the beat at the start of ‘Start!’. Eh? Eh! Many thanks to that gem of a blo…
All this time I thought Mansun‘s ‘Taxlo$$’ was the most obvious
homage to the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’
Then along comes The Jam picking up the slack that Taxlo$$ lacks.
Check out the beat at the start of ‘Start!’.
Eh? Eh!
Many thanks to that gem of a blog Lazer Guided Melody for this one.
In this post-modern age, you’d think bands would know better to engage in the search engine gaffes that no doubt plague such blameless acts as The Who, The Band and The The to this very day by picking such ungoogleable names as…. Then. Admirably…
In this post-modern age, you’d think bands would know better to engage in the search engine gaffes that no doubt plague such blameless acts as The Who, The Band and The The to this very day by picking such ungoogleable names as…. Then.
Admirably unwilling to bend to the demands of publicity, this Macedonian-Catalan (! wtf !) duo are responsible for Happy Cloud – a wonderful EP that I am happy to help spruik by leading you to their last.fm profile from where you can nick the tracks for the princely sum of $0. Also helping them/Then out is the remarkable similarity their song ‘Oblivion 2’ shares with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ‘Wisdom’.
I can’t point out precisely what makes the two songs sound alike, but even if I’m imagining this, the mishmash still makes for a lovely listen.
Oh, just HUMOUR ME. ‘Mouthwithout’ and ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ may just share TWO NOTES but they’re the SAME NOTES so this is totally valid and I will not hear any of your objections. Sorry about the unsatisfying fade-out at the end……
Oh, just HUMOUR ME.
‘Mouthwithout’ and ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ may just share
TWO NOTES but they’re the SAME NOTES so this is totally valid and I
will not hear any of your objections. Sorry about the unsatisfying
fade-out at the end… it really gets you in the mood for some TFF,
though, dunnit?
Similar chord progressions in rock music? Egad! I can see Theodor
Adorno smirking away at me from his place in space. Stop being so
smug, bro.
I can also see The Curtain Society scratching their heads at me
going ‘…really?’ and Tears For Fears going ‘…what is this
“blog” you speak of?’ and they can both shut it, as well. Jeez,
can’t a girl point out the obvious without all this judging?
This morning I found out that Ringo Deathstarr are supporting the Smashing Pumpkins on tour. This is big news. It was so big to me that I had to read the announcement thrice, take a step back and then wallow for a few hours in an inexplicable ‘the…
It’s not entirely inexplicable. R. Deathstarr were among the handful
of bands at the forefront of my neo-gaze studies a few years ago.
Unlike pinkshinyultrablast and Stella Luna, they didn’t just abandon
us after a single EP. A couple of years later, along came a full
length called Imagine Hearts and, oh, just look at them now
*wipes tear*.
Here’s an early track called ‘Starrsha’. I’ve set it up against the
less energetic ‘About You’ by The Jesus and Mary Chain – for
obvious reasons.
I must confess I like The High Wire more than Sigur Ros despite the latter possessing significantly greater amounts of technical merit. It took about half a dozen listens before The Sleep Tape managed to whack me firmly on the noggin to say “OI PA…
I must confess I like The High Wire more than Sigur Ros despite the latter possessing significantly greater amounts of technical merit. It took about half a dozen listens before The Sleep Tape managed to whack me firmly on the noggin to say “OI PAY ATTENTION I am a good album… see?” (yes you are). Meanwhile Sigur Ros, in all their subtlety, don’t really care what I think. They’re all like “Soz, can’t hear your neutrality over our ethereal otherworldliness” and then they emit some ethereal otherworldly sounds.
Given their detachment from the real world, I doubt they noticed the little ‘Hoppipola’ soundalike sitting quietly in the midst of ‘Honeycomb’.
WHAT, Secret Shine are ripping off My Bloody Valentine again? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?! If what ran through your mind is something along those lines plz drop your Shoegazer Club Membership Card at the desk and GTFO for any ‘gazer worth his salt and memb…
WHAT, Secret Shine are ripping off My Bloody Valentine
again? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!
If what ran through your mind is something along those lines plz drop
your Shoegazer Club Membership Card at the desk and GTFO for any
‘gazer worth his salt and membership card knows that photocopying MBV
is Secret Shine’s USP.
Behold – their version of ‘Sometimes’ which they fondly refer to as ‘Last Words’
One of Todd Rundgren’s assorted bands – Nazz – has a song called ‘Open My Eyes’ which I only know of because it featured in a Nuggets compilation. This is because I don’t really swing the pre-1980s way. There are exceptions though, and one of thos…
One of Todd Rundgren’s assorted bands – Nazz – has a song
called ‘Open My Eyes’ which I only know of because it featured in a
Nuggets compilation. This is because I don’t really swing the
pre-1980s way. There are exceptions though, and one of those
exceptions is The Who and that is why it took me mere
milliseconds to go from ‘hey that’s The Who!’ to ‘oh. No it’s not’
when I first heard ‘Open My Eyes’ because you know as well as I do
that the opening is blatantly Mr. Townshend’s. I think Todd R. ruins a
spectacular riff, though, when he decides to buzzsaw into it 3 seconds
after it launches. You need to revert to the ‘original’ for auditory
closure.
Why I do believe Familiar Sounds gold has been struck and I owe it all to my favourite German.My Rostock-dwelling friend sent me a link to a song from 1980 called ‘All That Heaven Allows’ by a German post-punk band called Fehlfarben.”Does somethin…
I saw the Silversun Pickups’ Melbourne show last night. They didn’t play either of these songs but I know them well enough to have noticed the resemblance between Swoon’s ‘Draining’ and Carnavas’ ‘Waste It On’ when I heard ‘Draining’. Now, let it …
I saw the Silversun Pickups‘ Melbourne show last night. They didn’t play either of these songs but I know them well enough to have noticed the resemblance between Swoon‘s ‘Draining’ and Carnavas’ ‘Waste It On’ when I heard ‘Draining’. Now, let it be known that I am a Carnavas-girl through and through. However I must admit that I much prefer ‘Draining’ to its older doppelganger – I love that cello, it’s marvellous. I love SPPU. I can’t believe I saw them. Here, listen:
I could scarcely believe this one myself.What I could believe even less was how no one else on the internets appeared to have noticed. It’s not like ‘Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean’ by Explosions in the Sky and ‘Grounded’ by Pavement are exce…
I could scarcely believe this one myself.
What I could believe even less was how no one else on the internets appeared to have noticed.
It’s not like ‘Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean’ by Explosions in the Sky and ‘Grounded’ by Pavement are exceptionally elusive search topics for Google. Explosions in the Sky, maaaan, there is only one.
It’s also not like there’s not an overlap in listeners of both bands. Sure, the styles of music are different but jeez, indie kids, you have failed me.
This is my favourite Pavement song.
