Sounds Like…
The 10/5/05 episode of The Chair and Automan is out. Download the MP3 directly here. Or better yet, get a podcatching client and subscribe to this podcast here. Or check out my Odeo channel.
In this episode:
I talk about these songs sounding like artists of yesteryear we all know and love. And I challenge you to agree with me. I also talk about all the links that are after the songs. I offer up a chance at a T-shirt from either the Gym Class Heroes or The Movement (depending on which show I see) to everyone who offers an opinion about who these artists are reminiscent of.
The songs :
- Cavern by Shipwreck.
- Fire & Thunder by Blacktop Burners.
- Almost Thanksgiving Day by Graham Parker
- Maserati by The Hong Kong.
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Go out and get you a cd by The Movement or by The Gym Class Heroes. The Movement will be playing Headliners Mainstage in Columbia, SC on 11/04. The Gym Class Heroes will be there the very next night (11/05)!
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Later.
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October 9th, 2005 at 11:56 am
Man, sorry about them Braves. Huddy has to show up today, eh?
Really cool podcast. I liked the music challenge. Here is my stab.
Geez, I really like those Greent Street guys. All these bands sound good on that Indie label. I had a little hard time with Cavern by Shipwreck….to me the vocal styling is reminiscent of David Byrne and Talking Heads. However, the song itself and instrumentals didn’t so much. Curious to see what you think on that one. The next one, by the BlackTop Burners was hardest for me. I suspect that it is reminiscent of some rocker band that was going when I was a little more into the whold Punk and then Grunge scene. But what the Hell, I always really, really, really dug Thin Lizzy, so I’ll say Think Lizzy for the Hell of it and as a tribute, even if it is way off the mark!!
The next two, were a little easier for me. Almost Thanksgiving Day and Graham Parker was an absolute dead ringer for John Hiatt. I would have bet anything that that was John Hiatt, if I didn’t know it was Parker. And Maseratti/Hong Kong sounded an awful lot like a retro Bangles or Go-Go’s. Because they were a little more rock/hard-core….I’ll go with Bangles.
I got an awesome CD box-set last week. Zombie Heaven. A complete retrospective of the 60’s Zombies. Man, they were f’in great!! I can’t believe that I still haven’t listened to my Gym Class Heroe’s CD yet, that I bought, like, over a month ago. First thing tomorrow in the office (I can listen to music there) it goes on the player.
Later, (I like this challenge stuff a lot. Really neat way to kind of brind some interactivity into this whole thing. Very cool, dude).
dt
October 9th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
Cool answers. My list only agreed with one of your 4, but I can see your points. I’m not going to say yet what I came up with just to see who else might want to weigh in.
Thanks though and great answers
October 9th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Hmmm….only one of four? Damn, pretty tough. I’ll listen to them again and see if I can come up with anything different. Man, 18 innings….jeez….what a tough way to go out. Those Braves and the first round…..man. Sorry about that. Francouer really seemed to have cooled his jets the last month or so, didn’t he?
dt
One thing I do know for certain is that there was no Butthole Surfer influence in any of those 4 tunes!!!…..
October 11th, 2005 at 9:20 am
I’m typing this without looking at Don’s answers. I’ll look after I submit.
1. – I have no real guess on Shipwreck. Superchunk?
2. Blacktop Rockets == early KISS
3. Graham Parker is tricky, since he’s an established artist in his own right. This song sounds like Springsteen to me.
4. The Hong Kong is the easiest one for me – Blondie.
October 11th, 2005 at 9:21 am
Thin Lizzy is a much better answer than KISS for the Blacktop Rockets. Damn.
October 11th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
Hmmm….I listened to these a bunch more times. I give up.
1. Shipwreck. I almost started thinking Nirvana at the beginning. I still think the vocals are David Byrne-like. I can’t peg it, though.
2. Blacktop Rockets. I give up. I don’t really think the right answer is Thin Lizzy. (As much as I like them). I don’t know…it is some derivative rock and roll band, that I’m sure I’ll go: “Oh Yeah, it does sound like them.”
3. Graham Parker. Still sounds a lot like John Hiatt to me. But, maybe John Hiatt sounds like Graham Parker!?! Springsteen is a great answer, too. But, again….is it Graham Parker sounding like Springsteen….or Springsteen sounding like Graham Parker!?! Well, since Springsteen is better known, he probably is the right answer…..and a good one at that…..but I can play you a lot of John Hiatt that is right in the same ballpark, for sure.
4. Hong Kong. Of course, Blondie. Damn. That has gotta be it. Great answer. I’ll go down the tubes sticking with my Bangles answer, (it does sound a little like them, too)…..but I think Blondie is the much better choice….and probably the source for a lot of derivative music with female lead vocals.
Makes me think about how derivative music really is. You can hear traces of lots of stuff in lots of stuff, ya know?
dt
October 11th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Oh yeah. One more thing. That Gym Class Heroes CD, “Papercut Chronicles” IS a good one. Got kind of a jazzy feel to the instrumentals. Excellent. Ok, and who are they a derivative of? Who do they sound like? Roots, maybe….something like that?
dt
October 12th, 2005 at 9:15 am
You will probably laugh at these since I am totaly guessing on them, and don’t have a lot of exposure to more obscure bands, but I also realize this contest is just a clever trick to get to know your listeners musical background so this might give an insight into mine. Here goes, in order of how you played them;
Spirit
The Who
John Lennon
B52s
October 12th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Those are interesting. Not what I picked but very interesting. I would like to point out that there is no right and wrong, just what you think. It’s like the world of podcasting, the only thing that matters is what you think.