What do you thing is common to most of your favourite music acts?

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except from the fact they all make good music.
can you say there is something,not necessary connected directly with music, that is common to all?
for example, i think most of my favourite bands, has one main character,usually the singer, that is the one spirit genius behind it:
arthir lee (love) , jeffrey lee pierce (gun club), robert pollard (gbv), AC newman (pornographers), mark e.smith (the fall).
of course,there are exceptions (pavement,sonic youth...)but most bands i like,probably 80% or more fits into the 1st category.

― john lang (emekars), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link

this is pure speculation but i think if they all had to have another job, they would all choose to be architects and be pretty good at that.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

that demands explanation

― john lang (emekars), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i cant do it

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Pavements as much "one guy" as New Pornographers.
My common thread is that all of my favourite acts' names involved the letters A-N-D-Y-K-I-M.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 30 December 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is going to be the one

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of them are unashamedly sentimental in one way or another. Never liked stuff that's too cool or abstract or postmodern or ironic.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

being sentimental (though not unashamedly)is not always a contadiction to being cool/postmodern/irnic,you know..

but as time goes by to present time, it's hard to find those pure sentimental stuff as it used to be i guess

― john lang (emekars), Saturday, 30 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

complete uncool-ness. For the most part.

For whatever reason, my fav's have always been ppl like Neil Finn, Richard Thompson, Joe Henry--these when I was like 14. Sad sad sad. Adult-alternative does not a good High-school mix tape make for your crush.

― Jubalique die Zitronen (juicefriend), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

all my faves share the same pancreas

― bliss (blass), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i am astonished that this isn't a ramzi awn thread

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

They're all white.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

LIVE DRUMS.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

catchy toons

― electric sound of jim (electric sound of jim), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

they record on equipment

― electric sound of jim (electric sound of jim), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

they all make me wince with the funky.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

LIVE DRUMS

hi dere me too

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

They're not studio-only creations -- they all can and do take their work out on the road and play live.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link

They've pegged Pam Anderson.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

even Mar1ssa?

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link

They paint a picture! How do they do that?

― Rami Zune (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

they have all produced homages to wooly bully

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/body.jpg

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Your favorite bands were all severed at the waist?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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This is what about 80% of my favorite artists have in common.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

open tunings. seriously.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Aggressive yet pleasant.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin C.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

And if not aggressive then pleasant and emotionally expressive. (Think the way Mick Jagger or Kathleen Hanna sings)

― Colin Cassidy (Colin C.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

brassiness/smartness/a bit of tragicomedy

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

^is what i like

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link

They all sound pretty different from one another. Clever & wistful singer/songwriter stuff. Old funk 'n' soul jams. Dirty, fucked-up action rawk. Spacey, abstract drone-noise for staring at the ceiling. Raw, thugged-out hip hop. Goofy, shitty club pop.

A lot of geek music, truth be told. I tend to like music made by nerds and (cool) jerks more than music made by tough guys, athletes, divas, or "entertainers".

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Cap'n Guthrie (retardo1), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody in the band has a face or a personality you can remember.

― INcrimony (klynn), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

* co-ed lineups
* shaky vocals
* catchy melodies (with at least one decending two-chord riff per CD)
* a sense of minimalism (or at least non-maximalism)

Conclusion: Wanna Buy A Bridge? is my ultimate LP. Like that's a surprise.

― mike appelstein (mike a), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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None of them have a liver?!

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Opacity. Insularity. Faking it.

― Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

This is pure speculation, but I think if they all had to have another job then it would be as well if they all chose not to be architects, as many of them would probably have a potentially dangerous tendency to ignore some pretty fundamental rules if those rules didn't happen to suit them at the time.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

It took me 5 days to notice, but "What do you thing" ???

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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