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.
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.
that demands explanation
i cant do it
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.
this thread is going to be the one
Most of them are unashamedly sentimental in one way or another. Never liked stuff that’s too cool or abstract or postmodern or ironic.
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
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.
all my faves share the same pancreas
i am astonished that this isn’t a ramzi awn thread
They’re all white.
LIVE DRUMS.
catchy toons
they record on equipment
they all make me wince with the funky.
LIVE DRUMS
hi dere me too
They’re not studio-only creations — they all can and do take their work out on the road and play live.
They’ve pegged Pam Anderson.
even Mar1ssa?
They paint a picture! How do they do that?
they have all produced homages to wooly bully
Your favorite bands were all severed at the waist?
This is what about 80% of my favorite artists have in common.
open tunings. seriously.
Aggressive yet pleasant.
And if not aggressive then pleasant and emotionally expressive. (Think the way Mick Jagger or Kathleen Hanna sings)
brassiness/smartness/a bit of tragicomedy
^is what i like
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”.
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Nobody in the band has a face or a personality you can remember.
* 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.
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None of them have a liver?!
Opacity. Insularity. Faking it.
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.
It took me 5 days to notice, but “What do you thing” ???