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Author: MrFab
Date: 04-09-12 14:42
Ever notice musical artists always being yoked together with other acts that often have a tenuous (at best) connection to them? It often seems to be jounalistic/historical laziness. I often:
really love one act/don't care for or flat out can't stand the other(s)
Beatles/Rolling Stones
John Cage/Stockhausen
Captain Beefheart/Frank Zappa
Portishead /Tricky/Massive Attack [I don't hate Massive Attack, more like utter indifference]
Many Krautrock and Paisely Underground bands have seemingly little in common. Kraftwerk after the mid-'70s and Amon Duul II couldn't be more unlike.
Sometimes it's warrented e.g.: Pistols/Clash, Black Flag/Circle Jerks. I can see why Devo and Pere Ubu are often conjoined - warbly singer/guitar-rock + synth squiggles groups from Ohio, but after their first couple albums both bands wandered fairly far apart. Still, they seemed historically yoked together for eternity.
Post Edited (04-09-12 14:50)
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 04-09-12 14:50
Taja Sevelle / Rancid
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After reading about Ms. Sevelle's butter churnin' ways, these two are now spot-welded in my mind ... but only in this context.
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Author: rebelwithoutaclue
Date: 04-09-12 15:00
graham parker/elvis costello- to a lesser degree joe jackson.
not that they are opposites and im sure that mmost who are fans of one are fans of the other 2.
it becomes a cliche in reviews of graham parker to invoke that he is better or less famous then e.c
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Author: nosepail
Date: 04-09-12 15:18
The Velvet Underground and any band who strums fast and scratchy on occassion (e.g. Wedding Present, Feelies, etc)
Dino Jr and Neil Young
In general, I find the connections between bands is almost always over-stated. Sorry, Pavement did not somehow copy The Fall, though we can draw similarities between one or two songs.
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Author: Aitch
Date: 04-09-12 19:56
The first time I ever heard the word Goth used in a musical sense was in reference to both Killing Joke and Bauhaus as "gothic punk" (DEEP SIGH).
I found them to be lumped together a lot after that. I liked both bands a lot at the time (and still do I guess) but don't see much of a connection.
I also can't stand it when people much younger than myself say they were into Bauhaus "when I was a goth".
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 04-10-12 12:47
Quote:
The first time I ever heard the word Goth used in a musical sense was in reference to both Killing Joke and Bauhaus as "gothic punk" (DEEP SIGH).
I found them to be lumped together a lot after that. I liked both bands a lot at the time (and still do I guess) but don't see much of a connection.
I also can't stand it when people much younger than myself say they were into Bauhaus "when I was a goth".
I wonder. What do you suppose the tendency might be to link - or perhaps not link - Bauhaus and Einstürzende Neubauten together ... in Germany?
Given that Peter Baumann (*ahem*) and the boys derived their name from an architectural movement and the gentle souls in Neubauten are/were constantly devising strategies against architecture ... it almost seems like it'd be a foregone conclusion.
Anyone ever speak to a German about Neubauten? How are they regarded in their native land? Simply knowing that Nick Cave likes 'em a lot (Neubauten, not Germans) is somehow inconclusive. The less said about Henry Rollins' ink the better.
"Ja! Ja! Wir lieben die elektrifizierten Einkaufenwagensolos! Es ist viel besser als Hendrix!"
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Author: MrFab
Date: 04-10-12 16:51
I asked a German guy once and he'd never heard of 'em. But, yeah, there are bands that could or should be linked together, but aren't. Take X and The Cramps: two LA-based punkabilly bands, led by husband & wife teams. You'd think it'd be a natural, but you never hear anyone say: Yeah, I'm into that Cramps/X kinda thing.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 04-11-12 11:29
> Take X and The Cramps: two LA-based punkabilly bands, led by husband & wife teams.
I thought The Cramps were from New York (by way of Ohio).
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