arrgh ILMers sending me on a mini-XTC trip when I've got so much other new music to listen to...arrggghhh do you people never quit?
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 28 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, Guided By Voices and Elephant 6 bands might be even better examples. {And honestly, I don't believe any of this music (including XTC) really sounds much like the Kinks --who I often love -- at all.}
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
or XTC and Peter Gabriel
or XTC and Kate Bush.
Though I love Gabriel and Bush in their own ways.
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 28 June 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Damn, man. It's not like we're talking about Marshall Crenshaw. Did Fuzzy Warbles make you that bitter?
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Dude, where do you think they recorded Apple Venus? ;)
― dleone (dleone), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
* still remaining open-minded! *
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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The Kingsmen sounded like the Kinks sometimes. So did Slade. Even AC/DC. But I don't think anybody sounds like them very often. I think they're an easy crutch used by people who want to describe so-called "pop" bands who sound "British" and "vaguely '60s" and, um, "ornate." (So are the Beatles.) I've never heard an XTC song as pretty as "Waterloo Sunset." (I guess part of it is, it seems bizarre to me to act like the Kinks or Beatles sounded just ONE way.)
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
-- chuck (cedd...), June 28th, 2004.
Yeah, but a lot of these bands weren't very good at it. I think XTC were pretty good at it. That's the difference for me.
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
xtc:kinks::whitesnake:led zeppelin, maybe
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I just realized that REM is totally XTC now in that no-drummer-lets-get-crazy-with-the-Sgt.-Pepper-bullshit way.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
(x-post!)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
well, they were two late '70s, early '80s bands who were very enamored of the kinks and wished they could be just like them. so it makes total sense that those two bands would end up having more in common with each other than either one had with the kinks.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
i like the jam quite a bit, but paul weller couldn't hold a candle to ray davies as a lyricist. paul weller was one of the clunkiest lyricists britain ever produced as far as i can tell. he sort of got away with it because the lyrics sort of matched his clunky cockney singing voice, but i think they might sound truly awful coming out of the mouth of a good singer like ray davies.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
(and i repeat: i actually like the jam.)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 28 June 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this same statement applies completely and thoroughly to XTC, too, and is one reason for their appeal.
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Less funky than ABC or Dead or Alive or A Flock of Seagulls or Frankie Goes to Hollywood or any of those guys, obviously.
XTC's is a different, more organic, more submerged, subverted funk -- the groups you mention use driving drum-machine four-to-the-floor rhythms, which yeah obviously are "danceable," but does that automatically make them funky? XTC make you feel the offbeats; how is that not funk?
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link