Great bands/artists that you love whose imitators you wouldn't touch with a shitty stick

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Tom Waits

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The KLF

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay - I'll volunteer to touch a Tom Waits imitator with a shitty stick.

― tom (other one), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say Tom Waits and Van Halen, except the Bulletboys' versh of "St Christopher" is fantastic

― dave q, Monday, 20 January 2003 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say Tom Waits and Van Halen, except the Bulletboys' versh of "St Christopher" is fantastic

I don't even like VH all that much, but strangely they were the first band to pop into my head of ppl whose imitators I might like. Is it that I love them in theory but not as much in practice?

"Smooth Up" and one or two others were pretty good too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Albert King, Aaron Hall, Beastie Boys

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Who actually dares to immitate Tom Waits?

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

melissa is right-radiohead are the first band that spring to mind...

― robin (robin), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Skinny Puppy

― Hayden (Hayden), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

If you say Autechre and Talk Talk does that mean you wont touch Radiohead? No, that's unfair. They're not bad. But yes, definitely their progeny are well worth avoiding. Muse and Coldplay. Uergh. The fact that I have links with both of them chills me to the bone.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Poison.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Joy Division.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The Monkees.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

If you say Autechre and Talk Talk does that mean you wont touch Radiohead? No, that's unfair. They're not bad.
Did you undergo a brain transplant?
Didn't you have a go at me for being a Radiohead fan way back when?

Anyway, yeah, there are a fair amount of shoddy Autechre and Talk Talk imitators out there. It's too bad, there's more inspiration there than is being properly mined.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

cocteau twins

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead. Nick Drake. B&S. (except I'm now too ashamed to admit that I like the first 3 albums.) Hole.

Oh, the list is too endless to count...

― kate, Monday, 20 January 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nick Drake. B & S."

Kate there is a logical flaw in yr post here :)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: Tom Waits imitators. It's more the bands that claim to be influenced by Tom Waits-Gomez and Muse come to mind. I'd like to touch Gomez with a shitty stick. While they are trussed up in a tiny cage.

I heard a band (Belgian?) called Moondog (Jr?) who ripped off TW quite well, though. That's not Moondog the crazy blind street musician who looks like Gandalf, but another one.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Marvin Gaye. actually, I'd like to drive a shitty stick right through the chest of his imitators. Starting with Joey Lawrence & continuing up through that American Idol guy who looks like Sideshow Bob.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

make up: fuck all these other 'soulful rock bands'

― ddd, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Joy Division, Rush, REM

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Pavement

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Faith No More, fo' sho'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The Stone Roses. Oasis. Jesus, does latter-day Oasis count as being influenced by themselves? I think it should.

And Melissa, I don't hate Radiohead at all. In fact I really quite like The Bends and OK Computer, it's just that I think the last two albums have been largely appalling, and I hate the whole 'though shalt not bemoan the sacred cow' mythology that's been built up around them in both the media and the public. there are too amny poeople who slavishly assert that Radiohead are the best band in the world when they ain't (not 'cos anyone else is, but because no one is [at least now D Plan have split!] and it's a silly think to assert). That's all.

As for Talk Talk, they number Bark Psychosis among their followers, and they're very good, plus Elbow are pretty fine and clearly owe a big debt, so maybe they're not that bad an influence after all.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

the strokes, all their imitators are wack

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

''Anyway, yeah, there are a fair amount of shoddy Autechre and Talk Talk imitators out there.''

heh. radiohead have basically followed talk talk trajectory by ripping off the likes of autechre!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Guy Lombardo

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I was gonna mention that julio, but I wimped out.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ramones - though in this case, by "imitators" I don't mean bands that sort of sound like them, but bands that actually do their schtick (see: The Riverdales).

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Rites of Spring

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ani DiFranco, though doesn't meet Great prerequsite, has no end of imitators, all of them g-r-o-d-y

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

My name is Kenny wins the thread.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob God Damnit Shutup Dylan

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

nirvana!

― matthew james (matthew james), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/kjbanner1.GIF

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Aphex Twin, Dead Can Dance, and Radiohead, and Pavement, Massive Attack and many others

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm having trouble deciding if Nirvana or Pearl Jam spawned more annoying imitators during the 90s alt-rock sweepstakes. Which of the two do you think is more to blame for: Silverchair? Bush? Stone Temple Pilots? Seven Mary Three? Collective Soul? Candlebox? Sponge? Paw? Creed? Days of the New? Tonic?

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Alice in Chains.

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

REM? (I don't like them much, either) there was a whole Everybody Hurts industry there for a while.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean the bubble's burst on that? Oh, and I have just finally completed my masterpiece "Most people, more than average at least, feel worse than all right, or if not worst, no better than all right." It was really tender and moving. But it's of no consequence now.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

big ditto to Rites of Spring

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.