What band doesn't look like they would play the music that they play?

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I recently saw a photo of Laika and the Coasmonauts in which they looked like some kind of Flock of Seagulls tribute band (that was a joke, right?).

Which artists' look "surprised" you when you first saw them, or a picture of them?

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Darkness.

― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't there 2 Laikas? I think maybe there was a proto-'shroomadelica' band w/that name that existed separately from the clectro consortium

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Laika + Cosmonauts = Finnish surf-rockers, innit?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

klaatu...so they really WERE the beatles!

― henrys, Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

my morning jacket look like a metal band when they play live.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://cif.rochester.edu/~xm/lol/ianjon.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

kronos quartet used to look a lot like sonic youth.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember being shocked, as a naive teenager, when I first saw a picture of Steve Albini.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know a lot about The Misfits. I'm guessing they may have had different phases and probably sounded different live. But, still, croony rockabilly isn't what I expected from a band that looks like that.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

LOCK THREAD

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ROFFLE!!!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember being really disappointed by how the Pixies looked.

― rw, Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

they look as shoddy as their music.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles.

― Toon (Skelter), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

GWAR. I've always found their music to be too clean and polished sounding in light of their visual aesthetic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't know a lot about The Misfits. I'm guessing they may have had different phases and probably sounded different live. But, still, croony rockabilly isn't what I expected from a band that looks like that"

you haven't heard Earth A.D. have you?

Alex in NYC OTM about GWAR.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd hardly call The Misfits "croony rockabilly". That may apply to "American Nightmare," but not much else.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, to be fair there is a rockabilly/old-school rock n' roll influence to a lot of their songs but they never played out-and-out rockabilly.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

True

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

helmet

― Elvis is Dead, Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the band in that picture, hstencil?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Throbbing Gristle?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

TG stood on Beachy Head. Mr stencil is absolutely on the money.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.thefreedomman.com/images/diarypics/Red%20House%20Painters.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Low

http://www.chairkickers.com/low/archive/photos/images/19960611_02.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out Sleepy on the far right of the Red House Painters pic. Hehehehehehe.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Anchower was in Red House Painters? "Hola Amigos! Lord, kill the pain!"

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

LOL OMG m.e.a. OTMFM!!!!!

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

left = Silent Bob, right = Jay

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'know, I would never have guessed the Red House Painters could generate this many laffs.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Kozelek can be pretty funny live. Really.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I find that Grandaddy make me think, "no way can these guys be responsible for this music" and yet at the same time, "actually, no one else in the world could be responsible for this music".

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I find that Grandaddy make me think, "no way can these guys be responsible for this music" and yet at the same time, "actually, no one else in the world could be responsible for this music".

my wife had the same reaction when she looked in the CD booklet...she thought they would look like the Strokes or something...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

SIgue Sigue Sputnik...

http://mclub.te.net.ua/images/art/artist_1218.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Obv the sex pistols.

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

avril doesn't look punk at *all*.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sterling.....It's because she isn't. You know that though.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd hardly call The Misfits "croony rockabilly". That may apply to "American Nightmare," but not much else.
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 20th, 2004.
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Well, to be fair there is a rockabilly/old-school rock n' roll influence to a lot of their songs but they never played out-and-out rockabilly.

-- latebloomer (posercore24...), May 20th, 2004.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Exaggeration for effect, all that. Jeez.

I'm pretty sure I've never heard Earth AD.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 May 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's William Bennett from Whitehouse, pictured with someone whose smirk makes me think of Jonathan King

http://www.barbie.gmxhome.de/idol/gallery/m_bennett.2003.jpg.jpg

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Scissor Sisters!!!!!!

<li>Looks- wonky cross between Manhattan Transfer and Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!!!!<li>Sound- wonky cross between Manhattan Transfer and Elton John!!!! And the Bee Gees!!!!It's a bit like having someone looking like Johnny Roten open his mouth and croon like Perry Como!!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division and Kraftwerk looked nothing like I expected.

― Dean Birkett (Fynci), Friday, 21 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

sigue sigue sputnik look exactly like they should.

and my morning jacket was exactly what i was thinking when i saw this thread.

van morrison doesnt look as much like a black man as you would think he should.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 21 May 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Refused?

They kinda looked like a bunch of art-school kids who would make house music.

― Helltime, Friday, 21 May 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew Eldritch was like the king of the goff look back in the '80s, BUT LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE:

http://www.mixi.net/Sisters.Of.Mercy/Interviews/Gothic.Metal.gif

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not entirely convinced that that's not Snow.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

He looks more Teutonic now. More Florian Schneider, less Joey Ramone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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