When you're feeling lazy, compare a band to ______

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Whenever a critic is stuck in a jam there are some go-to bands that they'll compare someone to just for the sake of laziness.

I'm personally tired of seeing:

Mediocre garage bands being compared to the Kinks. I remembering Entertainment Weekly comparing Razorlight to the Kinks and temptation finally gave in and I d/l their Golden Touch song despite my suspicion that they had nothing in common. I was right, there was no distinct connection.

Incorporating pop hooks and melody = Beatlesque!

Being in a punk rock band that doesn't suck = sounds like the Ramones

Off the to of your head, what are your favorite/most hated clichès?

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"dubby" post-punk bands being compared to joy division and gang of four

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the phrase "stonesy blues rock." ish.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems that any band w/ a synth & is not techno (i.e, there are melodies) these days gets compared to gary numan.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

or the human league, i've heard that one a lot

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

them, too -- yer right, JBR!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Velvet Underground seems like the perennial favorites.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beach Boys

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beach Boys

Are they using backing vocals? Someone's been listening to his copy of Pet Sounds!

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy Webb. How many times now?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Has he been, though?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, more by songwriters who compare themselves to him, granted.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Distantly plucked folk-ish acoustic guitar + tremulous childlike female vocal - must be The Wicker Man!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Trumpet played with a mute and... I don't have to finish this sentence, do I?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The classic one has to be the Stooges.

Any band that uses a gtr/bass/drums/vox line up to play some form of rock music seems to get compared to the Stooges at some point. You often wonder if the critic concerned has ever heard the Stooges.

Black Sabbath's name seems to be increasingly taken in vain in the same way.

― Soukesian, Friday, 27 May 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Notably by their erstwhile lead vocalist.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

retro??- isn't anything that isn't new called retro ?

― octave octopussy, Friday, 27 May 2005 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Brand New, You're Retro" as Tricky so succinctly put it ten years ago.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the pixies are the only band that sound like the pixies.

now quit it.

― b b, Friday, 27 May 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Obvious one here, but anyone who attempts to be lyrically poetic being the next Dylan. Interpol sounding like Joy Division simply because Banks sings low notes.

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Standard issue so-cal punk bands being compared to the Buzzcocks.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember a few years back when anyone with a guitar who'd listened to more than two rap albums in his life was "The New Beck"?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This band plays with distortion...they are deeply influenced by pioneering alt. rockers Sonic Youth!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

buried vocals underneath more than 2 guitar overdubs = mbv

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Whispery folksters always seem to be the second coming of Nick Drake.

― Simmons B. Kestrel (sleestak), Monday, 22 May 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

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