New topic: Bands whose sound is so ubiquitous that even if you'd never heard the song before you know who performed it.
And my first offering: Sleater-Kinney.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
dw - Sep 02, 2005 7:37:12 pm PDT #89 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Scrappy - Sep 02, 2005 7:48:45 pm PDT #90 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
REM
NoiseDesign - Sep 02, 2005 11:29:09 pm PDT #91 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Steely Dan.
DXMachina - Sep 03, 2005 1:55:51 am PDT #92 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
And my first offering: Sleater-Kinney.
I have no idea what they sound like. AFAIK, the only song of theirs I've ever heard that I'm aware of was one on Lyra Jane's Buffista frankenmix CD, and it's been awhile, so I don't remember it.
sumi - Sep 03, 2005 3:43:00 am PDT #93 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I was going to say the Rolling Stones but there are so many imitators I'm not sure it's really safe to say that.
DXMachina - Sep 03, 2005 3:58:15 am PDT #94 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Dire Straits, maybe, because Knopfler's guitar style is so distinctive. And I agree about Steely Dan.
Jon B. - Sep 03, 2005 5:12:53 am PDT #95 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Bands whose sound is so ubiquitous that even if you'd never heard the song before you know who performed it.
If you mean distinctive, and not ubiquitous, there are a few prolific indie bands that I can always ID by the guitar sound: Greg Sage of The Wipers and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond come immediately to mind. Even when Nick helped Mary Lou Lord on her album with Sony, his guitar sound stood out.
erikaj - Sep 03, 2005 9:14:02 am PDT #96 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Barenaked Ladies?
Gandalfe - Sep 03, 2005 9:14:31 am PDT #97 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Bowie has such a distinctive voice, even throughout all his genre's, you still recognise him.
dw - Sep 03, 2005 9:19:40 am PDT #98 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
If you mean distinctive, and not ubiquitous, there are a few prolific indie bands that I can always ID by the guitar sound: Greg Sage of The Wipers and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond come immediately to mind. Even when Nick helped Mary Lou Lord on her album with Sony, his guitar sound stood out.
I meant distinctive. I re-wrote that statement so many times trying to get what I was saying right that words were muddled.
Sleater-Kinney has a definite guitar and bass sound that signals it's S-K before Carrie and Corin start screeching.
Steely Dan I agree with. REM, not as much. There's some later (post-AFTP) stuff that sounds nothing like what you REM should sound like.