Arcane Thread: Musical Equivalent of.....

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In my never-ending quest to start the most arcane thread ever, I submit the following...

What is the musical equivalent of...Doonesbury?
What is the musical equivalent of...Dilbert?
What is the musical equivalent of...Penny Arcade?
What is the musical equivalent of...Peanuts?

or whichever one else you can think of...

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:13 (twenty-four years ago)

What is the musical equivalent of...Doonesbury?

Warren Zevon

What is the musical equivalent of...Dilbert?

Jimmy Buffet

What is the musical equivalent of...Peanuts?

Paul Simon

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-four years ago)

do ziggy

― jones (actual), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:38 (twenty-four years ago)

do ziggy

James Taylor.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:10 (twenty-four years ago)

do Crankshaft

― Aaron W, Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:16 (twenty-four years ago)

Musically, I can't help relating Peanuts to Vince Guraldi.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:18 (twenty-four years ago)

do Crankshaft

wynton marsalis

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:19 (twenty-four years ago)

How about Mallard Fillmore?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:37 (twenty-four years ago)

Ted Nugent, obviously.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-four years ago)

Boondocks = The Coup, natch.
Bloom County = the Mothers of Invention?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-four years ago)

Hate= The Stooges
Red Meat= Tall Dwarfs

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:42 (twenty-four years ago)

Acme Novelty Library - some really depressing Bluegrass, on a 78.
Robert Crumb - captain beefheart
Eightball - The Residents
Dirty Plotte - PJ Harvey's Dry.

oh dear, just revealed myself as a comics geek. Well, comics are better than music anyway.

― threemetalinsects (threemetalinsects), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:33 (twenty-four years ago)

The Far Side = ?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:35 (twenty-four years ago)

Far Side = Barnes and Barnes

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 20 October 2002 01:56 (twenty-four years ago)

paul weller = mike leigh, for better or worse.

tom tommorow = ?

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 20 October 2002 02:04 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead?

― Prude, Sunday, 20 October 2002 17:01 (twenty-four years ago)

'My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable' = Steve Albini

'Fat Freddy's Cat' = Royal Trux

'Chester the Molester' = R Kelly

― dave q, Sunday, 20 October 2002 17:18 (twenty-four years ago)

adrian tomine = seam ?

hothead pisan = ani difranco, natch tribe 8

milk and cheese = ? maybe nomeansno

correct me where i'm wrong.

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:02 (twenty-four years ago)

zippy the pinhead = merzbow

― gygax!, Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-four years ago)

Calvin and Hobbes = They Might Be Giants

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:19 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead = A different Vertigo title for each album.

― threemetalinsects (threemetalinsects), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:27 (twenty-four years ago)

Ted Nugent, obviously.

There is NOTHING gonzo about Mallard Fillmore. Nada, zip, zero.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:50 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead = A different Vertigo title for each album.
Okay. You've got my attention. I know nothing of radiohead, but I'm a big fan of Vertigo. Can you specify which album goes best with which Vertigo title?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:36 (twenty-four years ago)

Leviathan = Slapp Happy. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:39 (twenty-four years ago)

Steve Bell?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 21 October 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

User Friendly = Carter USM

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 October 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Bell = Billy Bragg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Pathetic Geek Stories = every emo band ever

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 21 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

Or Sam Beckett? What's Finnegan's Wake? What's Ulysses?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

The original post was, 'whats the musical equivalent of James Joyce?'

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:41 (fifteen years ago)

What is the musical equivalent of Hey Look?
What is the musical equivalent of Friend Bear?
What is the musical equivalent of Hitmen for Destiny?
of Cathy?
of Family Circus?
of Milt Gross?
Beetle Bailey?
Popeye?
Prince Valiant?
Mary Worth?

― bamcquern, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

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