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Does the pseudo-blues group the Black Keys not remind one of the crappy group Blueshammer in "Ghost World"?

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I will never forget that terrible band in Ghost World. I loved that movie.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Blueshammer actually reminded me of George Thoroughgood.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You gotta buy me dinner first.

― Fecal Jesus, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I finally heard the Black Keys and I was pretty nonplussed...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I think 'blues hammer' was the concensus after we saw them open for sleater kinney.

makes you wonder what the media hype is all about..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

If what you first heard of theirs is the thickfreakness LP, then i can understand your displeasure. But the bigcomeup LP was like a breath of fresh air to me when every hipster's turntable from here to Bakersfield was dominated by the WhiteStripes/Strokes/Vines/HotHotHeat. I say, rock on Akron, Ohio.

― Fecal Jesus (mawill5), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it was The Big Come Up that made me think that in the first place!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, to each their own. Im just afraid that the whole 'two-piece' craze doesnt get too out of hand. As long as i dont see Bantam Rooster and the Lee County Killers on TRL, I will be fine.

― Fecal Jesus (mawill5), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think lightning bolt on trl would be pretty sweet tho..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Kings of Leon = Blueshammer, actually.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Ghost World embodied everything that is hollow and obscene about so-called indie-culture. I think that maybe that was the point.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

If Ghost World was set in NYC, "Blueshammer" = The Strokes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Horace, that was the great thing about it: a complete admission of that hollowness and meanness, wherein the conflict is how to get out from under all of that without just giving up entirely.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the film is sort of an indictment of all that, but a lot of people I've talked to treat it like a celebration.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird: I'd agree with you that it's pretty much about the moment of realizing that all that carefully-groomed alienation only makes your life disconnected and unlivable, whether you can help it or not. I dunno, I was mostly surprised by how nuanced and even-handed it was about all of it: Rebecca comes off seeming like the smart and reasonable one, but also gets pegged as having lost something in the process.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

The juxtaposition of Blues Hammer with the legendary old bluesman supporting, to whom no-one was listening, was interesting wasn't it? It said to me, among other things, that if you want to live an authentic life, this will be your fate. I find that to be a bleak but honest assessment.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha: maybe it's just post-indie guilt, but that scene interested me more in terms of the sad hopelessness of sitting grimpily while everyone else has fun. This is exactly what I mean about the even-handedness: the film's like the indie litmus test! I'd be scared of anyone who didn't find have as keen a sense of Enid's being pathetic / pitiable as likeable.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kerrang! photographer Paul Harries repairing from the moshpit at the Sleater Kinney show in Brighton last night said "The front row is full of those girls from Ghost World"...

in answer to the question, yes, only worse.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are Blueshammer
Discuss

― sonofstan, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

No real band can compare to Blueshammer. What other band made such an impression with what, 15 seconds of fame.

Also, is this ironic or real?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4viyp7r8w

― bendy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

Until I got to this very last post I was planning on saying "Blueshammer reminds me of Blueshammer", actually.

That Blueshammer=The Strokes comment upthread was a joke, right? I'm not a Black Keys fan, but there were few not so well thought out claims in this thread--apart from Nabisco (shock) and one or two others who really just stayed out of it and discussed Ghost World. Actually, I haven't heard the Black Keys in years, so I'll shush now.

― RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are Blueshammer
Discuss

You're sub-mental. Discuss that.

― kenan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:58 (seventeen years ago)

You're sub-mental. Discuss that.

Saw NCTBS last night - pompous, overwrought, bad singing, bad playing, blues cliche after blues cliche, an arrogant assumption of the black man's narrative trope ('Stagolee'), exactly pitched to appeal to the kind of half- educated white boy who is flattered by the appeal to his dope addled memory of having maybe read Faulkner once and retaining only the exoticism and none of the morality.......

And a did I mention he's a terrible singer?

― sonofstan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

Don't want to go for the troll here, but a sense of morality is precisely what distinguishes Cave's songwriting. I don't think he tries for authenticity or exoticism at all, and revels in the buffoonish aspects of what he borrows. Which is why it works.

― bendy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

Not trolling, honestly.
Bit overstated this morning though, sorry; Bendy, I hink what you describe is what he'd like to be, just don't think it ever gets close.

― sonofstan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

Sonofstan otm on Nick Cave, actually.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

yeah, i would say 65% otm.

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:19 (eleven years ago)

Every band is a little Blueshammer.

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:21 (eleven years ago)

what percentage blueshammer is kraftwerk?

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:39 (eleven years ago)

blueshammer are to real blues music what kraftwerk are to real robot music.

― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:43 (eleven years ago)

yeah, i know. i once saw an aged japanese robot opening for kraftwerk, and you could barely hear it through the conversations of the audience. i went up to it after the show to get his autograph on an old floppy disc but he had been unplugged.

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:53 (eleven years ago)

I suspect this John Bonamassa dude is Blueshammer in one body, his music is the dullest shit i've ever heard plus there stuff like: "But those guys were my guys – Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. There’s a certain sophistication to their approach to the blues that I really like, more so than the American blues that I was listening to. "

― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

This thread makes me suspect that many people are confused about what makes a band blueshammer

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:11 (eleven years ago)

oh whatever, he totally sucks, that's my point, dammit

― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:24 (eleven years ago)

oh sorry, I wasn't addressing that at you. It's for the thread title.

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:28 (eleven years ago)

but lol

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:28 (eleven years ago)

lol sorry, wrt bonamassa i am probably just overwhelmed with jealousy

― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:30 (eleven years ago)

well that dude does sound a bit annoying. I've just never heard his music. The idea of jimmy page's blues being more sophisticated does not endear.

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:37 (eleven years ago)

All blueshammer bands must play "Voodoo Chile" at every show. And preferably "Red House" too.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 17 May 2014 05:55 (eleven years ago)

exactly

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:49 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Joe Bonamassa/Blueshammer comparison seems apt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQwj3s8Y4s

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:04 (nine years ago)

whether dad-blues is getting played on the patio of Joe's Crab Shack on Friday nights or in what looks to be a pretty big concert hall, the rhythm section uniformly looks bored as fuck

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:08 (nine years ago)

http://www.blueshammerband.com/about/

The time has come for the Gods of Rock n Roll to reclaim this world from the bubble gum fluff of today’s modern music. The Hammer was forged of pure and simple Delta Blues mixed with the driving thunder of Rock and Soul. Five brave and fearless men have accepted their destinies and have welcomed the quest to reclaim back what rightfully belongs to Rock n Roll. Evil doers beware! That means you Kenny Chesney!!

surely....?

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 2 March 2017 16:20 (nine years ago)

four years pass...

some dude ftw

call it Honkin' On Bobo 2 you cowards https://t.co/W0KQghltJu
— Al Shipley (@alshipley) April 13, 2021

― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:39 (four years ago)

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