Artists pretending they are from an era they are entirely divorced from: C or D

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I am listening to this guy Micah Blue Smaldone who is on the same label as cerberus Shoal and he is singing in a very old-timey voice (damn pre-war aping Maine hippies). Its a little too much maybe, I did really enjoy the Jolie Holland, but when I hear this guy I keep thinking of the Mr. Show sketch where megaphone crooners sing about new inventions ("elevator, elevator, takin' you up and daaaa-ooown!").

What do you think?

Obv. any ska is vile.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

does this include people who act like they are from the future?

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Lenny Kravitz to thread!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Arrested Development = dud.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Wynton Marsalis=dud

Tenpole Tudor=classic

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Arrested Development weren't pretending to be from another era! They were just hippies.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

They are playng in Glasgow soon, where they will surely be trying to pretend it's 1991.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the definition of "entirely divorced" here? Cause a band like Squirrel Nut Zippers does a damned good job of emulating music from a different era, and though they are certainly not from the era they emulate, I don't think it would necessarily be obvious to someone listening without knowing anything about the band.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus how did Arrested Development win a Pazz and Jop poll? so fucking terrible.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

White Stripes?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure, Lenny Kravitz' material was second-rate, uninspired and redundant at best. But he deserves credit for actually putting his money where his mouth is and recording his stuff the old-fashioned way, using vintage equipment, simply because THAT OLD STUFF JUST PLAIN SOUNDS BETTER without all that digital frosting and reverb.

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And he has some good songs too, like the stuff he recorded with Vanessa Paradis.

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

classic

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, daavid, their 1982 collaboration includes this charming song:

'Gotta have it'

I know where I shouldn't be
You take my heart and drink it for tea
You mix me up and walk out the door
You take my love and hurt me for more

But I gotta have it
Watch out for the damage
From New York straight to Paris
I'm talking Lenny Kravitz

Whenever he is around
He puts me six feet under the ground
And when you call he can never be found
'Cause he is always out on the town

But I gotta have it
Watch out for the damage
From New York straight to Paris
I'm talking Lenny Kravitz

He is so funky and he's looking so good
And he does it like a good man should
And I would love him if I only could
But his heart is like a piece of wood

But I gotta have it
Watch out for the damage
From New York straight to Paris
I'm talking Lenny Kravitz

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Classic
Manhattan Transfer - Dud

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Rocket From The Crypt, Emma Bunton, Ladytron - classic.
Showaddywaddy, The Rapture, Missy's Under Construction - dud.
Joss Stone, Scooter, Kings Of Leon - jury's out.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, daavid, their 1982 collaboration includes this charming song:

yes nick, but it also includes 'be my baby', which is smashing P!O!P! loveliness.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Obv. any ska is vile.

that's rather a sweeping statement, isn't it?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to say. TS: old style (The Slackers) v. new style (Goldfinger). What are you, a fucking idiot?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ts?

is that an x-post, mencap, or was it a response to my comment?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking Sides... it was a response to the hypothetical question of which might be best. And the suggestion that "any ska is vile". Not you.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Love & Theft = classic

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for clarifying both the 'ts' (i knew i should know what it meant, but still couldn't remember) and the direction of the abuse.

i wonder if that ska/vile comment was meant to inspire controversy?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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The Temperance Seven were probably one of the first bands to mine the sort of territory you're talking about uh, christhamrin (Chris?), (Hot 20s jazz - check; singer with a megaphone and smoking jacket - check; band members wearing monocles and fezzes - check). They were pretty popular in the UK in the early 60s, think they might even have had a number one single. I'm a bit hazy about why they were so incredibly popular at the time (other than being plain fucking great, that is). Jeff Nuttall mentions them in Bomb Culture as capturing the same post-war quietly anarchic mood as people like Spike Milligan and the Goons and similar absurdist bands like the Alberts. There was a bit of a trad-jazz revival going on though, with UK beatniks digging stuff like Acker Bilk or whatever...

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This records is wonderful as well; I don't know why it has such a pull on me, but I love songs like 'Hula Girl' and what have you. There a certain manic joy about them, but also a deep sadness too. I dunno, maybe, I'm just mentally unbalanced. Achh, ho hum.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

errr.... the darkness???

classic/dud? well, classic in my view, but with potential to go very, very dud indeed.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

While we're at it, I'm sure Interpol, the Rapture, Radio 4, the Strokes and British Sea Power are all guilty of this as well....all secretly wishing it was still the grey, rain-pelted early 80's (an era they're all collectively too young to accurately remember themselves).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Man or Astroman, classic (are they from the future or the past though?)

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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