worst comparison of a band's sound to another band's?

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you know like when reviewers claim oasis sounds like the beatles or maybe you have read ones that are worse? i thought the person in the trash can sinatras subject claiming they sounded a bit like josef k was clearly not onto something.

― keith, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eric's Trip to Nirvana and Sloan to Sonic Youth, when clearly their first albums (Love Tara and Underwhelmed) were the other way around.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The person who told me that the Go-Between's "Before Hollywood" sounded like Television was hearing things I didn't.

― Dan, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will never forget a review that said some early Orb album sounded like "a sonata by John Cage." Bzzzt.

― Douglas Wolk, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember Christgau reviewing Beauty and the Beat in the Consumer Guide and saying the Go-Gos sounded like the B-52s without Fred Schneider. Or something like that. It was just so lazy and wrong.

And I don't get the Strokes/Television comparisons.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the early eighties, no mainstream music magazine (at least in the US) could publish an article on REM without at least one Byrds comparison.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but Michael Stipe does sound an awful lot like Gene Clark! So fair comparison...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone known only as "The Stump Jr" told me once that Spiritualized sounded like Merzbow. I think he meant their free jazz type noisy escapades, but even these don't resemble Merzbow...

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My wife maintains that both _Kid A_ and _Amnesiac_ sound like Dave Matthews Band.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think she might be on to something there, Dan ...

I'm imagining Dave singing "Everything in its Right Place" right now and ... well, trade the backing for fretless bass and it sort of follows. "National Anthem," too. And "Knives Out," and "You and Whose Army ..."

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Craziness.

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i played 'loveless' for a friend once and she thought it sounded like enya.

― ernest, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but Michael Stipe does sound an awful lot like Gene Clark! So fair comparison...

And Peter Buck was so Roger McGuinn. Like, who else would you cite as the seminal influence on that sound?

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet a lot of people would hear Enya in Loveless. That doesn't seem crazy to me at all.

― Mark, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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