bands that everyone says sound like some older band(s) but you dont think they do

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e.g - i can quite easily see how the libertines are influenced by the clash and the jam et al but i dont think they actually sound like a bad facsimilie of them or anything like that, which some seem to think. pete doherty doesnt really sing leads like mick jones/joe strummer (the harmonies, maybe) either.

e.g 2 - interpol, i can see how paul banks is a fan of ian curtis (well more than fan, more of a student, but curtis was obviously a big fan of iggy pop on the idiot too) but i dont think interpol as a band really sound like joy division.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

as much as i like them, franz ferdinand only WISH they sounded like Josef K. as do i. but they don't.

― purple patch (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha Interpol popped into my head the moment I saw this thread. Not Joy Div, Bunnymen if anything!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis never sounded anything like the Beatles.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i think interpols chiming guitars are a bit like the psychedelic furs. im sure theres someone more spot on than that as a comparison but i cant think who right now.

OTM dog latin. just cos they stole some riffs here and there, doesnt mean they as a band sounded like the beatles.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Interpol sound more like Kitchens of Distinction who sound like the Chameleons

The Rapture don't really sound much like Gang of Four or The Cure.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis never sounded anything like the Beatles.

Play the beatles' "Rain". So much like Oasis, it's fun.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine is obsessed that the white stripes in his view sound just like the stooges. that old codger/baby boomer 'everything has been done before/noone is at all original' mentality is worrying.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists don't sound like Thin Lizzy. After reading it in several reviews, I'm still not hearing it at all. Must be in the press kit.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Wellll.

It's like when BRMC came out with "love burns", and I thought Hey its the JMC, but still thought it's a fine record. Still do.

Who cares its been done before. What matters, is, has it been done well?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the shins and the beach boys

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I never used to think that Interpol sounded like Joy Division either until I heard a concert of theirs that had been recorded for a radio program. At that point I think I exclaimed "Holy fuckin' Ian Curtis, Batman!" But yeah, the music was still far more Bunnymen.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone who uses harmony and is compared to Brian Wilson.

As for Ted Leo, I don't know if the Thin Lizzy comparison is in the press kit, but he did do a cover on at least one EP. Still, I'd have to say this is one of my least favorite and (relatively) most seen comparisons.

― JC-L (JC-L), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Phish does not sound like Grateful Dead.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Interpol sounds like My Dad Is Dead, people.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

interpol sounds like joy division.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Interpol is Echo & The Bunnymen but better in every conceivable way.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Interpol = The Chameleons + expensive suits - anything musically interesting.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

When I saw Ted Leo last week: "Everybody says this song sounds a lot like Thing Lizzy.. I tried to make it sound like an amped up Curtis Mayfield meets Van Morrison... and then I realized that's Thin Lizzy."

I think his sense of rhythm has a similar swing, and obviously they both rock (hard), but I don't think of them as all that similar.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

>> Oasis never sounded anything like the Beatles.

> Play the beatles' "Rain". So much like Oasis, it's fun.

'Rain' doesn't count, because it only sounds like Oasis inasmuch as it kind of invents the indie rock sound full stop. George Harrison's 'Wah Wah' sounds more like them.

I have always been totally baffled about the Beatles comparison myself, and not out of protectiveness about the Beatles - I like some Oasis.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Timorous Me" definitely conjurs "The Boys are Back in Town" with the
bouncy guitar lead and structure...

and Paul Banks has a couple irrefutable Ian Curtis vocal inflections on "Obstacle 1"...

I think each of these bands maybe has one song like that, where a fleeting similarity prompts a "soundalike" tag (which is very convenient for music writers who are rehashing press kits).

Oh -- I never thought The Strokes sounded anything at all like Television (though I like both bands).

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Strokes don't really sound like Television or the Ramones.... "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" by the Buzzcocks, however.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget "American Girl" by Tom Petty

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Buzzcocks don't sound remotely 'New York' though. Maybe it's an outsider's ears, but the Strokes do tap into some NY ethos in way that's contrived, yeah, but well done and instantly recognisable.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think the Decemberists sound anything like Neutral Milk Hotel

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

OTMFM

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I can definitely hear that one... the Decemberists singer's voice is exactly like Jeff Magnum's to me (except not as good)! They do the same nasally-bending-of-notes thing!

This thread is so interesting...

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Every band that draws a My Bloody Valentine comparison.

Recent examples:

Guitar
Pluramon

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

To my ears Guitar sounded more like crap.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with you 100%.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Also perhaps the dumbest band name ever.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

interpol use a joy division bassline more than once on their first album, but that was pretty stealthy i thought rather than an obvious influence (ie, i don't hear any obvious joy division sound in interpol).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also perhaps the dumbest band name ever.

I don't know - Pluramon is pretty bad. It sounds like a rejected idea for a Pokemon rip-off.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Neb Reyob OTM in every word of his post. And to continue with his theme, as far as the Rapture are concerned, I'd offer only "Olio" from Echoes as a true Cure soundalike.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists don't sound like Thin Lizzy

for the most part you're right, but man that riff for "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone" is str8 Lizzy...I always thought that's where the comparisons came from

(a comparison I lazily made myself - shamed to say - on a website I was writing for for awhile)...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ooo - I have a good one:

US Maple/Captain Beefheart comparisons...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also perhaps the dumbest band name ever.

I don't know - Pluramon is pretty bad. It sounds like a rejected idea for a Pokemon rip-off.

Well, "Pluramon" is a silly band name. "Guitar" is just a dumb one. It's unoriginal and extremely pretentious all at once.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana don't sound a fucking thing like the Pixies.
Teenage Fanclub don't sound a fucking thing like Big Star.
Coldplay DSaFTL Jeff Buckley or Bends-era Radiohead.
Mogwai DSaFTL Slint.

and most obvious of all...

THE STROKES DON'T SOUND A FUCKING THING LIKE THE VELVET UNDERGROUND!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

dog latin and i are as one.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax is right about the joy division bassline thing in interpol. actually, they also sometimes do that metronomic drumming thing that joy division did as well.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with everyone regarding the Strokes, who sound ABSOLUTELY nothing like Television/Velvets/Ramones and would never have been compared to 'em at all if they were from Des Moines. (They HAVE sounded a bit like Iggy circa "Lust For Life" at times.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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