"sounds like all of your favourite bands"

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flannery culp just put up a thread (understandably) mocking this ultra-dopey sales line: OK, but it made me think what would someone actually sound like who DID sound like ALL of my favourites viz spice girls, stockhausen, the fall, destiny's child, "see my friends", kraftwerk, metal machine music, webern, guns'n'roses, "teenage dirtbag", ornette, cecil t, pere ubu, "power puff girls" themetune, "buffy" theme tune, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" sing by Sinéad, daft punk, Bob the Builder, etc, etc.

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i mean it would be sort of stupendous, wouldn't it?

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but mark, THEY LIVE!

they 'the vines'!!!

― flannery culp, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is part of why I like Stereolab.

― Damian, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That'd be "Reign in Blood" by a band called Slayer (sorry, couldn't resist, I will take a ILX timeout until the evening)

― jel --, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not possible to have it all in one package. If a band lurches around from style to style in the same piece, that's not the same effect, obviously, as if they just played in that one style. If you create a groove and then disrupt it, that won't give you the same feeling that sustaining the grooved would have provided. Granted, the new hodgepodge might be good or bad.

(Ah ha, he only wakes me up with his stereo when his woman is over for a visit.)

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The front cover of Xiu Xiu's new album references "Henry Cowell, Joy Division, Detroit techno, the Smiths, Takemitsu, Sabbath, gamelan, 'Black Angels' and Cecil Taylor." Of these, Joy Division is sort of in the right neighborhood, and Talk Talk would be a lot closer. And I think I might like it better if it had not cited any of them. I realize this is wrong of me.

― Douglas, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Douglas, re Xiu Xiu - I woz thinking off them too, only heard one track so far - the vocalist sounds like Gavin Friday / Virgin Prunes.

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Kingsbury Manx sound like all my old favourite bands.

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I guess dEUS does for me incorporate a lot of of my fave sounds. (Joni M, Sonic Youth, pure pop,....)

― nathalie, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Our band has lots of influences."

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MY band sounds like all of my favourite bands, except not at the same time

― electric sound of jim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cornelius?

― Brave Ulysses, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Y'know what we can do here? We can find the band that sounds like all of Mark's faves by compressing his list in stages. Fr'instance: we find the band that most resembles,say, The Fall + Kraftwerk (=R*d**h**d?), then pair another two and find the band that sounds most like that combination (Power Puff themetune + MMM =kid606?), in a round-robin type manner. This process will eventually reveal Mark's dream band. (me no explain well= me tired go away)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(ps that is by no means all of my faves) => eg i forgot the banshees, earth wind and fire, the sandpipers "on saturday morning", conon nancarrow, pussy galore, JOAN JETT, throbbing gristle, eek-a-mouse

― mark s, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

C'mon, Mark, work with me here! If we can't find that ONE band, (thanks to your liking almost everything) we'll at least get a little closer, right? Besides, Earth Wind & Fire + Daft Punk = N.E.R.D

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, I hope it turns out the be The Clash

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet it's early 90s Mr. Bungle.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually it depends if you sum globally or locally eg DP+EWF=nerd => nerd+gregory isaacs=????

also the order of summing may matter: do we know whether addition is distributive* and or commutative** over this field? KORTBEIN TO THREAD!!

*and **: eg does (DP+EWF)+GI = (DP+GI)+EWF?

― mark s, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bah. Maths.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know what commutative means too: No.

I realised this evening that on paper, 21st Century Girls are my favourite band in the world. Problem is they're rubbish, possible (plus as far as I can tell their album was only ever released in Japan. this = a good thing?).

― Graham, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(On import on Amazon for £21. Somebody stop me)

― Graham, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

do it, graham!! do it!

i suggest the most horrific: rather than some multivariable noodly integrating over the entire surface nonsense or venn diagrams or whatever, create the evil monstrosity that is the uber-medley: a single song that contains EVERY SONG YOU HAVE EVER LIKED yeah!

and make it under 3 min! challenge!

― geeta, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You could just multilayer them to bring them to 3 mins. And create a glorious NOIZU cacophony. :)

― Brave Ulysses, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But then it'll just end up sounding like Bob the Builder, anyway..

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BOB BOB BOB BOB BOB BOB BOB

― BOB BOB BOB, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Somebody with sampler should hook Mark up with a wicked collage.

― Clarke B., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Somebody with sampler" = "me very much forget indefinite article lately"

― Clarke B., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Mark's favorite song, should it come into existence, will be the Soul Sonic Force remake of Debbie Deb's "When I Hear Music," with lead vocals by the Debster herself and featuring a rap by Napoleon XIV and samples from Diana Ross's "Swept Away" and the guitar part from "Eight Miles High."

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The 21st Century Girls album was released over here, I remember seeing it in Virgin in Croydon once.

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

I dunno how I stumbled across this thread, but I feel obligated to say that THE VINES ROCK

― Anon Imos, Monday, 28 October 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

we're pleased for you

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 October 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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