cool old stuff that that never gets ripped off (much) that new bands should rip off

echo beach-era martha & the muffins! also prime romeo void. new wave + sax needs a comeback. but you can even leave out the sax if you want. farfisa would be find.

would be "fine".

I was thinking this about Soul II Soul recently, in light of the recent British vocal house revival, like how Back To Life is this pivotal moment in UK pop and there are relatively few attempts to copy either its sound or its spirit, certainly compared to eg Massive Attack. And even then people only rip of bits of Massive Attack, you never hear bands ripping off the whispered rap verses.

i'd like to hear a revival of the dry, midrange-y early Rough Trade / Postcard / etc sound. down with reverb!

80s synth harmonica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b62Co7dzWXQ

and as far as post-punk goes, a little smidgen of gary clail/on-u sound/adrian sherwood atmospherics couldn't hurt. a little more dubby clanking never hurts anything.

i put echo beach on 20 minutes ago in the store and already TWO people have asked me what i'm playing. the people have spoken!

I was thinking this about Soul II Soul recently, in light of the recent British vocal house revival, like how Back To Life is this pivotal moment in UK pop and there are relatively few attempts to copy either its sound or its spirit, certainly compared to eg Massive Attack. And even then people only rip of bits of Massive Attack, you never hear bands ripping off the whispered rap verses.

that toddla t album from a couple of years ago was explicitly modeled after club classics vol i. I thought it was great but I don't think anyone else did.

in the song "cool, calm, collected," mick jagger has a kazoo solo. i would like to see a band that just generally had kazoo solos in the bridges of their songs instead of guitar solos or whatever.

if the kazoo replaces the ukulele in indieland i am blaming you.

THIRD person just asked me what i was playing. martha & the muffins for the win!

as long as it doesn't lead to a Quarterflash revival.

Phil Collins' drum sound in the 80s

Barbershop Harmony

I was thinking this about Soul II Soul recently, in light of the recent British vocal house revival, like how Back To Life is this pivotal moment in UK pop and there are relatively few attempts to copy either its sound or its spirit, certainly compared to eg Massive Attack. And even then people only rip of bits of Massive Attack, you never hear bands ripping off the whispered rap verses.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 May 2013 15:42 (51 minutes ago) Permalink

Yeah I've thought about that too. That and new jack swing.

What about Shine 2009? Those guys seems seemed pretty indebted to late 80's/early 90's Soul II Soul/ Stereo MC's type of stuff.

I cannot stop laughing at 'Wagon Train.'

plinky New Wave Weill/Freud/Morricone pinhead music like The Fibonaccis. Someone please bite them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFlMepldto&list=PLEDBC617C4F87EC16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_co35p_paY&list=PLEDBC617C4F87EC16

i dig that fibonacci action. i'd be cool with people just COVERING great songs that nobody remembers. it would all be new to most people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiElxNDJlY4

or pylon for pete's sake. just cover a pylon song and make it new again. that wouldn't be hard. i'll never understand why people don't dig deeper into the 80's songbook and just re-do great songs. worked for the first hundred years of recorded sound.

Suburban Lawns are great - I think there's a fair bit of stuff that's influenced by that sort of post-punk, though?

hmm yeah being like the Ute Lemper of early 80s art-damage is kind of a killer idea. I'm not sure who'll sing but can I be the Richard Rodney Bennett of the operation?

how's your voice emil.y?

WOW WOW WOW!!!! I never knew that SU TISSUE of suburban lawns put out a solo ambient piano/guitar/sax album in 1982!!! wowowowow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpDo1bUQXME

so in love!!!! must....find...copy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpExU--YDnY

unbelievable! sorry, i'm excited...

I'm exhilarated too, after posting those Fibs vids I discovered their leader John Dentino has an awesome fibonaccis.com site with their entire oeuvre there for download...

xpost It was a golden age of sax! Tuxedomoon comes to mind too...

man, apparently the su tissue album sells for a bunch. have to get lucky. i really want one now.

are there singers working today who sound like nico?

i'm amazed more indie type bands don't go for an Elastica type sound. short fast sweet n sour punk-pop that sounds like it was recorded/produced in a bit of a hurry.

Parquet Courts is doing a kinda dry, nervy indie thing but more US style