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| rdo (DC) | Posted: Aug 08, 2010 - 19:03 Can I resurrect this band on RP? I love this CD. |
| deltaomega | Posted: Jul 23, 2008 - 23:47 while you douchebag hipsters go and dis a musician who supposidly "totally rips off the talking heads" and "has such an annoying voice" what do you want from music? for it to be all harmonized by an eq or for all singers to be professionally taught so they can then sing in a b-shop quartet? annoying is subjective.. whiny but in a self depreciating way... borrows tom yorke's voice a tad.. as for it ripping of talking heads.. do you really think any good albums could be put out if it werent for influence? like yes i agree they borrow 'elements' but ripping off is what elastica did to the stranglers.. please provide exact rip offs in this case.. or take your 'nobody understands me' attitude and go fuck off.. |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Sep 03, 2007 - 14:53 madtowner11 wrote: There was a SNL skit (I think it might have been a Christmas one) with Horatio, Jimmy Falon, and probably a few others where they had a mini Casio keyboard that they used to play a few notes while they sang an annoying song.
This song reminds me of that skit for many, many reasons... EXACTLY. I knew somebody else had to hear this too. Got to change for 3 minutes, maybe LRC. |
| Dave_Mack (My own private underwear) | Posted: Jun 01, 2007 - 08:28 Imkirok wrote: I think he recorded it after going to the dentist and had a little too much novocaine, numbing his tongue and lips. Sounds about right. Wish he'd taken some novocaine for the soul instead. Or maybe I should. |
| daveturnley | Posted: Jun 01, 2007 - 08:28 While reading the derivative comments I found this lyric to be nicely timed: "You look like David Bowie. You've got nothing new to tell me." |
| Imkirok (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: Jun 01, 2007 - 08:28 ekeyte wrote: This guy sounds like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth. This song is awful.
I think he recorded it after going to the dentist and had a little too much novocaine, numbing his tongue and lips. |
| agnes (the land of bourbon and horses) | Posted: Apr 30, 2007 - 22:30 Jesus Christ, this song gets worse every time I hear it. |
| buckskin (eclectopia) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 08:00 shayde wrote: Ugh, this is terrible. There's a place for incoherent mumblings in great music. But the music is terrible as well. It has nothing interesting to hold it.
Oh, cripes, I just got to the 'chorus' (come-a come-a come-a... come-a ...) Eeeeeee. Make it stop :( Then you oughtta LUUUUV "LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO" by Plastic Ono Band-the YOYO OH-NO! (er, sorry Yoko Ono) side |
| calray (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 07:59 withnail wrote: It's easy to think this song evokes David Byrne (not a bad thing), but he sounds less like him on the other tracks. Highly recommend "Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away," "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth," and "Details of the War."
Don't condemn these guys until you give the record a full spin. They will grow on you pretty quickly. This is mostly true... the album is actually OK once you get past the "this is a rip off of Talking Heads" phase... |
| buckskin (eclectopia) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 07:58 goldenear wrote: I'm just wondering at this point in our music evolution, or devolution as some might argue, how a band can not be derivative to some degree. Everyone is so quick to dismiss a band for sounding like any previous band in the history of music. Hell, saying that sounds like the Beatles or Velvet Underground covers 90 percent of current rock/pop. You don't have to like a band, but dismissing on grounds of similarity to someone before is rather goofy don't you think.
Believe twas Lennon said:"There are only so many notes"? |
| snowcat (Another Minnesoter) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 07:58 goldenear wrote: I'm just wondering at this point in our music evolution, or devolution as some might argue, how a band can not be derivative to some degree. Everyone is so quick to dismiss a band for sounding like any previous band in the history of music. Hell, saying that sounds like the Beatles or Velvet Underground covers 90 percent of current rock/pop. You don't have to like a band, but dismissing on grounds of similarity to someone before is rather goofy don't you think.
I agree with your statement - everything's inspired by something else to some degree. But this guy sounds like he's TRYING to sound like David Byrne. |
| Baum74 (Düsseldorf, Germany) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 07:57 Nice song of a great album. Really - great stuff. But surely not everybodys cup of coffee. Anyways - I love it. (well, not the best song of the album though ...) |
| shayde (Natick, MA) | Posted: Mar 30, 2007 - 07:57 Ugh, this is terrible. There's a place for incoherent mumblings in great music. But the music is terrible as well. It has nothing interesting to hold it. Oh, cripes, I just got to the 'chorus' (come-a come-a come-a... come-a ...) Eeeeeee. Make it stop :( |
| goldenear (georgia) | Posted: Mar 14, 2007 - 19:19 I'm just wondering at this point in our music evolution, or devolution as some might argue, how a band can not be derivative to some degree. Everyone is so quick to dismiss a band for sounding like any previous band in the history of music. Hell, saying that sounds like the Beatles or Velvet Underground covers 90 percent of current rock/pop. You don't have to like a band, but dismissing on grounds of similarity to someone before is rather goofy don't you think. |
| ekeyte (Bangor, ME) | Posted: Mar 14, 2007 - 18:46 This guy sounds like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth. This song is awful. |
| lmic (Uniondale, NY) | Posted: Mar 14, 2007 - 18:45 Dilemma: When new bands pay homage to old favorite bands, do they get a high score for sounding so good, or a low score for being so derivative? Dead ringer for Talking Heads, yah |
| mperetz (Croton on Hudson, NY) | Posted: Jan 13, 2007 - 07:42 I always think it's a bit pathetic when people knowingly take advantage of the fact that they sound almost exactly like someone else who is already famous... sorry. Who needs yet another imitator. Been there, done that. Try doing something original. |
| withnail | Posted: Dec 29, 2006 - 18:11 CYHSY easily makes my top 10 for 2006. This is truly a fantastic record of compelling power pop. It's easy to think this song evokes David Byrne (not a bad thing), but he sounds less like him on the other tracks. Highly recommend "Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away," "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth," and "Details of the War." Don't condemn these guys until you give the record a full spin. They will grow on you pretty quickly. |
| pousso (Nairobi, Kenya) | Posted: Dec 15, 2006 - 05:40 Why would anyone want to sound like David Byrne? Not something to strive for! |
| FamilyMan (Continent's edge) | Posted: Dec 01, 2006 - 05:35 Viv515 wrote: Do you think he could say the word "Enunciate"!!!
Yes, but, not so that you could understand it. |
| Sunman (Oxnard, CA.) | Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 15:27 Bocephus wrote: Unique sound? Sounds just like early Talking Heads to me. The vocalist is a dead ringer for David Byrne. In fact I thought this was TH until I looked at my Roku display. All this time I totally thought it was the heads...freaked me out when I found out that it wasn't! |
| Viv515 (Calgary, Alberta) | Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 15:27 Do you think he could say the word "Enunciate"!!! |
| milehighYinzer (Denver) | Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 15:24 Weird, I just searched this band on RPs website about 5 minutes ago to see what songs they played of them. The last song on this album is my favorite on it. |
| eskles | Posted: Nov 01, 2006 - 09:51 OK, first, it's understood to be pretty strange that someone who's OK with Neil Young and Smashing Pumpkins vocals to say the following.....this guys voice is not unique, or even Byrne-like, it's just annoying. |
| ArbiterOfGoodTaste (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Nov 01, 2006 - 09:47 Bocephus wrote: Unique sound? Sounds just like early Talking Heads to me. The vocalist is a dead ringer for David Byrne. In fact I thought this was TH until I looked at my Roku display.
Yeah, thought this was a TH song I never heard before... |
| djblitz (Boston, MA) | Posted: Nov 01, 2006 - 09:46 Wow, I feel the same way after actually reaching for the volume to be turned up this time it came on. It's "fun"....I'm bumping it from a 4 to a 5. |
| pinkfu (Belmont Shore) | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 18:49 PattonFever wrote: from a 1 to a 5. this one's not as annoying as i used to think it was.
Yes, another "grows on ya" song. I've gone from 2 to 7 in a short time. Actually, I gave it a 7 (rather than a 5, I guess) to piss off the cranks who get so flabbergasted over a song. |
| PattonFever (whiskeyclone, hotel city) | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 18:46 from a 1 to a 5. this one's not as annoying as i used to think it was. |
| Bocephus (Boulder, CO) | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 18:45 BigDaddy_PA wrote: Great band with a unique sound! Just saw them live at the Troc in Philly - highly recommended!
Unique sound? Sounds just like early Talking Heads to me. The vocalist is a dead ringer for David Byrne. In fact I thought this was TH until I looked at my Roku display. |
| BigDaddy_PA | Posted: Oct 05, 2006 - 10:56 Great band with a unique sound! Just saw them live at the Troc in Philly - highly recommended! |
| hippiechick (Chi-town) | Posted: Oct 05, 2006 - 10:08 DownHomeGirl wrote: This band has a repugnant name.
But yeah, he sounds a lot like Byrne. Repugnant? I dig their name! |
| arthur_d (Hamburg, Germany) | Posted: Oct 03, 2006 - 02:12 beautiful voice ;-) |
| OCDHG | Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 18:22 This band has a repugnant name. But yeah, he sounds a lot like Byrne. |
| effba (Land O Lakes, FL, USA) | Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 10:44 Catchy little number. I wouldn't say it's as inventive as Byrne's music. Still, I can see where comparisons might be drawn. |
| crockydile (The swamps of Houston) | Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 10:42 Crocky want to die... |
| jeniik (Czech Republic) | Posted: Aug 24, 2006 - 08:28 drtjdel wrote: What we need more of here is good old-fashioned aleatoric music! Let's get busy, Bill and Becky! my words, these are my words! ;-) |
| drtjdel (Saratoga, CA) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 12:00 physicsgenius wrote: John Cage played notes more accurately than this.
What we need more of here is good old-fashioned aleatoric music! Let's get busy, Bill and Becky! |
| ianmack (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 11:55 give these guys a chance. they have some other great tracks on this album as well, hinting at a sound closer to arcade fire. (obviously, much different bands though). let's hear some more... |
| djblitz (Boston, MA) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 11:55 Holy crap, I just turned it UP because this song is growing on me, I think I feel sick. 
*wink* |
| greg6494 (St. Louis) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 11:54 the only thing that can make this song better...  |
| jeniik (Czech Republic) | Posted: Aug 20, 2006 - 05:48 this is just stupid. I'm sorry... |
| Xeric (Various Strata) | Posted: Aug 05, 2006 - 14:02 Old_Pink wrote: 196 votes, a 5.5 rating overall and it still gets played.
You have got to be kidding. What the hell do you think Clear Channel does? If you base playlists on what a mass audience likes (aka "is familiar with"), you get Clear Channel.
Why? Because it sounds like David Byrne and Bill is obsessed with David Byrne. Listen to your audience! There's never been any pretense here that the playlist is based on ANYTHING other than whether or not Bill and Rebecca like a song. Apparently enough of us like the resulting sound to make it all work. . . . |
| Pyro (Lose E. Anna) | Posted: Aug 05, 2006 - 14:01 I thought it was Talking Heads too. Don't care for TH, REALLY don't care for this. To each his own. |
| physicsgenius (90% of everything is crap) | Posted: Jul 24, 2006 - 05:22 John Cage played notes more accurately than this. |
| jtdiver (Connecticut) | Posted: Jul 21, 2006 - 21:42 good stuff but it sounds exactly like the Talking Heads |
| kingfish2004 (That GREAT country of Texas!) | Posted: Jul 09, 2006 - 13:04 brokemusician wrote: The dude sings like a drunk goat.
I cound not have said it better... what...yma yma..what???? |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 15:39 fuh2 wrote: Well arent you a macho man. I bet you even drive one of those Hummers to compensate for your "shortcomings". 
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| Austin2Florida (Hollywood, FL) | Posted: Jun 12, 2006 - 13:58 Old_Pink wrote: 196 votes, a 5.5 rating overall and it still gets played.
Why? Because it sounds like David Byrne and Bill is obsessed with David Byrne. Listen to your audience! Some of us like David Byrne! Thanks Bill. Can you play "A Million Miles Away"? |
| rah | Posted: Jun 12, 2006 - 13:46 this is a song that makes me think "So?" |
| brokemusician (Segoverkia) | Posted: Jun 12, 2006 - 13:45 The dude sings like a drunk goat. |