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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: May 17, 2013 - 12:17
 
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Where is procliviites when you need him?  This band is ALL about pop culture. Their name has WARHOL in it. They take cans of soup and make art out of them. Get it?

 
I understand the point. I get their schtick. I just don't care for it. Pop culture can and usually does inspire artists to embellish a style or genre...I just don't think its particularly interesting. Just my unpopular opinion.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 17, 2013 - 12:13
 

Wow. Two Dandys, two Sinneads, and two Son Volts in the same day. Or have I been listenting too long?



Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 - 22:04
 
 Zoonhollis wrote:
The Dandy's aren't bad, but why not play The Brian Jonestown Massacre instead? Way more talent.

  Not sure about way more talent, but just as good.  You speak the truth though...where is BJM on RP?  Serious omission in my/our opinion.



:+:_DL
(RVA)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 10:38
 
When I look up to the skies
I see your eyes a funny kind of yellohhhhh wait!?!? 

Hippostar
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 08:44
 
Can these guys write anything other than three-chord infinitely-repeated songs?

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 15:19
 
8 to a 9.

NoEnzLefttoSplit
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 22:13
 
 ziakut wrote:
I like this band and it has potential...especially if they try NOT stealing ideas and trying to make them theirs. How blatant is this to "Matchstick"...and the other tune sounding just like "My Sweet Lord"? Like I said...potential people...potential. Plagiarism isn't something to be too proud of.
 
Where is procliviites when you need him?  This band is ALL about pop culture. Their name has WARHOL in it. They take cans of soup and make art out of them. Get it?

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 07:56
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

You know, I am not one of those that has a problem with derivative because everything is derivative to a certain point at some level. However, the Warhols take it to need to hire a lawyer level all of the time and it just shows their lack of creativity and effort. Bah, bland band. Their old running mates the Brian Jonestown Massacre were not as pleasing to the ear maybe, but at least they were creative.

 
There is a huge difference between a sound/style/mode that a group goes for, and a specific melody.  Melodies are not "derivative of everything else", as we hear repeated here on this board ad naseua - they exist apart from style, in their own sphere.  They can be appropriated, and it is unethical to do so.  There is nothing less interesting to me than "style", even though the thousands of bands that litter the musical wasteland go to market almost exclusively on style.  It keeps the musicologists in business, that corporate teaching factory.  My definition of a musicologist:  someone who lacks the talent to write a good melody.  Talent is the rarest thing in the world, when it comes to writing melodies.

Yeoleman
(Bangor Heights)
Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 02:45
 
  nagsheadlocal wrote:

Excellent read - tnx for the pointer.
 
Just read in Smithsonian an article by David Byrne that touched on a lot of parallels with this one. Good read, thanks!

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 10:56
 
 ziggytrix wrote:

I like the top google result for "Dandy Warhols plagiarism"

"The Revolution will be Plagiarized"

http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/198

Read it if you have a few.
 
Excellent read - tnx for the pointer.

ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 14:11
 
I like this band and it has potential...especially if they try NOT stealing ideas and trying to make them theirs. How blatant is this to "Matchstick"...and the other tune sounding just like "My Sweet Lord"? Like I said...potential people...potential. Plagiarism isn't something to be too proud of.

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 14:08
 
Pictures of matchstick man and don't they have another song that is my sweet lord. 

rp1125
(nola)
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 12:54
 
Matchstick Men meets Hurdy Gurdy Man

Stingray
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 12:53
 
Simple, dirty and gorgeous.

ALL WE EXPECT FROM ROCK!

Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 16:22
 
 Swimbob1225 wrote:
Pictures of Matchstick Men revisited.
 
{#Yes}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 12:58
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

You know, I am not one of those that has a problem with derivative because everything is derivative to a certain point at some level. However, the Warhols take it to need to hire a lawyer level all of the time and it just shows their lack of creativity and effort. Bah, bland band. Their old running mates the Brian Jonestown Massacre were not as pleasing to the ear maybe, but at least they were creative.

 

Absolutely agree, they are entertaining but as a big music fan every time I hear a song of theirs I immediatley begin to hear the antecedents. Pictures of Matchstick men indeed...

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Dec 10, 2011 - 11:36
 
My mind works in mysterious ways (mysteriously especially to me).

If anyone can figure it out please give me a call...

drewd
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 13:16
 
 Deadwing wrote:
I like it, but it sounds a little like "Pictures of Matchstick Men" falling down the stairs with it's pants around it's ankles.

 
HA HA ....Awesome description...How the hell did you come up with that ???


bleubs
(Poitiers France)
Posted: Oct 08, 2011 - 06:22
 
likeable but picturesqueofmatchstickmanable.

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Aug 06, 2011 - 10:56
 
I like it, but it sounds a little like "Pictures of Matchstick Men" falling down the stairs with it's pants around it's ankles.


RobRyan
(The lovely hills of Anaheim)
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 08:01
 
"When I look up to the skies
I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow"

What a weak effort for the Dandy Warhols, whom I ordinarily like very much. 

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 08:01
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
When a song is derivative of several songs that are (in turn), quite derivative, does it become something original?


 
You know, I am not one of those that has a problem with derivative because everything is derivative to a certain point at some level. However, the Warhols take it to need to hire a lawyer level all of the time and it just shows their lack of creativity and effort. Bah, bland band. Their old running mates the Brian Jonestown Massacre were not as pleasing to the ear maybe, but at least they were creative.


motorichi
(formerly known as Owensmouth)
Posted: Jun 04, 2011 - 10:27
 

Sounds like Taylor-Taylor let Andrew Eldritch(TheSisters Of Mercy) sing on this one for him...



Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 28, 2011 - 09:52
 
When a song is derivative of several songs that are (in turn), quite derivative, does it become something original?



music_man
(Longmont, CO)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 07:24
 
You cannot go against nature
Because when you do
Go against nature, it's part of nature too

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 11:54
 
 Swimbob1225 wrote:
Pictures of Matchstick Men revisited.
 
Roger that.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 02:04
 

This album is good, but it has very little of the hook-infested pop I thought defined the Dandys.



sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 - 10:25
 
 Zoonhollis wrote:
The Dandy's aren't bad, but why not play The Brian Jonestown Massacre instead? Way more talent.
 

Yep yep!{#Cheers}

ampersand
(Michigania)
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 - 08:40
 
 Marley wrote:

Yup. This and And Then I Dreamt of Yes are pretty much the exact same song, structurally anyway. D-F-C-G and repeat.
 
Sleep has the same chords, too (just listen to the "aahs" at the end)


polymerchm
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: Oct 26, 2010 - 18:11
 
My first thought exactly!!!!!

 Swimbob1225 wrote:
Pictures of Matchstick Men revisited.
 



Foot
Posted: Jun 28, 2010 - 20:58
 
RP should be commended for playing the deep catalog of the Dandy Warhols; they have produced no doubt countless fans worldwide, deservedly so.  Keep it coming...

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 05:40
 
 Swimbob1225 wrote:
Pictures of Matchstick Men revisited.
 
Yeah, pretty blatant.


Swimbob1225
(Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Posted: May 13, 2010 - 11:26
 
Pictures of Matchstick Men revisited.

Zoonhollis
Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 08:10
 
The Dandy's aren't bad, but why not play The Brian Jonestown Massacre instead? Way more talent.

lmic
(Harmless Little Bunny)
Posted: Mar 25, 2010 - 17:31
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

They did it again! {#Surprised} {#Cry} {#Grumpy}
 
OK, pjb, you have opened my ears to DW's masterful mimicry. "I Am the Walrus," anyone?

Given the array of influences folks are hearing, maybe that's the whole joke of the song title.


mirland
(Denmark)
Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 01:58
 
Actually a very decent album but the mastering is so hideously bad that it makes it a pain to listen to. Very frustrating.

fuh2
(salmon land)
Posted: Feb 14, 2010 - 11:49
 

Yes, sounds like M.Men but with some incredibly awesome hooks added.



ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 - 13:56
 

I like the top google result for "Dandy Warhols plagiarism"

"The Revolution will be Plagiarized"

http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/198

Read it if you have a few.

NoEnzLefttoSplit
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 - 13:54
 
This hits the spot perfectly. Thanks Bill. Just what I needed.

Marley
(Portland, Or)
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 - 13:54
 
 Jelani wrote:
Don't they do another song that sounds a lot like this?
 
Yup. This and And Then I Dreamt of Yes are pretty much the exact same song, structurally anyway. D-F-C-G and repeat.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 - 13:52
 
Don't they do another song that sounds a lot like this?

More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 07:45
 



Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 07:42
 
What rating does one give plagiarism?

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 07:40
 
 Giselle62 wrote:
me: sounds like "Pictures of Matchstick Men" him: "Yeah, you keep wanting it to turn into it, but it doesn't."
Love Matchstick Men song.
 

EVERY song by these guys sounds exactly like another song.   {#Cowboy}

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 15:56
 
me: sounds like "Pictures of Matchstick Men" him: "Yeah, you keep wanting it to turn into it, but it doesn't."
Love Matchstick Men song.

kurtster
(Area code 216)
Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 15:54
 
 joan_c wrote:
I also hear "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "No New Tales to Tell" but I still really like it.  I gave it an 8.  {#Yes}

P. S.  Good segue to "The Magnificent Seven".  {#Clap}

 
Ditto, came into to see if it was a cover at least with the first licks.  Hear a touch of Plan A thrown in as well.


plaice3
(Cape Cod)
Posted: Dec 06, 2009 - 18:18
 
Me, too.  How about "Crimson and Clover" — Tommy James and the Shondells!

 joan_c wrote:
I also hear "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "No New Tales to Tell" but I still really like it.  I gave it an 8.  {#Yes}
 islander wrote:

I was just coming to write the same thing. Now I'm just hoping that we get some clash next.

 


islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Dec 06, 2009 - 18:13
 
 joan_c wrote:
I also hear "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "No New Tales to Tell" but I still really like it.  I gave it an 8.  {#Yes}

P. S.  Good segue to "The Magnificent Seven".  {#Clap}

 
I was just coming to write the same thing. Now I'm just hoping that we get some clash next.
Edit: Nope.


joan_c
(Rushing Here, Rushing There)
Posted: Nov 27, 2009 - 01:45
 
I also hear "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "No New Tales to Tell" but I still really like it.  I gave it an 8.  {#Yes}

P. S.  Good segue to "The Magnificent Seven".  {#Clap}


truebeliever
(PDX)
Posted: Nov 12, 2009 - 06:08
 
Producers at heart—I love the homages, send-ups, and rip-offs from this band.  It is great fun!