Disgustingly Original Bands

[Matt Till]

I like the term Disgustingly... so there it is.

Mr. Abark can back me up on this... it's hard to find a band that sounds anything like Morphine. So they are a prime example. Another off the top of my head... Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

So often in music, we are forced to hear reviews like, "Oh, they are like Linkin Park meets Mudvayne" or "They are like Foghat meets Slayer"... etc. It's nice to hear bands that sound like nothing else.

[superbassman2000]

Jacob fred jazz oddysey comes to mind

[jenderfazz]

Horse the Band... they sometimes sound like Dillinger or The Locust or something, and they sometimes blatantly play Nintendo riffs. But they're too awesome.

[Adam Barkley]

First, are you taking into account originality for their time period? Or that no one has ever come close to their sound?

Ex. Bad Brains were original in their day, nowadays many bands copy it.

Ever - I've never heard bands comparable to any of these
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Dalek
Ephel Duath
The Mass
Horse the Band
"Power to Believe" era King Crimson
Oh My God
Idiot Flesh


When they developed their sound - Original when they came out, but now they have imitators
Dillinger Escape Plan
Mr Bungle
Kyuss
Opeth
Meshuggah

[Adam Barkley]

Originally Posted by jenderfazz

Horse the Band... they sometimes sound like Dillinger or The Locust or something, and they sometimes blatantly play Nintendo riffs. But they're too awesome.

Damn, you beat me to that one. I just ordered their newest album. The new songs that I've heard sound better than the stuff on R.Borlax.

[syciprider]

You can't confuse Yes for any other band.

[Adam Barkley]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

I like the term Disgustingly... so there it is.

Mr. Abark can back me up on this... it's hard to find a band that sounds anything like Morphine. So they are a prime example. Another off the top of my head... Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

So often in music, we are forced to hear reviews like, "Oh, they are like Linkin Park meets Mudvayne" or "They are like Foghat meets Slayer"... etc. It's nice to hear bands that sound like nothing else.

You might like Circus of the Seed. It's jazz rock sans drone.

The only thing I don't that I dont like about them is that their singer sounds like the Randy Somebody who wrote the scores for Toy Story 1 and 2.

circusoftheseed.com

[Larry99]

Bjork.

Not really a band but I think her music is definitely original. ...disgustingly creative too.

[Mitchell Royce]

Slint.

They influenced tons of bands in what is now called Math Rock but their music seemed to come out of nowhere at the time. There was nothing remotly like them before they came about.

[Juneau]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

Jacob fred jazz oddysey comes to mind

+1

Keller Williams is pretty original I think
Charlie Hunter/Garage a Trois
MMW
Beck
Cake
DMB (argue if you like - but his style is original)
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
Mike Dillon
Claypool, pretty much all his bands stand on their own

[Against Will]

Kites
Jessica Rylan
Howard Stelzer

All three changed the way I view and approach music. Similarly Lungfish sound like nothing I've ever heard before, a little idiosyncratic, but still quite mind-blowing if your down with them.

[lame(B)ass]

Nevermore
Opeth
Megadeth

[Snarf]

Brian Setzer Orchestra
DMB
Blue Oyster Cult
Primus
Rush
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Dream Theater (no use for them anymore personally, but they created a mold which countless posers are imitating)

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by Larry99

Bjork.

Not really a band but I think her music is definitely original. ...disgustingly creative too.

+1. I love the crazy instrumentation.

[Adam Barkley]

Originally Posted by Snarf

Brian Setzer Orchestra
DMB
Blue Oyster Cult
Primus
Rush
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Dream Theater (no use for them anymore personally, but they created a mold which countless posers are imitating)

Brian Setzer Orchectra?

[stu FORD]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

Jacob fred jazz oddysey comes to mind

i concur. i heard them for the first time this summer when they opened for claypool this summer, and their sound was mindblowing, i wish i could cop that style.

[The Owl]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

I like the term Disgustingly... so there it is.

Mr. Abark can back me up on this... it's hard to find a band that sounds anything like Morphine. So they are a prime example. Another off the top of my head... Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.--

I had the unique experience of seeing Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at NEARFEST '03, VERY uniique band, extra props for builing their own unusual instruments AND junk percussion. Just a bit hard to swallow at 11 in the morning though

[Juneau]

I will add Drums and Tuba to this list.

[Juneau]

Originally Posted by stu FORD

i concur. i heard them for the first time this summer when they opened for claypool this summer, and their sound was mindblowing, i wish i could cop that style.

You might also check out some live recordings of Steve Kimock and Friends with Reed sitting in. That is some really amazing stuff and shows off how much Reed can play a traditional bass role as well as anyone out there, in addition to his effects laced stuff with JFJO.

[Muzique Fann]

Originally Posted by Juneau

You might also check out some live recordings of Steve Kimock and Friends with Reed sitting in. That is some really amazing stuff and shows off how much Reed can play a traditional bass role as well as anyone out there, in addition to his effects laced stuff with JFJO.

Come on, everybody knows Reed Mathis sucks
I can't remember the name but I really liked that reggae-ish Kimock tune they did with Reed (or maybe it was on old cover?). I read somewhere about how he used to have an Acoustic 360 and he'd play to Aston Barrett/Marley all the time.