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07-29-2004, 01:37 PM
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I'm really reaching here:
I started a thread a while back about "Happy music that doesn't suck." It flopped because I didn't know what I wanted, now I do... nah, not really.
The bands I like that are happy have a certain weirdness to them, very odd, yet happy...ish.
Oingo Boingo
Devo
Primus
XTC
Joe Jackson
I guess the term New Wave could be used  Also, note all these bands have great bassists 
So... happish bands that have a certain edge that sets them apart from the rest... sort of.
My god, I just don't make any damn sense anymore.
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07-29-2004, 01:42 PM
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07-29-2004, 01:44 PM
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devo are a brilliant band. i'd recommend you listen to mclusky. particularly "lightsaber ****sucking blues"
a bit heavier than the bands you have listed, but i think you'll dig them anyway.
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07-29-2004, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by DigMe Would They Might Be Giants count?
brad cook | They most certainly would. In fact, I don't know why I didn't include them on my examples list.
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07-29-2004, 01:48 PM
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07-29-2004, 02:20 PM
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07-29-2004, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Joshua Thomas Dolby.
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07-29-2004, 03:02 PM
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07-29-2004, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Gia nothing wrong with new wave matt
devo are a brilliant band. i'd recommend you listen to mclusky. particularly "lightsaber ****sucking blues"
a bit heavier than the bands you have listed, but i think you'll dig them anyway. |
Awesome awesome band. Hilarious and hard-rocking.
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07-29-2004, 04:48 PM
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07-29-2004, 06:09 PM
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07-29-2004, 06:10 PM
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07-29-2004, 06:16 PM
|  | Wanna buy some mandies, Bob? | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Longmont, Colorado | | | I saw the Flaming Lips in the late 80s at a small club in Raleigh, NC. At the time, they were more of a grungy punk band whose claim to fame was (I kid you not) being the loudest band in America. My ears rang VIOLENTLY for a week and it was hard to even discern notes during the show.
For my tastes, it begins and ends with Devo. No matter how my tastes have shifted and no matter how repellent I find the majority of 80s music to be, I will always have a soft spot for the Spuds. They were actually fantastic live.
I also dug Missing Persons back in the day, but that was probably due to the fact that I automatically liked (and still do) anything associated with Zappa.
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07-29-2004, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | I would reccommend the Unicorns. They're a fun, indie-pop trio that writes songs about ghosts, being unicorns, arguing about which bandmember writes the song, flying in rocket ships etc.
Great live band, the guitarist/bassist looks like one of the Kids in the Hall. http://www.the-unicorns.com/
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07-29-2004, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: here I am,you're looking at me | | | I'm gonna second Josh on Dolby. Unexpected musical turns of phrase, human-sounding synths, synthetic-sounding humans... and dude can write and play too.
I am also gonna second whoever said Joe Jackson, whose work has only gotten better since he stopped caring what we think about him. XTC are kind of losing me at the moment as they're having problems keeping a record deal, but their mainstream stuff from Drums and Wires on up through Nonesuch (especially Skylarking and Oranges And Lemons) is mighty fine pop confection. And you could learn a thing or two from Colin Moulding's bass lines.
Let's not forget XTC's alter egos, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, either. |
07-29-2004, 09:01 PM
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07-29-2004, 10:52 PM
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07-29-2004, 11:03 PM
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07-29-2004, 11:28 PM
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07-30-2004, 08:38 AM
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I'll have to check them out!
Thomas Dolby, from what I've heard, is awesome.
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