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what does that song sound like?

  
 
Matthew Fluxington
02:25 / 11.01.02
"Sentimental Man" by The Dismemberment Plan -- sounds EXACTLY like Dave Matthews (or is it the dude from Coldplay?) fronting the Talking Heads circa Remain In Light, but produced by the guy who did all those Pearl Jam albums and not Brian Eno. And still, it's a good song!

"Everyone Who Pretended To Know Me Is Gone" by The Walkmen sounds like David Bowie lost in a cave calling out for help, while the drummer of the Flaming Lips and The Edge search around in the dark for him using synth washes for flashlights... Complete with a string coda!

You go next!
 
 
rizla mission
08:18 / 11.01.02
"Press Gang" by the Murder City Devils sounds like Black Flag performing a tribute to Nick Cave, whilst the man himself looks on and gives them advice on histrionic evil-ness and Christopher Lee accompanies them on church organ.

"Fearless Vampire Hunters" by Dawn of the Replicants sounds like the Super Furry Animals if they moved to wherever Mercury Rev live, took some really bbaaaddd drugs and recorded the theme to a Hammer Horrror movie.
 
 
deja_vroom
10:52 / 11.01.02
"Scentless Apprentice" by Nirvana sounds like someone is using an electric driller on your teeth.
 
 
Jack Fear
13:00 / 12.01.02
God, I do this all the time...

"She Cries Your Name" by Beth Orton sounds like Sandy Denny singing a Nick Drake song, backed by Danny Thompson's bass and John Cale's viola, as arranged by Van Dyke Parks and produced by William Orbit.

"Stars" by Hum sounds like Big Country playing through cheap amps and fronted by the lead singer for Crayon.

"The End" by the Doors sounds like Richard Thompson doing session work with Can.

More as I think of 'em
 
 
No star here laces
13:15 / 12.01.02
'Indian Carpet' by Timbaland sounds like James Brown if he'd been transported forward in time to 2052, had the skills to operate synthesisers, samplers and sequences implanted electronically in his mind, then transported back to the current day, given lots of PCP (a particular favourite of his) and then forced to reinvent funk in under 2 hours under threat of castration by ball-peen hammer.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
21:24 / 01.07.02
Recent spots:

A1's Stuck In The Middle is Natalie Imbruglia's Torn with different lyrics.

Badly Drawn Boy's Something To Talk About is Elliott Smith's entire career.
 
 
rizla mission
07:56 / 02.07.02
I feel I must use this space to highlight my recent discovery (well actually it was my brother's discovery) that "Bohemian Like You" by the Dandy Warhols is a direct, shameless, 100% rip-off of a Specials song - the charmingly titled "Little Bitch".
Seriously, they should sue..
 
 
DaveBCooper
16:01 / 02.07.02
The start of ‘Summer Lovin’ from Grease sounds like that bit in the middle of ‘You’ve lost that loving feeling’.

DBC
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
05:13 / 13.07.02
No Doubt's "Hella Good" sounds like they talked the band opening for them on this year's tour, The Faint, into coming up with a basic skelleton ripped from Jamiroquai's Godzilla's song (can't remember the name) because, you know, the 80's are da bomb now.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
11:37 / 13.07.02
That's weird. To me, "Hella Good" just sounds like they asked the Neptunes to write a brilliant dance-rock song from the future for them, and that is EXACTLY what happened in real life.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:18 / 06.08.02
Moby's We Are All Made Of Stars is The Farm's Groovy Train slowed down. Has it made its way onto any adverts yet, btw?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:58 / 21.02.03
Shakira's Underneath Your Clothes is Eternal Flame.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
20:01 / 21.02.03
You're right. Someone would have to be a fool to deny it, too.
 
 
JohnnyYen
21:19 / 21.02.03
Common People by Pulp is nothing but Virginia Plain by Roxy Music in a fancy hat.
 
 
The Strobe
21:47 / 21.02.03
The chorus to Holly Valance's Kiss Kiss is the same as (or at least has the same chords) as Ash's Burn Baby Burn. I was trying to bootleg this, it failed.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
22:44 / 21.02.03
My, this thread has really gone off the rails.

You were all SUPPOSED to be describing what songs sound like in quasi-poetic critspeak.

But hey, if you can't have fun one way...
 
 
JohnnyYen
23:34 / 21.02.03
OK...Arab Strap sound like Jarvis Cocker and Irvine Welsh locked in a cupboard, sniffing lighter fluid and wanking.

I actually used that in a college paper review when Arab Strap first came out, and threatened to resign if they edited it.
 
 
iconoplast
03:10 / 22.02.03
Rizla - Bohemian Like you is also 'Gimme Shelter,' by the Rolling Stones. In a similarly 'they should sue' way.
 
 
Lea-side
13:24 / 22.02.03
Bohemian Like You IS Brown Sugar by the stones. FACT.

but. iv had this conversation before, and if all the blues and r'n'b acts the stones ripped off, sued, the stones would be on the streets.

The thing that pissses me off about that song is the fact that its been re-released like 5 times now.

back on topic> the 80's Matchbox Beeline Disaster sound like The Birthday Party fellating Lux Interior whilst Tony Iommi and The Sonics jam on a variation of "your pretty face is going to hell", all imagined in the feverish mind of the geezer from the meteors wanking in the shower.
All this despite the bass players' obssesion with 90's "new wave of new wave" almost rans, These Animal Men.......
 
 
_pin
22:33 / 22.02.03
Dashboard Confessional sounds like I'm about punch his stupid fucking face in with clever fucking fist.
 
 
rizla mission
14:42 / 24.02.03
Rizla - Bohemian Like you is also 'Gimme Shelter,' by the Rolling Stones. In a similarly 'they should sue' way.

Yeah I know, but the intro doesn't just sound like that Specials song, it's an exact note-for-note rip-off.. and that Specials song is really crap too, which must tell us something about how good the Dandy Warhols are..

But anyway;

The Hunches sound like 80s Matchbox.. going mental in a dustbin, playing their guitars with gloves on.

Kaito sound like the children of people who make really disturbing children's programs for the BBC deciding to be Sonic Youth.
 
 
beatorbebeat
16:42 / 24.02.03
The Music sounds like the Stone Roses at their first rehersal. Or the Stone Roses live, terrible.
 
 
JohnnyYen
10:38 / 25.02.03
Boss Hog sound like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs.
 
 
William Sack
12:41 / 25.02.03
No quasi-poetic critspeak here, just a factual observation. There is a female Flamenco singer from the 60s called Maria la Perrata who sounds exactly like Horace Andy singing in Spanish. Damn weird.
 
 
rizla mission
13:48 / 26.02.03
like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs

noooo - that's what idlewild (used to) sound like. Some journalist said it about them and the band took it up as a motto for a bit. Quite accurate actually, as anyone who has a recording of one of their live shows circa 'Captain' will atest.

However, I'm afraid my stair-on-stair experiments failed to yeild anything that sounded like sleazy female-fronted NY blooz-rock.
 
 
Jack Fear
14:04 / 21.03.06
This one occured to me as I was listening to it at the gym: Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into The Fire" sounds like Can (yeah, them again) all fucked up on nitrous.

Specifically, it's "Yoo Doo Right"—the coalescing-from-the-ether intro, the growling, minimalist bass figures, the spectral guitars, the increasingly-frenzied vocals, the brutal repetition, even the drum breakdown in the middle—but with Can's atmosphere of dank menace swapped for an unhinged glee. The manic episode to "Yoo Doo Right"'s depressive trough, if you will.
 
  
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