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Match up bands and fictionsuits...

  
  

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Matthew Fluxington
17:57 / 23.04.02
Borrowed idea from Flyboy -

Which band/musician would you match up with a Barbelith fictionsuit?

ie, Todd thinks that Haus is Belle & Sebastian (while I've always thought of him more as The Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon...)

bring it on...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
18:07 / 23.04.02
I've often thought Sleazenation is Freakpower...
 
 
autopilot disengaged
18:23 / 23.04.02
frances once said i was Barbelith's thom yorke. which made me hapPy.
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:23 / 23.04.02
I always imagined Captain Zoom's soundrack to be Rush. Which kind of makes sense.

Zoom.
 
 
cusm
18:38 / 23.04.02
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

Duh.
 
 
Margin Walker
21:58 / 23.04.02
Grant is America's answer to Hayden. Or maybe Lou Barlow.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
23:32 / 23.04.02
I hope Kit-Kat doesn't mind that I picture her very Ute Lemper-esque...
 
 
Ethan Hawke
23:44 / 23.04.02
Actually, I think it was Moriarty who ID'd haus with B&S. I tend to think of him more as Momus.
 
 
Rage
00:50 / 24.04.02
You're all Tool's.
 
 
Jack Fear
01:46 / 24.04.02
Rage = the fabulous old-skool San Francisco punks The Avengers.



That nice lady with the pig-sticker is former Avengers frontperson Penelope Houston.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:19 / 24.04.02
I see Rage more as The Replacements....or Paul Westerberg solo.

And Zoom, you don't get to be RUSH...I am Rush. You have to be Dream Theater. Or Triumph.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:27 / 24.04.02
Im The Tragically Hip. Thats all I am...
 
 
Margin Walker
04:51 / 24.04.02
"I see Rage more as The Replacements....or Paul Westerberg solo."

Come on, I love Paul but there's no way Rage is like Paul. I mean look at the guy & then look at the pic of Rage and tell me there's a similarity:

  
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:21 / 24.04.02
Tom has long insisted that I am 'Getting More Like Alfie'.
 
 
suds
09:00 / 24.04.02
i think flux is like pavement because he's clever and everyone who hears him either really really likes him or doesn't understand what he's going on about.
flyboy is cool and fesity like le tigre.
glint geastwood is smog. just because.
 
 
rizla mission
09:10 / 24.04.02
I have no real justification for any of these, they just seem to fit:

Grant = well, Grant, obviously. Or failing that, The Beat Happening
BitchieKittie = Bratmobile
Flyboy = The Clash
Nick = Stereolab
Jack Fear = Mike Watt
Rage = Bikini Kill
Copkiller = MC5
Captain Zoom = Queen

(it's difficult not to just associate people with their favourite bands, like Flux = Pavement, Jack the B. = Marillion, Rothkoid = Dirty 3 etc.)
 
 
Tom Coates
09:26 / 24.04.02
Correction, I have said Nick is a bit like Neil Hannon's Divine Comedy, and that the song that most adequately represents them from that ouuuuuueeeeeevvvvrrrreee is 'Becoming More Like Alfie'...
 
 
Saveloy
09:37 / 24.04.02
This is a fun way to inadvertantly insult people, innit? Right:

Glint = Sensless Things OR Jilted John ("s'not fair, yeah yeah!")*
Rizla = The Flaming Lips jamming with Dick Dale
Kooky = Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot AND Blossom Dearie
Flyboy = Soft Cell
Shortfatdyke = Dead Kennedys
Jack Fear = Johnny. Goddamn. Cash.
Flux = Eels (this is purely visual - in my brane, Flux looks like the singer, wearing the colourful military band get-up)
Plums = Alvin Stardust (only because I didn't want to be obvious and say Pulp)
Deva = Pram
ZoCher = Kim Deal
Ganesh = Kate Bush
Mordant Carnival = Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers and/or Suzi Quatro
Jack the Bodiless = Adam and the Ants
Nick = Serge Gainsbourg
Haus = Arthur Askey
Bitchiekittie = Dolly Parton
Grant = Cpt Beefheart
Cherry Bomb = The Go-Gos
Dread Pirate Crunchy = Madonna
Rothkoid = Bing Crosby
Rage = Bow Wow Wow
Tom = Dollar

*Saveloy = John Shuttleworth
 
 
mondo a-go-go
09:46 / 24.04.02
Kooky = Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot AND Blossom Dearie
Nick = Serge Gainsbourg

yuh-huh.
 
 
rizla mission
09:46 / 24.04.02
Rizla = The Flaming Lips jamming with Dick Dale

that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me..

Haus = Arthur Askey

ha!

Glint = Sensless Things OR Jilted John

ouch!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:54 / 24.04.02
Bing Crosby! Dang. I would've thought more a Tony Bennett: not quite a major-league crooner, but rockin' nonetheless.

Then again, I guess I'd really want to be Tom Waits. But hey, who wouldn't?

I think that ModThree is Menlo Park. More coming, I'm sure.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:55 / 24.04.02
Ooh!

Dao Jones is Steve Albini.
 
 
Saveloy
10:05 / 24.04.02
As Rizla says, there are some links which might be considered insulting but which seem right, even though you respect/admire the 'lither in question a great deal (which goes for everyone on my list).

He added, hastily.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
10:35 / 24.04.02
May Tricks = Stevie Nicks.
 
 
Ierne
12:01 / 24.04.02
Poor Stevie gets no love...
 
 
Captain Zoom
12:10 / 24.04.02
Solitaire Rose - Dream Theater? Triumph? Bah! Cheap knock-offs! I wanna be Pink Floyd!

Um, at the risk of provoking him, Knowledge = Wesley Willis and the Dragnews.

Zoom.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
12:31 / 24.04.02
i've always seen tom as Leonard Cohen
Captain Zoom always makes me think of space age techno sounds, not really a band, but sound effects

I've always seen myself as a neo-fascist industrial band, VNV Nation perhaps
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:47 / 24.04.02
Reading through these, the one that really clicked in my head, made total perfect sense was Nick being Stereolab.

Oh my god, that's perfect!

Cherry being the Go-Gos makes sense too.

I would think Suds is rather like Sleater-Kinney in Barbelith poster form.
 
 
Jack Fear
12:52 / 24.04.02
Rizla saith:
Jack Fear = Mike Watt
Big fella, kinda crotchety, short hair & beard, plays the bass... frighteningly accurate, actually. So which am I? Ball-hog or tugboat?

Saveloy saith:
Jack Fear = Johnny. Goddamn. Cash.
I. Fucking. Wish.

  
 
Ierne
13:00 / 24.04.02
Thanks for the brilliant photo of J. Cash by the legendary Jim Marshall, Mr. Fear.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:14 / 24.04.02
I kinda see Ierne as Marianne Faithfull. In leather.
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:27 / 24.04.02
dolly parton?!?!

laughing like a loon at work, thankee much
 
 
Captain Zoom
14:33 / 24.04.02
I now have pictures of Ms. Kittie crooning "I Will Always Love You" or "Islands in the Stream" at the top of her lungs. ON an otherwise gloomy day, that will keep me chuckling.

Zoom.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:59 / 24.04.02
suds and Riz both flatter yrs truly too much, although I think Riz is a bit more accurate...

Haus - Luke Haines and/or Stephin Merritt
Cherry Bomb - The Donnas
Saveloy - David Devant and his Spirit Wife
Rizla - Uresei Yatsura
expressionless - Lift To Experience

More when I think of them (I've already left out some potentially insulting ones)...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:03 / 24.04.02
wembley, I know so little about Ute Lemper that I can't work out whether this is a good thing or a bad thing... wasn't she in 'Chicago'?
 
  

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