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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:55:37 GMT
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- praxis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Laura L Perkinson) writes:
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- > I mean, I love TMBG, but my taste is music otherwise bears no
- >similarities to their style. (Top artists: Concrete Blonde, Talking Heads,
- >Midnight Oil, Paul Simon...)
-
- Various people upon hearing TMBG for the first time have claimed to
- hear a similarity to the Talking Heads. As a rabid Heads fan turned
- severe TMBG fan I suppose there is a certain common element: strange
- noises, a twisted sense of humor (more occasional for the Heads than
- for TMBG), accordion rock, nonsense lyrics. Their sound, though,
- isn't really that similar at all-- and the Talking Heads seemed to
- take themselves somewhat more seriously most of the time. I suppose
- that what they really have in common is they're weird bands that got
- popular enough to be known to the general population.
-
- This may sound a little sacrilegious to some, but the band TMBG
- reminds me of the most is the Beatles-- in one of their sillier
- moods, doing songs like "Octopus's Garden" or "Wild Honey Pie."
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- Matt McIrvin
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