Anteater's Daily Tune Roulette

Anteater · 11-05-2020, 10:21 PM

Makoto Matsushita - The Pressures And The Pleasures (1982) [Avant-garde J-Pop]

The bass running through this 10-minute city pop masterpiece is just beyond fantastic. The vocals are an acquired taste, but the song is so good that it doesn't matter.

Anteater · 11-09-2020, 10:19 PM

John Martyn - Cooltide (1991) [Art Rock]

That time John Martyn got into trip-hop and Frippian guitar textures along with a healthy dose of xylophone and free jazz sax honkin'. '91 must have been a fun year.

OccultHawk · 11-23-2020, 06:52 AM

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Sting

???

The vocals sounding so much like Lamb era Peter Gabriel is what makes this such a sweet Genesis rip off.

The thing is though, unless you’ve totally exhausted old Genesis, I can’t quite get why you don’t wouldn’t just listen to the real thing. I mean, I still love the **** out of Lamb. If this is what I’m in the mood for that’s what I listen to... the unassailable original

but... I listen to other knock off bands all the time so yeah ... I get it

It’s uncanny that knocking off Sabbath and The Ramones works so well but Genesis and Led Zep and Rush - their knock off bands are almost always not worth the time.

The White Stripes being an exception for Zep.

Anteater · 11-23-2020, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

???

The vocals sounding so much like Lamb era Peter Gabriel is what makes this such a sweet Genesis rip off.

The thing is though, unless you’ve totally exhausted old Genesis, I can’t quite get why you don’t wouldn’t just listen to the real thing. I mean, I still love the **** out of Lamb. If this is what I’m in the mood for that’s what I listen to... the unassailable original

but... I listen to other knock off bands all the time so yeah ... I get it

It’s uncanny that knocking off Sabbath and The Ramones works so well but Genesis and Led Zep and Rush - their knock off bands are almost always not worth the time.

The White Stripes being an exception for Zep.

Fair enough. Big Big Train do enough things differently on The Underfall Yard and then the English Electric albums that came afterward to justify their existence. The guy singing here, David Longdon, was actually one of the last two people that Genesis auditioned back in the mid 90's after Phil Collins bailed. He didn't make the cut because they didn't want somebody like Peter Gabriel apparently, so they ended up going with that grunge singer Ray Wilson.

Trollheart · 11-23-2020, 12:16 PM

Yeah I agree: David Langdon sounds so much like Gabriel it's uncanny to me, plus there's the fluting which just reinforces that old Genesis sound. As to your contention re why listen to BBT and not Genesis? I guess at some point you get Genesis-ed out - there's only so many albums you can listen to, and Gabriel-era you're talking only what, five? So it's nice, for me anyway, to have the tradition carried on by the younger folks. Also, it's always nice to hear new music that recalls old Genesis.

No offence, Lisna, but where did the Sting idea come from? Guy doesn't sound anything like Sumner. Weird man, very weird...

OccultHawk · 11-23-2020, 01:29 PM

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unless you’ve totally exhausted old Genesis, I can’t quite get why you don’t wouldn’t just listen to the real thing.

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I guess at some point you get Genesis-ed out

Trollheart · 11-23-2020, 02:08 PM

Oh come on. Even I, with Genesis as my number one favourite band of all time, can't listen to them endlessly. Besides, you often ruin great albums by over-listening to them. Like fine wines, they need to be left to mature and then sampled some time later.

OccultHawk · 11-23-2020, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh come on. Even I, with Genesis as my number one favourite band of all time, can't listen to them endlessly. Besides, you often ruin great albums by over-listening to them. Like fine wines, they need to be left to mature and then sampled some time later.

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unless you’ve totally exhausted old Genesis

OccultHawk · 11-29-2020, 11:25 AM

Even in the Quietest Moments... is my favorite Supertramp record.

The live collection Paris would be perfect if it included Give a Little Bit which is my favorite Supertramp song.

Imo all their records from Crime to Breakfast have great songs and then some camp that keeps them from being the band they should’ve been. But man, when they’re good they’re really ****ing good.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Yeah I agree: David Langdon sounds so much like Gabriel it's uncanny to me, plus there's the fluting which just reinforces that old Genesis sound. As to your contention re why listen to BBT and not Genesis? I guess at some point you get Genesis-ed out - there's only so many albums you can listen to, and Gabriel-era you're talking only what, five? So it's nice, for me anyway, to have the tradition carried on by the younger folks. Also, it's always nice to hear new music that recalls old Genesis. No offence, Lisna, but where did the Sting idea come from? Guy doesn't sound anything like Sumner. Weird man, very weird... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Oh come on. Even I, with Genesis as my number one favourite band of all time, can't listen to them endlessly. Besides, you often ruin great albums by over-listening to them. Like fine wines, they need to be left to mature and then sampled some time later. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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