Obligatory Music Critic Comparisons
| XTC (10) Frank Zappa (10) They Might Be Giants (9) Primus (4) Camper Van Beethoven (4) Talking Heads (4) Squeeze (3) Clang (3) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (3) Robyn Hitchcock (2) Babe the Blue Ox (2) Phish (2) the Jongleurs (2) The Beatles (2) REM (2) |
X The Soft Boys the Meat Puppets Pain the dB's Joe Jackson Fishbone Tony Levin Captain Beefheart Robert Fripp Eugene Chadbourne Oingo Boingo Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Eric Dolphy Nico John Zorn The Artist ('Sexy MF'-era) Beck Cake The Ex Stevie Wonder Pixies Devo |
Randy Newman Todd Rundgren Beach Boys Gleaming Spires Barenaked Ladies Too Much Joy Billy Goat Pink Floyd Dance Hall Crashers Jethro Tull The New Orleans Klezmer AllStars Preservation Hall Friendly Ajo AC/DC Big Boys Chicago Earth, Wind & Fire Rush Electric Light Orchestra Uz Jsme Doma Von Zamla |
| the 'Titanic' soundtrack | early punkrock | orchestral horns | ||
| new-wave eggheads | a burlesque striptease | |||
| a highschool fusion band | early new-wave brit-pop | all of Fantasyland | ||
| a klezmer band filling in for a Top 40 band at the VFW hall | a ska band trying to blend in at a bluegrass festival | |||
| Screech Powers' quirkiness | a ska band, a phenomenal ska band | clever, thoughtful pop bands of the 80's | ||
| the best darn mango iced tea i've ever had | blue sky with the top down music | |||
| Frank Zappa in 6 or 7 bodies | 1920's pop | progressive comedy rock | ||
| if 'The Dukes of Hazzard' was an indie pop band | a tour de force of postmodern delights | |||
| the spirit of unwritten musicals | escapism without pretension | a shitty comedy show on public television | ||
| quirk-rock auteurs / grizzled grad students | smarty-pants art pop | |||
| Nico-meets-John Zorn-meets-1960s gogo music | Earth Wind & Fire plays Rush and ELO | Stevie Wonder wrestling with Beck | ||
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Todd Rundgren singing for the Beach Boys
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clever pop fluff with metaphorical lyrics
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| weirdo-alt-prog | sarcasto-avant-pop | vulgari-ska-rock | ||
| deconstructionist pop | a hybrid of a little bit of everything | |||
| horn-spiked college pop | artrock given to relentless parody | unsparing self-subversion | ||
| artrock moguls | tasteful party noise | |||
| Zappa's mid-70s bands | a dent into the framework of today's pop nation | 'instantly seminal' |
'the kind of religious unsettlement you might feel after downing a glass
of clumpy strawberry milk
in the last, darkest aisle of your favorite church'
and
'a lot of god sins with a speeded-up soundtrack from some movie chase'
and
'imagine a crash with the Pixes (circa Surfer Rosa) and a bluegrass musician's
truck'
and
'an author who makes sculptures out of his manuscripts--it doesn't quite make
sense but that's not what matters'
and
'pretension in its purest form since Billy Corgan shaved his head'
and
'I can imagine this [music] in a grainy noir movie, dramatizing a murder on
a carousel: that's the feel'
and
'feel good sunshine turmoil sponge music, soaking up musical influences and
lyrical references
like a whore in a bookstore'
'[the songs] could not be better executed if they were written by Madness
and performed by the Skatalites!'
(Once again, folks, PopCanon is NOT a ska band!)
Last modified: Wednesday, 20-December-2000 18:03:13 EST