I've had "Bandages" by Hot Hot Heat on constant rotation today (and I do mean constant). Will someone please explain how this quartet of twenty-somethings channel early Costello (complete with an Attractions-like rhythm and a classic Nieve bubbling keyboard) as filtered through Robert Smith and Graham Parker? Weird.
Posted by mikewolf at May 14, 2003 10:15 PMJust went to the link, thoroughly enjoyed "Oh Goddamnit." Why is it that everything reminds me of stuff I used to listen to in jr. high school, though?
Posted by: K.Britt on May 15, 2003 01:06 AMYeah. That one sounds like The Cure, the second one sounds too much like "Stand and Deliver."
Posted by: mrw on May 15, 2003 03:40 PM>Will someone please explain how this quartet of >twenty-somethings channel early Costello
I don't know if the 'how' is that hard to explain: more than one outfit has already replicated the sound. But 'why' is another matter entirely...;-)
I'm waiting for Cait to put out *her* Blood & Chocolate.
Posted by: deano on May 15, 2003 04:50 PMand a band from victoria, bc no less? it's like a perfect victorian provincial town.
okay, maybe the unasked question is why aren't there more victorian bands going new wave.
Posted by: gak on May 15, 2003 05:41 PMHi, I am trying to find a song from the eighties that featured a trumpet player. It had a music video shot in a barn, the trumpet player in the loft. The only lyrics I can remember are "American singer, American dreamer, American legend, ba-rump-um-bump". I know this is very little to go on, but hoped you could help me. Please respond to my e-mail address.
Thanks