'if you were in a tribute band, what band would you tribute?' (okay, i paraphrased that and made tribute into a verb, but hey, it's good.) so i don't know, i thought of a band i like that has been around for a while and said 'sonic youth?' and apparently that was not good enough for them b/c it was not cheese enough. i don't understand that logic b/c i saw (rather by accident really, no really) a neil young tribute band that was not taking their business cheesily at all. they were very serious. so anyway, now i'm all confused on the 'tribute band' vs 'cover band' issue. not that i'm losing any sleep over it. definitions are so very overrated.
*speaking* of tribute albums (which i think is a GREAT idea, but i wish they'd use a different word for every album, 'cos tribute sounds so trite after a while), i just heard an excellent 'pixies' tribute album, where all the songs were re-done by japanese artists. the cover of "debaser" is the audio equivalent of walking in on yr mom naked...and yet...it's *so* good! disorientingly good. yrs, jacob in s.f. robyn gets props for the 'san diego zoo' reference. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+