I thought that Peter Miller *used* to say live and let live, but in this ever changing world in which we live in... Anyway, so there i was lying in bed on Saturday morning listening to Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 (YES I LISTEN TO RADIO TWO AND I'M PROUD) and Brian Matthews played "I want you " by that Bobby Dylan, and in my semi-slumbering state I thought, "hold on, i recognise that little guitary bit in the chorus, it's rather similar to the state that i am in, i wonder if anyone has noticed this". So being a good sinibaby i trawled the archives, and between about 30 people asking if bobby had been in any movies, there it was mentioned back in the dawn of time, when it were all hairy caves and 70s WHO. http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199710/msg00581.html But this got me thinking, I haven't seen a definitive list of "songs that B&S songs sound like/have been 'influenced' by", and i was thinking of putting one together, unless someone out there has done it already. Anyway the ones i can think of are: The State that I am in - I want you - Bobby Dylan Slow Graffitti - Laughing Gnome - Dame David Bowie Mary Jo - Winters Tale - Gypsy King David Essex LLPJ - Some obscure soul record Calumn once played me String Bean Jean - The Kids Are Not Alright - The Offspring (although the influence was the other way round on that one) I'm sure there are more that have been mentioned over the many moons of the list, but those are the ones that spring immediately to mind. So the idea is if you can think of any more, send them to me (the more tenuous and unlikely the better) and then i'll make a big list and put it on the modern interweb somewhere, probably www.geocities.com/carsmilesteve/allmusicisintrinsicallyrelated.html or something... 96 mentioned the wombles, who coincidentally were mentioned on millionaire the other nite on the fastest finger question: "Put these wombles in alphabetical order a) Bungo b) Tomsk c) Wellington d) Orrinoco" Who the hell is BUNGO???? I've never heard of him, i think they just made him up, cos if they put Madame Cholet there would have been arguments about whether it started with a M or a C. Not that i was talking about kids TV, oh no, that's RIGHT OUT. vu mentioned makeoutclub.com. For a complete demolition (in a funny way) of makeoutclub and it's members read tanya at: http://www.freakytrigger.com/indie2.html made me laugh anyway :) enough xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+