Sinister: soundalikes and indiekid abuse

[Stephen Hewitt]

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
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