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someguy51
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Canada
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Posted - 09/13/2006 :  21:58:44  Show Profile  Visit someguy51's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I was listening to the new NoFX album today. There was a song called "Cool And Unusual Punishment" that had a guitar part in it that was very "Frankish". Anyone hear that song? Know what I mean? What other bands or songs remind you of Frank Black or the Pixies?

coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
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Posted - 09/14/2006 :  12:17:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
There was an 80s/90s alt band ... sang something about a monkey going to heaven ...

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Doog
* Dog in the Sand *

United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/15/2006 :  17:34:58  Show Profile  Visit Doog's Homepage  Click to see Doog's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
The main chord progression to Say It Ain't So by Weezer is the same as Where Is My Mind, it just starts on a different chord..

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ScottP
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USA
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Posted - 09/15/2006 :  17:54:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"There's only so many notes available. Even considering order and syncopation there's not infinite possibilities, dude!" "It's all mathematical!"

This is what a guy told me who had proudly performed his "new song" for me that was a cut and dried rip off of McCartney's Blackbird. I guess he's right to a degree, but just don't run out of ideas in The Beatles neighborhood, alright? Next....
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
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Posted - 09/15/2006 :  19:57:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is so cliche but Stephen Malkamus in the songwriting definately. Honeycomb and FMRM remind me of Dylan.
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switchy
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USA
324 Posts
Posted - 09/15/2006 :  20:13:22  Show Profile  Visit switchy's Homepage  Reply with Quote
anybody see The Who on Letterman last night? the song they did ("man in a purple dress" or something?) kinda reminded me of a Frank song.. "manitoba" i think.

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gapu
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Austria
106 Posts
Posted - 09/16/2006 :  07:29:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yakuza have a song called marycan... the singers voice reminds me on fb and actually the whole atmosphere. but theres are particular part in the song that sounds very frank blackish to me...
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zippermouth29
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Canada
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Posted - 09/16/2006 :  13:38:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Has anyone heard Carribean Wind by Dylan? For some reason everytime I hear it I can't help but imagine FB and the C's playing it.

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Doog
* Dog in the Sand *

United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/16/2006 :  14:18:53  Show Profile  Visit Doog's Homepage  Click to see Doog's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ScottP

"There's only so many notes available. Even considering order and syncopation there's not infinite possibilities, dude!" "It's all mathematical!"

This is what a guy told me who had proudly performed his "new song" for me that was a cut and dried rip off of McCartney's Blackbird. I guess he's right to a degree, but just don't run out of ideas in The Beatles neighborhood, alright? Next....


Sounds like a douche. I know loads of current bands who don't rip off old songs.

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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
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Posted - 09/16/2006 :  18:18:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nick Cave sometimes. Particularly on the song "babe I got you bad"

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Jason
* Dog in the Sand *

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Posted - 09/17/2006 :  10:21:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Older stuff:

Many tracks on Lee Hazlwood's Cowboy in Sweden have that same country-music-with-a-subtle-eccentric-undercurrent quality of some of Frank's Catholics stuff. (And Frank's Nancy Sinatra CD in that clip on YouTube verifies that Frank is familiar with Lee Hazlewood's work).

Lou Reed's song "Goodby Mass" off of Magic & Loss is a song from 1990 or so that I just heard a few years ago and it instantly reminded me of some of Frank and the Catholics elegant "cabaret" (or that's what I call them at least) style songs, like "This Old Heartache".
Edited by - Jason on 09/17/2006 10:22:37
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Billy Radcliffe
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USA
145 Posts
Posted - 09/17/2006 :  11:15:19  Show Profile  Visit Billy Radcliffe's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Breeders kinda reminds me of Pixies

...And if I'm right, the urban plight is not the problem.
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