Tuesday 15 January 2008

Guess the band #01

Guess the band from the description is a new feature here at Dublog, prompted by the disappointment in a recent purchase (that'll teach me to believe a review in The Guardian, the bastion of safe musical taste):

Snow Patrol play The Lightning Seeds (with a smattering of Big Country).

23 comments:

Steven Ball said...

Take That (they're not the same without Robbie)

This is fun:
http://blog.onpaperwings.com/2008/01/cd-cover-in-less-than-10-minutes.html

Dubdog said...

It's not Take That I can assure you.

Re:link - Looks like I might as well give up the day job.

Steven Ball said...

yeah you're right of course, Take That never fail to deliver

Dubdog said...

It's because they take their haircuts seriously. Take your haircut seriously and everything else will fall into place.

Steven Ball said...

Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time*?

I give up, when do we get the answer

*spot the theme

Dubdog said...

Not sure. I'd like a few more people to try to guess before I give the answer, assuming no one gets it of course. Or I could give you the answer when I post the next Guess The Band. Or I could post the answers at the end of the year.

*Is it a Robbie theme?

Steven Ball said...

Snow Patrol are on TV right now. I've never knowingly heard them before but they're strangely exactly what I was expecting: plodding, competent sentimentality, obvious tension/release mild mannered mellow dramatics. Singalong Dull. Now if I can just hear some Lightning Seeds (another band completely unknown to me) I might be getting somewhere. Big Country of course I know and their ringing celtic guitars jigs remain magnificent in my memory. Good night.

Dubdog said...

Do you not like rock music?

Steven Ball said...

it has it's merits, Snow Patrol, however, is not one of them

Steven Ball said...

sorry stray apostrophe in "it's" puntuation freaks

Steven Ball said...

"punctuation", speling freaks, oh I give up...

Dubdog said...

You're not taking the hint.

Steven Ball said...

no, I don't understand, I give up, I am not schooled in the ways of The Rock

Dubdog said...

There's a clue in my second to last post.

Dubdog said...

Sorry, I meant my second to last comment, not post!

Steven Ball said...

yes I gathered that, I'm not getting it

Dubdog said...

Have you not heard of Google?

Steven Ball said...

well that's cheating! I've never heard British Sea Power anyway so I'm still sort of in the dark, but you can get the album cheap with the new Magnetic Fields on Amazon!

Dubdog said...

Hurrah, we have a winner..except.. that....I'm afraid...you don't win anything. Never heard of Magnetic Fields but it's good to hear someone at Amazon has a sense of humour. Can you get Wings cheap with The Byrds? Or how about Electric Light Orchestra with Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark? Or how about Bum Gravy and Armitage Shanks?

Steven Ball said...

...or Storm Bugs with The Beatles? Well there wasn't much in the way of competition and I had to be prompted with the most glaringly obvious clues means I don't really deserve any prizes. Magnetic Fields did 69 Love Songs a few years back.

Steven Ball said...

oh they're on Later right now... I like the mix n match Romany chic but why do they sing with American accents?

Steven Ball said...

OK Jools says it's a Bulgarian choir, I used to love those Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria albums in the '90s.

Dubdog said...

Must say they were not as bombastic as recorded and they exuded a frailty that I quite liked. Just spent a week in Shingle Street, cut off from everyone and everything and listening to BSP with the North Sea lashing your face and slugging Jura sinlge malt from a hip flask is a pleasant experience.

On the topic of Later, wasn't Joe Brown fantastic although he's the spitting image of our neighbour which is a little disconcerting.