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Post by Geg on Jul 16, 2005 4:05:32 GMT
Lots of people call The Cure gothic. Would someone please try to reconcile this with the ska genius of The Love Cats?
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Post by Geg on Jul 17, 2005 7:23:39 GMT
And Just Like Heaven et al. are much more like electronica-tinged '80s rock/pop than gothic - I've yet to find a single example of The Cure's alleged gothicness.
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Post by bob on Jul 17, 2005 19:39:37 GMT
Lots of people call The Cure gothic. Who would do such a thing??? |
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Post by bob on Jul 17, 2005 19:41:48 GMT
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Post by Zippy on Jul 17, 2005 20:36:26 GMT
It's fair enough from an outsider's perspective, like when people call the Beastie Boys rap only (wrong) or Jamiroquai funk only (wrong again).
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Post by Geg on Jul 17, 2005 22:11:52 GMT
It's fair enough from an outsider's perspective, like when people call the Beastie Boys rap only (wrong) or Jamiroquai funk only (wrong again). Is it? They have several famous songs that are anything but. By contrast all of Beastie Boys' famous songs are rap/hip-hop and all of Jamiroquai's are funk(ish). |
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Post by Zippy on Jul 17, 2005 22:58:24 GMT
Fight For Your Right, the most famous Beastie Boys song by a long way, is rap? Nope. Deeper Underground is funk? Nah, not really.
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Post by Geg on Jul 17, 2005 23:07:08 GMT
Fight For Your Right, the most famous Beastie Boys song by a long way, is rap? Nope. Well, not quite, but there's very little melody to the vocals... which is sort of rapping (or being a Red Hot Chilli Pepper  ) Deeper Underground is funk? Nah, not really. Not one of their most famous songs - Cosmic Girl and Virtual Insanity are their onyl really well known songs (plus whatever their latest single happens to be at the time - invariably pop-friendly funk-esqueness). |
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Post by Zippy on Jul 17, 2005 23:09:56 GMT
Cosmic Girl, Virtual Insanity, Canned Heat, Little L and Deeper Underground are genuinely famous songs of theirs. I think there's even more than that, but Deeper Underground was even the lead song on a soundtrack - that's famous.
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Post by Geg on Jul 17, 2005 23:11:45 GMT
Cosmic Girl, Virtual Insanity, Canned Heat, Little L and Deeper Underground are genuinely famous songs of theirs. I think there's even more than that, but Deeper Underground was even the lead song on a soundtrack - that's famous. I don't recognise Deeper Underground by name, but it's rock, right? Jamiroquai are generally known as a funk/rock band, which is fair of their single output. |
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Post by Zippy on Jul 17, 2005 23:12:40 GMT
It's more grungey than anything else. Rock's the nearest broad category, though.
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Post by Geg on Jul 17, 2005 23:15:24 GMT
It's more grungey than anything else. Rock's the nearest broad category, though. Anyhow, which of the Cure's songs are gothtacular? |
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