Can't hold me back in the chorus
I am totally down with that recent crop of bands in which everyone seems to be having a good old sing-a-long... Architecture in Helsinki springs to mind, who I just love (own one of their discs and I may just bare my beating heart).
Other bands in this category include Of Montreal (my recent exposure to Satanic Panic in the Attic has left me quite the fan; owning this disc will do you no harm at all), Arcade Fire (who Marc and I have never agreed on... their next CD will prove very telling I do think), Feathers, Danielson (although I wouldn't want to see more than two of their albums) and much of the new weird folk movement.
In a slightly different vein, one is allowed two or three Neko Case CDs, but only the first Coco Rosie disc.
Other bands in this category include Of Montreal (my recent exposure to Satanic Panic in the Attic has left me quite the fan; owning this disc will do you no harm at all), Arcade Fire (who Marc and I have never agreed on... their next CD will prove very telling I do think), Feathers, Danielson (although I wouldn't want to see more than two of their albums) and much of the new weird folk movement.
In a slightly different vein, one is allowed two or three Neko Case CDs, but only the first Coco Rosie disc.
posted by peter at
9:36 AM
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and i'd like to make a brief mention of Jens Lekman and TV on the Radio, both of which tend to have sing-a-long elements from time to time, but you can only own one of the former (because how many quirky scandinavians do you really need?), and perhaps two of the latter.
I would be happy to see any Architecture In Helsinki and TV On The Radio in anybody's collection. However, both bands stick to their own formulae, the former being Oompah-jamming singalongs, the latter being Prince covering Gang of Four (or vice versa). The Lemon Jelly self-similarity quadratic applies. The Lemon Jelly self-similarity quadratic is:
No. of similar sounding albums >= No. of different albums
Number=equal number
However, in this case, neither Lemon Jelly, AiH or TVotR have made a sufficiently different album than their others, so the number is 1.
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