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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
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    Band/singers you mixed up in the past or mix up now.
    I can't tell the difference between Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.

    Ditto Bardo Pond and Bevis Frond, but only due to the similar names. I don't think I've ever actually heard either band.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    When Neil Young's father heard that on the radio, he thought it was his son's work.
    I thought likewise. I also thought the Eagles' "Best of My Love" was teenbeat heart-throb David Cassidy.
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    It was decades before I realised that Lazy Sunday Afternoon wasn't by The Kinks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    It was decades before I realised that Lazy Sunday Afternoon wasn't by The Kinks.
    Assuming you're referring to the song by the Small Faces, the title is actually "Lazy Sunday", which would have made it less likely to confuse with the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post

    Howeer I used to love JJ's first two punkish albums, so there was no possible confusion to anyone else
    Punkish??? There was nothing remotely punkish about anything Joe Jackson did, he was firmly 70s pop/new wave, he sounded very similar to early Costello and Squeeze, Costello produced some of his stufff and some Squeeze stuff. He used keyboards, synths, even brass on some of his singles. Later he sounded similar to Steely Dan.

    His best known single is definitely not punk!


    His next best known single, again, nowhere near punk.


    His third best known single, drenched in synths and keyboards, again nowhere near punk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brad to the Bone View Post
    I can't tell the difference between Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.
    Same here

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Punkish??? There was nothing remotely punkish about anything Joe Jackson did

    I know it's Wikipedia, but they very much disagree with you:

    In 1978 a record producer heard his demo tape, and got him signed to A&M Records. The next year the newly formed Joe Jackson Band released their debut album, Look Sharp!. Its mix of energetic New Wave rock and bitter British punk was in a similar style to the music of Elvis Costello and Graham Parker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Would you believe, once upon a time, I had Pat Metheny and Pat Travers mixed up?
    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    I'm still not sure if I could tell you which was which. I have no idea where either of them are from, what they look like or how old they are. I have no idea what Metheny plays, never heard his music nor much of Travers in fact, but I think Travers leans towards hard rock, doesn't he?
    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer View Post
    Travers was 70's hard blues/rock. He would typically be on one of those 70's triple-bills of lower-tier bands that played small arenas, and would include Foghat, Mahogany Rush, UFO, Ted Nugent, Rush, Starz, Aerosmith, etc. (i.e. Rush and Aerosmith in their early days, before mega-popularity).
    Well PeterG, now you know a little about Pat Travers (who the rock fan in me always liked, especially when he had another guitar player named Pat Thrall in his band). As for Pat Metheny, he's a jazz oriented guitar player who's one of the most popular of that ilk around here, maybe because a fair portion of his music has stuff in common with prog, like odd meters, more heavily composed pieces with multiple sections than your average jazz composer and some fairly "symph" sounding moments. It's no secret by now that you're not a jazz fan, but maybe even you would appreciate some of his stuff, as there are a lot of various genre elements in his music. Oh, and Travers is from Toronto, Canada; Metheny's from a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.


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    The problem is I've noticed in places like Germany, France, Italy that they say punk for all UK new wave, they just don't differentiate between Sex Pistols and Dexys Midnight Runners. In the UK and Ireland, the separation of punk & new wave is crystal clear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No Pride View Post
    Well PeterG, now you know a little about Pat Travers (who the rock fan in me always liked, especially when he had another guitar player named Pat Thrall in his band).
    Thanks mate, as I'm a heavy metal fan would it be worth my while chekcing him out, do you think?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Thanks mate, as I'm a heavy metal fan would it be worth my while chekcing him out, do you think?
    Travers? I'd say he's more blues/rock than metal, so maybe not. But I know you listen to a lot more rock than metal, so... maybe.

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    You have now successful stuck "Is she really going out with him?" in my head as an earworm, I'm been humming it round the office and trying not to break into song.

    I agree with you on the punk versus new wave definitions in the UK at that time. There was no mistaking which was which.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Thanks mate, as I'm a heavy metal fan would it be worth my while chekcing him out, do you think?
    Travers will defintely kick your butt much harder than Thin Lizzy would. And his two bands are definitely more talented too.

    try Makin' Magic, Heat In The Streets and Crash & Burn after the live Go For What You Know

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Punkish??? There was nothing remotely punkish about anything Joe Jackson did, he was firmly 70s pop/new wave, he sounded very similar to early Costello and Squeeze, Costello produced some of his stufff and some Squeeze stuff. He used keyboards, synths, even brass on some of his singles. Later he sounded similar to Steely Dan.
    If you listen to I'm The Man title track, Sunday Papers, etc, there's no mistaking that it's punkish (not the Sex Pistols way) or new wavish... or even post-punkish... The way The Jam or Madness had a punkish stream side to them, helped by a bit of reggae that The Clash or The Police used as well.

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    The problem is I've noticed in places like Germany, France, Italy that they say punk for all UK new wave, they just don't differentiate between Sex Pistols and Dexys Midnight Runners. In the UK and Ireland, the separation of punk & new wave is crystal clear.
    Well, in Canada, we had our own perceptions of these currents... To give you an idea, new wave mmeant electro-pop stuff like Human League's Don't You Want me or ABC or Ultravox's Visage or Gary Numan's Cars

    gotta stop being so restrictive about these names

    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    I agree with you on the punk versus new wave definitions in the UK at that time. There was no mistaking which was which.
    I have a feeling that UK was totally under the spell of the trilogy of the Weekly Specialised Brutish Music Press , who liked to rule the other two and made their own rules... This was especially the case between NME and MM
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post

    gotta stop being so restrictive about these names
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    The first time I heard GENESIS when I was 14 I thought it was Cat Stevens. I think it was the raspy "old man" voice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    I have a feeling that UK was totally under the spell of the trilogy of the Weekly Specialised Brutish Music Press , who liked to rule the other two and made their own rules... This was especially the case between NME and MM
    I was more of a Sounds guy.
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    The first time I heard Dire Straits (Lady Writer), I thought "Wow, that's the best thing I've heard from Bob Dylan in a long time!"

    It didn't take me long to clear up that misconception.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    I was more of a Sounds guy.
    Me too, in the late 70s/early 80s it was the only rag to give heavy metal and prog a fair shout, although resident metal fan Geoff Barton could be a giant knob at times (hmm, Kiss fan...).

    As for soundalikes -



    Roxy Music, anyone?

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    The first time I heard Dire Straits (Lady Writer), I thought "Wow, that's the best thing I've heard from Bob Dylan in a long time!"
    Most folks I knew who heard "Said She Was a Dancer" by Jethro Tull back in '87 thought it was Knopfler singing.

    Most folks to whom I've played IQ's Lush Attic thoughout the years tend to point to a faint Genesis influx. But it isn't as if they're trying very hard at it or anything - it just COMES OUT that way. At least that's what I tell them. Makeup in the singer's face as well.
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    There is a Led Zeppeling song, which to my ears sounds a lot like Rush.

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