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Aug. 14th, 2006 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseStick figures die! (some in tragic, touching accidents) (Also, there is general cloud abuse)
Anyway, it's here because I loff Brendan Benson (the singer in white). He is also singing in the new Raconteurs video, Hands, which I was watching just because he's adorable and I want to marry him. (He looks like the boy who came for my birthday party. Only, you know, grown up.)
Yesterday his recent album was playing in the kitchen during dishcrew, and it was actually being enjoyed by others (the current cook is very old school sort of things, and thus not as much fun music in the kitchen as under the new regime. but that's okay, because other people in the house like his stuff, and they should have a turn, right?). But it was sort of odd because the cook said, 'Oh, I know who this band is trying to sound like, the Beatles. In a good way, ."
And I realised that I have never listened to the Beatles enough to know when someone is trying to sound like them. (other than the fact that I assume every musician around my age now grew up with at least *some* exposure to the Beatles, so really, why would that be surprising? Unless the band is something like, heavy metal/goth/something else weird, in which case I guess it would be surprising, but not in a folk/rock singer-songwriter sort of band.) (I should clarify that I have heard the Beatles, it's not like I grew up never hearing them. I know a fair number of their songs (though some I get mixed up with Simon and Garfunkel, like Eleanor Rigby(oh, I think because it makes me think of Mrs. Robinson, possibly because both names start with R)). But like Tolkien, I found enough to enjoy in their descendants that I've never been that interested in the original. (actually, one of the songs from the older album just came on (JetLag) and I thought, "Wow. Yeah, that's Beatle-esque.)
Anyway, it's here because I loff Brendan Benson (the singer in white). He is also singing in the new Raconteurs video, Hands, which I was watching just because he's adorable and I want to marry him. (He looks like the boy who came for my birthday party. Only, you know, grown up.)
Yesterday his recent album was playing in the kitchen during dishcrew, and it was actually being enjoyed by others (the current cook is very old school sort of things, and thus not as much fun music in the kitchen as under the new regime. but that's okay, because other people in the house like his stuff, and they should have a turn, right?). But it was sort of odd because the cook said, 'Oh, I know who this band is trying to sound like, the Beatles. In a good way, ."
And I realised that I have never listened to the Beatles enough to know when someone is trying to sound like them. (other than the fact that I assume every musician around my age now grew up with at least *some* exposure to the Beatles, so really, why would that be surprising? Unless the band is something like, heavy metal/goth/something else weird, in which case I guess it would be surprising, but not in a folk/rock singer-songwriter sort of band.) (I should clarify that I have heard the Beatles, it's not like I grew up never hearing them. I know a fair number of their songs (though some I get mixed up with Simon and Garfunkel, like Eleanor Rigby(oh, I think because it makes me think of Mrs. Robinson, possibly because both names start with R)). But like Tolkien, I found enough to enjoy in their descendants that I've never been that interested in the original. (actually, one of the songs from the older album just came on (JetLag) and I thought, "Wow. Yeah, that's Beatle-esque.)
