Nobody saw this coming

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An official live pro video (studio audio?) version of the latest drop from the upcoming Keep Me Fed album. The title: Automatic Sun.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is a band that I think will be a big success.

With whom? They’re a wee bit avant garde to have very wide appeal. No hummable melodies or lyrical earworms. Sorry. I don’t see it, and I’ve listened to several of their songs. They sound rather thin by comparison with the big booming sound of you know who.

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PopeBeanie wrote:

I accidentally ran into their newest release that’s only three hours old. I like it. It’s the 3rd video below. I looked for lyrics and lucked out. (I’m not impressed by the lyrics. Am I missing something?)

Oops! Yeah, I posted without checking to see if it had already been posted. You hadn’t been posting a lot lately so I had little reason to check, and I could be excused for assuming the only other person here who might have beat me to it was you.

I agree. Not their best lyrics. They don’t make much sense, but that has never stopped a song from being popular or good. One of Goldfrapp’s best was Utopia, and I bet most people are so enthralled by the sonics that they never paid much attention to the song’s insane lyrics, which will follow the video below.

It’s a strange day
No colors or shapes
No sound in my head
I forget who I am

When I’m with you
There’s no reason
There’s no sense

I’m not supposed to feel
I forget who I am
I forget

Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia

My dog needs new ears
Make his eyes see forever
Make him live like me
Again and again

Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia

I’m wired to the world
That’s how I know everything
I’m super brain
That’s how they made me

Fascist baby
Utopia, utopia

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is a band that I think will be a big success.

Guessing way too young to be coping the 60’s batman riff….

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Let’s see how their new album does.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Let’s see how their new album does.

Not being mean. I just don’t see them having the kind of broad appeal that has people getting into a concert line a half mile long and filling a venue seating 3,000 as The Warning did in their Teatro Metropolitan concert.

There are wonderful bands with interesting music but without widespread appeal. One that comes to mind you might be familiar with since they are an Irish group. Ham Sandwich. I love this video that  introduced them to America on The Late Late Show talk show. Wonderful as it is and they are, they never really took off despite having a gorgeous lead singer and a bright enjoyable sound.

They are still together and touring. Trying to make a living with a 7-member band, as in the video, is a near impossibility without widespread popularity. So, they currently do the rounds as an acoustic trio, according to the Gemini (Google) AI anyway, so it must be true (LOL).

The absence of any Youtube videos from the last few months tells me a lot about their fan base.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Let’s see how their new album does.

I don’t love the song you first suggested, a lot because of the mono-tonality of the singer, but that shouldn’t be a minus in every case. A lot of hit songs pushing the tonic a lot, i.e. the root note of the key that the song’s in. BB King comes to mine, in a few of his iconic hits. (It’s a reason I stopped listening to him. Just my personal taste.)

But soon after hearing the first song you suggested, I found another I like, largely because it showed me how talented they are.

(But Batman, Robert? Poke poke poke! I can’t unhear that now.)

After reading the article, I wanted to hear one of their album title songs, This Could Be Texas, but couldn’t find it. Anyway, this next song is what makes me also see potential in the group:

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Unseen wrote:

having a gorgeous lead singer

Ok, I’m unintentionally imagining, behind every gorgeous performer, Unseen dancing with arms up in the air.

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PopeBeanie wrote:

After reading the article, I wanted to hear one of their album title songs, This Could Be Texas, but couldn’t find it. Anyway, this next song is what makes me also see potential in the group:

Pretty good song and performance, but compare them with a band that can play one killer tune after another with a big enough sound to fill any large venue and you’ll realize that there will never be a concert line a half mile long to get in to hear them.

I would call them “chamber rock,” a band to be heard in a small venue. They could make it into air play but I think most people would sense that a concert in a large venue would likely be disappointing..

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Rolling Stone think they have some potential.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Rolling Stone think they have some potential.

Correction: One of Rolling Stone’s contributors thinks they might turn out to have some potential. It’s not a declaration from the editorial board and, let’s face it: Rolling Stone has become fairly irrelevant over the years. I pay far more attention to their political articles than their music-related articles anymore.

Look, English Teacher has a very thin fiddly sound and NO stage presence. It actually seems to be their intention to be so cool on stage that they might be referred to as a Beat Generation rock band. Two successful bands/artists with similar fiddly sounds are New Order and Laurie Anderson, but they succeed where English Teacher fails with excellent stage presence.

English Teacher as it stands is a chamber band. The rock equivalent of a string quartet. An acquired taste appealing to a fairly narrow audience. Maybe an art school crowd. But other bands in the art school category are/were far better. Two great examples: Talking Heads and King Crimson (the later version with Adrian Belew on lead guitar):

Adrian Belew, in the pink suit, is one of the greatest rock lead guitarists of all time, right up there with the late Jeff Beck in terms of total mastery of his instrument.

I don’t hate them. I’m just calling balls and strikes as I see them. Having broad appeal means ticking off several boxes. They don’t tick off most of them.

 

 

[PopeBeanieModerator]

Did you guys notice the eclipse backstage near the middle of Automatic Sun? I didn’t. Just watch for a minute if you can, where I jump into it.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Fellow Unbelievers,

One thing is for sure: No artist on this thread would hit The Goldilocks Spot in Islamofascist Chechnya:

Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
By Jack Guy and Anna Chernova, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 6:57 AM EDT, Mon April 8, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scli-intl/index.html

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by  TheEncogitationer. Reason: Change of "group" to "artist."

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@ Enco

There is at least one Islamic all-girl heavy metal band that hasn’t been honor killed (yet) in the world’s most populace Islamic country, Indonesia. Voice of Baceprot. And they are not half bad.

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Hi! I won’t accept that as a excusable excuse.

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