Band X are influenced by everyone from (1 Viewer)

[Moods For Mallards]

My Bloody Valentine to the Jesus & Mary Chain.

That's an example, I'm not necessarily getting on the case of bands with similar influences to Band X.
I have noticed that people writing band blurbs and sometimes reviews have very strange notions of what constitutes wide-ranging influences. Basically you take two similar enough bands (let's say Mogwai and Sigur Ros) and say that Band X's "dreamy soundscapes signify a broad spectrum of influences, from Mogwai to Sigur Ros".

So there you go.

 

[cunt]

I'm influenced by.. like...Jefferson Airplane..... right back around to Jefferson Starship ...and everything else in between.

 

[Lili Marlene]

band X are influenced by everyone from X to XTC

 

[David Kronenbourg]

band X are influenced by everyone from X to XTC

and 2Unlimited

 

[GrumpyEditor]

X The Band sound nothing like Sigur Ros.

Or have I missed the point of this thread?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

fascinating

 

[quackster]

band X are influenced by everything from U2 to Pacman

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I think it's fairly interesting.

 

[Lili Marlene]

wide ranging influences sometimes come up as even more annoying

"everyone from the Shangri-Las to psych-folk pioneers The Incredible String Band to the French Symbolist Poets"

O RLY? Cos you sound like the Kooks

 

[Moods For Mallards]

wide ranging influences sometimes come up as even more annoying

"everyone from the Shangri-Las to Psych-Folk Pioneers The Incredible String Band to the French Symbolist Poets"

O RLY? Cos you sound like the Kooks

They do indeed.

Let's just have a bit of consistency, blurb writers.

 

[Froog]

band x actually influence a lot of bands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(U.S._band)

 

[Lili Marlene]

I already made that joke.

 

[Froog]

everything from a cow fucking a snake to regurgitated spring rolls.

 

[Froog]

I already made that joke.

are you grumpy editor aswell?

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Then there's the massive list, where the band lists off every cool band ever along with a couple of childhood favourites in an attempt to catch the attention of the sharp-eyed browser.

 

[Lili Marlene]

i'd like to change 'the kooks' to 'the dregs of shoegaze'

 

[ratmonkey]

It's not a typo for Brand X, featuring one Philip Collins?

 

[Love Saves The Day]

Sounds like everything, from lying in bed at night thinking about the mistakes you've made in life, to being stuck in in a changing room of a shop, trying on a t-shirt that's too small to get back off again

 

[GrumpyEditor]

are you grumpy editor aswell?

I think I must be.

That's weird.

 

[Love Saves The Day]

Sounds like when doves cry

I'd like that one