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Bands That Need a Bath...Bands That Need Their Fresh, White Sneakers Stepped On
Here's a real simple set of questions:
1. Name a band/artist you're pretty sure you'd like better if they had a bath - that is, if they took a little better care of their presentation, be it more thoughtful arrangements, better sound, more focused Look, etc.
Meat Puppets' first two albums were interesting enough for me, but it wasn't until they "took a bath" for the making of Up On the Sun that they really clicked for me. (Shortly thereafter they'd scrubbed themselves up too much, but that's another matter...)
2. Name a band/artist you're pretty sure you'd like if they loosened up a bit, if you and your friends could scuff up their brand-spankin'-new white sneaks a bit.
Crowded House was in this category for me for a number of years until someone finally scuffed up their sneaks over the course of their third and fourth albums. There were outright holes in their canvas Docksiders by the time of the excellent Together Alone.
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2. Marshall Crenshaw is a perfect one! I'm having a little more trouble with this one, since I'm probably more tolerant of control-freak nancy boys. I'm going to say Air.
For category one, it would take a lot more than a trip to the cleaners to make me stomach Jim Morrison's schaman schtick, but he supposedly wore the same pair of leather pants for months on end, making even his girlfriend wish he would break on through to the other side of rock godliness (i.e., to rock cleanliness).
Band that needs a bit more dirt: KISS
'Mutineer' cover Zevon. Quite a departure from the buoyantly cynical fresh-faced fellow circa 'Excitable Boy'. Many a dark secret hiding behind those shades for that 'old man on the side of the road' & more haggard than Haggard's haggard.
Band that needs a bit more dirt:
Well the one guy you really just wanted to moosh in the face for setting a bad example for the kiddies was Joe 'Look Sharp' Jackson. Fortunately just a phase and even more fortunater was that the music kicked ass even if you had to take off them snazzy $180 dollar eye-talian shoes to do it!
(At least that's what my ex-wife paid for 'em...)
but there are all kinds of bands whose sneakers i'd like to see scuffed up!!! mostly british.
scuff the cure's sneakers up a bit, and more of their records would've made it into my collection.
same with spiritualized and spectrum.
along these lines, cornershop should've never taken a bath....
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The Fugs
The Grateful Dead
In need of scruffing up:
The Searchers
The Hollies
Raspberries
Franz Ferdinand
New Order
I say that Teardrop Explodes needed a tad more dirt and Julian Cope now needs a bath.
Pretenders.
I always wanted to scuff up The Allman Bros. shoes. They sound way too clean for me.
Led Zeppelin needs a bath.
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