Are you on the "Huntsville" for new music? Dig the Alabama Shakes. These kids are dynamite. They're getting lots of publicity and have a killer retro Memphis sound. I predict they'll soon be going "Mobile"...up the charts that is.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Great band, them.
Terrible puns, you.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Overrated based on my brief listen or maybe just not my taste. Singer who wants to be Janis Joplin but has heard old soul records, backed by a jam band who want to be the Allman Brothers if they listened to Stax alot.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
They've got that sound down, though. Just in time for the 90s neo jam band revival. The thing is, this band is actually good, with a killer singer.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will stick with Miss Jody
http://www.soulbluesmusic.com/msjody.htm
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Shakes have skills I just do not like how they use them
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Almost supernaturally overrated. Unbelievably mediocre. No tunes whatsofuckingever.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are we listening to the same band? No tunes? When I saw them a month ago, I had only listened to them briefly and walked in highly skeptical. It ended up being one of the most fun shows I've seen in years.
― Benjamin-, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
What does 'fun' have to do with great tunes? What's fun about "Gates of Eden?" When I want fun I'll don my B-52s t-shirt and spend an afternoon at Chuck E Cheese, thank you very much.
I just want to hear a popular band that can, you know, write beyond rock and roll cliche refrigerator magnet poetry. This shit, though, makes me long for the comparatively introspective lyrics of the Black Eyed Peas.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
B52s and Chuck E Cheese. Now that's a party.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
so this apparently one of the biggest things out there right now:http://www.youtube.com/user/alabamashakes?v=Le-3MIBxQTw
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Drummer's sweatshirt is nice Fugazi joke.
― viacom dios, Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
HATE this fucking band.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I LIKE this fucking band. I think a lot of you are drinking some kind of reactionary anti-koolaid.
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Explain to me what you like. The sub-Black Keys lyrics that sound like rock and roll cliche refrigerator magnet poetry? The complete lack of tunes? The fact that this is a bar band AT BEST and they're being hailed as the second coming of Led Zep? This shit is garbage. Just when I think the bar couldn't really get any lower...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 4 May 2012 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
She has a fucking great voice, which, imho, makes up for the lazy lyrics. "complete lack of tunes" is just wrong though. I'd listen to these guys over Black Keys any fucking day.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Her great voice (that sometimes gets too J. Joplin melodramatic) doesn't make up for her bar band behind her. Been kinda ignoring the Keys, so I can't weigh in on your comparison. Seems better to ignore both of them. I can see lazy Lefsetz baby boomer types liking the Shakes and I am guessing younger jamband types do as well.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yep. And since when is having a 'fucking great voice' some sort of criteria, and if it is, why aren't yall checkin' Carrie Underwood? I mean, 'great voice' is something my mom would say to defend the purchase of her Clay Aiken CD. This is a music forum, right?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 5 May 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Carrie is way superior to this shitty shitty band of shit.
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 5 May 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw them on Jools, thought they were great, especially as they didn't give a shit what they looked like
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 5 May 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink