The Bird And The Bee (Greg Kurstin and Inara George) = DEFT

I'd be more interested in them doing a Van Halen tribute

could do a brilliant cover of Why Can't This Be Love

"Diamond Dave" is kind of about how Hagar ain't shit so

I saw them live on a college campus and they did 'I Can't Go For That'...was pleasantly surprised

This is called "Interpreting the Masters" and it's fucking awesome. I've been listening basically to it, H&O originals, repeat.

And it's on BLUE NOTE, per Wikipedia, wtf?

all their albums are on Blue Note. no idea why. funny to think people got up in arms about Norah Jones a few years ago.

can't work out whether i like or loath the hall and oates record. it's not as if they're making rock songs into pop or vice versa, or that there's some sort of real point to the re-interpretation. or improving them with better vocals (if anything the vocals are really lazy in comparison). and its very very greys anatomy. overall it just seems a bit...pointless. but i'm listening to it again for some reason.

yeah it's definitely kind of an odd exercise (especially given that they're just doing the hits, not salvaging any deep cuts), but it's still a really enjoyable record.

I keep revisiting this band and being pleasantly surprised. I think it's one of the few things I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I like.

new album leaked. on first spin, very solid. don't love her voice, but some great tracks

ooh, I'll have to pick it up. I like this group though when I first heard them I thought they were going to be some kind of neat take on that Freezepop/Peaches electroclash sound, classed up a bit and with a singer who can actually sing, I'm kind of disappointed that they turned out doing more of a 60's noir revival thing. I relistened to the first album, "I am Camera" still sounds awesome to me, though the album takes a massive dive right after. Would've been an amazing 7-song EP!

Listening to "Will You Dance?" To me this is boring adult contempo, but I do feel I'd enjoy hearing this band play some Hall and Oates.

They just released an album of Van Halen covers and it's great!

But what does some dude think? Was the 9 years worth the wait?

(I like it, especially “Unchained”)

Love the 'Panama' cover

looks maybe pretty good, although after the ode to David Lee Roth on the last album I think I'd be more interested in them doing a Van Halen tribute

― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), jueves 28 de enero de 2010

Some dude asked, they listened.

can someone please rate this on a scale of "doesn't sound anything like Pomplamoose" to "sounds like a lot like Pomplamoose"

This is infinitely better than Pomplamoose.

ok I'm listening now and I'm impressed by how not-gimmicky it sounds

except for the songs that sound gimmicky no matter who does them like "Hot For Teacher"

Inara George's voice is really something

like I don't think using her in place of DLR (who always sung "like a girl" anyway) is too big a deal, but doing these songs without guitar is pretty interesting