The Sundays : C or D

very nice

i like how this thread has (temporarily?) devolved into trying to find good sundays sound-a-likes.

i have those fine! albums. i checked that band out because i thought it was a great name, but they didn't leave an impression on me :-/

The Sundays are coming back. Someday they will. Trust me. I just know it.
There is honestly no doubt in my mind that they will be back within the next 1-5 years, for reasons I mentioned upthread a little while ago.

Anyway, short of their inevitable, eventual return, this thread has nearly been done to death, for the time being. . .

Unless, however, we'd like to post/share more about good Sundays sound-a-likes. The Sundays are my favorite band times a million-billion, and I think going into depth on their best imitators would be a purposeful thing to do. (I'm always up for a good imitation/clone of my favorite band, The Sundays! (though, few exist). It seems truly odd to me, however, that some Sundays fans slag off other bands that sound a lot like The Sundays -- like, don't you want more of that Sundays sound???

So, maybe we can do that for a while, unless consensus requires another thread.

Shoestrings: "Naked"
This is a great one. I hate to just call them a Sundays imitation, for they're a fine band in their own right. And, believe it or not, I can actually imagine this song coming into being even without The Sundays having existed! But, because of the vocals, I have to rate this as probably the best Sundays sound-a-like I've ever really heard. It just sounds like The Sundays picking up from S&S with a few synth-string washes, and slightly more naiveté, for these people were younger when recording this than the Sundays people ever were on any of their albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIGJY_ZyplM

I can really only think of very few other, worthy Sundays sound-a-likes. There really are a few, though (I've searched, and searched, and searched. I'll post them here later, unless we need another thread or something.

PS: The guy sings most of the songs on that Shoestrings album/most of their songs don't sound exactly like this.

Seeing this thread reminded me that I saw the Sundays with Madder Rose in Houston. One of the best shows I saw in the 90's. I need reading writing and arithmetic on record.

Saw that very tour:

https://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/not-just-the-ticket-65-the-sundays-june-5-1993/

Listened to a bit of their first LP this weekend, and wondered ... whatever became of Harriet Wheeler?

She and Gavurin have just been enjoying the domestic life for the last 18 or so years, it appears.

This thread is such a mean tease every time it gets bumped.

a little off-topic, but if you like both ethereal goth and The Sundays, then I have to recommend the second Innocence Mission album to you 'Umbrella'. It's one of the only good Sundays imitations I've ever heard (I've given dozens of bad Sundays imitations a chance), and it has, surprisingly, at least a couple of songs that sound kind of dark. At least search "Evensong" from that album - I promise you'll like it a lot. (Nothing else by Innocence Mission besides the 'Umbrella' album sounds like The Sundays though, - just to save your time).

― monster mash, Sunday, November 8, 2015 4:33 PM (one year ago)

I've been listening to the first two Innocence Mission albums a lot lately, and this is otm! I'm starting to wonder if 'God Made Me' might have been a deliberate send-up of the Innocence Mission. I like to imagine Harriet and Dave listening to Umbrella, being like, 'hey, these American Jesus freaks are eating our lunch!', and writing an innocuously-titled apostate anthem for the express purpose of breaking the Perises poor Catholic hearts. it probably didn't happen that way, but I can dream.

as for Sundays imitations, the lead singer of the Spanish band Fine channels Harriet Wheeler pretty strongly at times, though their style is more loungey indiepop than ethereal goth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5XOBgU_po

nothing makes me happier than a sundays bump : )
will check out that IM album

Talking of Sundays imitations…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vt0d9YlTC4

^good call, this song is very Static & Silence-ish. I hadn't even heard of the Sundays back when it came out

and I don't think I've ever seen that video before because what is even going on with Natalie's hair

Wrong Impression was the reason I finally got Reading, Writing & Arithmetic. I told my brother how much I loved it and he said, "you should probably get the first Sundays album then". He was right. I do still love the Natalie Imbruglia single as well.

I avoided Wild Hoses for the longest time but it’s actually a great vehicle for Harriet

Wild Hoses.

OK .....

The rock stars who went back work thread makes me wonder about this lot & how they fund their child rearing. Even though it's none of my business.

p sure Harriet went into service with the civil service

Finding a pound doesn't count for much these days.

The Sundays are my go to for smiths-like music when i'm in a smiths-like mood but really don't want to hear morrissey (which as of the last year or so is all of the time, forever)

Leave us alone.
https://longreads.com/2019/07/30/searching-for-the-sundays/

^ That's rather good. Can't say I've ever yearned to meet any musician. But can understand how something like RW&A could inspire such a thing.

Gawd this article is the embodiment of “tl;dr”... I can’t even skim it effectively.

tl;dr for ya: big obsessive buildup and then he didn't meet them.

It's the story of an adult learning about boundaries (ie, figuring out, thankfully in time, that showing up unannounced on your heroes' doorstep when they clearly value their privacy and have explicitly said as much to you through a proxy is an unambiguously bad idea).

Seemed like a string of clichés and truisms threaded around a fairly creepy premise - "they've demonstrated they have no interest in publicity or interviews, but if they only met me they'd change their minds, and I won't take no for an answer! Oh I guess they have a right to privacy after all, we've all learned something and let me explain it to you." Yeesh.

And yet, people moaning because he didn't 'deliver'

wow this guy is the absolute worst

this isn't even about the band, this is an awful guy's attempt to make himself the centre of a story that nobody else wanted to be told

I mean, would I have been thrilled if they consented to an interview? Absolutely. If it turned out that their 'consent' was the result of someone jimmying the lock on their back door at 3 AM and sitting at the foot of their bed until they finally relented? Not so much. Not so much.

wow this guy is the absolute worst

hey, he’s no Abraham Reisman

Well, something I did not expect

BIG MUSIC NEWS: I have a new band with Patrick Hannan of The SUNDAYS! An absolute dream come true. We are called The Wild Fell. More music (and shows) soon, but for now stream (or download) our first song "The Ghost You Love" now!
https://t.co/v52c76tsoI

— David Obuchowski, Peugeot Haver & Vax Getter (@DavidOfromNJ) June 20, 2022