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| From | "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Sounds on Letterman this past Monday |
| Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 19:29:17 -0500 |
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The Kaisers are amazing. Who on earth else sounds like the early Beatles?!?
AS far as The Sounds go, I thought someone had told me to check them out, so I was predisposed to enjoying their appearance, but after about 30 seconds I decided they were pretty awful. They had a lot of energy, but their sound seemed really empty, thin and joyless. She did have plenty of Moxie, and there was a lot of energy on stage, but it didn't make up for the fact that she sang so badly out of tune. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, as people I know who have done such TV appearances often complain about the ability to get a good stage sound / volume. Although it didn't hurt Radiohead on Letterman very much did it?
>Michael said
>Did anyone (besides me) catch the Swedish band The Sounds on David
>Letterman this past Monday.
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>Hi Michael, I did! I really liked them. They were great fun. I vaguely
>thought I had heard of them...assuming maybe they were talked about here
>previously (?). Anyway, I regretted that I hadn't thrown a tape in so I
>could watch it again. That's not a frequent experience for me...
> (snip)
>The
>energetic quintet is fronted by a very bouncy Maja Ivarsson, the
>musicianship seems good, and they're all between 21 & 23, so the
>future could be good for them.
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>She was bouncy but with a touch of "moxy". I really liked her vocals too.
>(snip) Critics offer a comparison to
>Missing Persons, but from the one performance I saw (evidently
>missed their Bay Area appearance) they would have fit nicely on a
>bill with any number of new wave/punk acts circa 1979.
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>I'm with you. I was totally thinking late punk moving into new wave....
>Has anyone caught them live or heard their disc?
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>Best, Steve D.
>NP: The Kaisers "Shake Me" (yet another band I missed somehow until
>recently)
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