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| From | Andrew Hickey <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Blake Jones & the Trike Shop |
| Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:58:41 +0100 |
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:30:42 +0100, bob_hutton@standardlife.com
<bob_hutton@standardlife.com> wrote:
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> I'm currently digging their song, "Clever Things" on IPO 7. Very simply
> produced, chorus steals the chords from "Louie Louie", but I love it all
> the same. Does anyone here know anything about these guys?
Blake's an online friend of mine, and a really good bloke as well as
being insanely talented. I've only heard one of his CDs, A-Sides &
B-Movies, but that was my favourite album of 2001. That album is
mostly somewhere between Harry Nilsson and Paul McCartney in style -
very clever, witty, five melodic ideas for every song - with
occasional bits that sound more like Gilbert O'Sullivan (My Baby
Lacksadaisy) but in a good way, if you can imagine that.
His stuff is the kind of thing that everyone on audities with a taste
for powerpop that veers towards the piano-and-harmonies end of things
rather than the crunchy-guitar end will love, but he's more musically
eclectic than most. Ross Used To Play Us His Frank Zappa Records is
the best Zappa pastiche I've ever heard - better by far even than
Weird Al's Genius In France, while Carmen's Big Aria is an aria from
Carmen (I can't remember the name but it's one of those tunes everyone
knows) sung straight by an operatic soprano, but with surf guitars,
bass & drums.
Check out his stuff - he's just *GOOD*.
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