Lee e. :

<<My friend who owns the local indi rcord shop whould always be asked whad
a band sounds like and he'd always reply the same "Well ... they're
kindof a cross between X and Y" - a bunch of us would always hang out
there over lunch hour and it got so everytime he said this we would
chime in with our own absurd copies of his phrase 'till he got angry and
yelled at us. He refuses to do it anymore even if you beg.

I was trying to think of a funny example - but the cross between almost
any two bands seems to give an interesting rather than funny result.
They were only funny because they didn't describe the band being
discussed at all.

"Mudhoney is a like a cross between The Archies and Beethoven" - see!
funny!>>


Funny you should bring this up....another journalist/Auditeer and I, who have 
been around since the halcyon days of power pop (har har) in the '90s, 
noticed that our good friend Jordan Oakes seemed to ALWAYS reference Shoes in his 
band descriptions and reviews in the late, great YELLOW PILLS, even if the band 
in question didn't seem to sound much like Shoes at all.

So it's become great sport for us to sometimes conjure up fake comparisons, 
with the most ludicrous, disparate acts imaginable---and Shoes---as reference 
points.  

"Have you heard this record?  Wow!  It sounds like Miles Davis, Polyphonic 
Spree..and Shoes!" 

"No, no, it sounds more like Ornette Coleman, vintage Megadeath..and Shoes!"

OK, guess tou had to be there.

JB