Quote: Alan Cornforth @ April 9 2010, 9:00 PM BSTOh, an interesting link
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Avalanches/+similar
They are from the 2000s! That's not that old!
What are you listening to now? Page 772
Quote: PhQnix @ April 9 2010, 8:06 PM BSTIt'll take about two minutes to point you in the direction of half a dozen people making music that couldn't have existed at any other point in time and is as original as music can possibly be!
2000 is a point in time? 
Quote: Alan Cornforth @ April 9 2010, 9:05 PM BST2000 is a point in time?
Yes but you are taking one band and saying they are the same as another, which is not the case. Especially on a site like last.fm which puts recommendations together mechanically based on algorithms and logic.
http://www.last.fm/music/Radiohead/+similar
Apparently Muse and Coldplay are similar to Radiohead, but everyone who has heard anything by the bands will notice they sound hardly anything like each other.
Quote: PhQnix @ April 9 2010, 9:09 PM BSTYes but you are taking one band and saying they are the same as another, which is not the case. Especially on a site like last.fm which puts recommendations together mechanically based on algorithms and logic.
http://www.last.fm/music/Radiohead/+similar
Apparently Muse and Coldplay are similar to Radiohead, but everyone who has heard anything by the bands will notice they sound hardly anything like each other.
Nooooooooooooo
At no point have I said that people sound exactly the same - I said they were not original. Everybody sounds like somebody esle - it is the nature of music that influences appear in all bands music. NOBODY is original and never will be.
Coldplay are heavily influenced by Radiohead, they acknowledge it themselves, they just don't play their songs in the same way. The Sex Pistols were influenced by The Who, they even rehearsed Who songs in 1976 - but when punk sprang up that was quickly hidden.
Quote: Alan Cornforth @ April 9 2010, 9:16 PM BSTNooooooooooooo
At no point have I said that people sound exactly the same - I said they were not original. Everybody sounds like somebody esle - it is the nature of music that influences appear in all bands music. NOBODY is original and never will be.
Coldplay are heavily influenced by Radiohead, they acknowledge it themselves, they just don't play their songs in the same way. The Sex Pistols were influenced by The Who, they even rehearsed Who songs in 1976 - but when punk sprang up that was quickly hidden.
If everyone is so unoriginal then it is no barrier to not liking new music.
Surely being influenced is different to being unoriginal? I'm not trying to sound as tetchy as all this must be coming across as, honest. 
Quote: PhQnix @ April 9 2010, 9:19 PM BSTIf everyone is so unoriginal then it is no barrier to not liking new music.
I agree, but if you don't get any enjoyment out of listening to music anymore then it would seem a little masochistic to go looking for things to not like?
I have been through the process of creating music and all the attendant disappointments of thinking you are good and other people thinking you are too similar to someone else
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_oONmedm4&feature=related
we were too Roxy Music/Bowie influenced apparently!
There is nothing better than music when it grips you and makes you feel good about being alive. For me, that feeling has passed - but I still remember what it was like.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 9 2010, 9:19 PM BSTSurely being influenced is different to being unoriginal? I'm not trying to sound as tetchy as all this must be coming across as, honest.
I could never imagine you being tetchy 
I will blame it on being ill.
Isn't this going a bit off topic?
Nothing against such a discussion though.
I'm 53 and up to about 5 years ago I was listening to XFM so I'm open to new music. If you really like rock based music when you're young you're not really going to stop liking new stuff purely because it's new.
I don't have the time these days for a station like XFM but there's still loads of good new stuff played on Radio 2 with Radcliffe and Maconie and Lamaq. Also I discover old stuff I've never heard before on God's Jukebox with Mark Lamarr.
I can't abide Ken Bruce or Janice Long though. They sound too jolly!
Quote: Chappers @ April 9 2010, 9:41 PM BSTIsn't this going a bit off topic?
I don't see how. Thanks to PhQnix I have a few new people to listen to - we are talking about music?
Besides, Scatterbrained Floozy is ill, we need to keep the noise down 
No, it just means I complain slightly more than usual about stuff, if that's even possible.
If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen... Friday night is party night! 
Quote: Alan Cornforth @ April 9 2010, 9:30 PM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_oONmedm4&feature=related
we were too Roxy Music/Bowie influenced apparently!
! I like that. Which one is you, Alan? The lead singer looks well-indie. Would fit right in at my uni.
Quote: Tim Walker @ April 9 2010, 10:29 PM BSTIf It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen... Friday night is party night!
Quote: PhQnix @ April 9 2010, 10:33 PM BST
Lol, I'm the drummer with the very dodgy hair.
This is a better link with more songs http://soundclick.com/share?songid=3840365
I wrote this song despite what the keyboard player credits it as - check the comments as Sav (the talented "looks well-indie" singer) correctly credits me for it