Wall of Mouths

Oh and that song was recorded in 2004…5 years before CT! Works both ways mate, T? have always acknowledged they’ve borrowed from loads of music, old trance, dubstep, other guitar bands - I mean go and reread the The Stories Behind The Songs On Crooked Timber, Andy talks about techno, dubstep, Charles Mingus, My Bloody Valentine, Big Black, old rave tunes and Jesus Lizard amongst others.
Plus the fact that the opening for I Told You I Was Ill is blatantly lifted straight from one of Mumra’s scenes in Thundercats ;-) (this is a joke for anyone who hasn’t seen Thundercats)

Ok, since no one has guessed yet, the Absynthe Minded song = a calm version of Rock You Monkeys. If you don’t hear it, look up the Kick Out The Jams sessions :p

Whoa, that’s crazy. I never imagined there to be so many x’)

Yesterday when I was listening to Rage’s album ‘Strings To A Web’ my dad said at one point ‘hey, this sounds like Therapy?’ (about the song ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’). He didn’t mean a certain riff, just the overall sound / style of that song at least, ‘cos on the whole Rage and Therapy? are quite far apart in terms of style ;) I admit it’s slightly reminiscent of High Anxiety-era Therapy?

This pisses me off eveytime it comes on my ipod on shuffle… it’s so blatant I won’t spell it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MhBTFlrI7c

At least now we know what happened to Fyfe? lol

Wasn’t there a thread like this before? I seem to remember saying that ‘Yes Its Fucking Political outro/solo section’ sounded like the Knives riff only to have Squall start at me and go on about how I wasn’t allowed to compare them because they use E and F chords or something! Ho ho!

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

Indeed, the drums are almost identical to Meat Abstract. That one can’t be coincidence.

Didn’t Therapy? admit to taking that drum beat off some dance record or something? Pretty sure I read a quote to that affect.

It’s generally thought Fyfes’ drumming on the early T? records was influenced by what was described as ‘New Beat’ (The Belgian / German / Dutch version from the late 80s, not the USA term from the earlier in the decade), which was basically the dance music sound of the time in those countries.

I think Andy said in an interview that meat abstract was written after he played a track by new beat act Erotic Dissidents to Fyfe. The beat is pretty straight on Dissidents song but reckon the general pace of the track started them off on the vibe for meat abstract.

I think subconsciously I started to like good house/techno through listening to t?

Stories and Shame on you by the Wildhearts

Also Nothing Ever Changes But the Shoes by the Wildhearts and Kicking my Heart Around by the Black Crowes.

The chorus to “Bad Karma Follows You Around” is almost identical to Judas Priest’s “Hell Bent for Leather”. A bit curious - given the huge Priest fan Mr. McKeegan is, he must have noticed. Why didn’t they just cover “Hell Bent for Leather”?

Yeah, I guess the vocal melodies are quite different, but the guitar and the drums in the chorus are very similar. Honestly I probably like the T? song better - it’s noisier!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H06k6F_5MM

It’s probably Koincidence though.

Lol, I saw this band at a Wolf concert while they were touring with Mats Léven, who is actually (far) better than their actual singer. Gave them a bit of a boost, I suppose. In the ‘Greek metal department’ I much prefer Wolfcry who are much superior, but much less well-known…