Can I resurrect this band on RP?  I love this CD.   

while you douchebag hipsters go and dis a musician who supposidly "totally rips off the talking heads" and "has such an annoying voice"

what do you want from music? for it to be all harmonized by an eq or for all singers to be professionally taught so they can then sing in a b-shop quartet?

annoying is subjective.. whiny but in a self depreciating way... borrows tom yorke's voice a tad..

as for it ripping of talking heads..

do you really think any good albums could be put out if it werent for influence?

like yes i agree they borrow 'elements' but ripping off is what elastica did to the stranglers..

please provide exact rip offs in this case.. or take your 'nobody understands me' attitude and go fuck off..

madtowner11 wrote: EXACTLY. I knew somebody else had to hear this too. Got to change for 3 minutes, maybe LRC.

Imkirok wrote: Sounds about right. Wish he'd taken some novocaine for the soul instead. Or maybe I should.

While reading the derivative comments I found this lyric to be nicely timed: "You look like David Bowie. You've got nothing new to tell me."

ekeyte wrote: I think he recorded it after going to the dentist and had a little too much novocaine, numbing his tongue and lips.

Jesus Christ, this song gets worse every time I hear it.

shayde wrote: Then you oughtta LUUUUV "LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO" by Plastic Ono Band-the YOYO OH-NO! (er, sorry Yoko Ono) side

withnail wrote: This is mostly true... the album is actually OK once you get past the "this is a rip off of Talking Heads" phase...

goldenear wrote: Believe twas Lennon said:"There are only so many notes"?

goldenear wrote: I agree with your statement - everything's inspired by something else to some degree. But this guy sounds like he's TRYING to sound like David Byrne.

Nice song of a great album. Really - great stuff. But surely not everybodys cup of coffee. Anyways - I love it. (well, not the best song of the album though ...)

Ugh, this is terrible. There's a place for incoherent mumblings in great music. But the music is terrible as well. It has nothing interesting to hold it. Oh, cripes, I just got to the 'chorus' (come-a come-a come-a... come-a ...) Eeeeeee. Make it stop :(

I'm just wondering at this point in our music evolution, or devolution as some might argue, how a band can not be derivative to some degree. Everyone is so quick to dismiss a band for sounding like any previous band in the history of music. Hell, saying that sounds like the Beatles or Velvet Underground covers 90 percent of current rock/pop. You don't have to like a band, but dismissing on grounds of similarity to someone before is rather goofy don't you think.

This guy sounds like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth. This song is awful.

Dilemma: When new bands pay homage to old favorite bands, do they get a high score for sounding so good, or a low score for being so derivative? Dead ringer for Talking Heads, yah

I always think it's a bit pathetic when people knowingly take advantage of the fact that they sound almost exactly like someone else who is already famous... sorry. Who needs yet another imitator. Been there, done that. Try doing something original.

CYHSY easily makes my top 10 for 2006. This is truly a fantastic record of compelling power pop. It's easy to think this song evokes David Byrne (not a bad thing), but he sounds less like him on the other tracks. Highly recommend "Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away," "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth," and "Details of the War." Don't condemn these guys until you give the record a full spin. They will grow on you pretty quickly.

Why would anyone want to sound like David Byrne? Not something to strive for!

Viv515 wrote: Yes, but, not so that you could understand it.

Bocephus wrote: All this time I totally thought it was the heads...freaked me out when I found out that it wasn't!

Do you think he could say the word "Enunciate"!!!

Weird, I just searched this band on RPs website about 5 minutes ago to see what songs they played of them. The last song on this album is my favorite on it.

OK, first, it's understood to be pretty strange that someone who's OK with Neil Young and Smashing Pumpkins vocals to say the following.....this guys voice is not unique, or even Byrne-like, it's just annoying.

Bocephus wrote: Yeah, thought this was a TH song I never heard before...

Wow, I feel the same way after actually reaching for the volume to be turned up this time it came on. It's "fun"....I'm bumping it from a 4 to a 5.

PattonFever wrote: Yes, another "grows on ya" song. I've gone from 2 to 7 in a short time. Actually, I gave it a 7 (rather than a 5, I guess) to piss off the cranks who get so flabbergasted over a song.

from a 1 to a 5. this one's not as annoying as i used to think it was.

BigDaddy_PA wrote: Unique sound? Sounds just like early Talking Heads to me. The vocalist is a dead ringer for David Byrne. In fact I thought this was TH until I looked at my Roku display.

Great band with a unique sound! Just saw them live at the Troc in Philly - highly recommended!

DownHomeGirl wrote: Repugnant? I dig their name!

beautiful voice ;-)

This band has a repugnant name. But yeah, he sounds a lot like Byrne.

Catchy little number. I wouldn't say it's as inventive as Byrne's music. Still, I can see where comparisons might be drawn.

Crocky want to die...

drtjdel wrote: my words, these are my words! ;-)

physicsgenius wrote: What we need more of here is good old-fashioned aleatoric music! Let's get busy, Bill and Becky!

give these guys a chance. they have some other great tracks on this album as well, hinting at a sound closer to arcade fire. (obviously, much different bands though). let's hear some more...

Holy crap, I just turned it UP because this song is growing on me, I think I feel sick. *wink*

the only thing that can make this song better...

this is just stupid. I'm sorry...

Old_Pink wrote:You have got to be kidding. What the hell do you think Clear Channel does? If you base playlists on what a mass audience likes (aka "is familiar with"), you get Clear Channel. There's never been any pretense here that the playlist is based on ANYTHING other than whether or not Bill and Rebecca like a song. Apparently enough of us like the resulting sound to make it all work. . . .

I thought it was Talking Heads too. Don't care for TH, REALLY don't care for this. To each his own.

John Cage played notes more accurately than this.

good stuff but it sounds exactly like the Talking Heads

brokemusician wrote: I cound not have said it better... what...yma yma..what??

fuh2 wrote: "Ad homina, homina, homina ..."

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Old_Pink wrote: Some of us like David Byrne! Thanks Bill. Can you play "A Million Miles Away"?

this is a song that makes me think "So?"

The dude sings like a drunk goat.

Love it.

chucklesalmon wrote: Ha! Really.

I really like this song, just for the record. It reminds me a lot of the Accidents' lead singer Dan Meyler. He used to sing for Mr. Band. Anyhow, i'd like to hear more of these guys.

I LIKE this song! (But I don't like David Byrne!) So there!

so THIS is the big deal?! "Clap your hands and Say YEah" ?! THIS is what all the hipsters are talking about? THIS is what is supposed to be sooo unique and interesting? THIS?! THIS?! I'll clap my hands and hope my speakers turn off now.

trekhead wrote: yeah. I even read David Byrne was spotted at a CYHSY concert. This band is awesome and the whole album is really really good.

T Heads?? 8.

fuh2 wrote: Old_Pink wrote: 196 votes, a 5.5 rating overall and it still gets played. Why? Because it sounds like David Byrne and Bill is obsessed with David Byrne. Listen to your audience! I'm with fuh2, the reason Bill is the man is because he plays stuff all over the spectrum. If you want conformity turn on the radio and leave us alone.

pdhski wrote: Clever! (hands clapping for you)

fuh2 wrote: Sorry, Sherlock...wrong deduction. For the record, the vehicle I drive has no reflection on the dimensions of my genitalia. I'm amused at how many people use the potential of "shortcomings" as an attack on people whose opinions differ from their own. Pound sand, dipwad. I simply know what I like and what I don't. My musical preferences have nothing to do with machismo. I just don't like this song or band. It's that simple. Sorry if your pinheaded little brain can't wrap itself around that concept, Skippy. Oh, and to the singer in this band: E-nun-ci-ate.

Uggh. What's with all the tinnie crap lately? Is this The Talking Death Cab Heads?

There was a SNL skit (I think it might have been a Christmas one) with Horatio, Jimmy Falon, and probably a few others where they had a mini Casio keyboard that they used to play a few notes while they sang an annoying song. This song reminds me of that skit for many, many reasons. /I don't care if this comment is useless to most, if you've seen that skit and heard this song you know exactly what I'm talking about.

hmm i got "bang your head and say no" out of this song...

zakfoy wrote: It does. And I agree with the sentiment, too. I like Talking Heads a lot, David Byrne on his own ... not so much. Same with these yahoos. They don't suck, but they don't get my juices flowing either. I don't mind hearing this once in a while. Truly, a 4: "Acceptable".

I was just thinkin' this guy must have a closet full of Talking Heads LPs.

David Byrne is calling. This is blatant. Maybe a Byrn-ing son.

I think I have my deathray in here somewhere.

Holy Talking Heads Batman!

Yeah!

muskrat-toast wrote: "Eh. Yo knock yourself a pro slick, gray matter live performas down now take TCB'in man." "Cold got to be. You know? Shiiiiit."

tg3k wrote: Tjis is a WONDERFUL and BEAUTIFUL song. I saw them in concert and it was the best concert ever.

not my favorite song on RP, but not as bad as ya'll are going on about! (it does kinda sound like David Byrne, doesn't it?!)

Old_Pink wrote: Make that 200 votes and a 5.4. But it'll just make it that much better when the next good song comes on

Old_Pink wrote: If he did this would be another ossified Clear Channel Classic rock station. Play it Bill!

196 votes, a 5.5 rating overall and it still gets played. Why? Because it sounds like David Byrne and Bill is obsessed with David Byrne. Listen to your audience!

tg3k wrote: Well arent you a macho man. I bet you even drive one of those Hummers to compensate for your "shortcomings".

I hear just enough Talking Heads to be dangerous. Not enough to say blatant copiers though.

Don't care for the song, but the combination of band name and song title is delightful: "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" . . .

th3boon wrote: Nah, when I was younger I'd have still recognized that this was crap. Whiney voices and wimpy songs sound whiney and wimpy at any age.

Wierd name for a band.

Like the song...love the band name

th3boon wrote: Age doesn't come into it, these guys just aren't anything original/interesting.

If you don't get this you must just be too old. Can't wait to see these guys over and over again this summer.

I clapped my hands. I said yeah. It didn't make this stop.

mojoman wrote: FWIW I read somewhere on the Internet the other day that Byrne was spotted at one of this band's concerts. I'd imagine that he's probably more flattered than anything else. Personally, this song increases my desire to see the Talking Heads reunite. But these guys aren't a bad sustitute since that's unlikely to ever occur.

Distractingly bad, and in the same set as the vile Matisyahu. I am distraught.

Love this band. He sounds like Byrne, but so what?

Bocephus wrote: Because that's what Indie now is, a genre, with identifiable characteristics. It used to just be short for "independant". Now it's a genre or sub-genre. Indie.

redeyespy wrote: A guy walks into a bar with a pile of crap in his hand and says to the barkeep .. look what I almost stepped in. Give it another listen ole' timer.

wjritchi77 wrote: why do all indie bands insist on singing like David Byrne on acid?

David Byrne, call your lawyer. You're being ripped off.

This a great group, but not their best song

turnergirl1of2 wrote:...and can discern crap when they hear it.

Ridiculous band name.

snurfer wrote: My thoughts exactly. Like it!

the music is weak and the singing is muddled and nasal. this really is bad .......

Someone upload 'The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth', please, the song I like most from this CD

Essbee wrote: bump.

Cruising and clapping right along yeah!

I really like the first song on this CD. Its fun. This one is pretty good too, though.

jah_blessed wrote: Well, you should have known better than to put it in your mouth... Yeah!

snurfer wrote: That's who I thought I was hearing too when it first started. Likeable tune.

Disgusting!

I don't know why I like this song, but I do. Weird...

All objectors are old and lame. This band rules. Whose upload was this?

Best David Byrne copy ever

*seconds the whininess comments* ... i dunno, sometimes i love whiny singers, like Thom Yorke for example... but this guy mumbles too much in addition, and the song is just too repetetive (especially after the last song... too similar, but the cure was better. ^^;;)

pousso wrote:

Essbee wrote:Exactly....all I hear is "whine wha wha wha whine whine"

Essbee wrote: Agree, and David Byrne's voice is already annoying! IMHO of course.

Xeric wrote: Nail right on the (talking) head.

There's a reason why some indie bands remain indie bands.

Hmmm. David Byrne, but less musical. . . .

Ok...is this a "sound a like" set?

Saw these guys in Reykjavik during the Iceland Airwaves festival. I was somewhat enjoying their first few tunes, then my wife mentioned how nasally his voice was. Suddenly I couldn't hear anything but whining from him. By the end their set it was 'nails on a chalkboard' intolerable. Too bad, because the rest of the band is pretty good.

Mari wrote:Bravo

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon. . . Write something original or take the song somewhere. Oh, too late. Song's over. Another band given kudoes just because they're from BKLYN. Phooey. DLG

Meh.