wolfmother kick ass? or just a wanna be??
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Topic: wolfmother kick ass? or just a wanna be??
Posted By: moonscience
Subject: wolfmother kick ass? or just a wanna be??
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 00:30
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wolfmother kiss ass??or just a copy?? do u consider them prog rock??? i think they kikk ass....a good band is a good band...i saw them live at sxsw i found a funny video interview of hem at coachella music festival..... http://www.panjea.com/wolfmother - http://www.panjea.com/wolfmother |
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 09:49
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Ok....for one thing,don't try to even call these guys prog rock.
I like them,have listened to them quite a bit lately,and can hear so many musical influences in their music.(Sabbath,Zep,The Doors,Soundgarden,The White Stripes,etc.) But they aren't prog. -------------  |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 10:05
| Mother Of What ??? |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 10:07
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I have only heard "Woman" but was amazed when the Trouble and Strife thought she was listening to a band from the 70's.
Based on the little I have heard they sound not too bad.
Oh, yeah ... and the ain't prog!
------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 10:09
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Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 11:07
| if Wolfmother make it into PA I will launch a petition for Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath (we already have Deep Purple, btw...) |
Posted By: 2112
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 04:37
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i love wolfmother saw them live at the sydney big day out at the start of the year and they go off, White Unicorn and Minds Eye are the tracks to listen to in my opinion, but yeah not prog! |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 13:44
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I believe their debut is a great collection of tribute songs. Fun to listen to none the less.
------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 14:09
| Good band. Their fist album is not prog, perhaps in the future they will move into that direction. |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 18:55
| bought their album today and very retro but also a good listen. I noticed a bass line I think from The Floyds Atom Heart Mother and a wee riff stolen from Rush. Correct me if I'm wrong. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 19:02
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I like them they are a mixture of many 70s hard rock bands that I love. The song titles are a bit hippy though....... |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: July 02 2006 at 11:20
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Thank you emule I listened to this band before buy their album. It's a collection of sabbath-like riffs (very poorly attempted, IMO), and the singer had a dream of being Robert Plant - listen to the second track. Good revival band, but without a single drop of originality or effort to build a new sound with the elements of Sabbath and Zep.
------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: man@arms
Date Posted: July 02 2006 at 13:38
| Well imitation is the sincerest form of flatterly, so I have no problem with them sounding like a collection of great bands from 35 years ago. And, considering that rock music has been kind of on a downhill slide for over 10 years they give me hope that rock music can reestablish itself as something great again. Their debut is pretty good, but it's far from prog which is fine with me since prog is just one of many forms of rock that I like. |
Posted By: captainbeyond
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 11:43
| That Wolfmother is getting any press attention is a mistake. Of course, all creative works have their influences, but I do not hear anything that WM brings to the table to make themselves in any way relevant or interesting. Let's compare them to, say, Sleep and Kyuss, two bands who also owe heavy debts to bands such as Sabbath and Zeppelin. The difference is that Sleep took Sabbath's sound in much heavier and more psychedelic directions while Kyuss took much of Zeppelin's sound to a more expansive and spacious place. Both bands altered and innovated upon their influences to such an extent that fans of the originals could end up preferring the innovations made by the newer bands. By comparison, I do not envision many Zeppelin fans preferring WM, except for the isolated someone who chooses to prefer something simply because it's the 'now' thing and the supposed coolness that implies. WM has little to offer except for another dead end. |