My new favourite band: I Am Kloot

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One of a handful of songs ever to grab me on the first listen (as track 4 of a compilation I didn't expect to care for):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMvjs0e6Ic

Then I read some quotes: "It's only in the context of the bleakness and the quite filthy passion at the core of us, that when we present something that naïve and that simple that it really gets its charm and finds its beauty." - John Bramwell. And another lyric: "There's blood on your legs - I love you".

Then I discovered they put Dr Who (Christopher Eccleston) in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTpaxvtLOA  IMDB says another celebrity fan is Matthew Fox (Jack the doctor on Lost).

And I liked these reviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/rockandalt/reviews/iamkloot_iamkloot.shtml  http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2297/

[Sky]

That was a nice tune, I enjoyed it. Not the type of thing I listen to alot. Good lyrics, though the guy was definitely channeling Lennon. I love using that little rockabilliy strum pattern he was using, I was just using it yesterday on something I was working on.

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Good lyrics, though the guy was definitely channeling Lennon.

I wouldn't really describe it like that. He puts his Manchester (not Liverpool) accent into it and it's very different from an Oasis-style Lennon-channelling. They make me think of Inspiral Carpets more than Lennon, especially with the dark vocals.

[Sky]

I'm just telling you what I heard :) And then my girlfriend asked me from across the room if I was listening to the Beatles. When I told her the band's name, the coworker at the desk next to her said she had also thought it was the Beatles. We're old, though.

[stray]

Manchester or not, he's does a better Lennon than Oasis. Everything Oasis does is Across the Universe ripoffs with bigger production values and crappy lyrics. That's not Lennon.

Also, I'm not sure why you wouldn't associate "dark" with Lennon. He could definitely be so.


Either way, he's better off channeling Lennon than channeling McCartney. I'm not complaining.

Good song.

[Righ]

Yeah, they're decent. And decidedly Manchester rather than Liverpool.

My favorite Manchester bands on YouTube:

John Mayall

Roy Harper

The Fall

The Chameleons

Buzzcocks

Joy Division

Chemical Brothers

Lamb

Oceansize

Puressence

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And of course, the greatest Manchester band ever - defines my first year of university in 1989:

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums (drummer Reni's hat is kickass)

The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone (with a good look at John Squire's self-painted Pollock-style guitar)

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

The Stone Roses - Fool's Gold (still sampled everywhere today)


Followed soon after by:

Happy Mondays - Step On (and check out Bez their permanent "dancer" member with the maracas: Top of the Pops)

Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (feat. more Bez)

and

Inspiral Carpets - This is how it feels


[edit] Oops ... Manchester bands ... have to add something:

New Order - Regret

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Stone Roses aftermath ...

Ian Brown is still a god: F.E.A.R.

John Squire is too much of a guitar god for his own crap bands: Love is the Law