Similar sounding bands.

I'll grant you that Verlaine and Byrne kinda' sound the same as vocalist, but Television was a guitar driven rock band. I can't even recall a guitar solo in any of the early Talking Heads albums.

Check out Chuck Prophet, especially "Soap & Water" and tell me you don't hear Tom Petty? The vocal styling, the familiar tempo of the guitar? The basic driving beat/undertone of the songs here. Huh?

Onhwy61: I've listened quite a lot to my comparison of Television vs. Talking Heads, The 1st @ 3rd songs on side two of "Marquee Moon" make (me) scratch my head and say, "which came first"? There has to be a correlation here? As far as the overall output of the bands are concerned, you may be correct. My point here is, how can two bands sound so eerily similar and not have some kind of connection? Maybe It's Divine Intervention?

Dido "No Angel" vs. Beth Orton "Central Reservation"?

To me, the similarities are striking.

"Marquee Moon" and "Talking Heads '77" both came out in the same year with the Television record being released first. Both bands were regular performers at CBGBs and were probably well acquainted with each others' music.

Agree that Television Talking Heads is odd, but for me Feelies and The Velvets also seems odd, slow tempos vs hyper fast tempos and too cool for school vs hyper nerd sensibility. Maybe later period Feelies bumps up a bit closer

I'll nominate post 1974 Bob Seager and Bruce Springsteen