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The Hives:Real Deal or just a tease???

I picked up The Hives CD, as a TAS recommended recording, what a blast!!! four of the songs are definitely 60s style (tracks,1,4,6,10) , though they remind me of the Romantics of the late 70s. The rest were 70s/90s punk junk( to me anyway). Also, picked up the Strokes(awful, punk junk), The White Stripes,, although no one particular song was a stand out, they were more in tune with the 60s style of garage bands. The song about the Big Three was hilarious.

So the question, are my hopes running too high and these groups one shot wonders?? and is this type of music just a shot in the dark??? If not are there any other bands similar to this type, 60s garage band, in your face swagger ( Standells' "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"
or Them' "Gloria"). Are the kids getting hip again???
shubertmaniac
jeffloistarca
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Reminds me of my 12 year old son explaining to me how he likes "punk". I cued up the Sex Pistols and the Ramones and let him hear punk for himself. He informed me that was old grunge, punk was now and had nothing to the black things spinning around on my Oracle! Heathen swine, I sent him to his room until he's 25
sean
6,231 posts
 
HA HA HA !!! I would've loved to see / hear your sons reaction Jeff : ) There's something about playing the Pistols on an Oracle with thousands of dollars of support gear behind it that just doesn't seem "right" though. Have we become "the establishment" ??? : ) Sean
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PS... Just to make sure "kids" think i'm still "hip", i'm going to go out tomorrow to get my tongue and nose pierced and have those big "tribal holes" installed in my earlobes. A few strategically placed tattoos might help too. Just to put me over the top, i'm going to start start spitting a lot and using the words "like" and "man" a lot. Ya know what i mean, man ? Like wow, man. I'll show them.... : )
blkadr
739 posts
 
There does seem to be a movement back to 70s rock style. Some of us (new) old farts were talking about what our kids are listening to. Sounds like they are not just listening to the new music with the old sound but they are discovering the old stuff. The stuff they would not listen to because it was not "their music". By the way, we were standing around the BBQ with "Mountain Climbing" blasting and looking at the "Chunga's Revenge" album cover at the time.
twl
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If you like the '60's psychedelic stuff, you should try a band called "Plastic-land". They were around in the '80s and had a sound like the 13th Floor Elevators. Except without the "Duk-a-duk-a-duk-a-doo". If you know the 13th Flr. Elevators, you know what that means. Plastic Land did a song called "Trap-Door Shoes" that really hit the nail on the head.
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