Florence + The Machine

#2
#2
The other day a local radio station played "Florence and the Machine" and "Rage Against the Machine" back to back.

I don't know if it was planned, but it made me laugh.
 
#3
#3
vader said:
The other day a local radio station played "Florence and the Machine" and "Rage Against the Machine" back to back.

I don't know if it was planned, but it made me laugh.
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get a new radio station.
 
#5
#5
^when I listened to them and thought, "I didn't know there was a Jefferson Airplane reincarnation"
 
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#11
#11
Her two hits are pretty good. The rest is meh.

Also, cry a little more about Jefferson Airplane, please.
 
#13
#13
We saw her at Bonnaroo Hippie Fest 2000 and 11

She was pretty good. She knows where her fans interests lie, at least. She dragged "Dog Days" out for at least 15 minutes. Stopped 3 times in the middle of it to talk to the crowd and then seamlessly would pick right up and keep it going.
 
#15
#15
Went back and watched her performance on Colbert. Unimpressed -- 99% sure she's a studio creation. Sucks because the album is fairly decent.
 
#18
#18
Not so much a band, as Universal making an attempt at finding the next Adele -- these sort of things might produce a nice song or two, but that's it. That said, I've been scouring the interwebs for an instrumental version of "Howl" for a video.
 
#19
#19
^ And I meant to say the rotating door of studio artists. It's what my uncle who lives in Nashville does -- name a big country act in the last decade and odds are he's done studio work for them. He explained to me what I suspected a few years ago:

You have one band or act that is a progenitor, and in the event they become highly palatable to mainstream audiences in an organic way and blow up, every major label scrambles to "discover" the next similar act to cash in. Looks matter first. Welch's look completely embodies the British alt chick rock explosion that's happening ATM. They're talented enough to make somebody into something they're not in the studio, then the tour happens, everybody realizes they're not all that great, then it's on to the next fad.

I guarantee that anybody with a halfway decent voice and/or some basic vocal training can be sat down in a studio by Sony BMG or Universal Music, etc. and produce an album as good as most stuff out there. It's the visual appeal most people lack.

Whole thing sucks because it ends up devaluing the work of aforementioned progenitor, because it makes it nearly impossible for any truly talented acts to experience sustained, large scale success. So it goes.
 
#20
#20
Florence and the machine isn't anything like jefferson airplane or jefferson starship or the jeffersons. that's crazy.
 
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joevol320 said:
Florence and the machine isn't anything like jefferson airplane or jefferson starship or the jeffersons. that's crazy.
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If you don't think Florence Welch sounds like Grace Slick you need to get your ears checked.
 
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#24
Roughneck said:
Yeah but Florence has admitted to wanting to sound like Grace Slick. I don't see what the big deal is.
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Then she nailed it. I started the thread to say, "Hey, if you've heard Florence + The Machine, doesn't she sound like Jefferson Airplane?"

People getting defensive are the one making a big deal out of this.
 
#25
#25
Florence is the opening act for U2 Saturday in Nashville. What am I in for during that? Pleasantly surprised, or "Shut up, where's Bono?"
 
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