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The Bird and The Bee (Hall & Oates-r)

phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
edited April 2010 in Strut Central
Downloaded The Bird and The Bee's "Interpreting the Masters, Volume 1: Hall & Oates" and I'm not hatting. Clon now. Smooth Indie folk-pop or pseudo chillwave?

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  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    i can't listen to music made by people like that.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts

    i have also been
  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    they look like indie captain and tenelle.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    i can't listen to music made by people like that.

    ?
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    i'm not mad at it but the girls vocals are a bit weak and affected.
  • phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
    i can't listen to music made by people like that.

    ?

    Non-black people.
  • mylatencymylatency 10,475 Posts
    it's cool, KCRW staple
    they would be huge if they got some push
  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    i can't listen to music made by people like that.

    ?

    Non-black people.
    i'll listen to hall and oates.
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    Isn't the girl the daughter of Lowell George? And isn't the guy Lily Allen's main producer? Either way, I love that breathiness in her voice - definitely hits the spot. She's cute too. The tracks don't sound cheesy or too wrapped up in being appropriately retro. Personally, I think it's got a kind of "hipster Carpenters" vibe, but without any of the negative aspects you'd normally expect from something like that. Quite an achievement.

    I love Hall & Oates to the bone, and have done since I was about 13, but the only problem I have with this is when it gets tied in with some kind of faux-ironic "OMG LOL 70s/80s K3WL" fashion-plate shit instead of being judged on its own terms, which it deserves to be. There's a genuine affection for the songs here, and I am most assuredly not mad at all.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Terrible.
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    I like pop music. Hate me now.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    I like Hall & Oates but this is shopping for clothes at the mall music.
  • mylatencymylatency 10,475 Posts


    ^^^NICE ONE, JEFF!
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    Terrible.
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,905 Posts
  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    I'm sure I'll catch mucho hate-o, but I LOVE their cover of Rihanna's "Don't Stop The Music." LOVE.
  • AKallDayAKallDay 830 Posts
    i can't listen to music made by people like that.

    plus it's

    terrible


    i love hall and oates to the core born and raised in philly but this is shlocky and i also hate forced breathiness. neo faux lounge garbage that belongs in the nether reaches of a sirius radio black hole. i'd be in the nail salon like F*ck the world if this donkey shit came on.
  • hertzhoghertzhog 865 Posts
    Very corny. By the third track, the girl's voice seriously got on my nerves.
  • phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
    I dont mind listening to Starbucks beats sometime.
  • deathvalley90210deathvalley90210 398 Posts
    i knew the girl's voice was gonna sound like that.
  • edpowersedpowers 4,437 Posts
    I like Hall & Oates but this is shopping for clothes at the mall music.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    i knew the girl's voice was gonna sound like that.
  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts


    I like the Private Eyes one
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    i want to revise my opinion: this is just terrible. i mean god-awful, superficial, fashionista crap. i was prepared to give them points just for doing a hall and oates thing (a band i love along with many others here)but the more i think of it this is just plain wrong.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    it's too late, or too soon, or something...
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    Damn, people are really goin' in on this. I honestly can't get that angry about something this innocuous. It goes without saying it's no substitute for the genuine article, but if I ever happened to hear this involuntarily somewhere, I certainly wouldn't leave the room or anything.
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    This is weird.

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