Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[Granny Gremlin]

Delivery?  He's got more in common with Morrissey (shoehorning in too many syllables on every nth line... OK Smith did that a few times, but only in his silly happy moments, and not so egregiously - not as many extra syllables and like 1 line max per song).  1 way ticket is typical hair metal melody; I don't hear it; his cadence/pacing/flow is nothing like Robert's.  ... OK, I will grant you the chorus of Friday Night is pretty Smithish.  If anything he takes from a very specific Cure era, the happy pop of Head on the Door +/- the few records around it.  Which was as bubbly, whimsical, and emphatic as Smith ever got.

[4stringer77]

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I was thinking, if you started a Cure cover band shouldn't it be called placebo? 

[Granny Gremlin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_(band)

They were pretty big for a bit.  Still have a following.

Also, a Cannuk TV joke from the height of the Cure's mainstream fame (late 80s/early 90s):

[uwe]

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I was thinking, if you started a Cure cover band shouldn't it be called placebo? 

Or "The Illness"? "Bob & His Medical Conditions"?

Placebo as a band already exists:





Most pertinent here, their bassist often plays TBirds (as does the one from The Darkness, so we're not even off-track):



Needless to say, Jake likes Placebo too, that groundless, yet pronounced discontent and Weltschmerz over chugging new-wavish guitars is right up his aleja, it's that deeply embedded Slavic melancholy in him.

[uwe]

And to startle you further, Jake, I'm no great fan of The Smiths, but I really like Morrissey! 

[4stringer77]

Ha, real bands called Placebo. Nothing new under the sun it seems.
Regarding the Cure and Morrissey, Bowie liked them both.

[TBird1958]

Me and a '76, wrecking Al Stewart's "On the Border"

[4stringer77]

Nice job. Is that just the camera/phone mic picking up the signal? There's some folks making nice sounding vids on youtube. Might be worth looking into to get a better sound for more accurate playing critique if that's what you're after. Keep up the good work. 

[TBird1958]

Nice job. Is that just the camera/phone mic picking up the signal? There's some folks making nice sounding vids on youtube. Might be worth looking into to get a better sound for more accurate playing critique if that's what you're after. Keep up the good work. 

Thanks, that's actually the first time I've recorded both music and my bass playing together so the was the test, next time I'll probably do some volume adjustments on both before putting the results on YT.

[uwe]

Me and a '76, wrecking Al Stewart's "On the Border"

The Nasty Habits do Yacht Rock now? The mind boggles ... What's next, Tubular Bells?!

Come to think of it, Tubular Belles would be good band name.

[TBird1958]

The Nasty Habits do Yacht Rock now? The mind boggles ... What's next, Tubular Bells?!

Come to think of it, Tubular Belles would be good band name.

Oh hell no to yacht rock (tho I've never thought of Al Stewart as such!) , but it's been over a year since we've played a show and this was a fun exercise that doesn't involve TNH's set list. We're going to audition a new singer when things get a bit safer for all involved, right now I'm the member that has both shots and Washington State will be slow to allow indoor music, maybe by Halloween?     

[gearHed289]

Nice. Good tune, good bass line, good playing. All good! 

[Granny Gremlin]

Good silhouette too 

[uwe]

[Highlander]

... We're going to audition a new singer when things get a bit safer for all involved...

Your singer (Jackie?) has moved on...?