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Dec 30, 2005 13:59:30 GMT -5
Post by Lestor on Dec 30, 2005 13:59:30 GMT -5
Here is a starting quote I dug up on the net:
"I first heard about The White Stripes right after The Strokes broke through. I saw the video for "Hotel Yorba" on MTV2 before "Fell in Love With a Girl" hit big. I was digging The Strokes album, so I downloaded White Blood Cells. I immediately loved the raw, post-punk-meets-The-Stones sound they had. Six years later, the promise that Stiffs, Inc. made had been delivered."
-Stick and Move
April 2003
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Jan 4, 2006 17:11:47 GMT -5
Post by Adam Selzer mr meenee on Jan 4, 2006 17:11:47 GMT -5
That's well put - plenty bands these days (Dresdon Dolls, Decemberists, etc) seem to be treading on the carpet stiffs inc laid out some years back.
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Jan 6, 2006 10:00:06 GMT -5
Post by poelzig on Jan 6, 2006 10:00:06 GMT -5
Thats putting it mildly. A lot of these bands today, wouldn't have an image or sounds if not for Stiffs, Inc. They wouldn't have the careers they do.
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Jan 6, 2006 15:15:11 GMT -5
Post by Lestor on Jan 6, 2006 15:15:11 GMT -5
Here is another quote I dug up from a french site (translated from Google, so I can't be certain of its whole accuracy):
"While speaking about buzz, certain groups arrive too early or too late. The Stiffs Inc , for example could very well have become new Strokes/Rapture/Franz Ferdinand. Their problem: a punk/post-punk influence (like the others) but 5/10 years before everyone. Make nuts. Come One (LP Nix Naught Nothing - 1994?)"
Pop-O-Rama (poporama.canalblog.com/archives/radio_gaga/)
June 29, 2005
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Jan 6, 2006 16:27:58 GMT -5
Post by Lestor on Jan 6, 2006 16:27:58 GMT -5
Im bored right now, so here is another one for you:
"Stiffs, Inc. would have done infinitely better had they existed fifteen years earlier or ten years later, when nervous, sharp punk rock had/has more of an audience. Their concept: they played at being post-Victorian blackguards of some kind (grave robbers? confidence men?) while writing panicky three-chord songs with a mishmash of anachronisms in them. This one depicts Sherlock Holmes in a drug frenzy, blaming himself for Moriarty's death at Reichenbach Falls while trying to rationalize away his own addiction. Stiffs, Inc. had all the menace missing from the 00s revivalists tilling some of the same ground like the Futureheads and Bloc Party; sadly, they broke up after two albums, with one member going on to, uh, business school."
The Horn Farm Paste Mob
April 6, 2005
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