UK electro-rockers the Big Pink played a buoyant, big-sounding new song recently on Zane Lowe’s BBC show called “Hit The Ground (Superman),” which samples Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman.” Listen to the a radio rip of the track below via Listen Before You Buy.
Their new album, Future This, is out 1/16 on 4AD, and its first single, “Stay Gold,” hit the web a little while back.
UPDATE: 4ad has the official playback.
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Oh downvotes then. Fine, check out my new bands:
Symphony #9 by Mozart
Bob Dylan’s Toyota
Led Zeppelin V
Pet Sounds
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Orchestra
Pearl Jam 2.
There you go, I’m a very creative person with my own ideas enjoy my bands.
LOL Radiohead is named after a Talking Head’s song on their album ‘True Stories’
Hardly the same thing.
Actually, how is there really any difference between naming your band after a song versus an album? They’re both phrases someone else thought of, and usually intended as an homage.
Also, to each their own I guess, and no disrespect meant to you djfreshie, it just seems silly to me to rule out even listening to a band solely on account of the name. I mean, is oOoOO perhaps a little too hipstery of a name than I care for? Maybe. Do I love his music anyways? Hells yeah.
I understand the point of not picking up a book because the cover is ugly. But I don’t see “as an homage” as inherently virtuous in art, really. I’ve made the point about cover songs many times here I think, but you can say pretty much anything is an homage. Whether it’s honest is only determined in the mind of the person who made it, which means nothing to the audience (or shouldn’t really.)
Big Pink is different because the album Songs from Big Pink is arguably one of the most influential albums of the past half-century, whereas Radio Head was a song on a late-career Talking Heads album that doesn’t have much significance (the album or the song.)
I do agree at how petty it sounds (I did point this out in my original post, and I totally admit even I think it’s petty) but I like to draw lines somewhere, and my line is when you steal a string of words from something that already has cultural significance. I just think it’s kind of lazy. And not challenging. I ask for a little bit more from artists.
And describing oOoOO as “Hipstery” I think is making the opposite mistake. I think there is a virtue in challenging your audience like that. We complain sometimes about the marketability and the convenience of titles and band names and (which by the way, is stupid, both of those practices) but 10 times out of 10 I’ll go with the artist that took a risk over the one that played it safe.
So meta: There’s a Chicago band called “Big Science” http://bigscienceband.com/ Named after a Laurie Anderson album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Science_(album)