Chaco (who I'm sure knows better) queried:
>(Is there really any difference between Live, Matchbox 20, >Fastball, and the Goo Goo
>Dolls?) Cake is, well, an >alternative.
Well, Chaco, I'd submit that each of the four bands you mention sound distinctly
different from another.I loved Fastball's ALL THE PAIN... record last year, thought it
was my pop disc of the year. Touches of 60's and 70's pop and rock; hooks you could
land Moby Dick with. The Goo Goo Dolls have made a couple of very good guitar pop
records prior to their new one, which I'll confess to not having heard- the singles
haven't enticed me. Live is awful, bombastic over-emoted junk overwhelming the decent
musicianship. Styx for the 90's. Matchbox 20 best seems to typify your argument as to
how same-y a lot of modern rock sounds.
I mean, your point about Cake's uniqueness is well taken, but those four bands you
mention aren't soundalikes.
b.s.
