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Maybe he is confusing Dead Meadow with Canyon. Some would call Canyon alt-country.

Originally posted by bags:
That's my problem with Superchunk, I think. His voice is so tinny and weak, it drives me nuts, *especially* live.

TINNY!!!! WOOOHOOO monty python

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Maybe he is confusing Dead Meadow with Canyon. Some would call Canyon alt-country.

Christ Rhett,do you really think i would drive 3 hours and not know who i was seeing.I'm telling you guys they were about as psychedelic as Joan Baez.So scratch the alt country reference before you blow a gasket and let me just say they were highly disapointing and were in no way rocking.Do you consider clem snide alt country?If so,they were comparable.If not,then I'm at a loss.

Originally posted by jadetree:

Originally posted by SPARX:

. Dead Meadow sound more like Black Sabbath than they do like alt country to me.

Give me "We sold our souls for rock n roll" any day!!

I like Clem Snide, but they're certainly not alt-country.

If I like Clem Snide, will I like Dead Meadow?

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I like Clem Snide, but they're certainly not alt-country.

If I like Clem Snide, will I like Dead Meadow?

Yes,if they played as they did that night.what genre would you classify CS as?

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I like Clem Snide, but they're certainly not alt-country.

From all music guide:
Formed in New Jersey
Years Active
Group Members Eef Barzelay Jeff Marshall Jason Glasser
Genres Rock
Styles Alternative Country-Rock, Indie Rock

Sparx not trying to argue with you here, but to me Dead Meadow sound nothing like Clem Snide.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/dead_meadow/dead_meadow-good_moanin.mp3

Originally posted by jadetree:
Sparx not trying to argue with you here, but to me Dead Meadow sound nothing like Clem Snide.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/dead_meadow/dead_meadow-good_moanin.mp3

I understand.I'm only telling you what i heard from them on that night.maybe they were experimenting.if so,the experinment failed miserably.I've heard alot of their music,and was anticipating their show..Why do you think i was so surprised.

Clem Snide just sounds like an indie pop/rock band to me. They're no more alt-country than the Pernice Brothers or the current incarnation of Wilco to me.

Originally posted by SPARX:
I understand.I'm only telling you what i heard from them on that night.maybe they were experimenting.if so,the experinment failed miserably.I've heard alot of their music,and was anticipating their show..Why do you think i was so surprised.

ok, I can't imagine them doing that and I can see why it would have failed if they did, I wonder if they were trying to be more like BJM for the night or something

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Clem Snide just sounds like an indie pop/rock band to me. They're no more alt-country than the Pernice Brothers or the current incarnation of Wilco to me.

There's where the disagreement lies.i consider that to be alt country.Granted not my genre of expertise,so apologies to all diehard alt country fans.i promise not to verbally dabble in such unknown waters again.But I gotta tell ya Rhett,you'd have loved em.And Jadetree,be glad you missed that show,you may have never touched a DM album again.

What would make the Pernice Brothers alt-country? Sounds like indie pop-rock to me.

I gotta say I too am a little perplexed by the inclusion of "Dead Meadow" and "alt-country" in the same sentence. I mean, we all know that Dead Meadow is the sound of warm, runny honey…soft dewy grass…vibrant crackling bonfires….dark rumbling thunder.

Then again, I wasn't at that particular show.

I agree completely. And if Pernice Bros. is alt-country, then the Bigger Lovers song I'm listening to right now is alt-country as well.

I think NOT!

Originally posted by Bubba:
What would make the Pernice Brothers alt-country? Sounds like indie pop-rock to me.

Originally posted by Bubba:
What would make the Pernice Brothers alt-country? Sounds like indie pop-rock to me.

I'm not that familiar with Pernice Bros work,but wasn't Joe in scud mountain boys?They would have had to have changed their sound alot from that to not be considered alt country.That's the trouble with labeling things,it can go different ways depending on one's own definition and knowledge for their whole body of work.And granted,my opinion comes from his previous work.So,I could be totally out of line here.Has his sound changed drastically?

Originally posted by ggw™:
I gotta say I too am a little perplexed by the inclusion of "Dead Meadow" and "alt-country" in the same sentence. I mean, we all know that Dead Meadow is the sound of warm, runny honey…soft dewy grass…vibrant crackling bonfires….dark rumbling thunder.

Then again, I wasn't at that particular show.

i wish somebody else would have been.I'm beginning to doubt my own credibility on this one,and i was sober :eek: GGW,did you get the Black album
i left for you?

aren't some current alt-country artists influcenced by 60's country rock artists like the byrds, gram parsons, and neil young. some of whom are the roots of power pop. which is why some power pop have a countryish feel in the harmonies particularily.

Originally posted by SPARX:
GGW,did you get the Black album
i left for you?

No. Which one of those deadbeats did you entrust it with?

Joe Pernice has changed his sound quite a bit from Scud Mtn Boys to Pernice Brothers.

Yes, the Scuds cound be considered alt-country, minus the twanginess. They were New Englanders, after all.