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Scots Taffer on 3/9/2012 at 10:29

Everyone has a favourite band (or a few, or dozens if you're some commitment phobe musical slut) and through loving that band's sound you've heard many bands that have been compared to them or share very similar musical qualities in one way or another.

I'm sure it comes to no surprise to many of you that Interpol is my favourite band and through having heard of other bands described as sounding like them I've found bands that I love (The National) and not so much (Editors). Tonight I'm listening to an album from a band that's been described as very "Interpol" called (http://www.theaureview.com/albums/cameras-in-your-room-2011-lp) Cameras (random review from internet corroborates this by mentioning my faves in the 2nd paragraph) and it's good - even better, it's home grown!

So, to the point of the thread, who's your favourite band and who have you come to love/like from hearing that "hey, they sound just like your favourite band"...

june gloom on 3/9/2012 at 10:55

Favourite band: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopiG1Qhlh8) Isis. Everybody knows it by now. The only band that comes close is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kGpx88MoE) Ulver and they're far too difficult to classify or compare to, partly because (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyIWBCFq5Y) they (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXRunPTRp8) keep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsrnZdgmmXA) changing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FLQhZz5AnM) their (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOlzfHnbmKo) sound.

Similar (as in drawing from largely the same parts of the post-metal spectrum) bands I've discovered through Isis:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ6MTdVuN-k) Rosetta
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCFL5GCA3YI) Cult of Luna
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ArcH-964Io) Callisto
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_k1c76r4Q) Transmission0

But I'm going to be honest, it took 4 bands to lay down the groundwork for me to start moving away from my 'traditional' metal comfort zone.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwixSontk8) Beloved
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZNBnMNCFQ) Sparta
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyA_lSJXK4) Thrice
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrpWsGYHNA) Pelican -- particularly this one, as it was the impetus for me to look at similar bands and discover Isis in the first place.

Briareos H on 3/9/2012 at 14:31

i really like Astor Piazzolla and uh

SubJeff on 3/9/2012 at 14:40

I tend not to go for soundalikes unless they have a band member that was one of the reasons I liked the original. I guess this is why I like some Perfect Circle.

The only time I'd do this is if I was listening to some electronic/ambient stuff like Carbon Based Lifeforms and discovered Solar Fields as a "soundalike".

Having said all this; I rather enjoyed the little bit of Camera I just heard. It is a bit like Interpol I suppose.

Scots Taffer on 3/9/2012 at 14:53

Well, to throw in another example(s), I heard Zero 7 and Boards of Canada because I loved Air.

demagogue on 4/9/2012 at 04:59

Time to pull this chestnut out of the bag.

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I don't know that I think in terms of a "favorite band", maybe a favorite band for a genre.

But let's see, I went through a NIN period, and that introduced me to a lot of industrial or electronic bands because I wanted to know what else was out there in the same neighborhood ... Aphex Twin, Orbital, Air, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Boom Boom Satellites... I don't know if you could say I discovered them because they sounded like NIN, maybe just Aphex Twin and some BBS out of that list, but catching on to NIN & wanting to know what else was out there was part of it.