neepheid Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) I'm sorry if this comes across like finding a way to finagle The Inevitable Teaspoons new album onto one of the more visited parts of the site, but I don't know how else to do this without mentioning it. Basically I'm having a hard time tacking a genre onto what we do. I'm not in any way saying that we've created an entirely new genre of music, but do I have a hard time coming up with a quick, pithy response to the eternal question "what kind of music do you play?". Now that we've released an album, I need to put this to bed. That's where you, the collective hive mind of BC come in. If you don't mind, could you please have a listen to our new album "Money For Old Rope" and tell me your best guess as to what the hell kind of band we are, plus some reasoning behind your decision if I can impinge on your time a little further? No doubt some of you may have the opinion that we're a bunch of tossers and be quite happy to provide reasons why - but if you could stick to musical genres, that would be much appreciated Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/4uG1eJe8yTfgICVIYc1JWP?si=UhewQYHqTTaiRk_f8Aa8og Bandcamp - https://theinevitableteaspoons.bandcamp.com/album/money-for-old-rope Edited December 11, 2021 by neepheid added links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Do you have a video or link to the music , edit, just found it Edited December 11, 2021 by Reggaebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 After a very brief listen I would describe it as Ska with a Jazz influence but that might just be because you have a vcocalist that sounds a bit like Suggs and a horn section. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, Reggaebass said: Do you have a video or link to the music , edit, just found it Added links anyway - forgot that if people want to help, they might want easy acces to what I'm talking about, doh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr4stringz Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Agree on the jazz-tinged ska suggestion from what I heard just now. Not that it’s always best to reverse engineer these things but didn’t you (or whoever sorted the upload) have to put one or two identifying genres as part of the process? Might kind of answer the question for you… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, mr4stringz said: Agree on the jazz-tinged ska suggestion from what I heard just now. Not that it’s always best to reverse engineer these things but didn’t you (or whoever sorted the upload) have to put one or two identifying genres as part of the process? Might kind of answer the question for you… You're correct that I had to put something and I wimped out and just left it as rock. A wholly unsatisfying cop out, hence the seeking outside opinion - as the band can't agree what we are either. Up here we have a humorous local music "awards" and when nominated we get put in "Best of the rest" because we don't fit neatly into any of their other awards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velarian Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 How about “Skazz”? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoRhino Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Sci-fi Jazz came to mind before I saw the Skazz suggestion which is even better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Northern Soul Madness... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I would describe the sound as "a new obscure late night BBC2 comedy theme tune that will initially attract only a few viewers due to a clash with Match Of The Day, but will eventually end up on the BBC1 Saturday prime time slot in a few months time due to millions of people raving about it on social media" -esque. It should work if you say it quickly enough. 😐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 From the title I thought it’s was going to an “are we Bassists or Bass players “ thread with answers like “hey I’m actually a musician who plays bass” and stuff. But compartmentalising someone into a genre sounds like a lot more fun…. I’ll take a listen and give it a try👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Had a listen. You certainly don’t take yourselves seriously, but take the quality of the music seriously. Sounds a bit ska, but I don’t hear jazz as some others have. The nearest genre I can think of is what Madness used to call themselves: The Nutty Sound. Sorry that may not be something you can use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Ska/Northern Soul, but however it’s labelled I’d look at the ska circuit as that style of music will no doubt get the punters up on their feet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Lozz196 said: Ska/Northern Soul, but however it’s labelled I’d look at the ska circuit as that style of music will no doubt get the punters up on their feet. I reckon it could work well on multi-band ska bill where the punters would want each band to have their own take on the genre. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddly Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I'll tell you what you are. Bloody excellent, that's what. Definitely more ska than anything else. I'm surprised that you'd even question that, to be honest. There's a lot of the Madness/ Two Tone/ Northern Soul sounds in there. I'd definitely suggest marketing yourselves in that area. Oh, great band name too. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 45 minutes ago, Oddly said: I'll tell you what you are. Bloody excellent, that's what. Definitely more ska than anything else. I'm surprised that you'd even question that, to be honest. There's a lot of the Madness/ Two Tone/ Northern Soul sounds in there. I'd definitely suggest marketing yourselves in that area. Oh, great band name too. I'm gearing up for a gig with the 'Spoons just now but I just wanted to let you know that I read your comments out to the band and they were very grateful for your kind comments. Only one of the guys in the band is a proper ska fiend and as you can imagine he's bloody delighted 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 3Tone?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinB Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 As a lot of folks have already mentioned, the most obvious comparisons would be Madness or The Specials at the point where they'd become a lot more pop-rock than ska revival. Or maybe Dexys Midnight Runners. So, 80's pop-rock. I'd have said "new wave", but it's one of those terms like "hardcore" that's come to mean very different things to different people. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Ska Revival with a dash of Pub Rock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 It actually reminds me of the Damned a little too. Obviously not New Rose, or Eloise, but more recent stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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