Who do you hear (influences/soundalikes)?

[torethatbridgeout]

I hear Johnny Rotten singing on Crackle&Drag, original recipe.

I hear X in Pine Box, especially at the end.

I hear REM's "Don't Go Back to Rockville" in My Daydream.

"Knockin' Em Back" plays a lot like Velvet Underground's "Heroin." Similar mild/wild swings, similar theme. More VU: Paul says the version of "These Days" he worked from was Nico's! After I already searched out the old Jackson Browne album.

[Chris]

Rod era Faces, Exile Stones, and a whole lotta Ray Davies.

[zook]

-I hear the Tom Petty nasal vocal whine on Knockin' Em Back.

-I hear the opening chord to the Byrds Eight Mile High (I think that's the one) in Hillbilly Junk.

-In Making Me Go I hear the Can't Hardly Wait riff and a slight Postcards in Paradise reference.

-Meet Me in the Alley sounds like it could be the Mats from the Tim-era

-Grandpaboy influence on Hillbilly Junk

[JakeMcBean]

Crackle and Drag (alt) is dead on Squeeze as written by Nick Lowe through the first half. Check the background vocals if you don't beleive me.

When the drum kicks in the original influence, The Beatles (Revolver through Magical Mystery Tour), is revealed.

"I Burried Paul"

[fungo]

At the risk of getting flamed, everytime I hear "My Daydream" I can't help but think of the Monkees. I imagine Davey Jones and Michael Nesmith running around in fast motion on the beach with surf boards under their arms.

[torethatbridgeout]

You will not get flamed, at least as long as the tastes of people here run along same lines as Westerberg's. He's been playing Monkees covers for decades and namechecked Nesmith on the last tour.

[adamapple]

johnny rotten, X?, what the hell are you smoking...and "my daydream" is basically a re-write of the beatles "please please me"...dont go back to rockville?...paulks cover of the monkees, "you just may be the one" is freakin great

[ClamsCasino]

He definitely sounds like Johnny Rotten on the original version of "Crackle and Drag". Paul was/is a Pistols fan.

[paulie]

i don't really think paul emulates anyone. he is more the type that people try to be like. he's a original. now if paul graduated from the school of rock i think his classmates might be:
johnny cash
joe strummer
elvis costello
bob dylan
johnny rotten
pete townsend
jackson browne
brian jones
kurt cobain (but they wouldn't talk to each other)
miles davis

[torethatbridgeout]

No girls? Don't they at least pull Liz Phair's braids or get babysat by Patti Smith? Chryssie Hynde and joan Jett are smoking in the boys room ...

[paulie]

o.k.
definitly chrissy
kim deal
joan jett
patti smith
kathy

[Chris]

I had to laugh when I saw Knockin' Em Back compared to Heroin.

I love the song, but . . . Heroin???

Sounds more like ELO's Mr. Blue Sky to me.

[GhostOfPaul]

Paul has been listening to himself mostly.

Having gotten that out of the way.....

In another post, I mentioned an influence on the introduction to Knocking 'em back.

On My Daydream - there is a break with vocals and guitars that are almost an exact ripoff of an early Stones tune complete with "comeon, comeon" back and forth. But that's a good thing.

I am a little dissapointed in CFMT and since Dead Man Shake is a GP project - just playing rock and roll in the basement, I am not really moved by these two releases.

It would be daft of me to pretend that these two records come anywhere near the brilliance of Stereo/Mono or even Suicaine (which even though was hated by many is with time turning into a classic, and I always loved it).

Anyway, these two discs won't change my life.

Folker better be the one.

[marigoldylocks]

i hear big stars' alex chilton of course,though only briefly.

[torethatbridgeout]

adamapple said:

"my daydream" is basically a re-write of the beatles "please please me"...dont go back to rockville?...

It's after the cmon cmon cmon part, the next few chords and tune are straight outta some REM song, I think Rockville. No one else hears that?

But then all I hear in I Will Dare is the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" (please don't wake me no don't shake me leave me where I am) and no one else seems to

[GtrPlyr]

Hey, if you listen to the intro of the Kiss song "Hard Luck Woman" you can here where Paul probably nicked the chord progression he uses in Unsatisfied (the end part of the intro).

[paulie]

the more i hear cfmt the more i hear jackson browne via keith richards

[A Regular]

Laying in bed, half awake this morning, listening to the original take of Crackle and Drag, and I could hear the Velvet's "Waiting for the the Man". It was the droning noise/guitar, with the spiky piano chipping in some melody. Love that sound...

[torethatbridgeout]

On the outro of Vampires and Failures, with the electric shaver drone going and then some eerie background vocals buried deep, it makes me think of the intro/outro of "Tomorrow Never Knows" at the end of the Beatles' Revolver album. Kind of a low rent version of that.

[torethatbridgeout]

... and now that I listened to it over and over to get the lyrics, I really hear the Beatles' "You Won't See Me" in "Vampires and Failures."

The tune and the rhythm of the words are the same for most of the chorus.

I know there's a Stonesy riff laid over the whole thing, but I'm not as up on the Stones. Maybe someone else knows that side and we can nail the DNA of this song down dead.