You know, that band? With that singer?

Caroline — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:01:04 +0000

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3′s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

Can you remember any of the song titles?

Futureheads maybe? Killers? Not sure about the Tom Jones thing though..
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

No, can’t remember anything. Other than it isn’t the Killers or the Futureheads, or Interpol, or Bloc Party. They’re not one of the ‘new new wave’ bands, afaik.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Electric Six? Tom Jones?? ;-)
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

I’m not the only one who thinks so:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m..

Check out the song Future is in the Future – where it’s most noticeable.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Ever tried MusicBrainz? It’ll analyse an MP3 and tell you what song it is. It works pretty well. On Mac there’s something called IEatBrainz that’ll take your iTunes library and let you ID any song. I’m sure there’s something similar on the PC.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

That wasn’t really the problem. The files were properly named, but they were at work and I was at home.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Aaah, fair enough. Anyway, from what I see, I should have assumed you’d be on top of such things.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Have you heard their first album, “Fire”?
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

No, I haven’t, should I?
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

It’s a lot more fun than this one, so… maybe.
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

I heard the singles from the first album, this album is completely different. I downloaded it after you wrote about it. Sounds nice.
Tom (link) – 08 May 2005 – 09:54

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You know, that band? With that singer?