The Sound of Bands whom I've never heard, and Probably Won't Ever Hear.

[KickTheBobo]

There seems to be a ton of bands out there, whose names I have heard over and over, and even though I have never heard their music (and probably won't) I can just TELL what they sound like. Does anyone else have these?

some examples:

Okkervil River - sounds like Going Up The Country by Canned Heat (thx. Hippie Johnny for searing that tune into my head) but with prominent banjo playing.

Gogol Bordello - Circus/ Calliope music with "tribal"-style drumming. Lots of weird tinky sounds like triangles and toy pianos.

The Bevis Frond - If a band could make entire albums based around that sound when the bass player slides from the high note to a real low note in one smooth "brrrrrrrooooooooooowwwnnnnphh", it would be this band.

[Matt]

The Bevis Frond - If a band could make entire albums based around that sound when the bass player slides from the high note to a real low note in one smooth "brrrrrrrooooooooooowwwnnnnphh", it would be this banD

I envision more of a Primus-like collective that makes concept albums based on lesser Vonnegut novels.

[yesno]

prefab sprout and aztec camera.  I think I've even heard them but I can't remember what they sound like. I'm guessing sort of a softer XTC with a flavoring of late Human League. Also both bands are actually the same band. 

[daveB from Oakland]

Disturbed -- I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that they're really, really terrible.

[Gibby]

The Weakerthans - like The Smiths playing with broken hands at a particularly painful nasal operation.
Teenagers - like a representation on a soundwave of the pages of Vice flipping.
Tokio Hotel - I imagine their records are terrifically over-mastered and sound like a Pro Tools take on what Manga might sound like if it 'rocked'.

[Beth]

Black Kids Keyboard/sample music from people who started playing last year in their college dorm.

She and Him-Belle and Sebastian rip-off with "sultry" Billy Holiday vocals.

[A.M. Thomas]

The Weakerthans - like The Smiths playing with broken hands at a particularly painful nasal operation.
Teenagers - like a representation on a soundwave of the pages of Vice flipping.
Tokio Hotel - I imagine their records are terrifically over-mastered and sound like a Pro Tools take on what Manga might sound like if it 'rocked'.

Tokio Hotel is a good one.

I don't care about the following bands at all and wish they'd go away:
Cut Copy
Fleet Foxes
Titus Andronicus

[Jonathan Steven]

Okkervil River - sounds like Going Up The Country by Canned Heat (thx. Hippie Johnny for searing that tune into my head) but with prominent banjo playing.

Overkill Ripoff??  They sound too much like the Old 97s to me, who I still believe were pretty great for a short period of time.

[todd]

Black Kids Keyboard/sample music from people who started playing last year in their college dorm.

She and Him-Belle and Sebastian rip-off with "sultry" Billy Holiday vocals.

haha, yes!

[Stupornaut]

The Weakerthans - like The Smiths playing with broken hands at a particularly painful nasal operation.
Teenagers - like a representation on a soundwave of the pages of Vice flipping.
Tokio Hotel - I imagine their records are terrifically over-mastered and sound like a Pro Tools take on what Manga might sound like if it 'rocked'.

Tokio Hotel is a good one.

I don't care about the following bands at all and wish they'd go away:
Cut Copy
Fleet Foxes
Titus Andronicus

They are, respectively:
-Nu-New Order
-Crosby, Stills, Blah and Meh
-BEST SHOW SMASH AS VOTED BY BEST SHOW LISTENERS

[Pride of Staten Island]

The Bevis Frond - If a band could make entire albums based around that sound when the bass player slides from the high note to a real low note in one smooth "brrrrrrrooooooooooowwwnnnnphh", it would be this banD

I envision more of a Primus-like collective that makes concept albums based on lesser Vonnegut novels.

You guys are way off.

More like Richard Thompson as played by Swell Maps. (That's the best I can do off the top of my head.)

Not every album is a winner but there's definitely a lot of worthy material from them. In the parlance on Clontle they would "rock" but not "rule."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbBoM2nouw[/youtube]

[KickTheBobo]

You guys are way off.

More like Richard Thompson as played by Swell Maps. (That's the best I can do off the top of my head.)

Not every album is a winner but there's definitely a lot of worthy material from them. In the parlance on Clontle they would "rock" but not "rule."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbBoM2nouw[/youtube]

"way off"? they did the brrrrrrrooooooooooowwwnnnnphh at :36 &:45!