Hooters

[Rob]

The band, not the chicken wing bar. Does anyone remember a band in the mid-80s (I know they were around in the summer of 1985) called The Hooters? They were from Wilmington, DE (I was a summer hire living outside Wilmington over in PA that summer, and they were very popular locally). They had at least one popular song, called All You Zombies.

Anyway, I was listening to my NC CD today (ok, for the 100th time today), and my neural net kept picking out little hints of The Hooters in NC's music. Anyone else ever noticed, or am I a nut? (No, those aren't mutually exclusive.)

...R

[headgear]

...but what i was thinking was which bands sound a bit like NC - sort of thing.

Does anyone agree with me that you could argue Crowded House sound sort of the same? I think it's in the harmonies.

any others?

[pyxilillymon]

Ok, this is really, really just me, but there seems to be a correlation between NC & Guster. Guster is my absolute favorite band and all the NC fans seem to like them, too. Another one that falls into this catagory is G.Love. Any G.Love fans out there? Some of his more acoustic tunes feel like they have the same sort of love or vibe put into them as NC.....

[Rob]

Someone asked my to describe the NC sound, and I told them the best I could do was that it was celtobluegrospelternative. It wouldn't surprise me that there are and have been other successful bands with a similar sound, given that all four of these styles (or five or six, when you consider bluegrass originally a merger of its own) so naturally fit together. Although I never really considered the Hooters to be at all gospel, their one hit was widely interpreted to be at least Biblical in nature.

...R

Does Sweat Afton need a dulcimer, or _what_? That melody is so wonderful. Thanks again, Mr. Thile.

[NickelCreekFan1]

when i first heard nickel creek i instantly thought of Guster because of the harmonies the both bands had..i said to myself i had to have this cd because of the harmonies... pyxilillymon ..we must think the same lol

[mandoBob]

I hate to disappoint, but I dont like Guster.
perhaps we hear other bands b/c we like similar things about the different bands we like? Does that make sense?
I love the flecktones, and some of their style I hear in NC...genre melding, crazy skills, boundary pushing...

[arob71]

Yeah, I'm a big Hooters fan (no pun intended :p). They were actually formed in Philadelphia in 1978, but didn't have national success until 1985 with And We Danced (easily one of my favorite songs of the 80's), Day By Day, Where Do The Children Go, and All You Zombies. I never would have made a connection with Nickel Creek, but the Hooters did work religion into several songs and they are the only 80's band I can think of off the top of my head to feature a mandolin prominently in many songs (and all the ones I mentioned above). I highly recommend the CD Hooterization: A Retrospective. It's got the hits as well as a gorgeous mandolin and vocal version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds--which, come to think of it, does remind me of something Nickel Creek might do. Hooter Rob Hyman co-wrote Time After Time with Cyndi Lauper, while Eric Bazilian wrote (What If God Was) One of Us for Joan Osborne. There's more than you ever wanted to know!

Aaron

[Joehalin]

celtobluegrospelternative. lol, good one (honestly)

comparing guster and nc is pushing it I think. but recommending guster is not a bd idea for all nc fans.