I have seen Fleet Foxes twice and I am here to say "The emperor has no clothes!" (But he does have a sweet 70's beard and haircut)
All the fawning over the Fleet Foxes is completely lost on me. The Fleet Foxes are to 70's California Hippy Rock what Sha Na Na is to 50s Doo Wop. Yes, they are acurate in their mimickry of the look and sound, but given the absolutely cloned nature of their form and substance it just ends up coming of like beatlemania schtick. Is there so little going in modern music that we need to accpept and fawn over retreading as though it some great new idea or contribution to the body of Rock Music? I say The emporer has no clothes!
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Fledgy said on May 29, 2008:
I have seen Fleet Foxes twice and I am here to say "The emperor has no clothes!" (But he does have a sweet 70's beard and haircut)
All the fawning over the Fleet Foxes is completely lost on me. The Fleet Foxes are to 70's California Hippy Rock what Sha Na Na is to 50s Doo Wop. Yes, they are acurate in their mimickry of the look and sound, but given the absolutely cloned nature of their form and substance it just ends up coming of like beatlemania schtick. Is there so little going in modern music that we need to accpept and fawn over retreading as though it some great new idea or contribution to the body of Rock Music? I say The emporer has no clothes!