# The Redwalls: you know this band? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956 "2005-09-16T13:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/1 "2005-09-16T13:44:21Z")
[Here](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-4165839-6085708) are the search results from an Amazon search - they have two albums - the indie release Universal Blues and the newer De Nova. Brilliant stuff - sounds steeped in Brit Invasion, but updated. There are songs where the singer is channeling John Lennon raving it up on Twist and Shout. The songs are well-constructed and harken back to the day, but sound fresh. The band is a bunch of 22-year-olds or so out of Chicago - they did Universal Blues when they were about 19. Jeez. Anyone listen to them? If you like great Beatles-like rock/pop, these guys are great. (note: on De Nova there is a song about the FCC that includes some clearly articulated f-bombs - good song, but a bummer in terms of playing it for the kids…) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/2 "2005-09-17T13:43:19Z")
_bump_ Really? With all the music types on this board? They’re really good!! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/3 "2005-09-21T19:50:52Z")
I’ve only heard three songs by them, but I’m pretty sure I hate them. My god, could their sound be more grating? Probably not the feedback you’re looking for, but I didn’t want you to think you were the only one who has ever heard of them. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/4 "2005-09-21T20:22:55Z")
hmmm - so I take it you don’t like early Beatles - like their cover of “Money - that’s what I want” or “Twist and Shout”? That’s cool. YMMV Everybody I play the Redwalls for thinks they sound really similar, down to the Lennon-like vocals… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/5 "2005-09-21T20:38:01Z")
I don’t think they sound remotely like the early Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-redwalls-you-know-this-band/321956/6 "2005-09-21T21:07:56Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I don’t think they sound remotely like the early Beatles. Wow - clearly YMMV. We may not be listening to the same band. Every review I have found of them makes a point of mentioning that they sound like early Brit Invasion bands with an updated sound. > [@](#): > > bunch of 18-21 year-olds having some fun reliving the British rock ‘n’ roll sounds of the mid-Sixties, filtering it all through their own ambitious imaginations, and delivering some scorching, gritty, original rock music of their own. > [@](#): > > To listen to Universal Blues is to be instantly transported to the days of the early Beatles. > [@](#): > > Deerfield, Illinois-based quartet the Redwalls formed in 2001 – originally a British Invasion-inspired cover band dubbed the Pages > [@](#): > > Let’s get one thing straight, the Chicago based quartet The Redwalls aren’t the second coming of the Beatles, even though they sound uncannily like John, Paul, George and Ringo. See what I mean?