# What band have you been grooving on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890 "2005-11-20T06:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/61 "2005-11-25T04:43:38Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > After producing New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 1997, R.E.M. lost Bill Berry, their long time drummer, when he retired and since then things have kind of gone downhill. ☹ Yeah, I did know that. Seems to be a unanimous conclusion that the band has never been the same. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/62 "2005-11-25T04:50:25Z")
The big discovery for me over the past few months has been **The Decemberists**. _Picaresque_ is just an awesome CD, as is _Castaways and Cutouts_. Colin Meloy can give Dylan a run for his money as a lyricist. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/63 "2005-11-25T06:29:19Z")
**Morningwood** – Bouncy dance-pop rhythms with a hard rock edge. The lead singer sounds like a cross between Courtney Love and Belinda Carlisle. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/64 "2005-11-25T07:18:09Z")
Those of you who like the 80s (to early 90s) sound, especially R.E.M. and The Cure would probably like Death Cab for Cutie’s sound in the song I mentioned above. I can hear influences from both bands in the song. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/65 "2005-11-25T21:49:29Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Those of you who like the 80s (to early 90s) sound, especially R.E.M. and The Cure would probably like Death Cab for Cutie’s sound in the song I mentioned above. I can hear influences from both bands in the song. No offense to you and your musical tastes, but that sounds ghastly. I may be the only person alive who loves 80s music and hates REM (except my husband - we’re so perfect for each other 😃 ), and I’m no fan of The Cure, either. In spite of DCFC sounding like bands I don’t care for, I will probably give them a go next time I’m in a music store. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/66 "2005-11-26T01:30:17Z")
You can hear the influences, but they definitely have their own sound. You might be able to check them out on [MTV.com](http://MTV.com)’s [videos](http://www.mtv.com/music/#/music/video/) section. I found them by doing a search. I seem to recall you had some trouble being able to see videos with Launch? You might find you like the video. It’s not exactly a happy cheery video, it’s yearning and a bit sad, but ends with hope. When I first saw it, I called it “trippy”. Here are the [lyrics](http://www.skaponk.com/lyrics/21161/) to the song. (I’m linked that page, even though it has spelling errors, because I didn’t get popups with it at least.) ---
**Author:** ![swissmtndog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@swissmtndog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swissmtndog)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890/67 "2005-11-26T07:02:37Z")
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum Perfect set for a midnight drive. Lanegan was the singer for the Screaming Trees. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World somewhere between Radiohead and Coldplay, 3rd good set in a row for Elbow. Calla - Collisions The National - Alligator same type of sound as Arcade Fire, but imo better, no idea why they are not popular given what is given a lot of play on indie rock today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-band-have-you-been-grooving-on/331890.md?page=3)