Avi Buffalo - What's In It For?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evu_MqAZpC0
The Long Beach, California band that you'll be hearing a lot about in the future, unlike those semi-melodic bands that for years MTV seemed to want to will to popularity by playing their music on their reality shows -to death!
When I listen to this, I hear 1968, a seven-year old kid at a children's daycare facility in Memphis, Tennessee, where the teenage son of the owner plays British Invasion and Stax tunes, esp. Merseybeat songs, on an old boxy institutional record player in order to get thru the day working there, and bored silly, and not at all interested in taking a nap like all the other kids my age, I pay close attention to what I hear -and it imprints on me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_music
As a result of that, I take the Ferry Cross the Mersey with my eyes closed, by osmosis.
Because of all that, this song by this band, Avi Buffalo, seems instantly familiar to me.
NME Introducing - Avi Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsI_7oXYAANamed to NME's COOL LIST 2010
http://www.nme.com/list/cool-list-2010/194775/page/1
http://www.nme.com/artists/
Now, I'll end this post with a song that I seem to have been singing for as long as I can recall... No Milk Today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Milk_Today
When I was at school at IU, circa 1980, I'd often play my many record albums featuring bands from the 1960's British Invasion era, including Herman's Hermits and assorted compilation albums, and make a point of leaving my dorm room door open a bit or tilt one of my stereo speakers out the window towards the intersection of 17th Street & Fee Lane, as well as the IU outdoor swimming pool. http://www.britishinvasionbands.com/
You wouldn't believe the number of people -especially female students I'd never met before!- who made a point of finding my dorm room at Briscoe Quad Building A up on the fourth-floor, Room 427 to commiserate, and tell me that they too had grown-up loving them and singing them, usually because of their parents.
And, of course, hadn't heard some of the songs in many, many years.
There's nothing like a melody with a hook!
Herman's Hermits -No Milk Today
https://youtu.be/DMkFY-6tT-I
The use of bells in this song -like a door bell- used to knock me out for its ingenuity, presaging my appreciation for ABBA.
I not only knew all the lyrics to Herman's Hermits songs, but have also seen all the films that Peter Noone and the rest of the band appeared in, which is how and why I happen to know that the famous "Mrs. Brown" from the song Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter was really a greyhound.
Watch this film trailer from that eponymous film:http://www.tcm.com/video/videoPlayer/?cid=81814&titleId=2811
