Sunday, July 29, 2018
Edelman - The Standells
I chose to write about and introduce The Standells for my blog post. I am more familiar with the UK “garage rock” sound, so I wanted to spice it up and listen to the sounds coming from America. I was unfamiliar with “The Standells” before hearing my brother's band perform the upbeat classic song “Dirty Water”, along with attending many Boston sporting events and hearing their music being played. I was surprised to read that The Standells are not from Boston despite the references in the song “Dirty Water”. A lot of their songs have similar cheerful beats that make their music fun and unique to them. The Standells were also seen by many as the “punk band of the 60’s”. From doing some research, I found out that the Standells band members were always changing. I find this interesting because they had this unique sound to them which they had to maintain.
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This song is very interesting as it does have the cheeriness that you mentioned and I can also hear the laid back influence that the garage rock style had. I think its very interesting that you found this band to be referred to as punk I wouldn't have initially assumed that.
ReplyDeleteI'm also from Boston and so I know what your talking about with that whole "dirty water" thing. That's interesting though that they reference it in their lyrics, like you said not being a Boston band.
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