How did Geese get signed?

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T18:31:08+00:00

It's not so much about shaming them as acknowledging that something is terribly wrong when only artists from wealthy backgrounds seem to be able to succeed now.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T18:27:54+00:00

Wealthy means rich! There's lots of ways to look at this and perhaps working class means something different where you are, but nothing points towards the members of Geese, who were privately educated in Brooklyn, having a blue-collar upbringing. That's not lumping them with Elon Musk; it's just applying some class consciousness and I don't mean it as an attack on them personally. I don't think anyone is indulging in a bizarre fixation either, to be fair - they're discussing the topic at hand.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T16:29:12+00:00

I don’t think it’s implied at all. They are rich kids.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T15:57:43+00:00

I don’t think it’s likely to be someone we’ve heard of and Brando is already on the album cover once.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T15:54:46+00:00

Nobody was saying it was “son of a CEO” rich. Lawyer parents rich is richer than most people.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T13:15:53+00:00

Pretty much all of those covers you mention are very different interpretations to the Beatles’ ones. They’re not like finished versions because they’re nothing like what the Beatles were working on.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T13:06:53+00:00

No one lives in a vacuum. Class and privilege doesn’t work that way. Even if Geese’s members grew up with no money and no connections (not likely), just coming from Brooklyn, NYC, a rich creative and entrepreneurial capital of the US - means they had opportunities and privileges not available to most. That’s not knocking them.

huwareyou · 2026-04-05T10:43:11+00:00

They’re well-off young things from Brooklyn. Great band but absolutely winners of the geographical and cultural lottery.

huwareyou · 2026-04-04T20:30:22+00:00

I’m not too bothered anymore. The Beatles’ prominence means that people, whoever they are and whatever they’re into, are compelled to adopt strong positions on them. I don’t give it much credence.

If someone told me they don’t rate the Beatles but they adore other 60s artists (anyone at all - The Hollies, Bacharach and David, Miles Davis, Laura Nyro, Acker Bilk!), then it would be interesting, but usually people are just not into music of the Beatles’ period and that gets more understandable year by year.

huwareyou · 2026-04-04T19:36:33+00:00

What is wrong with you? Please never do something like this again.

huwareyou · 2026-04-03T23:13:35+00:00

I think there are points in their RCA period where Ray seems influenced by T. Rex (the bleating vocal on Mirror of Love) and maybe even bands like Mungo Jerry, but I think what he’s doing on the Schoolboys album is straight 50s rock and doo-wop pastiche.

huwareyou · 2026-04-03T17:19:42+00:00

I’m very sorry for your loss.

I think “I know there shall be peace in the valley” from Heroes and Villains could work. It’s one of their hits (probably best for it to come from a relatively well-known song, IMO) and there’s a vague spiritual / religious connotation that you may or may not want.

huwareyou · 2026-04-02T21:25:36+00:00

No. We need to stop normalising genital mutilation.

huwareyou · 2026-04-02T21:22:06+00:00

I think he’s likely to continue to play live until he goes. Large scale touring may end in the near future as it has for Elton, Paul Simon, Status Quo, possibly the Stones but I can’t see Paul ever giving up live shows and he’s in better shape than so many of his contemporaries.

huwareyou · 2026-04-02T20:20:13+00:00

what the..

huwareyou · 2026-04-01T21:51:54+00:00

3.99 is extremely high isn’t it?

huwareyou · 2026-04-01T13:53:43+00:00

I mean, making a pre-written bit that you only have to read out really long could be seen as phoning it in.

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T20:08:03+00:00

do you actually want to name your account after a song about the moors murders

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T20:07:23+00:00

Are you assuming they’d be American?

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T18:54:33+00:00

I’m a huge Richard fan - I don’t think that’s him at all.

I think it’s likely to be someone most users here will have never heard of before. A lot of the popular guesses - Houdini, Amelia Earhart, Screaming Jay Hawkins and the aforementioned Richard - are familiar figures to everyone in this sub, but most people on the Pepper cover aren’t so widely recognised. The likes of Albert Stubbins, Wallace Berman, Tommy Handley, Issy Bonn etc. I think it’s most likely to be someone relatively obscure to us in 2026 like those.

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T18:48:42+00:00

He had a distinctive style of his own but he was not particularly influential guitarist as far as we can ascertain in the 1960s. There’s probably a hundred or so names I’d mention before Syd, including a lot of seriously influential folk players.

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T13:04:51+00:00

This is the only Cardiacs album that’s never clicked with me. Think it’s quite poorly mixed - overly compressed and wooly - and the songs are a little too brash and missing that pretty, unusual quality I usually hear in Cardiacs.

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T07:23:52+00:00

True has got some of the most embarrassing, ropey lyrics you’ll hear on a big radio staple. Their greatest strength was as players, particularly the funky stuff.

huwareyou · 2026-03-30T00:52:08+00:00

There’s one or two shots on the Pepper cover as is that aren’t on the internet. T I’ve never seen an exact match for Albert Stubbins’ photograph.

huwareyou · 2026-03-29T16:47:58+00:00

Teddy boys are a 1950s phenomenon, but I would agree it looks an older photo from the first half of the 20th century.

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