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16 September 2010

Ask MeCha I like pop. I like storytelling.→[More:]I like XTC, The Go-Betweens, Crowded House, and Squeeze.

Who else should I be listening to?

post by: initapplette at: 12:09 | 9 comments

Eels!

also:
The Hidden Cameras
The Aluminum Group (mostly the album Plano)

posted by BoringPostcards 16 September | 12:37

The Decemberists?

posted by misteraitch 16 September | 15:52

Can't speak for their new stuff, but '90s Trashcan Sinatras might do.

posted by xo 16 September | 18:15

Nick Lowe? (Marie Provost)

Elvis Costello

A bit harder, but Lifter Puller (prior band of, and similar to, people from The Hold Steady)

posted by Madamina 16 September | 18:34

Damn, I was expecting tales about soda. :(

posted by mullacc 16 September | 19:08

I'm adding some of these to my Pandora at this very moment! Thanks, y'all.

posted by Elsa 16 September | 19:28

[/de-lurk]
I think you'd enjoy the Housemartins. I know I do!
[/lurk]

posted by nixxon 16 September | 20:54

The Lucksmiths

(and 2nd Eels!)

posted by pompomtom 17 September | 01:14

Thank you all!

mullacc, let me tell you about the time I drank a 20 oz. bottle of Mountain Dew before a meeting where I was giving an important presentation ... ;-)

posted by initapplette 17 September | 12:42

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