Results: "Music" Bands

The Music were an English band active from about the turn of the current century to briefly into the 2010's. Their combination of rock and dance/disco sensibilities could be heard as as both/either a British analog to the U.S. dance-punk bands of the same era, such as The Rapture and The Gossip, and/or a continuation of the danceable indie rock impulses that fueled Manchester groups such as The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays in the late '80's-early '90's. None of that may impress or resonate, but you might agree that it's pretty neat how all four Music member were 18 years old when their first album was released in 2001. Do you agree?

If your band's fated to be a one-hit wonder, you could do worse than to make your brief while in the national spotlight cheery as The Music Explosion did theirs. The Ohio quintet's lone biggie, "Little Bit Of Soul," combines, to my ears, an effectively simplistic musical attack with sunny encouragement sung with casual enthusiasm. However you want to define it, how soulful are you feeling now?

Roxy Music are likely the only band to emerge from Great Britain's early 1970's glam rock movement to have their albums categorized in the prog(ressive) rock section of a record shop I like. Unlike fellow contemporary U.K. proggies such as Yes and Genesis, though, Roxy adeptly condensed their artiness into songs short enough to be easily-digestible radio singles...of which they had many in their homeland in their original 1972-82 run.. In the U.S., they made the pop top 40 once with "Love Is The Drug"; though musically a fine adaptation of their aesthetic to disco, it's too sleazy for me to want to include it here. Their first hit, "Virginia Plain," is swell by me though, with oodles of musical and lyrical weirdness, the latter inspired in part by a painting by lead singer Bryan Ferry. Do you like songs that pack many elements in a brief length?

The Music Connection are the band who inspired my writing of these questions, but they're the act about whom I can find the least information online. I hear their work most ever weekend on the polka radio show I listen to before attending church, but neither are any of their albums available on website of the polka CD retailer I visit nor do they have a website (any longer?). They still get pretty feisty in Polish and Slovenian styles of their chosen genre. however, would you have guessed a band with their name to play the music they do?

The Music Machine are an act I mentioned some while ago in a poll about bands with cool costumes. And I do still think their get-up of dressing in all black with one glove of the same color is a great look...AND that their lone hit, 1966's "Talk Talk," still provides,. by my estimation, a couple of the punkest (punkiest? most punk?) minutes to ever grace U.S. pop radio. Do you concur with any of the proclamations I just made (again?)?