That was present more in bands of the past, but I just came around moonalice .. thanks to Moonalice on www.myspace.com/moonalice and they're just like that. Maybe cause they are all an older generation, but their music is really good. They sound like some other band .. I can't figure out who ? Anyways I'm really diggin their sound, I like how each member plays Bass and they switch of the vocals for each song .. so like every song is sung by a different member .. I don't know if this generation can appreciate it .. but tell me they aren't a talented well rounded band ..

There was an early 90s Alternative/lo-fi US band called Sebadoh who were a bit like that.... Lou Barlow (guitar/vox), Eric Gaffney (drums) and Jason Lowenstein (bass) all wrote songs in the band, and live they would often change instruments according to whose song was being done, the main songwriter was Lou though, so the changes round weren't often... Mind you, their songs weren't really all that musically complex to be fair....LOL

There was an early 90s Alternative/lo-fi US band called Sebadoh who were a bit like that.... Lou Barlow (guitar/vox), Eric Gaffney (drums) and Jason Lowenstein (bass) all wrote songs in the band, and live they would often change instruments according to whose song was being done, the main songwriter was Lou though, so the changes round weren't often... Mind you, their songs weren't really all that musically complex to be fair....LOL

I remember Sebadoh. I think the description "their songs weren't really all that musically complex" sums them up pretty well.

That was present more in bands of the past, but I just came around moonalice .. thanks to Moonalice on www.myspace.com/moonalice and they're just like that. Maybe cause they are all an older generation, but their music is really good. They sound like some other band .. I can't figure out who ? Anyways I'm really diggin their sound, I like how each member plays Bass and they switch of the vocals for each song .. so like every song is sung by a different member .. I don't know if this generation can appreciate it .. but tell me they aren't a talented well rounded band ..

 

it matters not if they are older, if they are a current band then they dont count as retro... retro = pre y2k. besides this is just a thinly veiled attempt at spam isnt it?

I definitely think Guns N' Roses first album, Appetite For Destruction, had this feel about it. All members pitched in for the different songs, everyone brought something else to the table.

 

Unfortunately, from the Use Your Illusions albums onwards it became more an Axl Rose and Slash show, with the rest of the members excluded creatively.

I remember Sebadoh. I think the description "their songs weren't really all that musically complex" sums them up pretty well.

 

Yeah, but that doesn't mean that they weren't good though mate... The whole "lo-fi" idea was to be simpler, more stripped down, no "shredding" or solos... If you really want to analyze Joy Division, they weren't all that musically sophisticated either, but man, what they actually did with sound and mood was like nothing on earth, but JD were pretty "lo-fi" as well, especially on the early 'Warsaw' stuff.....

 

A modern pop equivalent is Franz Ferdinand with all four of the band contributing and most of them with their own offshoot band projects (Correcto, Box Codax etc)