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Lightnin' Rod

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Novelty Acts
« on: October 10, 2008, 02:00:19 PM »
Not to pick on Gaz and his fine bloggage (http://babyivebeenthinking.blogspot.com/), but his dismissal of The Ramones and The Sex Pistols as novelty acts in a recent blog got me wondering:  "What other fan bases can we piss off by calling their fave artists "novelty acts"?

My first nomination, which occurred to me during a discussion with a younger member of my softball team last night, is:

AC/DC

Also considering:

KISS (kind of obvious)
The Talking Heads

 
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Re: Novelty Acts
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2008, 02:11:08 PM »
Let's not forget Devo (famously called "KISS for Kollege Kidz" by one critic) and GWAR.
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Re: Novelty Acts
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2008, 10:08:43 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on October 10, 2008, 02:11:08 PM
(famously called "KISS for Kollege Kidz" by one critic) .
KISS, full stop!
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Re: Novelty Acts
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2008, 05:03:59 PM »
Blues Brothers - this one became apparent after discussion of today's 10at10 bonus track.

.. Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Lou Marini notwithstanding -- except Lou was dangerously close to being a novelty when he came out of the tomb to play the King Tut sax solo when Steve Martin did the song on SNL:


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Re: Novelty Acts
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 07:56:50 PM »
The Coasters.
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