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Let's have it again (with an "Alternative Mix" no less)
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Do you know that thing, where you are often told that a band is actually really good, but there is a kind of invisible force field that turns you off actually listening to them?
ReplyDeleteIn my case, Hello are protected by just such a force field.
It's probably an evolutionary self-protection mechanism, I wouldn't want to tamper with it, but I will say "Another School Day" is a killer tune.
DeleteProbably their name that sets off alarm bells, isn't it?
Fun fact about Hello, before they were a real band, they competed in miming contests - I think they won in fact. Not Marcel Marceau, like air guitar and pretending to be a band onstage but not playing music as such.
They were teenagers still when they got signed and fell into the clutches of Mike Leander.
Definitely their name, but more so their faces. They look like the kind of people who would call their band Hello. Just like Rammstein look like the kind of people who would call their band Rammstein.
DeleteI also seem to inhabit a general UK-wide force field that prevents me from checking out any of that music that only seems to appeal to Americans - the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Bob Seger, etc.