You ought to go back to that thread and post something like this:

tommydski wrote:Same as if I leak a bunch of My Chemical Romance songs and call it Isabelle Gall, you'd be peeved.

If I were called My Isabelle Romance and bore an uncanny musical resemblance to My Chemical Romance which creeped a lot of people out (same esoteric eyeliner as Gerard Way also, an obvious giveaway), then it would be really funny though, no? Cruel, because no doubt i'd be really embarrassed, but funny for everyone else.

Tommydski, how could you say such cruel things about me when you know that I am so emo? Now i'm not going to eat for days until I feel pretty again.

Isabelle Gall wrote:If I were called My Isabelle Romance and bore an uncanny musical resemblance to My Chemical Romance which creeped a lot of people out (same esoteric eyeliner as Gerard Way also, an obvious giveaway), then it would be really funny though, no? Cruel, because no doubt i'd be really embarrassed, but funny for everyone else.

So a better gag would've been to upload Bertine Zetlitz's 2006 album My Italian Greyhound and pass that off, you're saying? I agree.

Now that would be sublime.

mr.arrison wrote:The end of "A Minute" sounds almost exactly like the end of "I Found That Essence Rare"- And then there's the middle to "Ether" that is basically the template for a whole bunch of what Shellac is doing.

Listen to Glenn Branca's "Bad Smells." About 3/4 of the way through...there's the Futurist, at least to my ears.

Shellac is really hard to pin down. There's bits and pieces here and there that sound like other things, but the reason I love Shellac is that you only find those bits and pieces if you're a total fucking loser nerd like me.

mr.arrison wrote:get a job, you've got too much time on your hands.

this was a lame "joke"

says the man fooled by it

Steve V. wrote:Shellac is really hard to pin down. There's bits and pieces here and there that sound like other things, but the reason I love Shellac is that you only find those bits and pieces if you're a total fucking loser nerd like me.

Every band is influenced by what came before it, obviously. But the truly great bands are the ones that eventually get used to describe other bands. You hear "____ sounds like Shellac" more often than "Shellac sounds like____" for a reason. And yeah, that's why they rule.

tommydski wrote:
I was an idiot, I might think they were 'ripping off Slint'.

they are ripping off slint at the end of 'shoe song'.

Right. If I let that one song define my opinion of Shellac, I'd be a complete tool.

More so than I am.

tommydski wrote:Technician have an avowed Shellac influence. So what? Shellac sound more than a little bit like Gang of Four at times, have you noticed? At least they have good taste in music. You conduct your business and they will conduct theirs.

There is a huge difference between being influenced and blatantly ripping off someone else's unique sound. I think this Technician band are a fucking joke.