bands with same name – Curious as a Cathy

Welcome to Monday’s Mewsic Moves Me! I’m not having one of my crazy moments but Mondays are busy. I prefer to do my house chores through the week while DH is at work reserving the weekend to help with to-dos that he has planned or we just knock around together. It’s time to quieten those voices and hit the dance floor!

We all need something that makes us go ‘Awwww’. Joining Sandee at Comedy-Plus for Awww Mondays!

This month’s honorary co-hostess is Michelle from Musings & Merriment but there’s no theme today which mean it’s your choice song picks week so go wild. Share what moves ya, baby!

The Friday before Christmas, my good friend at Shady’s Place introduced me to the all boys band from the mid-60s known as the Supremes. Yeah, you read that right. If you’re like me then the only Supremes you know are the backup singers for Diana Ross. Despite the squeaky wheels grinding, my brain got to turning….bands with the same name and so today’s theme was formed!

I betcha heard of the American rock band Nirvana (late 80s to early 90s), even I have heard of them. I’m just not familiar with their mewsic. However, did you know there’s an English psycho-rock band? Yep, it’s true. The original Nirvana formed in the mid-60s by mewsicians Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos. The pair hit it off smashingly well becoming nearly inseparable writing mewsic and performing. The band’s success lost steam toward the end of the decade and finally they parted ways in the early 70s due to poor sells which by that time they had produced four albums and several singles. That’s not the end of them, nope Campbell-Lyons and Spryopoulos came back together in 1985. Allow me to introduce to you the Nirvana across the pond with their album Rainbow Chaser: the 60s recordings (The Island Years).

As you might have wondered, the UK group DID sue the American band for using the same name. Quoting Wiki…

The original group filed a lawsuit in California against the Seattle grunge band in 1992. The matter was settled out of court on undisclosed terms that apparently allowed both bands to continue using the name and issuing new recordings without any packaging disclaimers or caveats to distinguish one Nirvana from the other. Music writer Everett True has claimed that Cobain’s record label paid $100,000 to the original Nirvana to permit Cobain’s band continued use of the name.

I hear ya yelling, ‘Give me my Nirvana!’ Not to worry, my friend. I’m going to give the American band its place here this morning. I figured the only way to familiar myself with these rockers mewsic and style is to share a collection of their hits found on YT. Hit play and enjoy while you do other things if you want. That’s probably what I’ll do. 🙂

Take a short cut to the song of your choice on the playlist below:

00:00 Dumb
02:32 Rape Me
05:08 The Man Who Sold The World
09:00 Heart-Shaped Box
13:32 Polly
16:12 Come As You Are
19:35 Sliver
21:32 Lithium
26:53 About a Girl
28:53 Smells Like a Teen Spirit
33:22 In Bloom
37:38 Negative Creep
40:10 All Apologies
43:45 Breed
47:50 Aneurysm
51:15 Drain You
54:56 Serve The Servants
58:23 Pennyroyal Tea

I’m not sure this will take me but I feel a wave coming to repeat this theme of bands that share the same or similar name. Watch for future posts in this series!

Which Nirvana band do you like? The American band is a bit too noisy for me and I preferred the English band style better.

Last week I attempted to use the basic Linky Tools for our dance party but some folks had problems with it. Part of it had to do the blog host (free vs self-hosted) but the other reasons I’m not sure. Personally, I like the basic type best. It’s clean looking and simple. I hope to test out the coding for different types of blogs to see how they work and then try it again once I figure something out. Meanwhile, I’m back to using the thumbnail version which occasionally will not pull up your images from your blog URL. If that happens, you cancel what you’re doing and go back to select the option to upload your desired image from your computer.

^{DISCLOSURE…this is a mewsic linky party, which means all participates are sharing songs that one can listen to from YouTube or Vimeo and a not a post about mewsic or mewsicians. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.}