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After James and The Strokes (and obviously Razorlight!)


[ and Pulp!


'Oddly, the chorus of "A Little Soul", where he sings "You look like me..." sounds EXACTLY like old Boomtown Rats.'  http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=3169412 


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Like the Boomtown Rats fronted by Martin Amis. Classic Britpop. --Jeff Bateman http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001E8P/104-8785989-8035148?v=glance&n=5174


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Here's the Maydays!  You can play some of their songs if you like!


http://www.myspace.com/themaydaysinternet


Any other bands admitting the Boomtown Rats influence?



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I always thought that Pulp sounded very much like the Rats (particularly Tonic era). Even to the point that Jarvis seemed to mimic Bobs on stage style.


 


 



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the rats are an awesome inspiration.the toy dolls (nellie the elephant?) covered shes so modern i think

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i'm desperate to hear the toy dolls version of shes so modern, anyone got any links that i would be able to hear it on ?


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http://www.thetoydolls.com/ this there official site its on 'our last album' not got a sound clip tho cant find one

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http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=cw7v5ph4qwgx1z96tmvg5si&z=MP3&r=20.asx aha got one only a short clip.very bizarre


http://www.musicstrands.com/album/441897 and another



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I'm afraid to say that as massive a fan of the Toy Dolls as I am, I have to confess that their version of "She's So Modern" was amateur hour, especially for a band known for its frantic breakneck speed delivery and 'attack'.


The album itself, "Our Last Album?" (& despite it being apparantly the Toy Dolls third biggest selling album of all time, it has proved to be the last one) was a good album & showed that Olga's sabbatical with other bands had tightened him up, but it also showed whenever a Toy Dolls tag is put in front of him, he cannot break out of a mindset to dumb down to a set formula of what a Toy Dolls song is "supposed" to be.


If ever a band deserved the label of "underachievers", the Toy Dolls were it.


As Mike Scott of the Waterboys once put it : "You were well respected, but BULLSHIT - YOU COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT!"



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wasnt it them who did nelly the elephant?i'll always love them for that

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