<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joymonster:<BR><B> Well, thats the thing about the Music, they sound just like countless other Madchester bands that I used to listen to circa 1989-91. When I first the "You Might As Well Try And Fuck Me" EP, I thought it was a new Ian Brown CD, or at best another Rush album. The Verve is not like the Music, but rather The Music are like The Verve. Similar song structures with a heavy 60's era psychedelic slant. Nothing wrong with that, but that's what I hear. <P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><BR>You hear the You Might As Well... song and think of Ian Brown? That's interesting. I see those voices at the opposite ends of the spectrum -- the flat-but-somehow-charismatic monotone versus the whoopish yowls of a chin bereft of cleft.<P>But that's just me. I actually think they sound like Deep Purple.<BR>