Polyphonic Spree

[ladylike]

Hey, I have noticed that there isn't a thread of this Texas band at the moment so here it is.

Basically, this is a 25 piece band, all playing various instruments who dress up in different coloured robes. They play uplifting pop/orchastral music (not worship that I know of) they have been linked to some kind of cult for the robes that they wear but they haven't admitted to worshiping anything.

The lead singer looks a bit weird on stage and at one performance at the end of the song "Hold Me Now" he was being "exalted into the sky (rooftop) and was fluttering his eyelashes at the same time!

I don't know what to think of the bands image but I like their music...

 

[Roo6339]

i heard one of their songs... it wasn't bad. they were on the big day out tour, but i missed that... stupid selling out tickets...

 

[something from the fridge]

i think they play pretty music. very happy stuff it is!!!

As for the clothes and image, one word - marketing

 

[shamgar187126]

I read in Wired magazine that they are Hare Krishna

 

[something from the fridge]

http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com/main.html

 

[shamgar187126]

Yeah read those lyrics they're definately Hare Krishna

 

[Z500]

they look like hippie dorks to me

 

[blackwasp]

they look like hippie dorks to me

Hippies aren't dorks.

 

[jess anderson]

Who cares what they look like?! Their music is so HAPPY!!!!

 

[fruitrach]

I saw the Spree at Greenbelt a couple of years ago.

They were quite good - their music is definitely happy and uplifting.

I think they are mostly a deliberately produced image. They have worked hard on making sure they look like a cult group who are worshipping and reaching trance-like states through their songs. Sometimes it'd be easy to believe they came out of a 60's drug-induced hallucination. But for the mostpart I think it's all an image, they're just a bunch of musicians who like to play together.

 

[The Theory]

i rather like them... but can't listen TOO long before I have to go to some music thats a bit... sadder.

 

[philN]

I like Beginning Stages of.. I haven't heard Together We're Heavy yet though.

 

[something from the fridge]

Hippies aren't dorks.

but are dorks hippies?

 

[SpaceProg]

Their image I think is mostly theatrical. I saw a concert of theirs on PBS not too long ago. They reminded me of the 60s... I can't imagine how...

 

[blackwasp]

but are dorks hippies?

Some of them.

 

[shamgar187126]

they are hare krishna... did i mention that's a cult? lol

 

[ladylike]

Ok, what do they believe with that cult? I wonder if they put in messages of that cult in their songs?