The Wildhearts

The title says it all.

Say you're trying to describe the sound of The Wildhearts to a complete outsider and you want to give current mainstream examples of bands that are active and preferably radio staples, which 5 bands do you name?

For me, they are as follows:

Metallica, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens Of the Stone Age, Buckcherry.

That's a toughie, as it's hard for me to link today's mainstream bands to the Wildhearts as I discovered them in '92! Back then I remember a mate telling me before I heard them that they where Metallica mixed with Bon Jovi and the Beach Boys where also mentioned!

I do regularly think I think some of the more poppy Foo Fighters stuff has similar influences to WH - don't ask me to name songs tho'. Obviously punk is a WH influence so any major punk band could be added to the list.

My Chemical Romance are the one band I think have a great WH-ish 'hard rock' sound although it's been repackaged as 'emo'.

Tough question there - good luck in answering guys!

seventieslord wrote:For me, they are as follows:

Metallica, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens Of the Stone Age, Buckcherry.

jayvee wrote:

seventieslord wrote:For me, they are as follows:

Metallica, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens Of the Stone Age, Buckcherry.

OK........ care to try, then?

The best description i heard was they sounded like a Beach Boys cover band that comprised of Motorhead and Cheap Trick.

If i was to pick 5 kinda newer bands i'd have to go with Green Day,NoFX,The Hives,Rancid and Primal Scream(in their rock guise as opposed to their Screamadelica or XTRMNTR one)


I thought possibly the Fratellis as they can write some crackin songs that stick in the head as well...but iruled them out.I thought Backyard Babies as well...ruled them out as well.

Mainstream, I can do... modern? Not so much.

I usually go with:

Metallica
Green Day
Guns 'n' Roses
The Beatles
Nirvana

nuno75 wrote:Mainstream, I can do... modern? Not so much.

I usually go with:

Metallica
Green Day
Guns 'n' Roses
The Beatles
Nirvana

all good examples. My list, if I could name inactive bands, would include GNR and The Beatles.

I'll also add that Motorhead and Cheap Trick are great examples for those of us who are more educated, but I would not say the "average person" knows who those bands are.

There are undiscovered tribes in the Amazon jungle that have heard of Motorhead never mind the "average person".

Andy Santiago wrote:There are undiscovered tribes in the Amazon jungle that have heard of Motorhead never mind the "average person".

Where I live, I don't know anyone personally who knows a thing about Motorhead, and only a handful who would even know the name, because they were a major influence of Metallica's.

For the people generally around me, I think Motorhead is a name that most people have heard, but I don't think most people have heard any of the actual music, assuming that it's far too heavy. Until recently, when I started checking them out, I had assumed they were way over-the-top borderline death-metal.

seventieslord wrote:

Andy Santiago wrote:There are undiscovered tribes in the Amazon jungle that have heard of Motorhead never mind the "average person".

Where I live, I don't know anyone personally who knows a thing about Motorhead, and only a handful who would even know the name, because they were a major influence of Metallica's.

Yeah, but you come from scary hairy fairy land. Where Igloo rock is the norm.

My MOTHER has heard of Motorhead, and she is not a litmus paper for anything. Her fave music came from Anthony Davidson's (admittedly excellent) BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, FFS.

There are very few bands that emulate the Wildhearts around right now.

Perhaps FooFighters for riffing and Green Day because the evoke an emotional reaction from me.

Assmask wrote:

seventieslord wrote:

Andy Santiago wrote:There are undiscovered tribes in the Amazon jungle that have heard of Motorhead never mind the "average person".

Where I live, I don't know anyone personally who knows a thing about Motorhead, and only a handful who would even know the name, because they were a major influence of Metallica's.

Yeah, but you come from scary hairy fairy land. Where Igloo rock is the norm.

My MOTHER has heard of Motorhead, and she is not a litmus paper for anything. Her fave music came from Anthony Davidson's (admittedly excellent) BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, FFS.

There are very few bands that emulate the Wildhearts around right now.

Perhaps FooFighters for riffing and Green Day because the evoke an emotional reaction from me.

And Metallica for the heaviness, and QOTSA for the riffing, intentional well-timed repetitiveness, sexuality and mood creation... and Buckcherry for the sex, drugs, alcohol, and balls-out RNR attitude.

Oh for fucks sake,If I wanted to introduce someone to The Wildhearts I would simply PLAY them some or better still,take them to a gig.Actions speak louder than listing a load of mainstream shite.
Why would you have to come up with comparisons? The Wildhearts ARE The Wildhearts and they SOUND like The Wildhearts.
Does everything need to be conviniently pigeon-holed and labelled?
And since when the fuck have Buckcherry been a radio staple?

Andy Santiago wrote:And since when the fuck have Buckcherry been a radio staple?

Buckcherry have sold close to 900k of the latest album 15 in the US, on top of a million plus selling debut (ok the 2nd, Time Bomb didn't do so well) and the single Crazy Bitch (and of course Lit Up from the first) were all over the radio

... so I'd say since about '99