Anthony Fantano Quotes

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I was never a strict Ramones fan.

I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

I grew up with British rock.

Rock music is niche.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.