Superficial Music Project: Mercedes Sosa #1

It occurs to everyone that listens to music…  It happens when you’re scanning the paper to see what shows are going on, or when your you’re reading your nephew’s band’s liner notes:

You Can Tell How Good A Band Is Without Listening to Them!

But is this true?  We are here to test it out.  We have blindly chosen three bands off of Last.FM’s “Hype List”.  We will now judge (from 1 to 10) how good a band is based soley on their name.  We will then look at their pictures, decide further if that changes our opinion.  And then, finally, we’ll actually listen to their music to see how wrong/right we were.

(Joining us is L.A.-via-Milwaukee’s Adam Lovinus )

The Band We Will Be Blindly Judging Today:

Mercedes Sosa

Lille: There was a drain cleaner brand called Liquid Sosa that we used in college to clean our sinks instead of throwing garbage out. That’s what this band name reminds me of. Like a Mercedes Benz going down the drain. I get the impression that the lead singer of this band fell in love with a girl named Mercedes and stalked her outside her apartment for months and sent her paintings about the Iraq war. And that they play haunting goth music. Rating ?

Brian: The words “Mercedes” and “Sosa” immediately make me think of the douches that inhabit Wrigleyville.  I get the impression that this band  is either global-beat, or wants people to think they are ( a-la Brazilian Girls who are neither Brazilian, nor girls).  I’m going to give them a 7.  I’d like to support global beat music, if it turns out it’s five crackers doing slowcore on Moogs, I’ll be very disappointed. Rating: 7

Adam: Either a poppy, faux world-beat starlet a la Nelly Furtado, or a luxury automobile that runs on ethanol and steroids. The name-alone rating is a 5. Neither clever nor annoying. Rating: 5

On Monday, we will look at photos and update our increasingly superficial opinions of mystery band, Mercedes Sosa.