| Member Since | 3/29/2005 | | Band Website | mog.com/spencer_owen | | Influences | The 6ths, A Tribe Called Quest, After Dinner, Air, the air kick pigeon band, Albert Ayler (mainly Spiritual Unity), Animal Collective, Aphex Twin (particularly Drukqs), Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Arrested Development, Asa-Chang & Junray, Beck, Bjork, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blonde Redhead, Bob Dylan (up to the mid 70's), The Books, BOREDOMS, BRIAN WILSON (SMiLE), Br. Danielson & the Danielson Famile, Buffalo Daughter, Busta Rhymes, Café Tacuba, Captain Beefheart, Carl Stalling, Charles Ives, The Cockerel Boys (& most other Soweto music), Cornelius, Cornershop (particularly When I Was Born for the 7th Time), Daft Punk, Daniel Johnston, DAVID BOWIE, David Byrne, David Grubbs, Deerhoof, DIBLO DIBALA (& most other Soukous music), The Divine Comedy, Dr. Dooom, Dr. Octagon, Ellsworth Forrester, ELVIS COSTELLO, The English Beat, Eric Dolphy (mainly Out to Lunch), EYE YAMATSUKA, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac (mainly the songs written by Lindsey Buckingham), Flying Testicle, France Gall, Gary Wilson, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Ghost, GOODBYE THE BAND, Half-Handed Cloud, Hanatarash, Hella, His Name Is Alive, hollAnd, Iggy Pop (his first three albums), Isotope 217 (mainly Who Stole the I Walkman?), The Jam, Jaylib, Jim O'Rourke, Joan of Arc, Johann Sebastian Bach (particularly Brandenburg Concerto 3), JOHN CAGE, John Coltrane, John Lennon, JOHN LINNELL, John Vanderslice, John Zorn, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (mainly Now I Got Worry), Joni Mitchell (particularly COURT AND SPARK), Kate Bush, Kool Keith (particularly BLACK ELVIS/LOST IN SPACE), Kraftwerk (particularly Computer World), LAURIE ANDERSON, Liars, Lightning Bolt, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, Lou Reed (particularly NEW YORK), Madonna (mainly Like a Virgin), Madvillain, The Magnetic Fields, Mano Negra/MANU CHAO, Masonna, Matmos, MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse, Melt-Banana, Meredith Monk, Merzbow, MF Doom, Mice Parade, Michael Nyman (mainly his Greenaway scores), The Microphones, The Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Monks, Moondog, Moreno Veloso, MORRISSEY, Mount Eerie, Naked City, Nobukazu Takemura, Of Montreal, Omoide Hatoba, OOIOO, Optiganally Yours, Otomo Yoshihide, OutKast, Oval (particularly 94 Diskont), PAUL SIMON, Peter Gabriel, Pinback, Pixies, The Police, Prince, Q-Tip, QUASIMOTO, Radiohead, Raymond Scott, THE RESIDENTS, Ruins, Sachiko M, Sam Prekop, The Sea & Cake, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, Simon & Garfunkel (particularly BOOKENDS), THE SMITHS, Snakefinger (particularly Greener Postures), Solex, Sonic Youth, Sonny Sharrock, Soul Coughing, Spiritualized, Squarepusher, STEREOLAB, Steve Reich, The Streets, SUFJAN STEVENS, TALKING HEADS, The The, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, Throwing Muses, Tim Hecker, Tortoise, The Velvet Underground, Viktor Vaughn, Ween, Yann Tiersen, Yoko Ono, YOSHIMI P-WE. | | Sounds Like | Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Matthew Barney, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, JEAN-LUC GODARD, Werner Herzog, Harmony Korine (mainly julien donkey-boy), Stanley Kubrick, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Steven Soderbergh (particularly Schizopolis). | | Record Label | Gnome Life Records | | Type of Label | None |
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