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The subreddit dedicated to this song maintains a spreadsheet of possible leads and sound-alikes. Personally, the first thing that came to mind when I heard the

• SideburnsOfDoom 7y ago
  > I'm sure a lot of vocalists at the time were going for that style. Well, that's the thing. It's not identifiably any band that I have heard before, but it's generically like a lot of them. What's the point of listing all the influences of this band that didn't make it to the big time? It sounds familiar because it's derivative of lots of things that were happening at the time. New bands take a while to find their own voice, so in the early demos you hear the bands and songs that influenced them. Some (maybe most) never make it past that. I can picture it as a band played gigs for a year around their home town, made a demo or two, one of which got played on local radio and there it is. It's not in any way uncommon.