i'll guess i can admit to liking "kiss me" when it first came out... i guess. good wuss tune. anyway, i didn't know they were a christian band. sixpence none the richer breaks up NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Billboard) -- Christian band Sixpence None The Richer, famed for the pop hit "Kiss Me," is calling it quits. In a letter to fans published in CCM Magazine, principal members Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum announced that the group is disbanding after 10 years together. Nash recently had a baby and plans to devote time to her family. Slocum says he wants to travel and may go back to school. Sixpence began its career in the Christian music community, then achieved mainstream success with the singles "Kiss Me" (a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100) and a cover of the La's' "There She Goes." Wrangling with a series of labels delayed the group's most recent album, "Divine Discontent," which was released in October 2002 on Reprise and Squint, a Word Records imprint. Plans call for Word to issue an album in August containing B-sides from "Divine Discontent" and other material.
yeah... they weren't too bad. talk about a guy being upset when a band broke up... two words, "new radicals".
I figured they were a local band when I saw them as an opening act for the Enron Earth Day Festival in 1999... or was it 2000? but I never really gave them much thought anyway.
What's so sad about this is that I remember reading an article from the guy who "discovered" and signed them a number of years back. He essentially forced them into covering "Kiss Me" (originally by The La's) because he said it would be a hit and they would become stars. Well, he was right about part 1. He said that the band argued that if they recorded that song, even if it was successful, no one would ever know or remember their original music. He told them that if they didn't have a hit, they would have no chance of having it heard anyway, so they reluctantly agreed. About a year later, I read an interview with them and they said that after they released "Kiss Me" as a single, it was very difficult to get the record label to show any interest in them. They eventually were dropped. And, of course, they only made a percentage of the sales for the song because they don't own the copyright for it. They were like Bart Simpson and his "I didn't do it" catch phrase. No one really cared about their music. They just wanted to hear "Kiss Me," which the band never liked playing anyway. Ah, the record industry.
So was selling out worth it? Monetarily i mean? I figure it'd still be better than not making the money.
I think they did the cover for "There she goes" by the La's. If the La's sang Kiss Me, they deserve a beating.
Leigh Nash has one of those voices that takes a while to get used to, but she sang on a couple of Delerium songs and did a decent job. Granted, she is no Sarah McLachlan or Kristy Thirsk, but she was still listenable, at least to me.
