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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: J W Buchanan on February 06, 2007, 10:27:47 AM
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Continuing the Of Montreal discussion from the 1-30 show, I think it's good.
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When I lived in Athens, I hung out with Kevin Barnes once or twice. His music isn't to everyone's taste, but I think he gets more than his share of haters. To my mind, he's a charming, talented guy who's following his dream.
~EmD
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I'm seeing them March 30th! I'm going to request "Let's Go to Outback Tonight!" It's my favorite song!
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Full Disclosure: I was never that big a fan of the E6 bands (save for NMH) which I thought were strictly NERD TIME. They thought they were making Pet Sounds II, but it came out more like Harper's Bizarre, or at best, a Sagittarius B-side.
AND: The Apples in Stereo totally Dolenz'd me when I was 16, breaking my little heart.
SO: Anything he/they do that puts distance between them and the hippie drivel, like falling in love with Suicide or late-period Sparks, is fine.
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AND: The Apples in Stereo totally Dolenz'd me when I was 16, breaking my little heart.
Aw, really? I met Robert Schneider, and he was super-nice. Do you think it has something to do with the fact that I have a second X chromosome?
I love E6 music, though. I grew up on twee pop. I may have ran with the goths, but I still wore DIY tee shirts that fell in with the twee aesthetics. Like, I'd iron a little chickadee design onto a tee and write "twee twee" on it in scripty Sharpie ink. Or, I'd take an unironic kitten in a tree tee shirt and modify it with the phrase "kitten stuck up a twee." You get the picture.
When I was 14, I wanted to get a "twee as fuck" tattoo. Who knows, I still might. Right underneath a kitten tattoo.
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I had a Queen record and I changed the tracklisting so that it included the track "TWee Are The Champions". I got a replica of the constitution and customized it so as to read "TWe The People...".
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My kidneys turn liquids t'wee.
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Twee?
Call me square...
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Twee?
Call me square...
Imagine Belle & Sebastian fronted by Bubbles from the PowerPuff Girls.
~EmD
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Twee isn't exactly new. It started in the early '80s with C-86 bands, like the Pastels and the Wedding Present. The jangly strummy la la pop sound continued to grow with Sarah Records, which brought us the sweet, sweet sounds of 14 Iced Bears, Heavenly, and Talulah Gosh. Around the '90s, twee made its way to the colonies by way of K Records. We can thank K Records for the Beat Happening, Marine Research, the Softies, and the All Girl Summer Fun Band.
I don't think the term "twee" was coined until the mid-nineties-ish. I am reasonably sure that the late John Peel came up with that one. British DJs are always coming up with all sorts of terminology.
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Wow props to Laurie for pulling this thread out of the gutter with her encyclopedial musical knowledge.
I saw 14 Iced Bears (with Spacemen 3) in nineteen eighty fuckin' seven.
I also saw the Wedding Present a number of times before they went completely shit. I only rate the first album and all the Peel Sessions especiallythe Ukrainian one (which I saw them perform) and their cover of Orange Juice's "Felicity".
Funnily enough I also saw them play their first live set in seven years at BBC radio's Maida Vale studios as part of the John Peel tribute night in 2005. It was weird seeing them play on the floor in front of not that many people and they didn't play any of the classics you'd expect - "My Favourite Dress" I think was one of John's favourite songs.
I took this picture.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Slacky-boy/DSCF0029.jpg)
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I just found some mp3s
You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
http://www.ezarchive.com/abramson/AlbumSpace/KVRBXCTDB/The+Wedding+Present+-+You+Should+Always+Keep+In+Touch+With+Your+Friends.mp3
Felicity-
http://www.ezarchive.com/abramson/AlbumSpace/KVRBXCTDB/The+Wedding+Present+-+Felicity.mp3
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Felicity was a good show until they had that Timestorm ending - WTF? And it had that chick from House, too. But did they have to cast _two_ dudes named Scott as the leads? Again - WTF?
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Twee is kind of like cotton candy. A little bit every now and then is great. Making it the main staple of your diet will leave you malnourished and toothless.
Case in point: has anyone heard the Rough Trade best of indie pop double CD compilation? It contains some undeniably great music but listening to it all in one sitting is a challenge. You'll probably want to put on Slayer afterwards to wash the saccharine taste out of your mouth.
DJ Terre T used to call twee "kissyface pop" which may be a slightly less sissified moniker.
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I really like this new record. Like the direct lyrics. Like the music. Hate the packaging. There's no way to keep it in near-mint condition, let alone mint! I mean, really! Amirightfolks?
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I agree, arcuradio. The music is great, but it unfortunately comes in a ridiculous package. I think I already lost the outside plastic cover thingy, so now I'm really screwed. I'm all for interesting packaging, but not ones that are actually kind of annoying to use.
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Twee isn't exactly new. It started in the early '80s with C-86 bands, like the Pastels and the Wedding Present. The jangly strummy la la pop sound continued to grow with Sarah Records, which brought us the sweet, sweet sounds of 14 Iced Bears, Heavenly, and Talulah Gosh. Around the '90s, twee made its way to the colonies by way of K Records. We can thank K Records for the Beat Happening, Marine Research, the Softies, and the All Girl Summer Fun Band.
I don't think the term "twee" was coined until the mid-nineties-ish. I am reasonably sure that the late John Peel came up with that one. British DJs are always coming up with all sorts of terminology.
Laurie -- what is your fave Heavenly album? I've been listening to Heavenly Vs. Satan and The Decline and Fall of Heavenly a lot lately. I have not heard Le Jardin De Heavenly, which is Spike's favorite.
Other twee mavens are free to weigh in.
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Twee isn't exactly new. It started in the early '80s with C-86 bands, like the Pastels and the Wedding Present. The jangly strummy la la pop sound continued to grow with Sarah Records, which brought us the sweet, sweet sounds of 14 Iced Bears, Heavenly, and Talulah Gosh. Around the '90s, twee made its way to the colonies by way of K Records. We can thank K Records for the Beat Happening, Marine Research, the Softies, and the All Girl Summer Fun Band.
I don't think the term "twee" was coined until the mid-nineties-ish. I am reasonably sure that the late John Peel came up with that one. British DJs are always coming up with all sorts of terminology.
Laurie -- what is your fave Heavenly album? I've been listening to Heavenly Vs. Satan and The Decline and Fall of Heavenly a lot lately. I have not heard Le Jardin De Heavenly, which is Spike's favorite.
Other twee mavens are free to weigh in.
Le Jardin de Heavenly is wonderful, but I think I love The Decline and Fall of Heavenly best. "Me and My Madness" was my favorite song at 14 years of age.
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Can anyone give me more details about this item on Stylus's list of the "Top Ten When Worlds Collide Moments (http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-when-worlds-collide-moments.htm)":
Worlds Collide
At an all-ages, downtown Olympia club known as Tropicana, flaky minimalists Beat Happening open for Black Flag, the ultimate purveyors of exhilarating anguish. Backstage, doe-eyed Calvin Johnson meets his polar opposite in the testosterone-fueled Henry Rollins.
What Happens Next
During the opening set, Johnson prances about like the stick-figured kitty-cats that adorn his gig posters. Rollins, feeling he’s being mocked, defiantly plants himself in the front row and at one point, reaches up to cover Johnson’s crotch. “Didn’t your mother teach you any manners?” Johnson responds without missing a beat, and then continues the show uninterrupted. Final score: twee 1, machismo 0.
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I would kill for a video of that.
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Television Personalities: Twee or Not Twee?
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers era Jonathan Richman: Twee or Not Twee?
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Television Personalities are twee as fuck. They were on Little Teddy Records for christ's sake!
And Jonathan Richman definitely has his twee moments. "Ice Cream Man" is wonderfully twee. I'm not sure I'd label his entire discography as twee, though.
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So, would Momus count as twee?
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Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man?"
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So, would Momus count as twee?
Momus counts as garbage.
Not recycling.