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i heart twee
nickyandthefuture:
Yeah, twee has been kinda my "thing". (Not my only thing, but I seem to like it a lot more than the majority of people on this board).
Twee has historically been fairly tongue-in-cheek, but I think with a lot of people the impression of infantilism puts them off from seeing that. Sometimes, twee-ness was used as a vehicle for making a concept more unsettling than it would otherwise (I mean, "Rory Rides Me Raw" by the Vaselines is a bit disturbing). Amelia Fletcher sang so sweetly that most people never noticed the surprising number of Heavenly songs dealing with rape and abusive relationships.
Which isn't to say that sometimes bands are twee for no greater purpose other than that it's fun. I guess this is something that either you like or you don't. Even I think it can go too far: a band called Busytoby, which was two people who were oh-so-disgustingly in love with each other, made an album called It's Good to Be Alive, which comprises songs about how in love with each other they are, and it makes me want to punch things.
One of the major centers of indie pop was Sarah Records. When they closed, this was their epitaph:
--- Quote ---Sarah Records
a day for destroying things...
... because when you were nineteen
didn't YOU ever want to create something beautiful and pure
just so that one day you could set it on fire
and then watch the city light up as it burned?
Didn't you want to do that every day of your life?
Nothing should be forever.
Bands should do one single and then split-up,
fanzines finish after one flawless issue,
lovers leave in the rain at 5am and never be seen again -
Habit and fear of change are the worst reasons for ever doing ANYTHING.
Stopping a record-label after 100 perfect releases
is the most gorgeous pop art-statement ever
and says more about pop-music than any two-part digipak
limited-edition coloured-vinyl 7"
grimly authentic lo-fi ten-track EP
(or any other marketing gimmick)
ever will.
Sarah Records is owned by no-one but us,
so it's OURS to create and destroy how we want
and we don't do encores.
We want to burn in bright colours and go pop,
to be giddy, impulsive and silly,
to kiss people in new places -
EXQUISITELY
- and dare to tear things apart.
The first act of revolution is destruction
and the first thing to destroy is THE PAST.
scary
like falling in love
it reminds us we're alive
--- End quote ---
Gryff:
The Lucksmiths are pretty cool. Obviously Belle and Sebastian. I was also going to say Kings of Convenience, but apparently they're "baroque pop"...
zoidbergslo:
belle and sebastian <3
Gryff:
I am twee as fuck.
KharBevNor:
Okay, come to think of it, there is at least one group I can think of that I love that might be said to have twee influences, which is current 93
For: Sleighbells, recorders, nursery rhyme singing, songs mentioning kittens, ponies etc., called an album 'All the Pretty Little Horsies', wrote a whole concept album about Noddy, song titles include 'The Ballad of Bobby Sunshine', 'Oh Merry-go-round', 'Happy Birthday', 'A Voice for Catland'.
Against: Tape loops of nazi speeches and people shouting 'JESUS WEPT', white noise, screams, songs mentioning rape, genocide, and the occult, called albums 'SixSixSix: SickSickSick' and 'Lucifer Over London', the concept album was called 'Swastikas for Noddy', song titles include 'Falling Back in Fields of Rape and Smoke', 'Into The Bloody Hole I Go', 'The Inmost Night', 'Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil' and, in the greatest move ever, 'The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow And The Hohohobow '.
Actually, Current 93 are just fucked up.
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