Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by marqueemoon » Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:12 pm

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(overshare:) I domain squatted "tweework.com" for a few years (until the joke got too old: you know, like WeWork, but twee!)
Imagine the water cooler chat.

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Post by marqueemoon » Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:44 pm

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marqueemoon wrote:
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TweeWork™️

On-site scooter and vintage Volvo mechanic!
Reservable private bathrooms for crying!
Ample coat and scarf hooks, and loaner cardigans for your guests!
Our on-site concierge will hand deliver mix tapes to your office crush!
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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by cestlamort » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:57 pm

marqueemoon wrote:
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Reservable private bathrooms for crying!
Not fiction at some twee-commerce goliaths, sadly.

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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by sammynb » Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:08 am

Like someone else said, realise this is for 80s band Twee but it sounds like there is a decent scene in San Fran atm.
Have you heard Chime School?
Cindy?
There was a decent article on bandcamp the other day about the SF music scene - check out The Janglers section of the article.

Flying Nun was the home of 80s twee/jangle in the Antipodes but there were also a few interesting band in Australia at the same time and in the very early 90s. There has always been a tendancy for a slightly heavier sound with Australian bands, so a lot of these are probably more jangle that twee.

Obviously the Church touched on that sound, Marty Wilson-Piper loves a Rickenbacker, Heyday is a great album then they made it big/disappeared up their own arses and well if you know about Steve Kilbey then enough said.
Bhagavad Guitars featured Steve Kilbey's youngest brother. Their recorded material was good, live they were very average.
Then there was Kilbey's next youngest brother's band, I think there are three of them, The Crystal Set. Must be a pattern forming here!
Out of Perth but making their name in Sydney was Tall Tales and True and another from them.
The Hummingbirds were awesome, so were the Clouds and the Shrinking Violets.
There is a bunch more but the 60s garage punk sound was bigger here and we were always lucky enough to get the NZ bands touring.

Lastly not twee, not really jangle but I need to leave this here for those that haven't heard the original - Smudge.

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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:28 am

cestlamort wrote:
Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:57 pm
marqueemoon wrote:
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;D Busting out the anorak here pretty soon.
Did someone say anorak?
I'll see your BMX Bandits :k and raise you Another Sunny Day. You want jangle, enjoy the perennially-charming I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist

Full disclosure: a long long time ago I was in a band who were on the same label, but we weren't really jangly, and definitely weren't twee. Or were we? You decide
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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by s_mcsleazy » Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:35 am

i've got a joke with my friend that if there's ever a twee revival, they should start a record label dedicated to LGBTQ+ twee called LGBTwee.

actually, i find it kinda funny that one really big name right now is beabadoobee and her music clearly takes a lot of inspiration from some of that stuff along with stuff like dream pop...... and it's pretty gay which is a plus in my book. maybe not the best song to show the twee influence, but there's hecking jangle. plus she's amazing live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wFwPh-KbEY
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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:40 am

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
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...Full disclosure: a long long time ago I was in a band who were on the same label, but we weren't really jangly, and definitely weren't twee. Or were we? You decide
I enjoyed that, fringes & all! Not twee but not too far off.

I've always had a thing for stand-up drummers too so you get extra cool points for that :)
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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:52 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:40 am
UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:28 am
...Full disclosure: a long long time ago I was in a band who were on the same label, but we weren't really jangly, and definitely weren't twee. Or were we? You decide
I enjoyed that, fringes & all! Not twee but not too far off.

I've always had a thing for stand-up drummers too so you get extra cool points for that :)
Peter is way cool....still! Glad you enjoyed it.

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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by marqueemoon » Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:34 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:40 am
UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:28 am
...Full disclosure: a long long time ago I was in a band who were on the same label, but we weren't really jangly, and definitely weren't twee. Or were we? You decide
I enjoyed that, fringes & all! Not twee but not too far off.

I've always had a thing for stand-up drummers too so you get extra cool points for that :)
That was great. In my early 20’s I played in a band with a standup drummer called The Fashioncolors. We were not quite as twee as the name suggests though.

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Re: Recommend some twee 80’s jangle, please.

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:42 pm

There was definitely a fuzzy post-Psychocandy quotient who got lumped in with the more fey, twee crowd during that 'scene in between' era.

Obvious examples are The Shop Assistants and The Vaselines, I guess, but if you want a deeper dive you might get some enjoyment from 14 Iced Bears, The Groove Farm, Razorcuts, and even The Soup Dragons' early Subway singles.

I've always found it odd how determinedly Kevin Shields has disowned the early Lazy era stuff. I saw them live a few times at that point and thought they were fab. Likewise their label cohorts The Primitives who had a deft facility for those perfectly-formed short and snappy pop songs that were so prevalent at the time.

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