it's a bit like someone from the UK trying to be a cowboy isn't it?
A simulation of twee. I know you had beat happening and all that but... it's not the same.
(tweeness sux btw, anyway)
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
max r is british
― Just got offed, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
do brttishes "get" crunk?
― jhøshea, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Twee isn't what it used to be.
― Madchen, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/darjeelinglimited
― Eric H., Friday, 28 September 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Eric how dare you mention that vile film.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa is it really that bad? i didn't "get" the life aquatic but i am not american also wait do people still talk about twee??
― rrrobyn, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
^ examples of ilxors who do this?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
no one talks abt crunk anymore :(
― jhøshea, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
did you guys ever hear weird al's take on rem: "talk about the sizzurp"?
― dell, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm going to wrangle me some steers. brb.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
in this context I don't see how you can follow "you had Beat Happening" with a "but"
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i heard some people saying "git along little dogies, git along" in a scouse accent last night
― dell, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
it's even like somebody in the US trying to be a cowboy
― remy bean, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
stephen pastel-endorsed branding irons
― dell, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
When we americans get twee, we take a bath and then we're fresh as a cowboy.
― libcrypt, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
mamas don't let their babies grow up to be twee
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
father of a boy named twee
― remy bean, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Twee
― Laurel, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QMS0Z97YL._AA240_.jpg
Watch out Bobby, twee cowboy behind you!
― NickB, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Eric H., Friday, September 28, 2007 11:31 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
yes, yes, Anderson is the dead center of twee cinema der SQUID und der WHALE
― sanskrit, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
jeff tweedy?
― remy bean, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
New York Post -- Kyle Smith
A slow train to Dullsville that makes all local stops. You know a film is in trouble if the most interesting thing in it is the luggage.
― remy bean, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
The different kinds of tea that cattle like
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread reminds me that Mark Wahlberg has a Tweety tattoo.
― Madchen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
And when googling for a picture, I found this! (technically nsfw although you can't see anything)
― Madchen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
maxr, I called you on being twee and I'm Britishes. Now get off your horse and drink your milk you hornswagglin' son ov a bitch.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I strongly dislike twee for the sake of it. Belle and Sebastian and Alexander Payne==awesome. Camera Obscura, 90% of Sarah bands, Little Miss Sunshine, You and Me and Everyone We Know etc are just plain bad. I'm not American so this is relevant at all. Just wanted to vent.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
How are Sarah bands any more twee for the sake of it than a pastiche of Sarah bands!
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic only if it's a tat.
― libcrypt, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost-I guess because, for me, it doesn't sound like B&S set out to be a twee band. More like just a rollicking good pop band whose members happen to combine in a way which sounds very close to those other bands' sounds. I don't really know much about them personally though--I'm probably wrong about that on many levels.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
You people don't even know what twee means anymore, do you.
You just toss it at anything like buckshot at a barnside.
― nabisco, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
help us understand, nabisco
― gershy, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
it is going to be all about class or something, and there will be a minor flame-out. laters.
― Just got offed, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/10242-twee-as-fuck
― Jordan, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
The politics of twee
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL @ B&S 'rollocking'. Get one copy of Rhoda.
― Madchen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Twee: http://pic.hjbbs.com/doc/200704/375767110_85f94ae51c93.jpg
― Heave Ho, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
hi dere http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v115/110/26/549466400/n549466400_298945_1055.jpg
― ken c, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
AWESOME
― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Karl May to thredd
― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
heave ho's image is a visual representation of a b&s song-title, that is cheating
― Just got offed, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the last time i really got twee was about a year and a half ago. i blacked out and woke up in a sweater vest and a pair of ugly glasses
― river wolf, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
An American who gets twee: http://www.artbythomaskinkade.com/images/kinkade_foxgloveCottageB.jpg
― Madchen, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Quirky Motherfucker Poll
― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
quirky is a word that means even less than 'edgy' as far as i'm concerned -- it's a total sign of hack writing to use it as a catagorizing adjective w/r/t music, tv, film, whatever ...
― remy bean, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
did we talk about that recent article about QUIRK and how annoying it is? i'll look for it later if we haven't
― Surmounter, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
french people can be twee
scandinavians are mostly twee
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
god bless the indian summer
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"hi my name is mo and you can thank me for sarah records and that girl from the pastels. and the marine girls. and some other stuff probably. you are welcome. bye now. gotta run."
http://www.explodedgoat.com/images/misc/Mo.JPG
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"I know you had beat happening and all that but..."
beat happening would be the icky tip of an actually very cool iceberg. for starters:
http://kukai.free.fr/radiopwhy/patience_et_prudence.JPG
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's endless really. and the 50's were a golden twee era. definitions of twee will vary, of course. and the brits were definitely the kings of twee in the 60's. or at least that was when a lot of my fave twee music was made. though i do dig a lot of 80's/90's diy/postpunk/indie tweeness. much more than i like most 80's/90's american attempts. and most american tweeness of the 80's/90's seemed to be combined with dementia of some kind. jad fair, jonathan richman, daniel johnston, etc...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I am trying to think of a single twee thing that Jonathan Richman has ever done. The last gig of his I went to in Glasgow was like some kind of booze-fuelled riot.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, OK, I hit submit then remembered G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N
see, i don't think the stuff from the 50s and 60s that infuences twee was twee in itself. it's just bit tame in retrospect compared to post-hippy youth culture that followed. those people were squares or whatever, back in the day.
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean twee is a longing for that era, rather than the era itself.
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread has reminded me that i dissed Americans for not being twee enough in a trembling blue stars review i wrote seven years ago:
"Those who balk at dreamy-boy nakedness will want to skip the bathos, but such people are called Americans, and they aren't fit to shine Terry Hall's moccasins."
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0039,seward,18492,22.html
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
twee sucks anyway
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Beat Happening were never twee, at least not in the Sarah/Waaaah! sense. They took inspiration from a variety of sources, from the Germs to Lee Hazelwood to the Marine Girls. To the extent there was "twee" content, it was probably in the lyrics and Heather's vocals/drums.
After listening to Calvin Johnson & The Sons of Soil, I'm now convinced that whole scene has dead-ended.
― mike a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really see where Little Miss Sunshine is "twee." Miranda July, yes. Wes Anderson, probably. The Decemberists, maybe (though coming from a different directly.)
― mike a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I am trying to think of a single twee thing that Jonathan Richman has ever done.
ice cream man, abominable snowman in the supermarket, hey there little insect, i'm a little dinosaur, i'm a little airplane, the lonely little thrift store, when she kisses me, give paris one more chance, buzz buzz buzz...
― lauren, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
And Girlfriend!
― Madchen, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yes. definitely proto-twee.
― lauren, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I've heard at least tiny twee bands cover "Ice Cream Man" live.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread has reminded me that i dissed Americans for not being twee enough in a trembling blue stars review i wrote seven years ago:"Those who balk at dreamy-boy nakedness will want to skip the bathos, but such people are called Americans, and they aren't fit to shine Terry Hall's moccasins."
Isn't that like Gene Simmons chastising teenage girls for not being chaste enough?
― libcrypt, Friday, 5 October 2007 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i think noise board is nowt more than our atlantic cousins' slightly-more-strident take on twee.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
grrrrrr
― a puppy, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/02/12/scones_narrowweb__300x449,0.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.stitch4stitch.com/images/s4s055/s4s055_ind.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lat34.com/_/Photo/500xNone/elvis_presley-getty_images-blue.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ jens lekman
― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
lol twee cowboys
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
village person
― John Justen, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://members.tripod.com/~Blue_Lena/cowboykeith.gif
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The cowboy in The Village People could be called many things but I don't think "twee" is one of them. There's nothing overly precious about The Village People.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Some guy in my office just said 'rosemary, sage and thyme'
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't Canada part of Americas
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
America invented twee, just like acid house, jungle, etc. Across the ole pond it was just made more their own. Why do you think all the big UK proto-twee bands (whatever the fuck that means) were obsessed with Americana?
― burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gWCF0MPL4
― burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
louis, why are you styling yourself as some kind of ilxpert, lately i seem to read about 80 fanciful pronouncements a day from you.
― estela, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread reminds me there was a time when america was seen as sunny and childish and pastel colors and mickey mouse hats and old ladies baking apple pies in mint green and purple cottages with little squirrel figurines in curio cabinets. before the whole imperial death war thing.
― burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Vietnam? Or Reagan?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Invented national character, post modernism, all that Momus shit. 40s-early 60s I"m thinking. you know, the whole naive chirpy american in dark and serious england kinda thing. Now culture here is all about KCIKIN ASS YEARHG.
― burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
naive chirpy americans were pretty much all about kickin ass too.
http://www.skylighters.org/disney/mosquito.jpg
is that twee?
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Is belle and sebastian twee? I love b&s
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link
teenage american hipster trash loves twee
also:not so sure what is there to 'get'
― warmsherry, Friday, 11 January 2008 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link