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."
"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
it's a bit like someone from the UK trying to be a cowboy isn't it?
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