Keep hearing this term being linked with bands I love, why is this and twee considered an insult. C86 bands were ok and I love twee, I love boy/girl harmonies and jingly jangly stuff. Also shoegazings ace too, don't get me wrong I like it heavy/aggressive too, but why is C86 such a maligned term?
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it isn't, not at the moment
at some point soon it will be an insult again, when twee goes out of fashion. If you like it, stick to it.
Twee will never go out of fashion
twee is for life
not just for pop songs
Twee is might!
Geek is right!
of course it will
I've never heard the term C86
would anyone care to define it?
C86 was a tape compilation given away by the NME in, er, 1986
lots of jangly Byrds-y indie guitars and rather fey young men and women. Very influential in its willfully-underachieving way.
Although
C86 itself isn't as jangly as its reputation suggests, featuring as much Big Flame as Bogshed. I haven't heard 'C86' used as a stylistic marker recently, though - 'twee' is getting used a bit, perhaps because of having to consult the genre thesaurus now media people currently see no shame in the sentence 'indie band Scouting For Girls'.
true enough
it seems like the tape was constructed in order to give the future members of Tallulah Gosh an arse-kick into existence.
C86
Was a mix tape on front of NME of similar type bands like Halfman Half Biscuit, that was used as by lazy journalists to lump loads of bands together
not that HMHB were very representative of what was on the tape
or could really be described as twee. The Shop Assistants are more representative of what C86 came to mean.
here's the tracklist
Side one
1. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
2. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head
3. The Soup Dragons - Pleasantly Surprised
4. The Wolfhounds - Feeling So Strange Again
5. The Bodines - Therese
6. Mighty Mighty - Law
7. Stump - Buffalo
8. Bogshed - Run To The Temple
9. A Witness - Sharpened Sticks
10. The Pastels - Breaking Lines
11. Age of Chance - From Now On, This Will Be Your God
Side two
1. The Shop Assistants - It's Up To You
2. Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers
3. Miaow - Sport Most Royal
4. Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)
5. The Servants - Transparent
6. The Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's no pubs in Heaven)
7. Big Flame - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
8. Fuzzbox - Console Me
9. McCarthy - Celestial City
10. The Shrubs - Bullfighter's Bones
11. The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait
I hate twee! AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH
I think I hate it because I don't like wearing cardigans?
It seems to be in vogue at the moment though- Songs about mittens and girls at bus stops and guitars which don't sound like hot tar. :-s
Next time I see you
I'm going to hold your hand and skip to the bus-stop with you.
A Witness
were marvellous and about as far from what is now known as 'twee' as it was possible to get. Shame that the band ended so tragically.
I used to virtually live down the Bull & Gate (C86 spiritual home) at that time.
oh man
you wont like these new keyboard riffs ive been writing
Here it is:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C63OQK76