what exactly is "Townie" music

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As a sister thread to what exactly is "jock" music.
For the brits who do not know what jocks are, this is for your own equivalent. I seem to remember a large piece in NME last year on the scourge of the "townies".

― Dylan, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Thin Lizzy

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Townies rock, moshers suck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I know lots of younger metallers view 'townies' as the enemy, in the same way that 'trendies' were ten yars ago.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, depends on the class of townie. Joint parental income of over £45,000 a year- trance. Less than £45,000- The Stereophonics.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...anythbing that's riding high in the charts, and so will get played in their local Brannigans or whatever dives these booze monsters hang out in.

See also 'office jerks'..... usually seen pissed up throughout town on Friday evenings after a hard week at the office - usually (almost always) still in their shiny shoes and Next ties. This lot like anything in the charts, and some UK garage (compilation albums only) to blast through their souped-up car windows. Also known to like a bit of 'rave'... again, Misery of Sound compilation albums only - full of nice cheesy vocals and chart hits by Scooter or Paul van Dyk.

Also the sort of person to be found in Ibeefa.

Mortifying.

― russ t, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

russ t in inadvertent blows-up-in-own-face shockah!

s'pose that's what you get for having your thumb perpetually up your nose.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Eminem,UK Garage,Trance,Tupac,Oasis, anything played on radio 1 by Pete Tong. Whatever is played at their local meatmarket clubs/pubs.

― Robbie, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

is this thread just gonna smoke out all the priggish, dreary snobs/rockists who have acne all over their SOULS.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ich bin ein townie.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Zandt?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

nebbesh - eh?

― russ t, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

QOTSA

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Fanfare For The Common Man

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

it's funny because out here (northern california), the townies are like 5 years ahead of the trendy urban curve.

!!! and outhud and all that "new" "williamsburg" "disco-punk" were pretty standard house party fare out in the central valley even as little as a few years ago... with *gasp* lots of guys and girls in mesh hats *faints* in attendance.

cf: pavement from bleak suburban wasteland stockton defining indie rock for the 1990s.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

most music is now being ruled out. either this means we're all townies or some people are just snobs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Embrace your inner townie, people. (All my mates from back in Northampton are townies or have severe townie tendencies, anyway: Burberry, knowledge of how to empty fruit machines, football violence, souping up cars. And God bless them).

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Skinner is a townie

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Skinner's probably shit at pool. He isn't a townie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Skinner's probably shit at pool.

what an odd insult!

and townies are shit at everything, thats why they're townies

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm too townie to be a freak, but too freakish to be a townie

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i think thats what Linkin Park implied with their 'Hybrid Theory', ha

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Are Busted townies? This question has been worrying me for a while.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No chance. They can't play pool either.

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

townies don't play pool, they play fruit machines and with butterfly knives. duh

― ssean, Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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