One hundred magnificent moments of twee music

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OK. Christmas songs and songs specificly aimed at children don't count. Other than that, here is just a start

1. The Beatles: Maxwell's Silver Hammer
2. Wings: Mary Had a Little Lamb
3. Paul McCartney: We All Stand Together
4. Pink Floyd: The Gnome
5. Idle Race: I Like My Toys
6. Small Faces: Happiness Stan
7. Manfred Mann: Ha Ha Said The Clown
8. Dukes Of Stratosfear: You're a Good Man Albert Brown
9. The Firm: Star Trekkin'
10.Nirvana: Pentecost Hotel
11.Beach Boys: Vegetables
12.Traffic: Hole In My Shoe
13.Madness: Baggy Trousers
14.Bad Manners: Walking In The Sunshine

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

15. queen "good company"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

16. kinks "autumn almanac"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

17. the vaselines - molly's lips
18. the field mice - when morning comes to town
19. belle & sebastian - get me away from here i'm dying

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mr.Pleasant" by the Kinks
"Seaside Rendezvous" by Queen
"Happy Jack" by the Who
"The Gnome"/"Bike" by Pink Floyd

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

24. the Free Design: Kites Are Fun

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Clientele - We Could Walk Together
Cooler Kids - Wake Up Next To You (Sha La La)
Camron - Oh Boy

― DarrensCoq, Monday, 15 December 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Daisy Bell" as covered by Blur

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure: Lovecats
Melons: Strictly Melonhead
Heavenly: P.U.N.K. Girl
Camera Obscura: I Don't Do Crowds
The Amazing Moses Leroy: Fuzzy

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Beautiful Love" by Julian Cope
"Size of a Cow" by the Wonder Stuff

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A few more that I didn't remember at first:

Boo Radleys: Wake Up Boo!
Hollies: Carrie Anne
Blur: It Could Be You

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pastels "truck train tractor"

― smudger (smudger), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Donovan, "I Love My Shirt"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sex clark five 'when words become a kiss'

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

magnetic fields '100,000 fireflies'

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

cannanes 'drug induced delirium'

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

pas/cal "i wanna take you out in your holiday sweater"

― MOHONKi, Monday, 15 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

fleetwood mac "songbird"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hey is Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes twee?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

teddy bears 'to know him is to love him'

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

west coast pop art experimental band 'transparent day'

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Drake - "The Thoughts of Mary Jane"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 15 December 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"pure" by pulling jessica's hair, surely in the top three of twee.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"pure" by the lightning seeds

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I Enjoy Being a Boy (In Love with You) - The Banana Splits

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ratcat "that ain't bad"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

is Brooks and Dunn twee?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The best songs appear to be twee then.

5th Dimension "Up, Up and Away"
Lesley Gore "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows"
Sea Urchins "Pristine Christine"

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

six new answers by morning.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend is thinking of changing his DJ name to TWEE FAGGOT.

"My friend."

― DarrensCoq, Monday, 15 December 2003 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cups and Cakes," The Thamesmen

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 15 December 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

sixpence none the richer - kiss me

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 15 December 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul McCartney and Wings - Let 'Em In

― p.j. (Henry), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Smiths - Frankly, Mr. Shankly

― p.j. (Henry), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
A Rose for Emily - The Zombies

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Slayer - "Necrophobic". ;-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Archies: "sugar sugar"
Sebadoh: "truly great thing"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Even As We Speak-"Best Kept Secret"
Bodines-"Therese"
Hank Williams-"There's Nothing As Sweet As My Baby"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Every Belle and Sebastion song ever.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ratcat "that ain't bad"

This is a great goddamn song, but it is in NO WAY twee, thank you very much!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh come on, the lyrics go "i love you, yeah-eh-eh-eah"!!! that's tweeeee

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd say about 75% of these aren't twee, but it's all in fun.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Arguaby lyrically twee, but sonically not twee in the slightest.

There's nothing necessarily twee about the exclamation of love. If it's tarted up in pretty pink ribbons and bows with toy piano accompaniment ala Beat Happening, THEN it's twee.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ivy - i think of you

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Broadcast 'Before We Begin'

St Etienne 'Hug My Soul'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

TV PERSONALITIES "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"
THE LOFT "Why Does The Rain"
CARDINAL "If You Believe In X-Mas Trees"
BEAT HAPPENING "Foggy Eyes"
JUNE BRIDES "I Fall" or "Every Conversation" -- hell, anything by them
SHOP ASSISTANTS "Safety Net"
SNOW PATROL "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again"
LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE anything by them too, if memory serves...
THE SOFTIES "I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Thank God"
PRIMAL SCREAM "Velocity Girl"
GALAXIE 500 "Tugboat"

what else am I missing here -- maybe FUZZBOX? THE DENTISTS? THE MICE? THE MOLES? FLATMATES? more C-86-y stuff? BMX BANDITS? THE CANNANES?

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohhh, and by far the twee-est Kinks song, even twee-er than "Dandy," is "Phenomenal Cat"! That song is so fucking impossibly twee it's like a vortex, a black hole of sickening confectionery goodness from which no dark can escape.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hit parade "See you in havanna"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Winter Wooskie" and "The Gate" by Belle and Sebastian out-twee all of the rest of their recorded output by the length of several streets.

The BMX Bandits cover version of "Don't Fight It, Feel It" is sickeningly twee. Actually almost anything touched by the hand of Duglas Stewart is twee, but non-twee songs done in a twee style kind of outclass the others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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Regarding They Might Be Giants, along with Paul McCartney, Robyn Hitchcock, Syd Barrett, Robert Smith and Colin Moulding, they'd easily require ownership of this whole thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw. I listed just one Beatles song in my original post, but the following do of course all belong in the list too:

Yellow Submarine
With a Little Help From My Friends
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
When I'm 64
Penny Lane
Martha My Dear
The Fool On The Hill
Don't Pass Me By
Piggies
Martha My Dear
Honey Pie

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

tmbg "require ownership"? okay dude, it's YOUR THREAD, but to me, they're not twee in the slightest (same with robert smith but obv. for different reasons).

to me, tmbg're at best scrabble-rock, the lite version. i can't think of them without hearing the epileptic-fit-inducing voice of sarah vowell (the triumph of mediocrity) intoning how "clever" they are over and over again in that documentary about them that i went to see, because i wanted to give tmbg a last chance for some reason.

meanwhile r. hitchock is... madlib-rock?

and syd barrett is a crossover, somewhere between twee-pop and thorazine-rock.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hate what most people think of TMBG.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Scrabble-rock" gawd I'm really about to barf.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've noticed that almost everyone I've ever encountered who doesn't like TMBG or calls them "smug" or "scrabble-rock" or whatever, they generally tend to also not like small children. I'm not sure what this means though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay I just got very not-twee, my bad.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

More songs: TMBG's "Toddler Highway", "It's Not My Birthday", "Robot Parade".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

no, kid, you're absolutely right -- i absolutely stomp on babies, puppy dogs and kittens whenever i get the chance -- it's part of the code of those-who-actively-dislike-they-might-be-giants. and yeah, "scrabble-rock" is a lame-ass term, but i was trying really hard to be nice. again, i have no idea why...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold on Yetimike, what's twee about the June Brides (aside from possibly their name)?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

june brides? hmmmm, i could see questioning that: i always thought of them as precursors to the orch-pop of belle and sebastian, et al -- sure they were more raucous, but they had LOTS of slow-ass sappy sweet little songs that made you just want to go skip to the lou, plus an obvious affinity for '60s pop and the use of horns and strings.

some twee-to-me songs by the june brides: "Heard You Whisper," "This Town" "Sunday to Saturday" & "Every Conversation." Also, "I Fall" is one of several PERFECT falling-in-love-mixtape songs.

so that makes them twee, to me, as well as their affiliation with the whole c86 scene (in my head -- i never lived in the uk or anything though i did do an interview with them back in 1985 or so, via the mail -- i should dig that out).

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear I think I disagree with pretty much everything you've just said! I think I just baulk at the word 'twee' used in this context. I understand that people have used 'twee' for years now to mean jangle-pop but that drives me crazy when applied to things like the JBs. I hear nothing twee in the songs you mention (nothing 'exaggeratedly fey' or whatever the definition is).

I understand that this is probably my problem and I'm not trying to have a go at you. It just seems like an inappropriate name (at best) and bad, kneejerk criticism (at worst). ("Why Does The Rain" isn't even vaguely twee, either!)

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair to Mike, the June Brides do get their own page on twee.net, but then again, so do the Wolfhounds who are most certainly NOT of the twee persuasion.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure, I know this isn't Mike's invention, it was just his post which struck a chord with me (sorry Mike!). There is tons of stuff on twee.net which isn't even vaguely twee. I'm fairly sure that the use of the word twee on that site is meant (at least in part) ironically.

I'll ask Pete when I see him.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Er I think what I'm really getting at is that the word 'twee' seems to be used by people to write off big chunks of music (some great!) woithout really thinking about it or listening to it. I get frustrated by similarly indiscriminate use by that music's fans because I don't think the reclaimation of the word has worked.

I don't think the word 'twee' says anything illuminating about (say) the June Brides and I do think that it has stood in the way of some people listening to some of that music.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim, it looks like there were twee denials in June Brides articles way back in 1984.

So there must be something in it, right? ;o)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, we clearly just have diff. definitions of "twee," dude! to be fair, it appears i have a diff. def. of twee than anyone else on this board.

so -- what the fuck *is* twee, then, to you?

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I just refuse to use "twee" as a genre name, it doesn't make any sense to me.

If you're asking what kind of jangly indie music I find twee, then I'd maybe point at things like the Fat Tulips (who I'm sure you remember). I mean there was a bunch of stuff which took on a kind of exaggerated childlike quality, whether in wilful musical incompetence or in that kind of dressing up (singing!) like an ickle-wickle kiddie.

No doubt there was steely irony in some of that stuff but I think the term is overused by people talking about guitar indiepop acts.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

tim is OTM. see also Shimmer by the Flatmates.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean I suppose you could say that my argument here is like saying "George Jones isn't country because he made his records in towns."

I think I mean that I object to the use of the word 'twee' to describe a particular (sub-)genre when (a) it describes that genre badly and (b) it hasn't shed the original connotations of the word.

Sorry to go on.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there *definitely* was a twee strain among some of those bands indie-pop bands - Talullah Gosh and lots of Sarah Records stuff were like a celebration of their own kitschy juvenile campness. Even stuff like the Primitives' 'Through the Flowers' is as twee as wearing a pink bow-tie to the teddy bears' picnic.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, I understand. I've been using it very broadly for years and now will certainly think twice before doing that, at least um, here.

So, the TINKLERS = twee, then, OK.

Never heard of the Fat Tulips neither...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick: yes.

Mike: I didn't mean to get on your back! I've never heard of the Tinklers, so we're about even.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

but the tinklers were creepy! yes they played up the childishness, but it wasnt in a twee way, it was a lot more disturbing than that.
fat tulips = twee, however.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, you cant call a band twee who have a song called 'don't put your fingers in the sex places'

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that sounds like a Happy Flowers song.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Tinklers = folk Happy Flowers

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

In what universe is "Star Trekkin'" twee?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

duglas t. stewart owns this thread along with those pointed by geir.
cfr. bmx bandits - girl at the bus stop

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In what universe is "Star Trekkin'" twee?

Yeah, we should have a new scale here: twee, camp, quirky, goofy and totally fucked.

Talullah Gosh = twee
Monochrome Set = camp
Violent Femmes = quirky (rhymes w/smirky)(oh yeah, and turkey)
Star Trekkin & TMBG = goofy
Happy Flowers = totally fucked

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Moldy Peaches = all of the above

"Nothing Came Out" = twee
"Who's Got the Crack?" = camp
"Jorge Ragula" = quirky
"Steak for Chicken" = goofy
"On Top?" = totally fucked

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

?? OK, it's all just totally fucked.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

How about:

All Over the World - Francois Hardy
sunday morning - Margo Guryan
summer samba - Astrid gilberto
holocaust - big star
nobody but you - trembling blue stars
the village green preservation society - the kinks
candy says - velvet underground
i like you more - the softies

― David Reed, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago)

(in a perfect world this thread would have been emptied and locked by an evil moderator) (ie, WHERE ARE YOU, NED RAGGETT?????)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago)

The Lilys - 'Nanny in Manhattan'

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

OED:
1. Originally: ‘sweet’, dainty, chic. Now only in depreciatory use: affectedly dainty or quaint; over-nice, over-refined, precious, mawkish.

1905 Punch 8 Mar. 178/1, ‘I call him perfectly twee!’ persisted Phyllis. 1917 M. T. HAINSSELIN Grand Fleet Days xv. 91 Girl: Oh, here's another little gun; isn't it a darling! Isn't it just too twee for words! 1947 E. HYAMS William Medium viii. 164 ‘Isn't he twee!’ said Mary, and pinched his cheek. 1956 G. DURRELL Drunken Forest x. 193 ‘What twee individuals?’ ‘Those knowledgeable sentimentalists who are forever telling me that it's cruel to lock up the poor wild creatures in little wooden boxes.’ 1962 Observer 25 Mar. 25/3 She has a small and, it must be said, pretty twee cottage. 1967 E. SHORT Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 102 The best of our designers who have abandoned the rather ‘twee’ decorative type of embroidered picture. 1973 G. ROBYNS Wimbledon xxix. 192 There is..a twee Arcadian outdoor studio complete with white trellis and plastic flowers. 1983 Listener 21 July 33/1 Mike Nichols's thriller-fantasy about dolphins should be as nauseatingly twee as the worst Disneybut it isn't.

Hence tweely adv., in a twee manner; tweeness.

1958 Spectator 2 May 565/3 He manages..to resist the temptation to play up the tweeness and tell the English what they expect to hear. 1962 Guardian 12 July 7/1 The..highly commendable idea of importing bulk grains..and passing them, tweely packaged, to cage-bird fanciers. 1973 Observer 18 Nov. 36/2 ‘And no doubt, if the bride is awake and has peeped out through the curtains..,’ he speculated tweely. 1981 Radio Times 7-13 Nov. 21/2 The word ‘herbs’..seems to have become associated with tweeness.

― carly, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

on that note,
HOLIDAY FLYER, Trains and Invincible, so pretty and so twee.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Air a danser - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

1. Blur – far out
2. Kinks – village green preservation society
3. Kinks – village green
4. Kinks – phenomenal cat
5. Kinks – wicked Annabella
6. Pink Floyd – scarecrow
7. Pink Floyd – the gnome
8. Pink Floyd – bike
9. Syd Barrett – octopus
10. The who – Boris the spider
11. Dukes – the mole from the ministry
12. Dukes – brainiac’s daughter
13. Dukes – vanishing girl
14. Beatles – lovely Rita
15. Beatles – she said she said
16. Beatles – magical mystery tour
17. Beatles – mean Mr mustard
18. Beatles – polythene Pam
19. David Bowie – Andy Warhol
20. Peter Gabriel – solsbury hill
21. The Cure – the caterpillar
22. XTC – summer’s cauldron
23. XTC – grass
24. XTC – season cycle
25. XTC – dying

I can provide references if necessary

― Matt Reid, Friday, 18 February 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

call and response - "rollerskate"
apples in stereo - "signal in the sky (let's go!)"
the marbles - "sun to shine"
architecture in helsinki - "the owls go"

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

"Octopus" is not twee dude! It's about a borderline schizophrenic acid burntout going through a nervous breakdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and rising above, I should add--transcendent maybe; twee, uh uh)

And "Solsbury Hill"'s totally bittersweet, about leaving the band you played with as a kid, that made you famous and not have to work for real, because you've grown apart! Not twee!

― matter setter straighter, Friday, 18 February 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

what about "Pretty Ballerina," Left Banke?

Pretty much all of "Odessa" by the Bee Gees; ALL of Robin Gibb's "Robin's Reign." And does anyone out there remember this band from Canada, on Epic in the late '70s, called the Dudes (that's a twee name)? Sounded a bit like the Zombies?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

David Eggers is a June Brides fan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1695253,00.html

― everything, Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody up in this bitch ever hear of a little twee song called
ITCHYCOO MUTHAFUCKIN PARK?!?!

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

ijune brides were my first ever mail order interview! well, them or ths shop assistants -- and i still love them even though dave eggers does also...

i can't believe no one has mentionedd PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON yet, probably the first totally twee song i ever got obsessed with (you know, back in kindergaarten, truly OG twee times for us all...)

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention "The Unicorn Song" the first of thousands of twee songs that have, you know, passed through my transom.

― everything, Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Two completely different songs called "Our House" are both extremely OTM in this thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Call and Response "Rollerskate" has to be the most twee-ish song I have ever heard. Ever.

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Sunday, 12 March 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

omg, that's so true. (i totally forgot i had that album.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

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