rate my tweeness out of 10 on the basis of this cd i just burnt off:

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1. broadcast - colour me in
2. fiery furnaces - bird brain
3. david bowie - sound and vision
4. harco pront - cool
5. tom waits - starving in the belly of a whale
6. devendra banhart - this beard is for siobhan
7. the mountain goats - palmcorder yaima
8. blur - wear me down
9. deerhoof - rainbow silhouette of the milky rain
10. the moldy peaches - steak for chicken
11. the postal service - such great heights
12. m83 - cyborg
13. venetian snares - ion divvy
14. radiohead - i will (los angeles version)
15. the decmberists - chimbley sweep
16. neil young - harvest
17. preston school of industry - walk of a girl
18. magnetic fields - queen of the savages
19. spoon - i summon you (demo)
20. wilco - jesus etc.
21. dntel - the dream of evan and chan
22. gorky's zygotic muynci - how i long

please give twee rating and also emo factor.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm not really twee... more hipster than twee.

― bart hooganot (stimpson), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Willfully obscure, perhaps?

― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally gay?

Kidding, I like all of those minus moldy peaches

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, too many competent rhythm sections to achieve true tweeness

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

gee, yesterday i couldn't even spell "hipster" and now i are one!

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

tweeness rears its ugly-kitten head with the inclusion of the hated decemberists. then it disappears again, though.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

twee rating = 3 (not very twee)

― Ryan WS (fffv), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave, you've even HEARD of all of those? The Mountain Goats? M83? Venetian Snares? Are these all emo or something?

― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

blur? radiohead? man!

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

;-) sorry

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've heard of Radiohead and Blur. They're Soca, right?

― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - is Wooden the english response to Mr. Snrub???

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, not very twee and not very good either.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 26 July 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a Mr. Snrub? Is that some kind of popular music combo?

― Wooden, Monday, 26 July 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave, you've even HEARD of all of those? The Mountain Goats? M83? Venetian Snares? Are these all emo or something?
-- Wooden (josephgoode...), July 26th, 2004.

Yeah. Mountain Goats is actually a guy who used to post here. M83 is an electronic shoegaze band, pitchforkmedia.com really liked them. Venetian Snares are a hardcore glitch kind of band.

They're all familiar names if you're follow music way too closely and have no life like me.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, JD's not posting here anymore? What'd I miss?!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm very disappointed in the lack of tweeness. 0/10 and a great insult

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Listen and learn,
Side A of a tape I made last week:

Orange Juice, "Felicity"
Arthur Conley, "Sweet Soul Music"
The Specials, "Nite Klub"
Buzzcocks, "I Don't Mind"
Magnetic Fields, "Meaningless"
Velvet Underground, "Here She Comes Now"
Young Marble Giants, "Searching for Mr. Right"
Elvis Costello, "Chemistry Class"
Abba, "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
Belle & Sebastian, "Women's Realm"
Sly & the Family Stone, "Runnin' Away"
Heavenly, "C is the Heavenly Option"
Dismemberment Plan, "Elle & Ben"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dl, I heartily approve of Sound + Vision.

I just made this!

1 tv theme - aquaman
2 gerry rafferty - baker street
3 fairport convention - tale in hard time
4 10cc - things we do for love
5 massiel - la la la
6 claudine longet - i don't intend to spend christmas without you
7 george baker selection - little green bag
8 arlo guthrie - city of new orleans
9 sufjan stevens - the upper peninsula
10 brian eno - st. elmo's fire
11 ted leo and the pharmacists - timorous me
12 squarepusher - tommib
13 phoenix - too young
14 charles trenet - voyage au canada
15 veronique sanson - vancouver
16 middle of the road - chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
17 arab strap - turbulence
18 black sabbath - paranoid
19 elisa gabbai - winter in canada
20 glen campbell - wichita lineman

Judge me appropriately.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm... i'd say both of those are on the same levels of twee as mine so far. there are bursts and stabs of twee.

is "nite klub" twee? sonny has abba and belle and sebastien fighting (or picking daisies) in his corner, while the tv theme from aquaman and wichita lineman manage to frame derrick's choice appropriately.

there is a draw on emo points with sonny's sufjan stevens contribution weighing the same as derrick's dismemberment plan!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops; the sufjan stevens is mine, the d. plan sonny's. and i thought it would be more twee than emo? oh well.

That fairport song is the most-listened-to in my itunes right now.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

doglatin needs to make me a mixed cd

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only does Sonny have B & S, he picked their tweeest song.
9/10 twee!

― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

roxy - mail me at address below :-)

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Derrick has Phoenix. The twee-ometer has gone off the twee scale.

― ___ (___), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Glenn Campbell at the end? Let me quote Blue Velvet and invoke the hipsters of Williamsburg to explain how untwee that is: "Heineken?!?! Fuck that shit! … PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!"

― musto, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine had a Babyface song on it, too, but I forgot it when I was writing the tracklist down. (I rep for Hoosier Soul.) Those are totally the tweest D.Plan & Sly Stone songs; can't believe I didn't get props for Heavenly. Derrick's mix is good, though I haven't heard a good portion of it. Twee props for old folky stuff and kitschy tv theme and Baker Street.

I am listening to Camera Obscura.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

not very twee. you need some MUM

― kephm, Monday, 26 July 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a fairly twee mixtape that I've just made for my new boyfriend. I absolutely *hate* myself for giving in to my twee impulses on certain songs here... I congratulate myself for putting 'I C One Female' in amongst all the slushy love songs though.

Belle and Sebastian - 'Seeing other People' (Slow version)
Delgados - 'Everything goes around the water'
Gorky's - 'Let's Get Together'
Felt - 'The Ballad of the Band'
Pulp - 'Nites of Suburbia'
Hefner - 'Dragnet for Jesus'
The Karelia - 'To His Coy Dietress'
Luke Haines - 'How to Hate the Working Classes'
Sons & Daughters - 'Johnny Cash'
Mogwai - 'Xmas Steps'

Tindersticks - 'Tiny Tears'
Clinic - 'Distortions'
The Clientele - 'I Want You More Than Ever'
Yann Tiersen - 'The One off the Amelie soundtrack where she's skimming stones on the canal'
Divine Comedy - 'Songs of Love'
Looper - 'On the Flipside'
Black Box Recorder - 'IC One Demale'
Hefner - 'Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt'
Blur - 'To the End' (French version with Francoise Hardy)
Belle and Sebastian - 'Here Comes The Sun'

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate wins.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! that's about as twee as it comes. good blur, divine comedy and GZM choices. i may attempt to out twee it when i get home later on.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i made this CD for a friend once:

heavenly - our love is heavenly
sweet william - ambiguous
the cat's miaow - hollow inside
mccarthy - way of the world
relationships - spoilt kid
birdie - folk singer
the field mice - emma's house
sweet william - invisible ink
heavenly - it's you
the orchids - walter
belle & sebastian - le pastie de la bourgeoisie
mrs. kipling - sha la la
birdie - linus
the orchids - women priests & addicts
harper lee - clifton st. passage
blueboy - toulouse
the clientele - an hour before the light
the cat's miaow - make a wish
blueboy - fondette
harper lee - doing nothing
the clientele - reflections after jane
the dufflecoats - sunny tuesday afternoon
the field mice - an earlier autumn
the relationships - country catalogue
belle & sebastian - dirty dream #2

from what i can gather the clientele would resent appearing on this disc but it sounds soooooooo gooooooooood

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that version of "to the end." never been able to find it.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that I would, but I COULD top all these mixes by including but one song from Joanna Newsom's "Milk-Eyed Mender" on a disc consisting of nothing else but hardcore Screwston freestyles. The overwhelming tweeness of Newsom's mewlings instantly curdles everything it comes in contact with.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The French version of 'To the End' is on the B-side of 'Country House'. Oh God, 'Country House'. The terror! The terror!

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I may or may not have La Casa Azul hiding somewhere up my sleeve though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the playlist from my first ever radio show last Wednesday. I actually had it in mind to curb my most twee impulses, but in practice this just means that there are no Amelia Fletcher bands (tho her vocals are on the Pooh Sticks song):

KG: Sex toy box
Yo La Tengo: Today is the day (ep vsn)
Aislers Set: Fire engines
Electrelane: On parade
Oh-OK: Brother
Frenchmen: Runaway
My Bloody Valentine: The things I miss
Slumber Party: New Trouble
Shop Assistants: Train from Kansas City
Dougal Reed: Go your own way
Cannanes: Ern Malley
Pastels: Coming through
Hidden Cameras: Worms cannot swim nor can they walk
Bearsuit: Prove Katie wrongg
Pipas: Mental
New Order: Leave me alone
Radio Dept.: The city limit
Clean: Diamond shine
Siddeleys: Bedlam on the mezzanine
Luna: Astronaut
Magnetic Fields: Fear of trains
Dolly Mixture: Welcome to the perfect day
Wire: Mannequin
Orange Juice: Three cheers for our side
Chills: Rain
Pooh Sticks: Sweet baby James
Feelies: Slipping (into something)
Clientele: From a window
Razorcuts: Jade
Pines: The rest
Fat Tulips: Last to know
Mountain Goats: Against pollution
Ballboy: Born in the USA

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the only person I know who doesn't like Amelia Fletcher's voice. It's a lonely place.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

aside from brian and kate, no one here is really twee. and the word emo has been completely bastardized. if it doesn't sound like the promise ring or sunny day
real estate in some fashion, then it's not emo. i went to high school with the twee-est
of the twee people and the emo-est among the emotional-- and btw, the two cannot
exist without cancelling eachother out. when they touch, they both dissolve.
i hate amelia fletcher's voice. and aside from the microphones and (sometimes) the
make-up, i hate k records. the guy who started this post made about as un-twee a
mix tape as you can make out of songs from people who may not be living by the
hair of the dog... he made a tape like someone who prefers organic vegetables. not
that that's a bad thing mind you. i like most of the stuff on the mix and i like organic
stuff... carbon... mmm...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

and patrick

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry, did I win because the tape was the most twee, or the best? And can I really be twee if I don't like Amelia Fletcher? And is it a good thing or a bad thing to be twee in the first place?

I don't wear hairclips and pinafores, y'know...

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for the stupid question, but what means "twee"?

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Not stupid at all. I've been wondering the same thing.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't see how Sons & Daughters - Jonny Cash is twee. It is a pretty bold tune.

Twee = music that makes you go "meh". The modern equivalent of MOR / AOR.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

See, that's not how I understand 'twee', I think of songs that aren't necessarily MOR/AOR, that my parents are unlikely to have heard of, good guitar songs with not much in the way of balls.

So yeah, 'Johnny Cash' definitely isn't twee, and neither's Mogwai, or Magoo, or Black Box Recorder...

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate - I agree, I just wanted to make a kind of rash generalisation.

And Agree with the others that you say are not twee. I just have more an issue with Sons & Daughters being called twee, as they are the best band to come out of this part of the world for some time.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Twee scores to date:

dog latin - 3
Sonny A. - 8 (I do not know the dismemberment plan song, but I knock down points for that anyway)
derrick - 5
Kate Jane Connolly - 6
fortunate hazel - 8 (too much sarah stuff)
brian patrick - 10 (extra points from me for including KG, even though that song isn't particularly twee. yet more points for including the pastels)

― Ryan WS (fffv), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i love it, my twee score was lowered for having too much sarah stuff.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

that said, brian patrick's playlist is pretty ace.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

thats not really twee. its more like, pitchfork-friendly, than anything else.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the guy who started this post made about as un-twee a
mix tape as you can make out of songs from people who may not be living by the
hair of the dog... he made a tape like someone who prefers organic vegetables. not
that that's a bad thing mind you. i like most of the stuff on the mix and i like organic
stuff... carbon... mmm...

come again?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

since when did pitchfork like the fat tulips and pipas?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like the closest Pitchfork has come to even acknowledging Pipas is in their review of the admittedly-weak Matinee comp "Romantic and Square is Hip and Aware." They're not mentioned by name, just summarily dismissed when the Lucksmiths are named "the only band on this collection whose own material is at all noteworthy."

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Dog latin's def. more hipster than twee, where-as Kate's seemed straight on the twee Mark. Sonny A was half-half.

Christ I dunno what Twee is either. Good music taste though dog latin.

― piers, Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

if we're out-twee-ing one another, i'll throw my hat in the ring:

go here and scroll all the way down

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

or conversely:

CD 1
Another Sunny Day - Anorak City
Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off The Bridge
Talulah Gosh - Bringing Up Baby
Pop Will Eat Itself - Like An Angel
Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down
The Vaselines - Son Of A Gun
Action Painting! - These Things Happen
The Loft - Up The Hill And Down The Slope
The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick
The Bodines - William Shatner
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
Orange Juice - Falling and Laughing (7 inch version)
Bubblegum Splash - Just Walked Away
14 Iced Bears - Come Get Me
Autoclave - Dr Seuss
The Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World
Unrest - Winona Ryder (xx Version)
Blueboy - Popkiss
The Flatmates - Happy All The Time
St Christopher - All Of A Tremble
Biff Bang Pow! - Love's Going Out Of Fashion
The Pastels - I'm Alright With You
The Rosehips - Room In Your Heart
The Orchids - Caveman
Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie
The Sea Urchins - A Morning Odyssey

CD 2
The Hit Parade - Autobiography
The Groove Farm - The Best Part Of Being With You
The Springfields - Sunflower
Strawberry Story - Ashlands Road
Razorcuts - I'll Still Be There (Single Version)
Tiger Trap - Supercrush
Blast Off Country Style - All She Wants To Do Is Ride Her Bike
Tsunami - Brickbook Building
Beat Happening - What's Important
Marine Girls - Honey
The Clouds - Tranquil
The Sugargliders - Ahprahran
The Lucksmiths - Untidy Towns
The Chesterfields - Love Mountain
The Weather Prophets - Like Frankie Lymon
Miaow - When It All Comes Down
Westlake - Rings On Her Fingers
Lois - Press Play And Record
Sundress - Give Your Heart Another Day
Choo Choo Train - High
Wake - Carbrain
Louis Philippe - Lazy English Sun
Notre Dame - Sur Ton Repondeur
Television Personalities - Goodnight Mr Spaceman
BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs
The Jasmine Minks - Cold Heart
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress

CD 3
Heavenly - I Fell In Love Last Night
The She-Brews - Leave All Your Old Loves
Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
Tuscadero - Nancy Drew
Belle And Sebastian - String Bean Jean
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Cobalt - Saturday
Allen Clapp & His Orchestra - Something Strange Happens
Le Mans - ¡Oh Romeo Romeo!
Confetti - Yes Please!
Even As We Speak - Falling Down The Stairs
The Softies - I Love You More
Screen Prints - Evening Feel
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl
Courtney Love - Shaniko
The Siddeleys - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Honeybunch - Mine Your Own Business
Opal - Empty Box Blues
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
Revolving Paint Dream - In The Afternoon
The Pooh Sticks - Sweet Baby James
Felt - Bitter End
Melody Dog - Futuristic Lover
Hopkirk & Lee - Free Arthur Lee
The Clientele - Saturday
The Field Mice - Between Hello And Goodbye

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you. it's not what i normally listen to though. i'm more of a chas'n'dave man meself.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

my last post = xpost

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

nice mix though rentboy.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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