Avant Pop

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What and who is it?
Would How We Used To Live by Saint Etienne count? Or is that not pop enough?

― Graef, Sunday, 5 June 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

literally, it is something that is before pop.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 5 June 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

looking for more out pop
S/D: Albums where "avant-garde" or classical artists worked with rock groups and vice versa

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

maybe some of montreal's stuff?
i don't know...

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Olivia Tremor Control comes to mind.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

www.lederhosenlucil.com
don't know if it counts

― Robin Samples, Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Avant Pop is a section in the Tower Records in Shibuya, Tokyo.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Wait, no, HMV.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

i think bjork, tori amos & pj harvey make avant pop.

― fancypants (drystereo), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Why not: Dr. Buzzard, 'On the Corner'-era Miles, Yoko Ono, Missy Elliott and Timberland, Momus, the Dandy Warhols and about a thousand other things I'll be embarrassed I forgot next time I see this?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Stereolab, Cornelius, The Flaming Lips, Pulp, Stereo Total, My Bloody Valentine (sometimes), Saint Etienne (only occasionally), Art Brut, The Avalanches...all my favourite bands, basically!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Ahhh.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/images/cw_cwandco_cover.jpg

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, The Shortwave Set, older Cut Copy, Gustav, Neil & Iraiza, Prince (80s), Cagedbaby, Van Dyke Parks, Takako Minekawa, Natural Calamity, Andy Votel (in his dreams, maybe).

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Art Brut?!

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

disco inferno

― s suttcliffe, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how old this term is. I first heard it from the DJ Deirdre O'Donoghue, who had a show in the mid-80s on KCRW in LA called SNAP (Saturday Night Avant-Pop). I remember one band she championed as "avant-pop" was The Blue Nile.

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Monday, 6 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

Avant pop is pop where funny noises replace tune and melody.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 6 June 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

You sure bought a lot of those Crazy Frog CDs, huh.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

At least Crazy Frog has a recognisable melody, even if it is a 20-year-old one by Harold Faltermeyer.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

The Shortwave Set seconded with pizazz.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Xiu Xiu

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Avant pop is a dead end because when you run out of the funny noises you have nothing to fall back on, where is if you have melodic gifts you can take your music anywhere, like the new Coldplay album.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh.

Bronze Age Fox, Eel, Valvola, Mum & Dad, Fab Cushion, Macdonald Duck Eclair, Max Tundra, Micro Mach Machine, Minotaur Shock, Lemon Jelly, Capsule, New Buffalo.

Best umbrella genre ever.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

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