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B&S
Camera Obscura
Pipas
alot of what's on Elefant

what else?

destroy:

Ballboy

― daniel lynn (dan lynn), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Scarfo-Skinny-237815.jpg

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

i know this is silly and everything. you guys should know what i'm asking for, though.

maybe extend to sunshine-y pop within the last 25 years. kind of goes hand-in-hand, i think. the first two cardigans albums, felt, el records, etc...

― daniel lynn (dan lynn), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Indie/Twee 2004
wibbling twee
twee october music

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

ashby
acid house kings

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

sambassadeur

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

dom pizzatino's scarf to thread

― name (eman), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

that was nearly post #1 til i realised i had no desire to see his face

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

rofl

― name (eman), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

why would we destroy ballboy?

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

i am hoping his solo record is low on the haymanesqueness.

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

why isn't it "scarfcore"?

― adam (adam), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://otterpop.sbay.org/album/drwho.jpg

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.play.com/covers/182507m.jpg

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

math and physics club

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm also confounded as to why ballboy in the Destroy category. I've only heard "Guide for the Daylight Hours", but it's top-notch dour confessional pop, with a great sense of humor and lots of verve. Personally, I'd switch 'em with Camera Obscura, although all these groups are too pleasant for me to comfortably wish ill of.

A personal favorite of mine, which might be the sort of thing you're looking for: "Brief Lives" by the Would-Be-Goods.

― Sam Engel (Sam E.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Hartnell didn't wear a scarf, FOOL

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 13 April 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

FUCKING "SCARFPOP"?????

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 13 April 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

A personal favorite of mine, which might be the sort of thing you're looking for: "Brief Lives" by the Would-Be-Goods.

Seconded.

A couple of old él threads, by the way:
El Records - search and destroy...
el records - where have you been all my life.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Seconded

...especially if you like lit & art references and that kind of stuff with your polite pop. Songs about Byron, A Beardsley etc etc:

"With Robbie Ross and Beerbohm
and the rest of Oscar's clique,
He demonstrates that tous les monstres
ne sont pas en Afrique"

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:38 (twenty years ago)

^ Are the Go-Betweens scarfpop, then? I think I've seen photos of Robert Forster in a scarf.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I suppose scarf-pop is like twee pop that's less earnest and more arch? With better lyrics and maybe trumpets or glockenspiel? I don't know if I think of Felt as being twee- or scarf-pop; the songs are beautiful and all, but I feel like they're a bit enigmatic and obscure to be lumped in with B&S, Camera Obscura, Acid House Kings, etc. etc.

Matinee Records owns this thread x 8385609205053, obviously, as they own the Lucksmiths.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

search:

Ashby (hell yeah! to above)
Pants Yell!
The Boy Least Likely To
Magic Numbers
Soltero

destroy:

The Delays

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

superpitcher
alain delon
edge of motion

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Since when could the Delays even be considered scarf pop?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

classic search:

Pooh Sticks

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Delays! No "the," just "Delays." Greg Gilbert cries a little every time someone calls them "the Delays."

Where is Prefab Sprout in all of this? They seem quintessentially scarf.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Re: Felt, I agree with Owen. I did a double-take when I saw your post, because I had actually written almost exactly the same thing, except my adjectives were "abstract" and "obtuse", although in the end I pared that line of thought from my original post.

On the other hand, they do reference Rimbaud like the Would-Be-Goods. Perhaps all this literary pop should be grouped into the "bardcore" genre. (To be fair, I didn't make up that name (although I wish I did).)

I find it interesting that Daniel extended his criteria to "sunshine-y" music, since that makes me think of summer, while scarfs tend to be a winter item.

― Sam Engel (Sam E.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.grimalco.com/verlaines/img/early_80s.htm

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Scarfpop

Have we reached a new low on genre names here?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Brigadier; on this thread you have to ask your questions in the form of a quoted French philosophy text and/or Symbolist poem, or no one will answer you.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Or somehow involving crushes and kisses.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

At first
I thought this post was
titled
SNARF-POP
and I did.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

would anybody consider Adam Green's music to be SNARK-POP?

― hank (hank s), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Seems more like the aforementioned Monochrome Set's territory.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

PLEASE DON'T INCLUDE PREFAB SPROUT IN THIS INSANITY!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

it's like twee pop except with self-love instead of self-pity.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

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