"Wonky Pop" - Classic or Dud?

The new media buzzword to describe the antidote to landfill indie bands. search things like MGMT, Santogold, Mr Hudson, Black Kids and whoever was in that 2009 "most likely to" list.

While I'm pleased to see the back of the tight trouser brigade, why is this happening now? It's not as though bands with a leftfield but accessible mindset haven't always been around (Arcade Fire and Elbow spring to mind), so why are the media tastemakers suddenly deciding this is the sound for 2009? IT also worries me that like all recent "movements" this will be jumped on and assimilated by everyone wanting a piece of the pie, thus watering it down to self parody.

All the same, I think a return to the experimental spirit of the post punk era can only be a good thing.

It’s not wonky at all, which is a problem.

Good point, although every genre name is arguable. I guess it's wonkier than Razorlight and their ilk though.

This is last year's stupid buzzword dude.

Also it was a stupid buzzword to describe people like Alphabeat and Frankmuzik, not MGMT or Santogold.

Actually I count seven misconceptions in that opening post, it's difficult to see how it could be any wronger.

coined by mika's pr (or manager?) apparently, which says it all. you can be pretty much assured that any act under this umbrella is dreadful.

Come on, surely we have to thank Mika for returning us to the experimental spirit of the post punk era?

"wonky pop" falls under the general rule that "anyone who tells you they're crazy, isn't"

see also Hoosiers and their self defined "odd pop"

They nicked it off my "odd pop" neologism, which I started a thread about ages ago.

Wonky plop morelike

While I'm pleased to see the back of the tight trouser brigade

Never a sight that I enjoyed tbh.

While I'm pleased to see the back of the tight trouser brigade

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 11:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

n/h

Ponky Wop morelike

This is last year's stupid buzzword dude.

Seems to have made it to tabloidland now tho?

They nicked it off my "odd pop" neologism, which I started a thread about ages ago.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:56 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno nick, is qualifying the word 'pop' with the adjective 'odd' counting as a neologism now?

anyway, more like neo-jism amirite.

If wonky pop was similar in tone to wonky techno, it would be the best genre ever.

Put a wonk on it

http://www.thisiswonky.com/

hasn't mikas manager registered/trademarked the phrase ?

http://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/01121314070_fred-falke.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/01081224230_cudi.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12181206000_shortie.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12151045010_img_1201.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12111255340_la%20roux.jpg

These people all look insufferable.

Can I register the phrase 'landfill wonky'?

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7411/sig_honky.jpg

Landill Wonky? Was he a Redknapp signing?

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/1149836400/_i/12427934/1.jpg

They nicked it off my "odd pop" neologism, which I started a thread about ages ago.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'll vouch for this. When Twat Hoosier started bandying that around I was all "But that was Sicko's term!".

Look, let's just lay it down on the fucking ground now: this 7,000 genres an album, 2,000 hooks a song, no good tunes a career approach is a direct-line descendant of the Xenomania template ILM was sucking off a few years back, and Xenomania themselves really should apologise for ruining music forever.

a thread to bookmark indeed.

coined by mika's pr (or manager?) apparently, which says it all. you can be pretty much assured that any act under this umbrella is dreadful.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:52

I'm pretty sure I coined it in 2002 (see the blurb under the blog title, which hasn't changed since then) and P3t3r R0b1n50n nicked it off me! I've asked him though, and he swears he'd not seen my blog before he started using the term. No mention of Mika from him either...

http://www.thisiswonky.com/

hasn't mikas manager registered/trademarked the phrase ?

― mark e, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:06 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

More like "wanky pop"...

Peter Robinson?

He is certainly taking the DUP into areas Dr. Paisley had not envisioned

peter robinson is the popbitch and guardian guy, enrique.

pretty sure I was the first person to say the words "wonky" and "pop" in sequence in 1993, guys

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n24/n123882.jpg

^^^I always think of this dude whenever anyone says Peter Robinson

wait Enrique is back? I thought that cunt had had enough punishment

http://redstick.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/trainwreck2.jpg

http://a879.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/m_8ea1904b06f036ce08d5f1f9d5789266.gif

^ Saw them live at some ridiculous beer-sponsored mini-festival in FUCKING PRESTON circa 1993. They were quite good. Ridiculous beer-sponsored mini-festival more noteworthy for the appearance, and subsequent baiting and pelting with cans, of Sultans of Ping FC. (Most ill-advised comment from a shit-band singer ever: "If you don't stop pelting us with cans, we're not going to play any more.")

Anyway. Neo-jism, aye.

They nicked that train wreck idea off me.

peter robinson is the popbitch and guardian guy, enrique.

― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

duuuh sorry i meant peter robinson is the popjustice guy. not popbitch.

http://www.popjustice.com/

Not exactly braggin '09 about knowing this, but Peter Robinson does Popjustice not Popbitch

haha xpost

oh no i think we should have been googleproofing peter robinson.

wait Enrique is back? I thought that cunt had had enough punishment

― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:33 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

I came back because I thought you'd gone. No such luck.

p3t3r r0b1ns0n?

Aren't there two Enriques?

You're thinking of Enrique who used to post as Acrobat, that's Ferg, he quit.

Aren't there two Enriques?

Just put Dom midway between the two of them, see which one he runs to first.

lol homosexuals

now this is happening

ahaha look this hilarious gif is dancing to some wonky pop

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

Now for whatever reason I have "wonky pop" stuck in my head being sung to the tune of "Rocky Top."

Hi guys what did I miss?

n/m

never understood why he didn't just call himself H. Kevin Miller to differentiate himself

It'll never catch on here though

can't believe people are fighting over ownership of this pathetic term

lol homosexuals

a direct-line descendant of the Xenomania template ILM was sucking off a few years back

Apparently women can also perform fellatio these days. Truly feminism has struck yet another blow for equal rights.

another blow job for equal rights!!!

so now you're hating on women too now. typical...

Acrobatty boy, morelike

i thought wonky just meant affected 'weirdness'/'QUIRKINESS'.

ugh son

Wonky Pop

December 1st, 2008 by sparky

Biography

So much has happened in 2008, so let us reflect: The Olympics have passed once more; Elbow won a Mercury; The credit crunch ‘crunched’; The Wispa came back; But perhaps the most memorable part of 2008 is the movement that is Wonky Pop.

Wonky Pop was the first to say “C’mere Alphabeat you lovely Danes, you’ve got great taste in music and you know how to have a good time”. They were the first behind Frankmusik and The Clik Clik. Wonky Pop actually changed lives all round the country by putting Sam Sparro on a tour with Sneaky Sound System. If that wasn’t enough Wonky Pop pulled London’s club scene out of drought and set a precedent for live music and good times as they hosted a monthly night at Cargo, showcasing the best upcoming acts.

Wonky Pop strives to bring an eclectic mix of new artists that capture their ethos. slightly off-kilter, dazzlingly special and ultimately very pleasing. Expect weird and wonderful sights, amazing performances, secret guests, everything from the bizarre to the down right saucy!

www.myspace.com/wonkypop

Wonky Pop will perform at The Big Chill 2009.

Whoever co-opted Fred Falke into this abomination can cock off, by the way.

Tired of chart pop that's all manufactured groups and reality TV shows? Just as fed up of bland indie? Then Wonky Pop might just be the thing for you. Alexis Petridis reports.

...

The Wonky Pop artists are unmanufactured but unashamedly melodic and capable of playing live without recourse to lashings of dry ice, troupes of dancers and an interlude during which they fly around the stage on wires. As well as Alphabeat, it features the vaguely psychedelic pop-soul of Leon Jean-Marie, a dreadlock-sporting refugee from a Damage-style boyband who once toured with Steps, and Vincent Frank, a wiry 23-year-old who plies an intense brand of self-produced electro-pop under the name Frankmusic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/may/02/popandrock.alexispetridis

I missed all that awesomely puerile LBZC flag-waving yesterday. Top marks, fellas.

might as well vote in the Nazis now and have done with it.

Wonky Pop actually changed lives all round the country by putting Sam Sparro on a tour with Sneaky Sound System

You don't say?

I am listening to Sneaky Sound System right now, for the first time. It is some garbage really. Not very wonky or pop. MOR SMD is how I break it down to an extent. Some lazy zing reviewer should do something with the fact that the line "I love it" is sang so it it sounds exactly like "I loathe it". Or just not review it at all.

Frankmusik's 'In Step' is good

I honestly don't get what Alphabeat have to do with any of this, being as they're just a Scandipop act with Deacon Blue production. I mean, are fucking Operator Please wonkypop as well?

Presumably they have the same PR agency and are mates with someone at Popjustice?

Which is the enrique i miss? I miss him anyways.

Also "I love It" is good, back of hataz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonky_Pop

^^^fair play

Rudebox is a British term meaning unsteady, shaky, awry or Scottish.

but click the link to the rudebox site and you end up at the ATP site ?

i got Mika

"Site for Rudebox" link ..

Vandalbots transform and roll out.

"Unsteady, Shaky, Awry, and Scottish" = an unfortunate law firm consisting of dwarves

Wikipedia becoming more and more like an ILX clusterfuck thread every day...

Predicting this guy Dan Black's cover of 'Hypntz' (sic) by Notorious BIG will be met with universal praise on ILM

the name 'urge overkill' has never been funnier in any context

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonky_Pop&diff=prev&oldid=268435920

you can't get anything past these guys

List of Acts that influenced Wonky Pop

* David Bowie
* Kate Bush
* Frank Bough
* Spragga Benz
* Prince
* Ian Brady
* Madonna

childish lolz

Deleted: Possible vandalism

^^^like the fact that they admit they don't know this for definite.

still says it's a "loose groping of musical acts" as well

Matter: Friday 20th March: WONKY POP
10pm-7am
Tickets: £8 advance / £10 on the door / £5 students

ROOM 1: LIVE - Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes, Heartbreak, Defend Moscow; DJs - Gary Numan & Ade Fenton, Goldierocks
ROOM 2: CIRCUS - Jodie Harsh, Patrick Wolf (DJ), William Orbit

Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes
Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes,
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Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes,
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Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes,

That's the first time I've seen Jodie Harsh's name in a long time.

Nothing says 'circus' like a set from Wiliam Orbit

Electrelane are included in the Wonky pop wikipedia page's list of Wonky pop artists, the citation is a 2011 review from The F-Word (the feminist blog, not the Gordon Ramsey thing)

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