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Apr 06, 2020 · Twee pop artists list, with photos, ranked best to worst by votes. List of good twee pop bands includes a filter so you can sort by the groups’s label and what albums they've put out. This list of the top twee pop bands in the world includes all musicians who have released recordings that have...
Twee pop is a subgenre of indie pop that is thought to originate from the 1986 NME compilation C86.Characterised by its simplicity and perceived innocence, some of its defining features are boy-girl harmonies, catchy melodies, and lyrics about love.
- c. 1986, United Kingdom
Twee pop traces its origins to 1986, the year the British weekly NME issued a cassette dubbed C-86, which included a number of bands -- McCarthy, the Wedding Present, Primal Scream, the Pastels, and the Bodines among them -- influence...
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- The Shop Assistants 'The Shop Assistants' (1986) In 1986, British weekly paper the NME gave away C86, a cassette compiling a theretofore insular scene of shy, shambolic guitar-bands steeped in punk's DIY ideals.
- The Pastels 'Up for a Bit with the Pastels' (1987) Perhaps the most iconic of all twee acts, Scottish institution The Pastels were formed by boyfriend/girlfriend Stephen McRobbie and Aggi Wright —known, via their records, as Stephen Pastel and Aggi— who'd both fleetingly been in early incarnations of the Shop Assistants.
- Beat Happening 'Jamboree' (1988) Whilst the twee movement began in the thriving UK indie scene, no one individual may've done more for its underground, anti-macho, strictly-DIY aesthetic than Calvin Johnson.
- The Field Mice 'Snowball' (1989) The Field Mice quickly became the darlings of the budding twee scene, issuing 45s for the soon-to-be-iconic Sarah Records imprint that were soaked in a sense of joyous melancholy.
dream pop Twee pop, as a genre, is more or less applied retroactively to bands part of the indie pop movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. Used at first in an almost derogatory fashion, the word "twee", meaning overly quaint or cute, was applied by commentators who saw a "revolt into ch… read more
The early twee pop scene in the early 1980s was almost exclusively British, heralded by female-led groups like Dolly Mixture and Trixie's Big Red Motorbike and championed by British DJ John Peel who would record sessions with many artists in the scene.
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