Sifting Through The Twee Net Poll
3 Comments Published by Tom on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 10:51.
As I said yesterday I have been making my way through some of the bands who were unknown to me prior to the results of the Twee Net 2006 Poll.
Some have been pretty disappointing including the wonderfully monikored Casper & The Cookies who sadly don't sound as good as their name. There again they have been around for years so I doubt they will notice me missing. I have heard some good things previously regarding London's The Argonauts. The music was 1960's tinged but the songs I listened to dulled the senses. Maybe they are better live.
Things picked up bit with a couple of good songs from Seattle's Patience Please who play what could be described as power pop which is influenced by an electric organ which is an instrument most American bands I have seen recently have used in their set. Whilst I am tempted to say that makes them all sound alike the vocals and harmonies give some distinction to Patience Please which makes them worthy of investigation in the future.
They have a record available from Jigsaw Records.
Patience Please - Little Mouthfuls
Patience Please - Unpublished
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Cause Co-Motion remind me of the old new wave records I have in my collection. That is the British definition of term which refers to bands that quickly followed punk in search of a quick buck (pound?) or two rather than the synth driven bands which those across the pond generally refer to as new wave. Back to the music and it's pretty frantic stuff but whilst not absolutely necessary in my life left me with a smile on my face anyway.
Cause Co-Motion - Which Way Is Up
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I couldn't find anything regarding the final band in this round up, Moscow Olympics who were obviously named after an Orange Juice song. It is not often I want to listen to a band because of their name so if anyone knows any web presence of them where I can listen to a song or two please let me know!
Some have been pretty disappointing including the wonderfully monikored Casper & The Cookies who sadly don't sound as good as their name. There again they have been around for years so I doubt they will notice me missing. I have heard some good things previously regarding London's The Argonauts. The music was 1960's tinged but the songs I listened to dulled the senses. Maybe they are better live.
Things picked up bit with a couple of good songs from Seattle's Patience Please who play what could be described as power pop which is influenced by an electric organ which is an instrument most American bands I have seen recently have used in their set. Whilst I am tempted to say that makes them all sound alike the vocals and harmonies give some distinction to Patience Please which makes them worthy of investigation in the future.
They have a record available from Jigsaw Records.
Patience Please - Little Mouthfuls
Patience Please - Unpublished
[My Space link}
Cause Co-Motion remind me of the old new wave records I have in my collection. That is the British definition of term which refers to bands that quickly followed punk in search of a quick buck (pound?) or two rather than the synth driven bands which those across the pond generally refer to as new wave. Back to the music and it's pretty frantic stuff but whilst not absolutely necessary in my life left me with a smile on my face anyway.
Cause Co-Motion - Which Way Is Up
[My Space link]
I couldn't find anything regarding the final band in this round up, Moscow Olympics who were obviously named after an Orange Juice song. It is not often I want to listen to a band because of their name so if anyone knows any web presence of them where I can listen to a song or two please let me know!
They're from the Phillipines, I found out. And Mr. TweeNet himself voted for them. This, apparently, is a side-project of the band.
Moscow Olympics are currently recording some songs. Not sure who will release them though. The band is composed of former members of Colour Contest, Soft Pillow Kisses, Candy Audioline and Dorian Of Juniper Bells.
- Dale
hi tom,
we finally got off our butts and created myspace and virb pages for the band, with a couple of songs uploaded :)
http://virb.com/moskva80
http://myspace.com/moskva80
thanks!
best,
melanie (moscow olympics)