"Emotionally Charged Electronica" & The Ineffable Sadness of Woops

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55. Pooh Sticks - Cool in a Crisis

totally soppy and sparky scottish indie music, thread revival prompted by @suspendedreason, more mark radcliffe music, note the japan obsession with bands like this and the BMX Bandits and the carefree/sad vibes.

 
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56. The Pastels - Thomson Colour

This is another one from that key indie/electronica cross period, some remixes of this band by Kid Loco (!), Stereolab, MBV etc even though they are basically the most archetypal indie band ever.

 
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57. The Yummy Fur - Plastic Cowboy

I can't go on the Scottish indie tip without posting this lot, one of my favourite bands at the time, this still makes me smile. A very funny band

 
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The slightly mocking eMoTionaLly charged electronica title reminded me of this mix. Pretty good, funny bits thrown in, keeps changing things up

 
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58. Lung Leg - Maid to Minx

The Yummy Fur's sister in another indie punk glamorous band called Lung Leg (after the cover star of Sonic Youth's Evol), which leads us in turn to...

 
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59. The Make Up - Walking on the Dune

...The Make Up, such a superb band - they went a bit boring after the compilation I Want Some but their first two (fake-live) albums are masterpieces to me.

 
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The gospel yeh-yeh sound they called it. A combination of that Early Gainsbourg sound earlier in this thread, and gospel exhortation. Great political lyrics that never get boring or preachy. A very exciting music I think
 
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60. Boredoms- Super You


(inspired by the japan thread) i couldn't believe my ears when i heard this. boredoms have a massive mythology, started out as total scum noise and then suddenly became the above. the artwork is done by EYE and is like another world. they have a bewildering number of side projects between them and are in general quite inspiring humans.
 
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61. Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child


Another impossible band. And getting back to the melancholy theme a little bit - but they were electronic too. I heard them on the radio (Mark and Lard, yes) and it was just her singing and the guy with ten million effects pedals. I was like wow. Wouldn't raise an eyebrow these days. To my mind this 100% stands up today
 
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61. Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child


Another impossible band. And getting back to the melancholy theme a little bit - but they were electronic too. I heard them on the radio (Mark and Lard, yes) and it was just her singing and the guy with ten million effects pedals. I was like wow. Wouldn't raise an eyebrow these days. To my mind this 100% stands up today
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Adam Curtis used this for the intro to one of his series.
 
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