Today's Jangle Pop Playlist

[grillebilly]

Let's Active
Cypress
I.R.S.

If Mitch Easter didn't define the genre he perfected it.

 

[Rob84]

Choo Choo Train (Rick Menc & Paul Chastain)

These guys defined it.

 

[grillebilly]

The Three O'Clock
Baroque Hoedown

 

[Rob84]

 

[grillebilly]

The Connells
Fun & Games
TVT Records

 

[Rob84]

Turning Curious -Soul Light Season E.P.

 

[grillebilly]

Tommy Keene
Songs From The Film
Geffen

Tommy Keene passed away a few months back. The video has another late-great, Jay Bennett, who anchored Wilco during the early days.

 

[cicero2]

Dumptruck

 

[gggvan]

I'm not holding out much hope of this being a long lived thread, but why not...

 

[gggvan]

Love that rhythm guitar, jangle at it's best...

 

[loopstick]

When I was a kid they made me the "rhythm" guitarist for the same reason they make the guy who can't skate the goalie. So I would still try to get the "sound" even if I wasn't the hero.

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[loopstick]

Even the vocals and Southern accents jangle in this one (which supposedly Stipe doesn't like any more - but I think he's nervous cuz it's not hipster / ironic / brainy enough) -

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[grillebilly]

sound

Good stuff loops. Always depend on you for something new to listen to. The first two are a little 'gazey, too.

 

[squirrelnest]

The Darling Buds.....

 

[loopstick]

Good stuff loops. Always depend on you for something new to listen to. The first two are a little 'gazey, too.

Thanks - you brought this band to my attention. I'd heard them before, and the name, but they kinda got forgotten in the whole mass of Eighties stuff -

And the "The Three O'Clock" - thought it was a cool name when I read about them in a magazine - but it would have been an act against nature for one of Detroit's fossilized classic rock DJ's to play anything by them. So this is the first time I actually heard them.

 

[grillebilly]

heard them before

Mitch Easter has one of the most impressive production resumes (including R.E.M.) in the business. He also plays with some big name cats - he was in on the Big Star tribute with a bunch of other icons. He also was heavily involved with Velvet Crush, another band that was big with other musicians but almost unheard of outside those circles.
He has been touring lately with Alejandro Escovedo.

 

[grillebilly]

 

[gggvan]

12 string jangle and teen angst...

 

[gggvan]

I still have the 3 o'clock and salvation army vinyl from the 80's. The drummer and guitarist both went to my high school, I didn't know either of them. I prefer th salvation army, seemed more about organic, the 3 o'clock more contrived and clicky.

 

[tubed]

fail