Twee as Fuck

“As of the mid-1990s, there were a hell of a lot of kids like this in America: Happy pop geeks in love with all things pretty, listening to seven-inch singles released on tiny labels, writing songs about crushes, and taking a good deal of pride in the fact that everyone else found their music disgustingly cute and amateurish and girly. This is the story of how they got there– a partial history of the indie pop project, and a beginner’s guide to what it meant.”

Em outubro de 2005, Nitsuh Abebe escreveu um artigo sobre a história do indie-pop no site Pitchforkmedia. É um dos melhores artigos musicais que já lí e um ótimo guia para os iniciados no indie-pop. Há algum tempo atrás eu resolvi traduzi-lo para colocar na Wikipédia. Como ainda não postei por lá, vou colocar para download aqui. É só clicar na imagem acima. Só não traduzi a última parte do artigo, onde o autor faz uma seleção comentada de músicas para uma compilação. Mas vou colocar a lista logo abaixo. Baixem as músicas e tenham uma ótima “mix-tape” de indie-pop.

The Television Personalities: “This Angry Silence” (1981)
Beat Happening: “Indian Summer” (1988); “Bewitched” (1988); “Our Secret” (1984)
Talulah Gosh: “Beatnik Boy” (1986); “My Boy Says” (1987)
Honeybunch: “Mine Your Own Business” (1991); “My Contribution to the Greenhouse Effect” (1991)
Magnetic Fields: “100,000 Fireflies” (1995)
Tiger Trap: “Puzzle Pieces” (1988), “My Broken Heart” (1988)
Heavenly: “C Is the Heavenly Option” (1992); “Hearts and Crosses” (1993); “Three Star Compartment” (1994)
The Field Mice: “Emma’s House” (1988)
Rocketship: “You and Your New Boyfriend” (1994); “I Love You Like the Way that I Used to Do” (1996)
The Softies: “Hello Rain” (1995)
Glo-Worm: “Tilt-a-Whirl” (1994)
Barcelona: “I’ve got the Password to your Shell Account” (1999)
Pastels: “Different Drum” (1990); “Yoga” (1994); “Mandarin” (1995)
Cub: “Tell Me Now” (Daniel Johnston cover, 1996)
Tullycraft: “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s Too Stupid to Know About” (1995)
Wolfie: “Hey It’s Finally Yay” (1998)
Black Tambourine: “Thow Aggi off the Bridge” (1991)
The Hit Parade: Hitomi (1991)
Blueboy: “Boys Don’t Matter” (1994)
Velocity Girl: “Pop Loser” (1993)
The Vaselines: “Molly’s Lips” (1988)
Small Factory: “If You Hurt Me” (1993)
The Sea Urchins: “Pristine Christine” (1987)
Boyracer: “In Love” (Marine Girls cover, 2002)