"wonky pop" falls under the general rule that "anyone who tells you they're crazy, isn't"
― snoball, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
see also Hoosiers and their self defined "odd pop"
― snoball, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
They nicked it off my "odd pop" neologism, which I started a thread about ages ago.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Wonky plop morelike
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
While I'm pleased to see the back of the tight trouser brigade
Never a sight that I enjoyed tbh.
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 11:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
n/h
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Ponky Wop morelike
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
This is last year's stupid buzzword dude.
Seems to have made it to tabloidland now tho?
― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:56 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno nick, is qualifying the word 'pop' with the adjective 'odd' counting as a neologism now?
anyway, more like neo-jism amirite.
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
If wonky pop was similar in tone to wonky techno, it would be the best genre ever.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Put a wonk on it
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thisiswonky.com/
hasn't mikas manager registered/trademarked the phrase ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/01121314070_fred-falke.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/01081224230_cudi.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12181206000_shortie.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12151045010_img_1201.jpghttp://www.thisiswonky.com/uploaded/12111255340_la%20roux.jpg
These people all look insufferable.
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Can I register the phrase 'landfill wonky'?
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7411/sig_honky.jpg
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Landill Wonky? Was he a Redknapp signing?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/1149836400/_i/12427934/1.jpg
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'll vouch for this. When Twat Hoosier started bandying that around I was all "But that was Sicko's term!".
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Look, let's just lay it down on the fucking ground now: this 7,000 genres an album, 2,000 hooks a song, no good tunes a career approach is a direct-line descendant of the Xenomania template ILM was sucking off a few years back, and Xenomania themselves really should apologise for ruining music forever.
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
a thread to bookmark indeed.
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
coined by mika's pr (or manager?) apparently, which says it all. you can be pretty much assured that any act under this umbrella is dreadful.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:52
I'm pretty sure I coined it in 2002 (see the blurb under the blog title, which hasn't changed since then) and P3t3r R0b1n50n nicked it off me! I've asked him though, and he swears he'd not seen my blog before he started using the term. No mention of Mika from him either...
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:06 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
More like "wanky pop"...
― snoball, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Peter Robinson?
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
He is certainly taking the DUP into areas Dr. Paisley had not envisioned
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
peter robinson is the popbitch and guardian guy, enrique.
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty sure I was the first person to say the words "wonky" and "pop" in sequence in 1993, guys
― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n24/n123882.jpg
^^^I always think of this dude whenever anyone says Peter Robinson
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
wait Enrique is back? I thought that cunt had had enough punishment
― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://redstick.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/trainwreck2.jpg
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://a879.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/m_8ea1904b06f036ce08d5f1f9d5789266.gif
^ Saw them live at some ridiculous beer-sponsored mini-festival in FUCKING PRESTON circa 1993. They were quite good. Ridiculous beer-sponsored mini-festival more noteworthy for the appearance, and subsequent baiting and pelting with cans, of Sultans of Ping FC. (Most ill-advised comment from a shit-band singer ever: "If you don't stop pelting us with cans, we're not going to play any more.")
Anyway. Neo-jism, aye.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
They nicked that train wreck idea off me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
duuuh sorry i meant peter robinson is the popjustice guy. not popbitch.
http://www.popjustice.com/
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Not exactly braggin '09 about knowing this, but Peter Robinson does Popjustice not Popbitch
haha xpost
― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no i think we should have been googleproofing peter robinson.
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:33 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
I came back because I thought you'd gone. No such luck.
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
p3t3r r0b1ns0n?
Aren't there two Enriques?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
You're thinking of Enrique who used to post as Acrobat, that's Ferg, he quit.
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Just put Dom midway between the two of them, see which one he runs to first.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
lol homosexuals
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
now this is happening
― Snore Patrick (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
ahaha look this hilarious gif is dancing to some wonky pop
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif
― Wackrobat (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Now for whatever reason I have "wonky pop" stuck in my head being sung to the tune of "Rocky Top."
― ^likes tilt-a-whirls (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi guys what did I miss?
― Henry Gay Miller (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
n/m
― Enrigay (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
never understood why he didn't just call himself H. Kevin Miller to differentiate himself
― Enrigay (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It'll never catch on here though
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
can't believe people are fighting over ownership of this pathetic term
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
a direct-line descendant of the Xenomania template ILM was sucking off a few years back
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently women can also perform fellatio these days. Truly feminism has struck yet another blow for equal rights.
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
another blow job for equal rights!!!
― acrotwat (MPx4A), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
so now you're hating on women too now. typical...
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Acrobatty boy, morelike
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought wonky just meant affected 'weirdness'/'QUIRKINESS'.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh son
Wonky Pop
December 1st, 2008 by sparky
Biography
So much has happened in 2008, so let us reflect: The Olympics have passed once more; Elbow won a Mercury; The credit crunch ‘crunched’; The Wispa came back; But perhaps the most memorable part of 2008 is the movement that is Wonky Pop.
Wonky Pop was the first to say “C’mere Alphabeat you lovely Danes, you’ve got great taste in music and you know how to have a good time”. They were the first behind Frankmusik and The Clik Clik. Wonky Pop actually changed lives all round the country by putting Sam Sparro on a tour with Sneaky Sound System. If that wasn’t enough Wonky Pop pulled London’s club scene out of drought and set a precedent for live music and good times as they hosted a monthly night at Cargo, showcasing the best upcoming acts.
Wonky Pop strives to bring an eclectic mix of new artists that capture their ethos. slightly off-kilter, dazzlingly special and ultimately very pleasing. Expect weird and wonderful sights, amazing performances, secret guests, everything from the bizarre to the down right saucy!
www.myspace.com/wonkypop
Wonky Pop will perform at The Big Chill 2009.
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoever co-opted Fred Falke into this abomination can cock off, by the way.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Tired of chart pop that's all manufactured groups and reality TV shows? Just as fed up of bland indie? Then Wonky Pop might just be the thing for you. Alexis Petridis reports.
...
The Wonky Pop artists are unmanufactured but unashamedly melodic and capable of playing live without recourse to lashings of dry ice, troupes of dancers and an interlude during which they fly around the stage on wires. As well as Alphabeat, it features the vaguely psychedelic pop-soul of Leon Jean-Marie, a dreadlock-sporting refugee from a Damage-style boyband who once toured with Steps, and Vincent Frank, a wiry 23-year-old who plies an intense brand of self-produced electro-pop under the name Frankmusic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/may/02/popandrock.alexispetridis
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I missed all that awesomely puerile LBZC flag-waving yesterday. Top marks, fellas.
― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
might as well vote in the Nazis now and have done with it.
― Eddie Funnie (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Wonky Pop actually changed lives all round the country by putting Sam Sparro on a tour with Sneaky Sound System
You don't say?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I am listening to Sneaky Sound System right now, for the first time. It is some garbage really. Not very wonky or pop. MOR SMD is how I break it down to an extent. Some lazy zing reviewer should do something with the fact that the line "I love it" is sang so it it sounds exactly like "I loathe it". Or just not review it at all.
― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Frankmusik's 'In Step' is good
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I honestly don't get what Alphabeat have to do with any of this, being as they're just a Scandipop act with Deacon Blue production. I mean, are fucking Operator Please wonkypop as well?
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Presumably they have the same PR agency and are mates with someone at Popjustice?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Which is the enrique i miss? I miss him anyways.
Also "I love It" is good, back of hataz.
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonky_Pop
^^^fair play
― Peter Andre Test Tube Babies (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Rudebox is a British term meaning unsteady, shaky, awry or Scottish.
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
but click the link to the rudebox site and you end up at the ATP site ?
― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i got Mika
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"Site for Rudebox" link ..
― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Vandalbots transform and roll out.
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"Unsteady, Shaky, Awry, and Scottish" = an unfortunate law firm consisting of dwarves
― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Wikipedia becoming more and more like an ILX clusterfuck thread every day...
― snoball, Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Predicting this guy Dan Black's cover of 'Hypntz' (sic) by Notorious BIG will be met with universal praise on ILM
― Peter Andre Test Tube Babies (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 January 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
the name 'urge overkill' has never been funnier in any context
― what is your beef with the mac? (electricsound), Friday, 30 January 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonky_Pop&diff=prev&oldid=268435920
you can't get anything past these guys
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Sunday, 8 February 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
List of Acts that influenced Wonky Pop
* David Bowie * Kate Bush * Frank Bough * Spragga Benz * Prince * Ian Brady * Madonna
childish lolz
― am I selling cardamom or am I selling thyme (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 8 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Deleted: Possible vandalism
^^^like the fact that they admit they don't know this for definite.
― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
still says it's a "loose groping of musical acts" as well
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Matter: Friday 20th March: WONKY POP10pm-7amTickets: £8 advance / £10 on the door / £5 students
ROOM 1: LIVE - Tinchy Stryder, The Pipettes, Heartbreak, Defend Moscow; DJs - Gary Numan & Ade Fenton, GoldierocksROOM 2: CIRCUS - Jodie Harsh, Patrick Wolf (DJ), William Orbit
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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That's the first time I've seen Jodie Harsh's name in a long time.
― Mylene Cockfarmer (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing says 'circus' like a set from Wiliam Orbit
― Luka ModReq (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Electrelane are included in the Wonky pop wikipedia page's list of Wonky pop artists, the citation is a 2011 review from The F-Word (the feminist blog, not the Gordon Ramsey thing)
― soref, Sunday, 1 March 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
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