a dedicated thread, why not
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
zipfile/MP3 links in this are dead but lots of great info here http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/toytown1.htm
as a subgenre it's an incredibly specific and essentially silly thing but for some reason I find a lot of it charming, just a fun rabbit hole to go down
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
and occasionally creepy as hell!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgWJOCbGXM
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
Jeff Lynne gettin in on the actionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7_S3nv7uY
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Jeff Lynne is one of the masters of the genre, the first Idle Race album is a classic and the even the second album has traces.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
haven't heard the second one, is it as twee as the first?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
No, some of the songs are written and sung by other band members, it does however have "Mr. Crow and Sir Norman" on it, the only song I know about a ventriloquist and his dummy.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link