<![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:23 EDT Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:23 EDT http://idolator.com/386564/alphabeat-and-the-rest-of-the-wonky-pop-brigade-are-here-to-save-the-day <![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day]]> http://idolator.com/386564/alphabeat-and-the-rest-of-the-wonky-pop-brigade-are-here-to-save-the-day#c5499716 @joshservo: Vampire Weekend are inappropriately huge in the UK. It's almost gross.

Wonky Pop is curated- as far as I can tell- by Popjustice, and the tour includes DJ sets by Annie, so I am all for it (I only really like Alphabeat, but the other two are just fine and Annie is, of course, A+) if only because the success of this tour might allow for a bigger, better Wonky Pop tour in coming years. Pop music is a a great thing- why not do send a phalanx of big new pop bands around the UK, or whereever, to show off that fact?

Nunya B

]]> 33:386564:c5499716 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:23 EDT <![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day]]> http://idolator.com/386564/alphabeat-and-the-rest-of-the-wonky-pop-brigade-are-here-to-save-the-day#c5496728 The minute a-ha unleashed "Take On Me" in 1985, this genre simply could not get any better
True that, though I could definitely hear Frankmusic in the background during a "mall scene" in most any teen comedy of the time (there'd be running, and a stern faced guy shaking his fist from the Orange Julius).

I like Alpha-Beats in the same I like any of these cutesy, bouncy, pop bands from that part of Europe, but I want to punch that bald guy in the face so hard it makes me bite my lip.

Halfwit

]]> 33:386564:c5496728 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:10:39 EDT <![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day]]> http://idolator.com/386564/alphabeat-and-the-rest-of-the-wonky-pop-brigade-are-here-to-save-the-day#c5495579 So we've got the band from Kidd Video, The Incredible Moses Leroy backed by Art of Noise, and...Some dude.

Sounds like a movement to me. Run with it, UK. Any interest in taking Vampire Weekend under your wing? They could trade style tips with Alpha-Bits over there.

joshservo

]]> 33:386564:c5495579 Fri, 02 May 2008 12:28:41 EDT <![CDATA[Alphabeat And The Rest Of The Wonky Pop Brigade Are Here To Save The Day]]> http://idolator.com/386564/alphabeat-and-the-rest-of-the-wonky-pop-brigade-are-here-to-save-the-day#c5495317 "Like a load of laundry just out of the dryer" is a good line, and apt--the first time I heard "Fascination" was on some British video channel at 7 in the morning, and afterwards, I'd never felt so psyched to take a shower(!) and get on the Tube(!!!).

I think you're also right about the commercial prospects, unfortunately...These guys will be big here in the same parallel universe that Annie and Robyn will.

Bob Loblaw

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