#meisjespop

The ninety-fourth episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday, June 26, 2023, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:

https://www.mixcloud.com/MedialabKortrijk/de-algemene-verwarring-94-26-juni-2023/

Pictured below is a band called The Charlottes, a female fronted shoegaze/pop band from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in England. They formed in 1988, released two albums and a few EP’s, and got lost in the enormous amounts of shoegaze bands that were active in that area. To be honest, I had never heard of them before. I usually also don’t buy Record Store Day releases, but this one was smiling at me at a recent flea market in Kortrijk. The seller had attached some much needed “duiding” to the record, calling it ‘a milestone of the whole shoegaze and c-86 Indiepop era’, and compared the band to Black Tambourine and The Swirlies, So yes I was intrigued, especially by the reference to the C-86 cassette that was released by NME magazine in 1980 (later also released on LP by Rough Trade), so I bought it and wasn’t disappointed at all. It collects the LP “Lovehappy” with tracks from the 12″ “Liar” and the 12″ “Love In The Emptiness”. It also has a raging cover of Shocking Blue’s “Venus”. Iwanted to play a track from this record, and because I wasn’t really prepared for this episode, I quickly selected some records of what I call “meisjespop”, or girlie pop I guess. Some of the other girlie bands featured on this episode are Shop Assistants, Ribbon Stage, En Attendant Ana, Moxie, Dum Dum Girls, and Neo Boys. New stuff from Yfory, Annelies Monseré and Tramhaus, and old stuff from Cop Shoot Cop, Myelin Sheaths and My Bloody Valentine of course. Oh, and I’m also ranting about late night Brussels shows that I can’t attend. And below the photo you can find the playlist for this show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Myelin Sheaths: Stackticon (7” “Stackticon” on Bachelor Records, 2009)

Frankie Traandruppel: Divided By Zero (LP “Castling” on Ronny Rex & Feles Music, 2023)

Neo Boys: Empty My Head (2xLP “Sooner Or Later” on K Records & Mississippi Records, 2013)

En Attendant Ana: I’ll Be Your Mirror (12” “Songs From The Cave” on Nominal Records, 2017)

Honey Radar: Carousel Society (LP “Ruby Puff Of Dust” on What’s Your Rupture Records, 2019)

Ribbon Stage: Nowhere Fast (LP “Hit With The Most” on K Records & Perennial records, 2022)

Yfory: Baled Y Dolmen (7” “Yfory” on Static Age Records, 2023)

Shop Assistants: All Day Long (LP “Shop Assistants” on Blue Guitar Records & Chrysalis Records, 1986)

The Charlottes: Liar (LP “Lovehappy” on Radiation Reissues, 2020, originally released on 12” “Liar” on Cherry Red Records, 1990)

My Bloody Valentine: Lose My Breath (CD “Isn’t Anything” on Creation Records, 1988)

Moxie: A Day Off (CD “Blue Sky, Maybe” on My First Sonny Weissmuller Records, 1998)

Dum Dum Girls: Bedroom Eyes (LP “Only In Dreams” on Sub Pop Records, 2011)

Naked on The Vague: All Aboard (LP “The Blood Pressure Sessions” on Siltbreeze, 2008)

Tramhaus: Beep Beep (7” “The Goat” on Subroutine Records, 2023)

Cop Shoot Cop: Interference (CD “Release” on Big Cat Records, 1994)

Algebra Suicide: Heat Wave (LP “Still Life” on Dark Entries, 2019)

Troth: Aether Frolic (LP “Oak Corridor” on Knekelhuis, 2021)