History Music / LosCampesinos

* LongTitle: "This Is How You Spell 'HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" from ''Hold On Now, Youngster...''. Yes, the whole title ''does'' appear in the lyrics.
** The multiple "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" songs count, certainly in terms of syllables.
** There's also [[EitherOrTitle "A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte,"]] "The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future" from ''Romance is Boring.''

* ExcitedShowTitle: Aside from the band's name, the song titles "You! Me! Dancing!", "Death to Los Campesinos!", and "Here's to the Fourth Time!"

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In "Plan A", after becoming ''"the new King of Malta"'', the lead character gets his partner's face printed on the national currency. After seeing her picture, ''"the workforce retires to the bathroom"''.
** "The Time Before The Last Time" has "The shower head moaned, and I looked down to the drain, sons and daughters washed away."

* OtherCommonMusicVideoConcepts: "Death to Los Campesinos!" is one of the "In The Studio" ones...until the band starts being attacked (and killed) [[TastesLikeDiabetes by flowers, rainbows, kittens and ribbons]]. Apparently, it was made as band's reaction to being pigeonholed and dismissed as a "twee band."

** During the music video of "5 Flucloxacillin" as Gareth's ''Bargain Hunt'' team is scouring through vinyls, they come across their own ''Hold On Now, Youngster...''. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Gareth's reaction is to ashamedly facepalm.]]

->''"Look up Los Campesinos! online. They're going to be bi--actually scratch that. They're never going to be "big" big, but [[CultClassic they're going to be big to some people]]."''
-->-- '''David Kohl, ''ComicBook/{{Phonogram}}'''''

* PurpleProse: Many of Gareth's lyrics, especially later on, use a lot of wordplay, ornate metaphors and references that have varying levels of obscurity (from European football to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Roman mythology]] and [[{{Constellations}} astronomical constellations]]) that, while not too distracting, can be hard to decipher. Gareth seems completely aware of this, though, and even references this trope in "As Lucerne/The Low":

* YourCheatingHeart: "Knee Deep At ATP," which Gareth calls [[SarcasmMode the feel-good hit from the summer of 2006,]] is about the narrator discovering that his new girlfriend he met at a music festival was already seeing somebody else who she never mentioned. [[WriteWhatYouKnow According to Gareth, this was from an actual experience of his.]]

* LongTitle: "This Is How You Spell 'HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" from ''Hold On Now, Youngster...". Yes, the whole title ''does'' appear in the lyrics.

* UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}: Was always a light part of their aesthetic, sharing some of the visual style in a few promotional images and the general philosophy in frustration with the world. This was prominent even back in their "Hold On Now, Youngster..." days, with "International Tweexcore Underground" being a back-and-forth between IndiePop fan and a {{Punk}}, making references to prominent figures for each genre. Amusingly, one of the B-sides for that song was a completely straight cover of [[Music/BlackFlag Black Flag's]] "Police Story."

* SillyLoveSongs: While the band tend to shy away from these sort of songs, "Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time" is acknowledged specifically on ''A Good Night For A Fistfight'' as being "the first proper, genuine, love song we ever wrote".
-->''I don't want to sound trite, but you are perfect''\\
''The way you look could seriously make nature dysmorphic''\\
''I wish that you would kiss me 'til the point of paralysis''\\
''The way I flail my arms in front of you it just embarrasses''
* SitcomArchNemesis: Gareth's dislike of folk punk singer/songwriter Music/FrankTurner often takes a turn into this direction.

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Romance Is Boring''
* TheSixthRanger: Rob. He started out as their opening act with his solo project Sparky Deathcap in 2008 and slowly worked his way to being an official member by 2010.

* TheCastShowoff: Jason handles most of the band's artwork. He and Kim also run [[https://www.carouseltattoo.co.uk/ their own tattoo parlour]] in Worthing, England.

* AlmightyJanitor: Gareth works as a part-time groundskeeper of a local church's cemetery when the band isn't touring, a job which he told Pitchfork makes him "[[http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8753-los-campesinos/ incredibly happy]]" to do.

* CoverVersion: A favorite of the band for B-sides early in their career. Aside from the cover of Heavenly's "C is the Heavenly Option", they also recorded covers of "Frontwards" by Music/{{Pavement}}, "Yr Boyfriend" by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, "The Eyebright Bugler" by Deerhoof and "Police Story" by BlackFlag.