History Main / JanglePop

** ''Music/MonsterREMAlbum'' (1994)

* Music/BobbyStuff

* Music/MartiJones

* Music/MitchEaster

** Opal

** Robyn Hitchcock and the Eqyptians

* Music/SydStraw (also FolkRock)

* Music/TimLee

Jangle Pop is a genre of AlternativeRock that first appeared at the tail end of TheSeventies/the beginning of TheEighties. It's characterized by jangly guitars (often, though not always, 12-string Rickenbackers), simple melodies and often [[WordSaladLyrics enigmatic]] lyrics (and sometimes IndecipherableLyrics as well). The sound can be bright and upbeat, moody and mysterious or downright trippy at times, but the aforementioned elements are pretty much always present.

+ PsychedelicRock, PunkRock, CountryMusic, Country Rock]]

+ NewWaveMusic, PostPunk, {{Folk}} Rock, PowerPop, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion
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+ PsychedelicRock, PunkRock, CountryMusic, Country Rock, FolkMusic
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+ PsychedelicRock, PunkRock, CountryMusic, Country Rock

Jangle Pop is a genre of AlternativeRock that first appeared at the tail end of TheSeventies/the beginning of TheEighties. It's characterized by jangly guitars (often, though not always, 12-stringed), simple melodies and often [[WordSaladLyrics enigmatic]] lyrics (and sometimes IndecipherableLyrics as well). The sound can be bright and upbeat, moody and mysterious or downright trippy at times, but the aforementioned elements are pretty much always present.

The bands were sometimes influenced by genres outside of the usual FolkRock, PostPunk, New Wave and PowerPop influences- PsychedelicRock (most common in the Paisley Underground bands, but found elsewhere as well), CountryMusic (particularly some of the Southern bands), PunkRock and even weirder things like {{Ska}} and {{Funk}}. The genre's heyday was in TheEighties, and it was mostly dead (with a few exceptions, such as TheChurch, Music/ThrowingMuses and of course Music/{{REM}}) by the time Grunge happened, having been largely superseded on College Radio by harder-edged AlternativeRock genres. However, newer bands did pop up sometimes, and the genre influenced later genres, most obviously AlternativeCountry, {{Slowcore}} and many of the less aggressive Indie Rock bands.

Describe JanglePop here. Well... it's the kind of music Music/{{REM}} and Music/TheSmiths play, basically. Though there's a bit more to it than that...

JanglePop is a genre of AlternativeRock that first appeared at the tail end of TheSeventies/the beginning of TheEighties. It's characterized by jangly guitars (often, though not always, 12-stringed), simple melodies and often [[WordSaladLyrics enigmatic]] lyrics (and sometimes IndecipherableLyrics as well). The sound can be bright and upbeat, moody and mysterious or downright trippy at times, but the aforementioned elements are pretty much always present.

Essentially a derivative of PowerPop, the genre was also quite heavily influenced by Folk Rock (especially Music/TheByrds and Music/SimonAndGarfunkel) and (of course) The Music/VelvetUnderground (particularly that band's quieter, folkier songs). The genre was heavily influenced by {{New Wave|Music}} and PostPunk, and JanglePop bands can be seen as PowerPop or PostPunk bands with Folk and CountryMusic influences, in a nutshell. Jangle Pop's most immediate antecedent was Music/{{Television}}, who are cited by both of the bands mentioned at the top of the page as a key influence.

* Music/TheReplacements (who started off as a HardcorePunk band, but became a JanglePop / PunkRock hybrid around 1983 or so)

* Music/{{Green}}

* Music/TheHousemartins (who featured [[FatboySlim Norman Cook]], of all people)

* Music/HoodooGurus (also NewWave)

* Music/{{XTC}} (borders on [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] and Psychedelia, most prominently during the ''English Settlement''-era)

+ NewWaveMusic, PostPunk, {{Folk}} Rock, PowerPop

* Muisc/TeenageFanclub (also PowerPop)