The Sound of Jangle
Just a week to wait now until ‘Track 19’, but in the meantime …
… it may be a basic question, but it’s one I have always struggled to answer:
“What sort of music do you like?”
When writing ‘Challenge 69’, and selecting the musicians to theme my story, I used a catch-all categorisation of ‘maverick music’, but if I tried to answer this question more specifically then the best I could come up with might be, “I like jangly music!”
The trouble with this description though is that ‘jangly’ is a subjective term, easy to use but a lot harder to define. The only real way therefore to answer the likely follow-up question of, “OK, but what’s that?” is to suggest some examples of great …
Attached below (for your pleasure!) are thirty minutes of the very finest ‘jangly pop’, kicking off with what surely has to be the jingliest tune in the whole of jangledom!
Now that must be worth half an hour of anybody’s listening time. Please enjoy!