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What is "anorak pop music" and why is it labeled so?

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Well into the 1980s, Scotland produced a new generation of pop bands, under the banner of "anorak pop" (so called from the simple jacket preferred by simple kids).


link http://www.scaruffi.com/history/cpt411.html


Music characterized by infectious melodies, and simple, unaffected performances. It was a movement towards wistful musical primitivism, and willful naïveté.


link http://www.sheepish.org/pastels/bio.html

Jul 02 2006, 5:24 PM
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