The Fascinating Turnip

^Hehe, it's a great song.

You may be thinking what the bloody hell The Foppish Corner is. Well, it's a place in which I'll discuss music that gives off different sensations but has an air of sophistication about it. Let's call it panache

A quality I quite enjoy in music is a sort of briskness, music that feels like it's the soundtrack of a crisp winter morning.
For me, atleast, the music that most commonly reminds me of a certain crispness is usually quite jangly in sound, but with the slightest change the mood can very swiftly change from sunny (in a cold wintery way) to rainy.

A few examples seem to be in order:


Both tracks are lighthearted pop really, but I quite like the feeling they give off, they're rather jaunty.

Felt is a quite interesting band, the fingerpicked guitar is present in most if not all the songs, and that along with some, in a way, baroquely glorious imagery creates a unique atmosphere. The character that is Lawrence is also rather interesting, little is known about the man it seems.

Here's another track:


Music is rather special in that it can take you away to a certain place. Much like books, it creates an atmosphere with no visual aid and if it's quite good it'll make you lose yourself in it.
Sometimes it may not be quite clear to you what it creates or where you've been, but you've still been somewhere.

These particular music-created places discussed in this corner always turn you into some sort of dapper individual, the protagonist in the tale being told or the tale you immediately imagine. Everything gains a certain grandeur, a dramatic twist that fortunately manages to avoid the imagery of David Brent singing If You Don't Know Me By Now. Just like the tracks above, though, the whole ordeal can be quite jovial and lighthearted.

Whilst we're on the dramatic side of the Foppish Corner, here are a couple of tunes that came to mind:

The Television track might not be entirely suited for this due to the vocals, but suited it is nonetheless. Torn Curtain is a fantastic song, the chorus always reminds me off some sort of cascade crashing down, which fits quite well with this excerpt from the lyrics:


Now, on to the other tune:

Do You Remember The First Time? is one of my favourite Pulp songs, it has a sort of air of forgotten youth, incredible lyrics (though they look fairly plain on paper) and the vocal delivery is amazing.
The video is also fantastic, although the good taste in Jarvis Cocker's shirt is questionable. Still, you can't deny the man is effortlessly cool.
Pulp is a band that has a very peculiar feel to it. It can be incredibly classy even if it's quite verging on being tawdry, or if a fairly common-place situation is being discussed.

A few other tracks, then:


A fairly common situation in teenage life turned into a bloody hymn.

Now, on to their more seductive side:


This is Hardcore not only has a terrific video, but it's a fantastic tune, has quite a "film noir" feel to it: femme fatale, man with a raincoat and hat standing in the corner in the pouring rain, the lot of it.
The second track is a bit more animalistic, but the general theme of the "corner" is still there, sophistication and a lot of emotion.

And so this comes to an end, I wouldn't want to run out of subject in future updates (hopefully I'll get round to them).
I hope my constant use of the word sophistication and other synonyms doesn't make me sound like a muppet who thinks he listens to the best music around. I suppose only time will tell.