So I mentioned this group a few times and no one really seemed to know them very well, so I thought I'd make a topic about them.

They're a fairly unknown British post-punk group out of the 80s (this is not all I like even if it seems like it is!).  If there has ever been a group to stretch the post-punk genre it is Marine Girls, because really they sound more like 60s surf rock or some shit, but it is more a genre based around a movement than a sound, so whatever (also, at times there is a deliberate minimalism to their music that's reminiscent of Young Marble Giants, who are very much a post-punk act).  Basically, they are a really mellow rock outfit with very little in the way of percussion.  They use maracas and cowbells and very occasionally actual drums, but mostly it's just guitar and bass.  It is laid back shit and the female vocalist reinforces that vibe.  They made two albums, Beach Party and Lazy Ways, both of which I think are pretty good, but the latter is easily the best, I think.

I don't really know if they are up anyone's alley, but I imagine they would be.  It is just MELLOW POP basically but they are pretty good at it and it's nice.  The problem is they have exactly ONE SOUND and all of their music sounds very very similar.  Ordinarily I hate this in bands, but like I said, they put out two albums ever, and each is about half an hour, so I'm pretty alright with them having the same sound when it's for a grand total of AN HOUR.  Here's a few songs.

These first two are off Lazy Ways


And these two are off Beach Party

Couple of their songs are pretty good, the style reminds me of some old female-fronted bossa nova.  Very relaxing and good melodies.

Apparently this band is somehow related:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ZyKPTNIPY

Oh, that's definitely the same vocalist.  It must be a collab or something!  She's been in multiple bands and is still an active musician iirc.

edit.  yeah it was a side project of thorn's at around the same time.  They released way way more albums than Marine Girls did; I should probably check them out.  From this song I already kind of like them more than MG.  It is the same vocals and tone, but I think the music is more interesting than riffs played on a jaguar with some bass and cowbell in the background over and over.  I still like Marine Girls quite a bit though!

Nouvelle Vogue are okay!  I do not really listen to them because the vocals kind of annoy me and it sounds like music that was made to be put in a movie soundtrack, but yeah they are okay I guess.

assuming marine girls is boring lol, moving on

lol man render you're a laugh a minute

yeah idk it could apply to all music but i always get the impression that nouvelle vogue would be like the kind of band who would write songs specifically for movie soundtracks.  it just sounds like it is music meant to GO ALONG WITH//SUPPLEMENT SOMETHING ELSE more than to stand on its own.

i didn't skip over it, i agreed with it; i think it sounds very soundtracky too.

also i kinda liked their cover of love will tear us apart lol.....

they dont sound anything alike besides MELLOW//FEMALE VOCALIST imo.  the instrumentation and aesthetics are totally different.  one comes off as easy listening lounge music and the other seems like minimalistic rock music.  also marine girl's vocalist has a radically different voice and vocal style in general

also i called them nouvelle vogue because i did not notice you spelled the differently and did not pick up on the fact that it was a correction

ps this is the one i saw.  it is not a very good cover in that it does not maintain tone of the original song at all but i guess i kind of get off on WHISPY VOICED FRENCH GIRL//PARLOR GUITAR

whoops i put it in quote tags