Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Jangle pop is a genre of alternative rock from the early-to-mid-1980s that \"marked a return to the chiming or jangly guitars and pop melodies of the '60s\", as exemplified by The Byrds, with electric twelve-string guitars and straightforward, power pop-inspired song structures. Mid-1980s jangle pop, epitomised by bands such as The Smiths, was a non-mainstream \"pop-based format\" with \"some folk-rock overtones\". Between 1983 and 1987, the description \"jangle pop\" was, in the US, used to describe bands like R.E.M., Let's Active and Tom Petty as well as a subgenre called \"Paisley Underground\", which incorporated psychedelic influences. In the UK, the term was applied to the new wave of raw and immediate sounding melodic guitar-bands collected on the NME's C86 (and later CD86) compilations."@en }
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- Jangle_pop abstract "Jangle pop is a genre of alternative rock from the early-to-mid-1980s that \"marked a return to the chiming or jangly guitars and pop melodies of the '60s\", as exemplified by The Byrds, with electric twelve-string guitars and straightforward, power pop-inspired song structures. Mid-1980s jangle pop, epitomised by bands such as The Smiths, was a non-mainstream \"pop-based format\" with \"some folk-rock overtones\". Between 1983 and 1987, the description \"jangle pop\" was, in the US, used to describe bands like R.E.M., Let's Active and Tom Petty as well as a subgenre called \"Paisley Underground\", which incorporated psychedelic influences. In the UK, the term was applied to the new wave of raw and immediate sounding melodic guitar-bands collected on the NME's C86 (and later CD86) compilations.".