Shoegaze tracks for smoking, staring out the window, and watching the fog gather at 3am

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― soundnfury, Saturday, 15 March 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

roxy music - "bogus man"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"Souvlaki Space Station" by Slowdive

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Not necessarily shoegaze per se, but "Tongue" off Underworld's Dubbassnowithmyheadorwhatever album might suffice nicely.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The Auburn Lull album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Swervedriver - "Duress"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And in case you doubt my choice, the opening lyrics are:

"And when the dawn begins to creep
Sunlight finds you in a heap
And how you wish that you could sleep"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Program your CD player/MP3 player to play "Souvlaki Space Station" (as Alex suggests) and "Melon Yellow" in a loop.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The whole Souvlaki album is goddamn good shoegazing, regardless of time of day.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I guess so. **goes off to mope in corner**

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

for some reason, a Bowery Electric song called "Without Stopping" always put me in a sort of trance. musta been the dope.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

you guys are awesome. thanks. this is exactly what i was hoping for... and it's now 3am so the prophecy is complete. please keep it coming.

~ swaying in 'delaware', drop nineteens, stoned as all fuck-out, in a state of great mental bliss ~

welcome to the state of delaware...

― soundnfury, Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Very good record. Shame they didn't make any more like that.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck, I'd put on the nearest marvin gaye album...

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 15 March 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mad As Snow" - KoD (Which is going on another thread in a second)
"Records" - Brian Jonestown Mascara

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 15 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Change that to "Hyperventilation" from the same Mascara album.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 15 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Earwig "Everyday Shines" (or Insides "Clear Skin")

― summerslastsound, Saturday, 15 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

you are all wrong, when you are well smashed and strung out, nothing beats Pygmalion. NOTHING! And That is because this is an objective fact for christ's sake.

And for some strange reason, I have always found Whirlpool by Chapterhouse to sound _worse_ when I was stoned.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoegaze tracks for smoking, staring out the window, and watching the fog gather at 3am
All of them. Thats the point.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 16 March 2003 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoegaze tracks for smoking, staring out the window, and watching the fog gather at 3am
All of them. Thats the point.

addendum...
if you're smoking clove cigs, its raining and its 3pm then you have to whip "Disintegration" by the Cure.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 16 March 2003 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoegazing is overrated. I want to drink loads of coffee, listen to The Teardrop Explodes and bounce around like a ferret on acid. WOOOOOOO!!!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, WTF are you on? Dandy Warhols, early Sloan and RIDE.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 16 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shine" by Slowdive.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 16 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

for a new twist throw in the "Blue Skied an' Clear" comp, has lots of newer electro groups interpreting classic slowdive tunes. recognizable but interestingly different.

― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 16 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, like i said somewhere before, i've heard that covers alb but i got so annoyed with it! it's like, slowdive songs were never really about hearing the vocals anyway, and the covers shove the vocals all the way up in the mix. i mean i know it's supposed to be a 'reinterpretation' but it's just not interesting -- slowdive's lyrical skillz were never their strong suit anyhow. then there are a bunch of covers which are just slavish repeats of the original, which is dull also. and most of the arrangements are pared down to bare melody, but instead of sounding cool it just sounds kinda bland and new-agey. the second disc has some alright tracks tho.

best thing to listen to when acting all dreamy: dance music

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

may i recommend (i know it's not typical shoegazer) - The Sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter by The Penguin Café Orchestra for this particular situation...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Well you see, my friend lent me this CD. And I thought it was just some substandard indie thing from the early 90's so I let it sit around on for months. Thinking one day I'd get to it you know. Well he's coming round to my place tonight and I was cleaning up and figured I'd better finally listen to it already and give it back to him tonight when he comes round.

And instead I was really surprised it's from 2005 and it's a band called Air Formation and they do a real shoegazing thing except they kindof mix in a lot of gloom with it. And even though I wanted to turn it off and play something else after awhile I couldn't bring myself to turn it off. It's an EP called "57 Octaves Below" that is just very spooky and spacey and even goth at times. So yeah I listened to the whole thing, I couldn't help myself, I couldn't turn it off. And I thought "Ned should hear this". But then maybe Ned has already heard it.

Anyway it says it's "distributed in the U.S. by Tonevendor" but I there are also a lot of other UK credits on it.

― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

i like that ep. the only other thing i have of theirs is their first cd, which i recall as being not very good at all.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Well, thanks for that info. Did they do anything after this EP? Not that I couldn't look it up myself.

― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

that's their newest thing so far. they've had a half dozen or so releases all up.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.airformation.com/releases.php

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Grief. And I just had the one EP kicking around.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

"Sometimes"-MBV, The Verve-Storm In Heaven (album), Pacific UV,

― jcabb, Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

four tet - "glue of the world".

actually, most anything he's done.

no, that's not shoegaze, i do obviously realize that.

― Emily B (Emily B), Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

the Inner Sleeve album

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

rafael toral - mixed states uncoded

― palpatean mists, Monday, 10 April 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Blind Mr. Jones - Stereo Musicale. Specifically the track "Regular Disease"

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

The last half of Galaxie 500's This Is Our Music

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 April 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

the Telescopes - S/T

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 10 April 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Loop / A Gilded Eternity

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Monday, 10 April 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

The Cure-Disentegration

― jcabb, Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

"A Thousand Stars Burst Open" by The Pale Saints, or "Shine" by Bailter Space

― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm blissing as I read this. (Though I'm actually listening to Prince.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

There is mad fog in northern New Jersey tonight. Therefore, I nominate the Jesus and Mary Chain's Darklands.

As a disclaimer, I drank quite a bit and also ate 8 slyders from White Castle, so I could very well be wrong-o. However, I feel it to be a matter of conscience, and as a Catholic, I have to stick to my motherfucking guns.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

M. Biondi is OTM!

Darklands is Mary Chain's very best, IMO but the Cure always works in this case so good call jcabb.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

trespassers william's cover of 'vapour trail'.

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 15 April 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

for against "shelflife"

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Saturday, 15 April 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Paavoharju - ilmaa virtaa

― snowballing (snowballing), Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

marine time keepers 'of all the things'

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I know it's not shoegaze, and I know it's not really appropriate for the hypothetical situation, but I really want to say "3AM Eternal."

Instead, I will think about saying Lanterna but end up deciding that Pygmalion is really, really the best record to listen to whilst staring out the window and watching fog gather. Rachel's is not half bad, either, but it is also not half shoegaze.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The 1st track here?
http://www.myspace.com/theblackangels

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

"A Thousand Stars Burst Open" by The Pale Saints-Ya that song's beautiful-I love the Pale Saints-good one sexy mf
Does anyone wanna swap soegazing mixtape cdr's???
Is it legal???

― jcabb, Saturday, 15 April 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

new Air Formation is absolutely superb. i bought it entirely on a whim and it's miles beyond what I was expecting. Best record of 2007 thus far...

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

'The Dark Has Fallen' might be the moment nu-gaze is WON, it's that good. Might actually be one of the greatest shoegaze songs of all-time.

― unfished business, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

this thread title pretty much is the whole Beach House album

― yoshinorimike, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, so there's a new Air Formation, eh? Thanks for the news!

― Bimble, Friday, 23 February 2007 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

Get the latest Bitcrush album; it fucking rules. Oceans of reverbed guitars/electronics + bass guitar leads. Perfect 3 AM fog music.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 23 February 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

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