Feedback to the Future: a compilation of elen shogazing songs

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So ilm seems to be very pro-shogaze and I am listening to this shoegaze comp. Here is the track listing:

1. Heaven Sent an Angel performed by Revolver
2. Last Night I Fell Again performed by Moose
3. All a Dreams performed by Telescopes
4. Like a Daydream performed by Ride
5. Small Caravan performed by Blind Mr. Jones
6. Catch the Breeze performed by Slowdive
7. Sea of Sound performed by Pale Saints
8. De-Luxe performed by Lush
9. Winona performed by Drop Nineteens
10. Sunshine Smile performed by Adorable
11. Rave Down performed by Swervedriver

It also comes w/an essay by Corey duBrowa (shouldn't Ned have wrote it or something?). I had only heard a few of these tracks before being something of a shoegazing novice. So what do you think of the comp? If it sucks make a better one. etc.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm

i don't know who blind mr jones are, and some of the song choices are kinda dodgy..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

also a lot of early 90s shoegaze has been matched / bettered by a lot of US groups hovering around the Clairecords axis..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

from the rough guides thread:

Another Rough Guide to Shoegaze:
1. MBV - To Here Knows When
2. Lush - Deluxe
3. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
4. Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
5. Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
6. Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple
7. Medicine - One More Time
8. Jesus & Mary Chain - Reverence
9. Curve - Coast is Clear
10. Spiritualized - Pure Phase
11. Mogway - CODY
12. Ecstatsy of St. Theresa - Fluidum
13. Ride - Nowhere

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

some worthwhile discussions to dip the toes into..

recommend me some lost shoegaze classics
search: shoegazer songs
Search & Destroy: the Shoegazer Genre.
hi....any new shoegazer bands are good as Slowdive?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey every thread I make I end up misspelling something in the title.

I'll check out those other threads, but I stand by starting this one.

How many other shoegaze retrospective type comps are there out there?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

retrospective comps? none, probably.. i'm not aware of any compilations covering a general overview of shoegaze..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

shouldn't Ned have wrote it or something?

*dryly* Quite. But I am patient. ;-) As it is -- some good choices, some indifferent ones, no MBV, without whom etc. No Chapterhouse either, I note. Blind Mr. Jones were at points quite great, Jim, but they were still fairly second tier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I assumed they couldn't get an MBV song on there, though I guess there was one on the Lost in Translation soundtrack.

retrospective comps? none, probably

History in the making! Reading some of the threads mentioned apparently something called masstransfer had a comp w/the mag once I guess.

I've never really enjoyed a swervedriver song though they are always bandied about. Still, I think I am going to find about 15 shogaze albums at the ol' radio station tommorrow, burn the lot of them and listen to nothing but for weeks on end. Oh, its gonna be a hazy, lazy whooshy time!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

there's certainly plenty of shoegaze comps out there but they predominantly include contemporary stuff. if you're wanting to dip your toe in the pool for newer stuff, start with the excellent "Solutions and Remedies" comp on Clairecords. it is very very good indeed.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i was a teenage anglophile and remember that era vividly. adorable were underrated in the extreme, and the inclusion of revolver is more exciting as a 'keeping it real' gesture than it is a payoff musically, but that's not nothing. i have a friend who has recommended the clair stuff but it is silly to present it has having "bettered" the original wave. i saw drop nineteens later on from this side of them, when they had caught the smashing pumpkins vibe and had eight guitarists or something. i was on acid and as uncomfortable as i have ever been. i still kind of hold it against them but can remember buying and liking the first one earlier than that, when i was still in high school.
all i have to say is that the "feedback" comp really represents, in a curatorial way that is backed up by my memories.

― duke sinatra, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not saying the new shoegazing wave is better in its entirety than the old wave, but i certainly do think bands like Malory and Mahogany are significantly better than bands like Revolver or Drop Nineteens.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to agree if those are the examples being used. Both of the earlier bands had a couple of good individual songs...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it's a thing involving personality to some extent, which more likely involves especially distinctive "good individual songs" being produced with a mind to the types of sounds emerging at the time. and probably not as much in the area of a workmanlike aura surrounding pleasantly consistent 'genre' efforts...but then ride sort of did both with nowhere, and were also better than all the bands we've mentioned so far.

― duke smile, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure I'd call Adorable shoe-gazers, actually.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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