So how many shoegazer bands were there? Like, more than a hundred?

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100. MBV (obv)
99. Ride
98. Slowdive (neither of whom I've actually heard)

I'm out. Forgive me, I'm an American and don't know such things.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Er?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

is there a point to this thread?

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

anyway, the greater share of shoegaze bands these days ARE american.

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Phil, your general goal for information may be worthy but your formulation is curious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Search & Destroy: the Shoegazer Genre.

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

547

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Search and Destroy: Obscure Dreampop/Shoegazer Bands...

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Shoegazer Revival - S/D

recommend me some lost shoegaze classics

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

No way! the Boo Radleys?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Okay, now I'm just wondering about your level of sarcasm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

There was just enough.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

No, really, I have absolutely no idea. It's just I was thinking the other day, I saw Ride and Slowdive mentioned in reference to Bloc Party, who I've been digging (an olive branch, Ned!), and I thought, "For a genre whose name I hear bandied about all the time, I know of almost no bands who played the stuff."

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Is it wrong to use the past tense?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

www.allmusic.com

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

But these answers are so much more entertaining!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

those links upthread should keep you busy for a while. needless to say shoegaze never went away, it just went underground. clairecords in the US and club ac30 in the UK are keeping the flame alive.

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

i probably should have said "were enough" instead of "was enough"... i think.

i think there could be more now, but there used to be enough.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I could probably name about thirty, maybe fifty depending on what people's definition of shoegaze is, but when it comes down to it, can you name more bands than that in ANY genre? Besides "rock" and "pop" and "Tortoise-related-bands", obv.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

with tremendous ease

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Do bands from outside the Thames Valley scene of the late 80s/early 90s count?

And are US bands "shoegazer" or "dreampop"? And isn't "dreampop" a way of saying "I swear on a stack of Cocteaus records that this isn't goth".

― acb (acb), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Suede.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Echobelly.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Scarfo.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Maximo Park.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

someone drinkin' today?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Do bands from outside the Thames Valley scene of the late 80s/early 90s count?

Not really. I would say it's got to be between 88 and 92, and most of these conditions must be met:

- you use very loud guitars, with lots of distortion and/or lots of FX pedals in use, and play mostly chords or riffs but no solos
- you like feedback
- the drums are kind of funky but largely buried in the mix
- the vocals are quite melodic
- any prominent male band member (fnar) should have longish hair, either in a bowl cut or with a big, floppy fringe
- you come from / live in London or Reading or Oxford
- you are signed to creation or 4AD

I would say orignators: My Bloody Valentine.
Second wave: Pale Saints, Lush, Ride.
Third wave: Chapterhouse, Slowdive, Boo Radleys, at a push Swervedriver.
Fourth wave: Moose, Catherine Wheel (even though both rapidly mutated into something completely different), and lots of bandwagon jumpers like Revolver. Special mention to Smashing Orange from the good ol' US of A.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Arse - stick Bleach in with that third wave. I knew I'd forgotten something.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shoegazing_musicians

― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say I don't think I agree with all this list (the wikipedia one) but I got click happy.

It's a good list of bands though.

― Ned, Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

- the drums are kind of funky but largely buried in the mix

yeah those slowdive tracks certainly bring on the funk

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

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