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don't know much about it. always a bit put off by the floppy haired nice jumpered middle class wanky guitar oxford brigade. just seen doom generation tho, which, bizarrely, features a shoegaze-heavy soundtrack, and i suppose its something i ought to check out.

shoegazing is the worst name of any genre ever.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it was originally a deragatory term that happened to stick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoegaze is actually a good term, compared to others.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Ride "Vapour Trail," My Bloody Valentine "Only Shallow," Slowdive "Alison," Lush "Sweetness and Light," Kitchens of Distinction "Drive That Fast," Catherine Wheel "Black Metallic."

I rather like the term shoegaze to describe the music. Calls to mind images of boys and girls intently watching the floor getting ready to switch guitar pedals for different parts of a song, and that's what the music was all about really. Giant guitar washes over a simplistic pop structure.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

search- "do you remember ?" and "last night i fell again" by moose, and "pearl" by chapterhouse.

― mike (ro)bott, Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

others--
ride 'today', 'like a daydream'
slowdive - uh everything but 'catch the breeze' would be a good start
swirlies 'sarah sitting
kitchens 'railwayed'
curve 'frozen'

wombedelia and scene that celebrates itself were worse.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Curve is good; I've plugged them a bunch in other posts, though.

What's wrong with Catch the Breeze? It's a nice song!

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(My bid for Swirlies representation would be "San Cristobal de las Casas.") (My bid for MBV representation would be either "Off Your Face" or "When You Sleep.") (My bid for Catherine Wheel representation would be "Texture.") (My bid for Slowdive representation beyond "Alison" would be basically everything but especially "When the Sun Hits" and "Blue Skied an' Clear.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 28 September 2002 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

also speaking of "Blue Skied an' Clear," the Morr comp of that name has a track by Guitar called "House Full of Time" that is really really great

and Medicine have absolute and total winners with "One More" --- which is even better as an album-opener sound-manifesto than those first swells of "Only Shallow" --- and then "Something Goes Wrong" --- which is like Sheryl Crow if she got all shoegazery and started singing like Brad Laner

And Th' Faith Healers, "Seesaw"

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 28 September 2002 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

nabisco is 100% OTM with medicines 'one more'. fantastic song (five is good too). see also

sweet jesus - peach. phonefreak honey. real babe. (glamshoegaze!!)
secret shine - into the ether
drop nineteens - kick the tragedy
slowdive - catch the breeze. shine. avalyn. alison. many many more...
smashing orange - my deranged heart.

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

alot of it is crap - sorry - the only shoegazing album that survived my clear out would be my bloody valentine and boo radley's first two albums which were genius. other wise - bluagh.

though - you could make a case that kevin tihasta is a folk shoegazer.

― doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

it survives the test of time. b-but what abt the test of space?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

it survives the test of time.

hardly - it's this - "oh - i heard my bloody valentine - i'm going to put loads of effects and have my girlfriend "ooo and aaahh" over some noise.

ride to me always sounded like a speeded up version of the byrds. though - the new slowdive ressurection is interesting.

i would think crime is the greatest shoegazing band, ever!

― doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, nobody has mentioned "Suzanne" by Moose (surely the most perfect shoegazing song, that noise in the middle...), though I'll agree with all the other suggestions too - good call on "One more". Nobody liked Revolver then? Ha ha ha. And the first Moonshake single - "Gravity" - is prime shoegazing, even if everything else they did was nothing like it.

― Rob M, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

revolver's 'cold flat' might be in the top three of shoegazing albums, it was such a surprise that it wasn't crap when it came out that it kinda slipped under the radar at the end of the shoegazing run.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 September 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Dont forget the new breed

Sianspheric
Mahagony
Most of The Claire Records roster

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 28 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

well, in that case!

alisons halo - sunshy
grimble grumble - second mind

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 28 September 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, right, Doomie has reminded me:

BOO RADLEYS - DOES THIS HURT?
BOO RADLEYS - LAZY DAY

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 28 September 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

You guys, if we only include one Lush song, it MUST be "De-Luxe".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

soitch:
medicine - never click; 5ive
swirlies - jeremy parker; wrong tube
dropnineteens - winona; the dead
mbv - all of loveless; you never should; cupid come; you made me realise
boo radleys - towards the light
chapterhouse - mesmerise (dux 4 c0v3r)

re: the derogatory term that stuck... didn't 'dreampop' (urgh) threaten to define the genre for a while? here in NA, at least.

― mbosa, Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, well if you're gonna include Lush then we might as well add the Pale Saints as well then and I'll nominate ... er.. 'Babymaker', though I'd prefer 'She rides the waves' myself but it's a bit too early really... and a good call in the Boos, forgotten about them.

― Rob M, Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

*fights way back to ILM from work overload* Um, what everyone else said. With the exception of those who were detractors. Has anyone said Bethany Curve yet?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 September 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

also: about half of music has the right to children

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 28 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

ride as a sped up byrds....don't know why i focused on it, but this is a brilliant comparison.

you geniuses of taxonomy- is flying saucer attack a shoegaze band ?

― mike (ro)bott, Saturday, 28 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

More from the Clairecords camp: Malory and the Moonbabies

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 28 September 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

is flying saucer attack a shoegaze band ?

Got lumped in as such in the search for the new MBV, but the better comparisons would be to Bert Jantsch on the one hand and the Dead C on the other.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ride - Seagull
The Peter Parkers - Somatic
Mean Red Spiders - Azimuth Of Panama
Swervedriver - Last Train To Satanville
Boo Radleys - Memory Babe
Chapterhouse - Breather
Spiritualized (if they count) - Lay Back In The Sun
Kitchens Of Distinction - On Tooting Broadway Station, Mad As Snow
MBV - Soon, When you Sleep
Sloan - 500 Up, Marcus Said

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 29 September 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Some Spiritualized are definately shoegaze songs, even if they are more of a space rock.

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 29 September 2002 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

majesty crush - "no. 1 fan" and "boyfreind".

sorriest excuse for a shoegaze band- swallow

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 29 September 2002 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Swallow had their points. They were all the Cocteaus points, but still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha I was waiting for nabisco to mention those two songs)

&, er, since everybody's got all the good ones, why hasn't anybody mentioned

Verve - "The Sun, The Sea" (put this on a mix after Alison for best results!)
JPS Experience - "Bleeding Star"

― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

If I had to pick only one it would be "Flower to Hide" by Catherine Wheel. One of the most hypnotic songs of all-time. The listening experience can be enhanced by certain substances ... (I am thinking of legal stuff of course).

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

After Swallow got kicked off 4AD (I mean, how bad do you have to be to be kicked off 4AD?) they made an EP on Rough Trade I think which had a superb shoegazey track on it, a sort of bastard son of 'Never click' by Medicine. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me now, but it stood out a mile over their other material.

― Rob M, Monday, 30 September 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Seeing the JPS Experience mentioned (unt listening to that Bike record) brings to mind:

Straitjacket Fits - "Down in Splendour"

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 30 September 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

This might be a long shot but, anyone know a shoegazer song that was punctuated by some sort of a ratchet? If I remember right, it opens with the bass then everything kicks in together. The singer was a guy..

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ecstasy of st. theresa "to alison"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

err, sorry, that's not to answer yr question, just a general suggestion. the only song i know of with a ratchet in it is "end" by Julia, but it's not terribly shoegazey, and the ratchet begins the tune, not bass.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

astrobrite's "crush" album gives me a woody

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was a song from one of the big names, that I got from a thread on ilm, ride or ...moose maybe.. worst case scenario I'll have to download the whole genre.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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