Shoegazer Revival

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Yeah, I know, I was ignoring that.

I think Pale Saints were one of the most underrated bands of the 90s.

I was in the loo when "Sight Of You" came on, but I was so so so so soooo happy to hear it again.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

radio dept were better than i'd imagine too, tho the shoegazing tag is a bit a misnomer, more of a sarah rcds / pacific almost mongolfier brothers kindof a thing? no?

Yes, definitely, very much OTM!

― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

no nono you're right, pale saints don't deserve that bracket at all, some frineds of mine are walking up the aisle to their version of kinky love next weekend, did they play that on saturday or did i DREAM it. i still stand by the revolver thing though. they didn't play any moose did they? that strawberry wine / mercy seat / how you satisfy me sequence was something else. and yeh the sub spacemen 3 half hour was fun, it threw into sharp relief how bombastic and sortof histrionic most droney psychy rock is these days.

― cw (cww), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

oh come on, in what way is the twee mimsy of "heaven sent an angel" anything like EMF. (twee mimsy that I have to 'fess up to having a big soft spot for - mind you haven't heard it in about ten years)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

EMF had a slightly winsome cure-ish quality to the singing no, but really it's the over produced 90's beef of the drums and all those power chords and stuff. and the horrible inspipd obviousness of the tune.

― cw (cww), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, they played Kinky Boots. One of my mates at the party we'd been at all afternoon utterly called "I bet they'll play Kinky Boots..." and lo and behold...

strawberry wine / mercy seat / how you satisfy me

I nearly exploded with happiness. Oh wait, maybe that was the heat. But still. No heat in the world could have stopped me from dancing to that.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know this 'Revolver' business.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

http://snow.prohosting.com/ukband/Revolver.htm

notable only for their cover of Since Yesterday.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 25 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Slough Festival?!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

All this talk makes me of the merry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Radio Dept. are live in session on the Hub on Gideon Coe/ 6 Music this Friday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/gideon_coe/

also apparently tomorrow is:

We wish My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe a very Happy Indie Birthday today!

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

> Slough Festival?!

i was there! twice!

ride, curve, slowdive in 1991
er, jesus jones in 1992

http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/1998-month-07/msg00471.html
(check out the 'prev by date' message 8)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

can someone reccomend some of this dancefloor friendly shoegaze stuff for me

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

What are the 3 must own albums from Clairecords?

― Piers (piers), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Good God, that club sounds like my idea of heaven.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

:( answers?

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, there are a few. It depends on what you're interested in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

give me a starting place

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Chapterhouse, Seefeel and of course MBV (at points).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

teenage filmstars "loving"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

What are the 3 must own albums from Clairecords?
-- Piers (pier...), October 25th, 2004 8:42 AM. (piers) (later)

ecstasy of st. theresa - sussurate

also: tonevendor (who are big-upped on the Sacramento C/D, S/D. thread) are daniel and heather of clairecords.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

New Monster Movie album is great

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, I remember that paragraph from Keith. Well, bits of it.

Where was Slough festival held? If that's not a silly question.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

my opinion on clairecords releases

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

dancefloor friendly shoegaze = chapterhouse's "pearl"!

mbv's "soon" has a good beat but it's not really dancefloor-danceable (sorta like flipper's "sex bomb", &c).

― etc, Monday, 25 October 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

hhaha comparing mbv to flipper!

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks surface noise and gygax. am thoroughly looking forward to receiving my first clairecords order!

― Piers (piers), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.kebabylon.com/scrubber%20outkast.jpg

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Three Words:

THE EARLY YEARS!!!

http://www.myspace.com/thesoundoftheearlyyears

Go get it. I heart them.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the early years album is good

i'm still enjoying the fleeting joys album despite it being hilariously derivative

jeniferever are also v good

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, that last band -- they named themselves after an unreleased Smashing Pumpkins song? And I thought *I* was obsessive...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Soundpool's new album is pretty good.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to this early years mob via myspace and thinking "meh", i realise that i somehow have their "all ones and zeroes" EP. added to iTunes 17/01/2006. last played ... er, 17/01/2006 :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have the EP - looked at it at Truck, but the shop was already cashing out so I couldn't get it.

Is it a different mix from the album? I mean, I would actually say they're slightly better live than on album (well, apart from them not doing the harmonies live, but we've had a word about that, and they promise they'll try) but still, the album is bloody good.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

it sounds marginally different to these ears, although i didn't listen carefully. i'm about to get on a train and disappear into the void that is london for the weekend, but i can bung you the MP3s next week if you want.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

There's a lot of The Church in here as well as the obvious Shoegaze/Krautrock references. This is why I keep thinking you'd like it.

"Simple Solution" wouldn't be out of place on The Blurred Crusade or Remote Luxury.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

Er um uh. (Meaning, soonish?) Meantime I will be reviewing the Like a Daydream comp for the AMG, roxor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

They sent me a MySpace friend request awhile back that I never got around to answering. I'll give them a listen...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

It's real Delays weather here.

six years pass...

serious question--does the revival ever end? What's it like in the UK?

Seems like there's a lot more shoegazer/dreampop floating to the surface this year.

― The Great Forgiver (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link

It is all kinda eternal at this point. For good/ill.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link

never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xATi5s9-A

― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link

i don't think it's going anywhere

saw these guys the other day and quite enjoyed it, though the melodies are a bit weak at times

http://pearlsgirlspearls.bandcamp.com/

― Im am... gobsacked (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link

lol Ned check this out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/12/shoegazing-back-in-fashion

― The Great Forgiver (dandydonweiner), Saturday, 13 April 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link

seven months pass...

It was a great year for shoegazers and dreampop

― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link

And the new Alcest is just going to drive it even higher next year.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link

Shoegaze "was one of the wimpiest genres" of the 1990s. As opposed to "gangsta rap", I suppose.

― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link

sometimes it seems like a lot of the black metal stuff is really just renamed shoegazerz

― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link

No joke, I pretty much got into black metal via the stuff where the guitars sounded shoegaze-y to me.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link

thew new Chambermaids is great....lots of shoegaze stuff/dream/psych stuff in mpls these days
http://chambermaids.bandcamp.com/

― Southern Lorde (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link

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