ILM's Best Shoegaze / Dream Pop / Post-rock TRACKS poll - RESULTS THREAD

er.. number of trax that place.

Right now it is 6-5 w/ MBV in the lead

& out there still are at least two big Souvlaki tracks & one early single. A shitload of MBV as well, obv.. o_O @"Machine Gun" & "Blue Skied an Clear" & "Waves" not being nominated.

it's all Slowdive and MBV from here on out PB...

my prediction for #1 = You Made Me Realise

From that last batch, my picks were "Off Your Face", which still might be my favourite MBV track; "Morningrise", and "Here's Where the Story Ends" - one of a few Sundays tracks I rounded off my ballot with. They don't fit the description of shoegaze or even dreampop in my book, but such is my love for Reading Writing and Arithmetic - best LP of the 1990s by a chalk of any length - that I couldn't resist throwing some of their songs into the mix. God, I love that album.

xp: callin it "Only Shallow"

Wow, heaps of people voted for "Does this Hurt?". (inc myself). Awesome x

Dang! I haven't been on ILM much and completely missed the voting for this. I would have given all my votes to "Sometimes" FWIW.

Aight I'm back. Let me drink water and I'll start.

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50. Loop - Arc-Lite (Sonar) (5 votes, 132 points)
Arc-Lite (1989)
Youtube

^Liking the sound of this one.

that song sounds very Oneida-y

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49. Blur - Sing (5 votes, 134 points)
Leisure - UK version (1991)
Youtube

^okay I def. voted for this & gave it a good amount of points too...

Brilliant song. Didn't vote for it but glad it made it to the top 50.

I had no idea this was only released in the UK version of the album. No wonder I've never heard of it until Trainspotting dug it out for us in the American continent.

Yeah! I gave this a whirl again, was surprised at just how good it is. Got decent points from me too.

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48. Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets (5 votes, 134 points)
Here Come The Warm Jets (1974)
Youtube

Sod Shakey, thanks Ismael for sneaking this one in for me, I gave it a full 50 points. I still think 'needle in the camel's eye' made more sense in the poll but I'm happy either way.

Finally some Loop made it in.

I don't know why I left "Sing " out of my ballot. I totally meant to vote for it.

Re: The Sundays, I'm with Moka, I mean, I love "Here's Where The Story Ends" but shoegaze it ain't.

Re: The Sundays, I'm with Moka, I mean, I love "Here's Where The Story Ends" but shoegaze it ain't.

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47. Curve - 10 Little Girls (6 votes, 136 points)
Blindfold EP (1991)
Youtube

My top mark because it's the essence of the genre - where it came from (goth, distortion, prettiness) and where it might've gone (beats, raps, killer tunes). It brought the strands together in a knot that held for only a gorgeous moment.

- Ismael Klatta

I have a recording of a 1998 show where Toni does the rap in this and it's completely ridiculous and awesome.

- Elvis in Telecom

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46. Talk Talk - I Believe in You (6 votes, 137 points)
Spirit of Eden (1988)
Youtube

Was away in the land of no internet when voting was happening. Good work so far though chaps!

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45. Slowdive - Catch The Breeze (7 votes, 139 points)
Just For A Day (1991)
Youtube

Magical. This was the second CD I ever bought – after Nowhere. I played it very loudly with all the lights off when my parents
were out of the house.

- kraudive.

Eno and Blur are tied according to your posts. Is this right?

I never really got into Slowdive even though I liked what I heard and even thought they were really good when I saw them open for Ride. I dunno, I guess I was getting my daily quotient of shoegaze back then. I need to rectify that.

Dammit. No. Eno is supposed to have 5 votes, 135 pts.

ok

Also while we're at it:

71. SPACEMEN 3 "Hypnotized" (1989) [112 points, 4 votes]

That should be "5 votes" not 4.

Ironic that Blur ended up placing on a "shoegaze" poll when it was their actual manager who coined the term "shoegazing" as a disparaging term describing everything that Blur emphatically were *not* WRT the Scene That Celebrates Itself.

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44. Curve - Horror Head (4 votes, 140 points)
Doppelganger (1992)
Youtube

Huh. How have I never heard "Horror Head" before? Suprised at how similar to "Fait Accompli" it sounds.

(Except a bit dreamier)

nice - finally, one of my #1s places! (I had several #1 tracks on my ballot)

i don't think my curve vote is gonna make it :(

NFI if mine will, I'd forgot I even included them til I went back and checked just now.

And I guess no Engineers is gonna poll at all at this point :(

OMG, Horror Head is still one of my favourite tracks ever. Again, it's that counterpoint of utter darkness and lush textured beauty, this huge undercurrent of danger and sexual menace running underneath the prettiness of shoegaze that gets left out in later interpretations.

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43. Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder (5 votes, 142 points)
On Fire (1989)
No Youtube...

Are Galaxie 500 seriously underground or are they very strict on CC? The youtubes barely seems to know them.

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42. Loop - Black Sun (6 votes, 143 points)
Fade Out (1988)
Youtube: Black Sun + Afterglow

does this mean no Bailter Space? -snif-

(voted Black Sun)

xxp - no, their flag has risen pretty much consistently since they got the Rykodisc retrospective treatment ten years ago or so. Kinda weird about the Youtube thing.

Not looking right now and even if I was I couldn't tell you but I remember receiving a couple of ballots with Bailter Space 'X' on them.

Are Galaxie 500 seriously underground or are they very strict on CC? The youtubes barely seems to know them.

several of their proper videos used to be up, probably record co interference brought them down

xp: It's weird alright. Only thing I can find of them on the youtubes are live recordings and cover versions by youtube users.

xxp it got nominated like 3 times...