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

Need to dig out that Sundays album again.

Despite the MBV overload, these results are already kind of diverse. Me likey.

xxxpost: well, is there a thread or a list of songs that might help me get acquainted with them? Almost everything Ive heard from them starts giving me migraine after a few minutes.

Need to dig out that Sundays album again.

I never go a month w/o listening to it at least once.

I'm wondering why I don't to be honest! Used to listen to it at before I went to sleep for years.

Never got into the DNTL track, but the Superpitcher remix of it is one of my favourite tracks from the last few years.

xxxx://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVorE74HfA&feature=related

xpost: The Superpitcher remix is magnificent but if the original one barely qualifies as 'nugaze' the remix definitely doesnt.

Pillbox, I thought about voting for Swervedriver as they were one of the first of this sort of thing that I'd heard, but then I realised... they're not actually that good.

Next comes a slice of proto-shoegaze/dreampop/whatever that I was unfamiliar with but I'm loving it, so thanks for the intro voters.

Can you all guess what it is?

Eno?

ar kane?

j&mc?

Nope, not Eno, not ar kane and not j&mc. I have to say am actually angry at Shakey Mo Collier for persuading me to remove my Eno nom when he didn't even vote in the poll.

http://www.nomepierdoniuna.net/wp-content/uploads/the-chameleons-script_of_the_bridge.jpg
86. The Chameleons - View From A Hill (4 votes, 101 points)
Script of the Bridge (1983)
Youtube

oh, okay! I actually voted for that, but my mind was elsewhere just now when thinking of PROTO-shoegaze.

Oops that was supposed to be 84 not 86.

(that's #84 right?)

SWEET

Oh man, I'm sad that 'Never Lose That Feeling' is so low. Haven't really heard many other Swervedriver songs that I like all that much, but that one tune has such a cool mix of sweet melody and raging, blurrey-eared noise. Love that big fucking wrought-iron riff and the way it keeps hammering into the shining zing of that slide guitar bit. Love the way the verses just keep getting pushed out there like smoke rings floating out into the sun. And that breakdown too where the bass drops out, so many great parts in this song. Also if you just hear that four minute Youtube, then you're missing out on like a further six whole minutes where it changes into this entirely different thing, this whole extended smoked-out comedown section. Fucking gorgeous.

Feeling your pain moka - I never understand people getting all antsy about the noms and then losing interest. I sneaked 'warm jets' on for you instead - same album I think it was.

although great as this song is, I'm more a dull-as-ditchwater Second Skin/Soul In Isolation man

sometimes the popular ones are popular for a good reason y'know

gonna have to give Swervedriver a spin

HELL YEAH view from a hill!!!

crut as soon as I saw it I was like '50 points from the c-man there' :D

^ tru

Hey LJ, here's a link to the full 12 minute version.

http://open.spotify.com/track/57h9OfKBj4QLOJHiBADKcw

xpost: The Superpitcher remix is magnificent but if the original one barely qualifies as 'nugaze' the remix definitely doesnt.

I've always thought of a lot of Kompakt's output as being very shoegazey though, it's not a bit leap from 'Soon' to this.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Slowdive_ep.jpeg
83. Slowdive - Slowdive (5 votes, 101 points)
Slowdive EP (1990)
Youtube

oh wow wow wow wow this Swervedriver song is KILLING it so far

i love swervedriver. the first three records are all great, but 'raise' is especially fantastic. one of the prettiest, hook-drenched ear-bashings i've had the pleasure to hear.

The next one was my wake-up alarm song for the best part of 2007:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5101rsyM1jL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
82. Glenn Branca - Lesson No.1 (4 votes, 102 points)
Lesson No.1 (1980)
Youtube

There's the one Slowdive song I voted for. xps

Wrong youtube link- Here we go:
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1

I should've thrown 'Slowdive' a few for old times' sake. It's still really good, though the drums go badly out-of-time at the end. I secretly kind of wanted Slash or someone to come in playing a really huge lead over the intro.

I have a feeling Suzanne is going to be the only Moose track here. Should've voted for it!

Have to go. Here comes the last song of the day -

http://optimisticunderground.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/disco-inferno-summers-last-sound-ep-f.jpg
81. Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound (4 votes, 103 points)
Summer's Last Sound EP (1992)
Youtube

And to wrap up:

81 Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound
82 Glenn Branca - Lesson No.1
83 Slowdive - Slowdive
84 The Chameleons - View From A Hill
85 The Sundays - Skin and Bones
86 My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
86 Swervedriver - Never Lose That Feeling
87 Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6
88 DNTEL - This Is The Dream Of Evan and Chan
89 My Bloody Valentine - Swallow
90 Lush - Nothing Natural
91 Bardo Pond - Tommy Gun Angel
92 My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
93 Mogwai - mogwai fear satan
94 Cranes - Starblood
95 My Bloody Valentine - Cupid Come
96 Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the Bottom
97 Slowdive - 40 Days
98 Moose - Suzanne
99 Mahogany - supervitesse
100 Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk

Here's today's rundown

100. COCTEAU TWINS "Cherry Coloured Funk (1990) [90 points, 3 votes]
99. MAHOGANY "Supervitesse" (2006) [90 points, 4 votes]
98. MOOSE "Suzanne" (1991) [90 points, 5 votes]
97. SLOWDIVE "40 Days" (1993) [91 points, 3 votes]
96. LOW, TRANSIENT WAVES & PIANO MAGIC "Sleep at the Bottom" (1998) [92 points, 3 votes]
95. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "Cupid Come" (1988) [92 points, 5 votes]
94. CRANES "Starblood" (1991) [93 points, 5 votes]
93. MOGWAI "Mogwai Fear Satan" (1997) [94 points, 5 votes]
92. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "Loomer" (1991) [95 points, 5 votes]
91. BARDO POND "Tommy Gun Angel" (1997) [96 points, 4 votes]
90. LUSH "Nothing Natural" (1991) [97 points, 4 votes]
89. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "Swallow" (1991) [97 points, 5 votes]
88. DNTEL "The Is the Dream of Evan and Chan" (2001) [98 points, 4 votes]
87. YO LA TENGO "From a Motel 6" (1993) [99 points, 6 votes]
TIE 86. SWERVEDRIVER "Never Lose That Feeling" (1993) [100 points, 3 votes]
TIE 86. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "Lose My Breath" (1988) [100 points, 3 votes]
85. THE SUNDAYS "Skin and Bones" (1990) [101 points, 3 votes]
84. THE CHAMELEONS "View From a Hill" (1983) [101 points, 4 votes]
83. SLOWDIVE "Slowdive" (1990) [101 points, 5 votes]
82. GLENN BRANCA "Lesson No.1" (1980) [102 points, 4 votes]
81. DISCO INFERNO "Summer's Last Sound" (1992) [103 points, 4 votes]

oops

oh man, "Summer's Last Sound" is too low

I should have given it more points, that song is just perfection

awesome! 4 songs from my ballot so far!!! Including two from my Top 10 (Glenn Branca & Bardo Pond yeah!)

I've voted for precisely one of these - thought I'd be doing a lot better.

I've got four in so far. That's better than I'd thought I'd be doing by this point.

I gave "never lose that feeling" my #1 (weighted) vote so I hope that had something to do with it. Wish it'd scored higher tho!

Also pretty o_0 at people saying "Isnt anything" is horrible and underproduced wtf. Have you guys even heard their pre-shoegaze stuff?

Ok yeah I like Johnny's rundown presentation better.

haha I looked back at my ballot and I gave "Summer's Last Sound" 49 points, so I guess really more people should have voted for it (why because it is awesome)

Never Lose That Feeling is freaking epic

Summer's Last Sound is so, so cool. My god! The really high echoey sample!

Have you guys even heard their pre-shoegaze stuff?

It's worse?! I'd imagined it a bit like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, myself.

Last two tracks so far are class, but I didn't vote for either. Yay for Trayce for never losing that feeling. :)