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

Yeah I was just thinking potentially 15-20%

wait no there were only 18 mbv songs nominated so it'll be more like 1/6

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87. Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6 (6 votes, 99 points)
Painful (1993)
Youtube

I love the DNTEL song, wasn't planning on voting for it tho since I didn't think it actually qualified but since I saw other people voting strongly for it I decided to give it a little push as well ;)

Loomer is my favourite track on Loveless, but I'm more interested about these other songs I've never heard of.

Is it wrong if I prefer Lali Puna's cover of '40 days' than the original one?

From a Motel 6 was my very first exposure to YLT. I still love it, but didn't vote for it.

Youtube: Lali Puna - 40 days

Was there a Morr label compilation comprised of slowdive covers?

Blue Skied & Clear

tho I would say only about a third of the tracks are worthwhile

Well this looks great: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Skied_an%27_Clear

Which songs would you recommend Pillbox?

I'm going to get all heretical and mention that I've never been wild about Slowdive outside of a (very) few songs.

xp this is my favorite

Eh, that's about where I'm at with them too Johnny Fever.

xp: Pretty good i'd say. Will definitely give the compilation a spin after I'm finished with this.

First tie coming up.

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86. (tie) Swervedriver - Never Lose That Feeling (3 votes, 100 points)
Never Lose That Feeling (1993)
Youtube

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86. (tie) My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath (3 votes, 100 points)
Isn't Anything (1988)
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Surprised "Lose My Breath" is this low. That's 1/2 of my MBV voting right there.

(A tie moves those up to #85 btw. I know, poll nerd talking.)

First time I hear both songs. Swervedriver has always been to harsh for me, not fond of their sound. The MBV sounds underproduced (maybe it's just the youtube quality) but they always manage to sound sexy. I might need to get my hands on the 'Isn't Anything' EP

I'm going to get all heretical and mention that I've never been wild about Slowdive outside of a (very) few songs.

In agreement with you (if anything it was seeing them live that turned me off to them), however I'm still pretty crazy about Pygmalion (I put "Rutti" pretty high up on my ballot)

That Mahogany album is pretty terrific too.

xpost: Is that how ties work? Oops... you'll have to switch the nerd off otherwise I'll have the numbers all wrong :P

"Lose My Breath" is underproduced, as is much of everything MBV released prior to the '90s.

xpost: There were only two Pygmalion noms iirc. Should have definitely tried to sneak 'blue skied an clear' over there, first song I heard of them and it blew my mind.

Isn't Anything isn't underproduced so much as Loveless is overproduced

um... no

A good half of the appeal of Loveless is the production, though.

well, I guess considering how much it cost to produce it it's underproduced.

I can tell ilxor is gonna love the next one:

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85. The Sundays - Skin and Bones (3 votes, 101 points)
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990)
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The production on Isn't Anything is disgusting. I was so, so disappointed when I heard it again after a decade's gap. I genuinely couldn't understand or remember what I'd been getting from it at the time.

SUNDAYS MADE IT!!! And it's not even one I voted for.

Quite disappointed that so many of the songs I rate are placing so low.

But at least this is the one ILX poll where it's almost guaranteed that the top 20 won't be a total sausage party... (then again, it would be just my luck if the huge range of MBV tracks nominated split the vote so much they all placed low, and the top 20 was a wash of Rides and Chapterhouses and Boos.)

Moka, Swervedriver's charms are subtle and they can sneak up on you. All of their Creation material is pretty rewarding tbh - I wouldn't write them off without investigating a little further at least.

The production on Isn't Anything could stand to be better, but the production on "Lose My Breath" is perfect.

xpost-- I didn't vote for that Sundays song either but glad to see that it placed.

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.

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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.

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86. The Chameleons - View From A Hill (4 votes, 101 points)
Script of the Bridge (1983)
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oh, okay! I actually voted for that, but my mind was elsewhere just now when thinking of PROTO-shoegaze.

Cap.Off Monsieur

"the scene that celebrates itself" is the worst genre name in hell.

fortunately it's not a genre name

The dream that celebrates its shoes.

In my world, Slowdive's "When The Sun Hits" would have won this poll.

It's shoegaze week at mah crib!

perfect damp cold weather to listen to this playlist all over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShaAPL0eF6M

fuck, these guys should not be forgotten