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

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.

http://www.swervedriver.net/images/feeling-cover.jpg
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)
Youtube

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)
Youtube

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.

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