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

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. :)

So far there are zero tracks from my ballot

Only two of mine connected, but six or seven others were outliers on my list.

MBV are being treated justly.

6 or 7 of mine which is making me lose hope of seeing some of the others. :(

I had 3 from my ballot

I hope "Catchfire" is high up there

Feel pretty meh about the list so far. Sorry guys.

Although I did try and fail to seek out that Low, Transient Waves, Piano Magic track. Will give that a listen. Is it as good as it should be?

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

I cant parse this sentemce. Are you saying thats what you *wanted* it to sound like?

I love "sunny sundae smile" and stuff of that era. Some of it is like a janglepop Cramps!

Emil.y I believe that's on the Rocket Girl comp. I don't particularly remember it standing out but it's been a while.

the low/TW/piano magic track is beautiful but that's 90% because of alan & mimi's singing

i mean 99%

2 of my votes in so far. thought it was 4 then realised i'd voted for difft tracks by the artists in question

I'd imagined it a bit like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, myself.

are you serious?????

0 for 20 so far though i meant to vote for loomer probably.

4 of mine have come up so far much to my suprise.

I'm now wondering if Disco Inferno might be a suprise high scorer.

^class dn

thanking u

so far the only songs that i have voted for are the absolutely wonderful "Suzanne" and "Tommy Gun Angel" which barely made it. i ended up dropping songs like "Slowdive," "Nothing Natural" and the excellent "Never Lose That Feeling" (the second part of that is called "/Never Learn" and is around 12 minutes long). My Bloody Valentine just had way too many songs on this thing so i only put on one song from the Loveless period on this list because i felt they didn't need my help.

Haha it would be *hilarious* if everyone had the same idea.

(I did not vote for anything off Loveless tbh)

1/20

Wait a sec, what about the tie? Swervedriver and MBV are tied at #86, so YLT moves down to #88, etc. and Cocteaus' "Cherry Coloured Funk" is out of the top 100?

I'm kind of shocked that "Lesson No. 1" made it, that was a fairly odd nomination IMO. Then again, it's not so surprising because it was the only Branca track nominated, so people who wanted to vote for Branca didn't have a choice.

How many MBV tracks did some people vote for anyway? How else to explain "Loomer" and "Swallow" in the top 100? Maybe I shouldn't have stuck to voting for just one track per artist (although I made an exception for MBV and voted for them twice). Still kicking myself for voting for two Chapterhouse and DIV songs and forgetting to vote for "Leave Them All Behind".

Swallow should be higher imo

it certainly sounds better when i'm higher

damn, go on a short holiday trip and I end up missing the voting period... oh well, time to reach for the popcorn then

I'm kind of shocked that "Lesson No. 1" made it, that was a fairly odd nomination IMO. Then again, it's not so surprising because it was the only Branca track nominated, so people who wanted to vote for Branca didn't have a choice.

Yeah, this. I just decided not to vote for Branca. (Although every time I make a statement like this I'm going to panic and wonder if maybe I did vote for the thing I say I didn't vote for, as my list-making was so rushed.)

How many MBV tracks did some people vote for anyway?

I voted for three. Curiously, all from Loveless, even though I definitely used to prefer Isn't Anything. Have listened to the former much more recently than the latter, mind you, so memory is probably the key. I hate having a sieve-like mind.

Oh, and:

Wait a sec, what about the tie?

I think from upthread it looks like Moka is going to ignore normal protocol for ties, and just have them as e.g. 100, 99, 99, 98, 97, 97, 96. It's a bit of a funny way of doing it but I have no problem with it.

Y'all ready?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31B8yVyHLPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
80. Julee Cruise - Falling (6 votes, 104 points)
Floating into the Night (1989)
Youtube

I think you'll find today's picks more exciting, emily. At least I do ;)

I forgot to re-listen to Julee Cruise when voting. Never been sure if it'd stack up for me outside of Lynch films.

I was right chuffed with myself for nominating 'Falling', but when it came down to it I decided I couldn't justify it on a shoegaze ballot. I should've though, it's totally classic dreampop.

I didn't vote for it but I think it does pretty well on its own. I heard it before seeing any of the Twin Peaks episodes tho so my first relation to the song is not Lynchian. Definitely not shoegaze but feels at home with other dreampop classics.

Hell yeah! That's 5 for me! Julee Cruise is like Elizabeth Fraser as a classic balladeer, almost a torch singer...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EY2DMGRCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
79. Spacemen 3 - Suicide (4 votes, 105 points)
Playing With Fire (1989)
Youtube

I've tried and tried and still can't get into Spacemen 3 (or Spiritualized, for that matter). Also, I don't enjoy drugs.

the whole Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti aesthetic was born of necessity b/c Lynch didn't have enough money to secure the rights to use "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil in Blue Velvet (although it was later included in Lost Highway), so Lynch hired Cruise & Badalamenti to create a facsimile & they came up with "Mysteries of Love." & then the rest of her first album & a lot of the TP music just sort of came together naturally from that point.

I loved Spacemen 3 well before I ever took any drugs of any kind. (However, I'm going to start screaming "but they are NOT shoegaze OR dreampop OR post-rock!!!" at this point because really, dronerock wasn't mentioned in the original brief at all, or else I'd have made a whole different bunch of noms/votes.)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61P1ANBTDPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
78. M83 - Run Into Flowers (4 votes, 106 points)
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003)
Youtube

I really don't like anything from that album now as much as I did in 2003. The M83 stuff made since has held up pretty well, though.

The only thing by Spacemen 3 I've heard that I really like is the Taking Drugs to Make Music version of Sound of Confusion (aka Walkin with Jesus)...I have a suspicion that might be the S3 album for me....