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

I put my bet on a different Verve track from that era.

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76. Wire - the 15th (5 votes, 108 points)
154 (1979)
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Which one, Pillbox? I'd have given She's A Superstar a load of points, you more a Gravity Grave/Butterfly man?

Too low! (Wait...did I vote for it? Oh, I didn't. Oops!)

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75. Moose - Jack (4 votes, 109 points)
Jack EP (1991)
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'A Man Called Sun''s about brown, is that right?

xp to lj - Gravity Grave. Not for the studio cut, but for this version & the one from Voyager 1 that I posted in the voting thread.

^ the version of GG I linked to is just a shitty transfer of the same recording that is on the No Come Down ep. They were recorded from the same performance at least, & the NCD version of course sounds immaculate.

I think 'a man called sun' could be about god but the drug interpretation fits too.

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74. (tie) Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple (5 votes, 110 points)
Throwing Back the Apple (1992)
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74. (tie) My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said (5 votes, 110 points)
Loveless (1991)
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RE: A Man Called Sun - I recall reading at some point that it was written while they were all headlong into an acid trip, so I doubt it is about smack. I think they were mostly sticking to psychedelics in their early days.

It's definitely a motivational song, if it's not about a certain someone that inspires you to keep on going in life it could be about a drug that gives you strength to bare through another day.

That's the last tie btw. We almost had another one in #2 but last votes changed the scores.

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79. Lush - For Love (6 votes, 110 points)
Spooky (1992)
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Finally seeing some of my votes appear.

Dammit. That's supposed to be #73 not #79.

A Man Called Sun is all about the way that the vocal and bass goes up on "Mr Sun won't you shiiiiiiiiiiiine" while the guitar goes down and the reverb opens out and it creates this incredible sense of both space and tension.

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72. The Telescopes - High On Fire (4 votes, 111 points)
The Telescopes (1992)
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The mysterious third eye fuzzdrone band in the Spacemen 3/Loop pyramid, The Telescopes sign to Creation, quickly conclude that they can do everything the other Creation bands can, only better. Look for the outer space version on the "Flying" EP which crams in drones, tremolos, harmonies, weird timing, and one colossal riff in a perfect 2:44 song.

- Elvis in Telecom

Woah, that's the 'We got one minute!' performance, right? I didn't know there was footage of it - amazing!

That said, finally hearing the full studio version was one of my greatest pleasures from this poll. I bought the 10" cos it was so cute, but it faded out midway through.

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71. Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized (4 votes, 111 points)
Hypnotized (1989)
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Not sure how I feel about any Sp* being on the shoegaze poll (a separate drone rock poll is needed), but there you go. My favorite Spacemen 3 song.

- Elvis in Telecom

ET OTM, but if one were to vote for a Spacemen track in a shoegaze poll, this would be the one (even tho it is, in essence, a Spiritualized song anyway).

Damn, I messed up again, those are supposed to be 112 points not 111. Scores are pretty tight in this poll btw.

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70. Ride - Taste (5 votes, 113 points)
Fall EP (1990)
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'High on Fire' was my number one, natch. It's the pinnacle of their shoegaze period as far as I'm concerned.

I effed up the youtube adress... I'm particulaty erratic today.

Youtube: Ride - Taste

I had no idea who the Telescopes were. I'm digging through their records atm and I have to say they've been one of the most pleasant discoveries I've had due to this poll. I even gave my votes for two of their tracks.

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69. Disco Inferno - Second Language (4 votes, 114 points)
Second Language EP (1994)
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Not sure if this'll work, but here's links to two versions of High on Fire from spotify:

second album version (the re-worked version of the second album not the original release)
http://open.spotify.com/track/29j4Z9zHKS69YRRot0qN77

EP version
http://open.spotify.com/track/0oadR3JepRxm68BxUcsGNM

Thanks emily.

Yeah. Many thanks emily.

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68. Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station (7 votes, 115 points)
Souvlaki (1993)
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I was already listening to 'em :P

but I had to grab dinner

let's resume

oh NEAT TRACK here

even if I'm an indie fuckwad hoping Blue Skied An' Clear wins the Slowdive mini-poll (yeah I know it'll be When The Sun Hits)

Which slowdive mini poll?

the poll within this poll - Which Slowdive Track Will Win - I for one am excited

Oh... well Blue Skied an' Clear wasn't nominated so...

SSS is the only one I voted for...I hadn't heard any Slowdive before this poll, but they definitely piqued my interest!...

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67. House of Love - Destroy the Heart (7 votes, 116 points)
The House of Love (1988)
Youtube

I'm happy the next one made it in such high ranks (partly my fault since I gave it 50 points).

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66. A.R. Kane - Lollita (3 votes, 117 points)
Lollita Ep (1987)
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'Souvlaki Space Station' is the third of mine to show tonight. Lovely thing it is. It's a real pity that album wasn't their debut - Just For A Day killed them imo.

JFAD underrated imo, but I don't think I represent the typical Slowdive fan because I don't like the other two records much at all.

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65. Ride - Drive Blind (3 votes, 118 points)
Ride EP (1990)
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64. Chapterhouse - Breather (7 votes, 118 points)
Whirlpool (1990)
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Kind of dissapointed of myself for not nominating and voting for Chapterhouse's 'Mesmerise' which I think is better than anything off Whirlpool.

Youtube: Chapterhouse - Mesmerise

None of my picks have been posted today (yesterday there were three) but there are some great songs here. I have a love/hate thing with "Suicide", I really have to be in the mood to hear it because sometimes the thought of sitting through all one billion minutes of it seems like torture. For me, early S3 >> late S3, which is why I didn't vote for the songs that were nominated.

"Taste" is fantastic -- maybe the best song on "Nowhere" outside of "Dreams Burn Down"

'Lollita''s a fabulous track, well done voters. Didn't know it at all - they were impossible to find anything out about bitd I found, you'd see them cited from time to time with no backstory whatsoever except the M|A|R|R|S thing, no indication of what they did or when, or if it was a solo artist or a band even. They even had to go and have a virtually unsearchable name for the dawn of the internet too. Could've been worse I suppose, they could've been Can.

'Mesmerise' was the first track nominated, moka!

Wait, "Taste" isn't on "Nowhere" ... the North American version has some extra tracks, so I still associate that song with "Nowhere".

xposts to myself