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

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46. Talk Talk - I Believe in You (6 votes, 137 points)
Spirit of Eden (1988)
Youtube

Was away in the land of no internet when voting was happening. Good work so far though chaps!

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45. Slowdive - Catch The Breeze (7 votes, 139 points)
Just For A Day (1991)
Youtube

Magical. This was the second CD I ever bought – after Nowhere. I played it very loudly with all the lights off when my parents
were out of the house.

- kraudive.

Eno and Blur are tied according to your posts. Is this right?

I never really got into Slowdive even though I liked what I heard and even thought they were really good when I saw them open for Ride. I dunno, I guess I was getting my daily quotient of shoegaze back then. I need to rectify that.

Dammit. No. Eno is supposed to have 5 votes, 135 pts.

ok

Also while we're at it:

71. SPACEMEN 3 "Hypnotized" (1989) [112 points, 4 votes]

That should be "5 votes" not 4.

Ironic that Blur ended up placing on a "shoegaze" poll when it was their actual manager who coined the term "shoegazing" as a disparaging term describing everything that Blur emphatically were *not* WRT the Scene That Celebrates Itself.

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44. Curve - Horror Head (4 votes, 140 points)
Doppelganger (1992)
Youtube

Huh. How have I never heard "Horror Head" before? Suprised at how similar to "Fait Accompli" it sounds.

(Except a bit dreamier)

nice - finally, one of my #1s places! (I had several #1 tracks on my ballot)

i don't think my curve vote is gonna make it :(

NFI if mine will, I'd forgot I even included them til I went back and checked just now.

And I guess no Engineers is gonna poll at all at this point :(

OMG, Horror Head is still one of my favourite tracks ever. Again, it's that counterpoint of utter darkness and lush textured beauty, this huge undercurrent of danger and sexual menace running underneath the prettiness of shoegaze that gets left out in later interpretations.

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43. Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder (5 votes, 142 points)
On Fire (1989)
No Youtube...

Are Galaxie 500 seriously underground or are they very strict on CC? The youtubes barely seems to know them.

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42. Loop - Black Sun (6 votes, 143 points)
Fade Out (1988)
Youtube: Black Sun + Afterglow

does this mean no Bailter Space? -snif-

(voted Black Sun)

xxp - no, their flag has risen pretty much consistently since they got the Rykodisc retrospective treatment ten years ago or so. Kinda weird about the Youtube thing.

Not looking right now and even if I was I couldn't tell you but I remember receiving a couple of ballots with Bailter Space 'X' on them.

Are Galaxie 500 seriously underground or are they very strict on CC? The youtubes barely seems to know them.

several of their proper videos used to be up, probably record co interference brought them down

xp: It's weird alright. Only thing I can find of them on the youtubes are live recordings and cover versions by youtube users.

xxp it got nominated like 3 times...

Alright final track of the day and there's no youtube for it. Can you guess which band it is!?

Revolver?

Mudhoney!

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41. Galaxie 500 - Listen, the Snow Is Falling (6 votes, 146 points)
This Is Our Music (1990)
No youtube: Yoko Ono's Original

lol

Bummed "Horror Head" was so low. That was one of my four #1's.

What's all this G500 doing in this poll btw? Makes about as much sense as Teenage Fanclub or Spacemen 3.

^^

love G500 but don't get why they're here

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]

80. JULEE CRUISE "Falling" (1989) [104 points, 6 votes]
79. SPACEMEN 3 "Suicide" (1989) [105 points, 4 votes]
78. M83 "Run Into Flowers" (2003) [106 points, 4 votes]
77. VERVE "A Man Called Sun" (1992) [107 points, 5 votes]
76. WIRE "The 15th" (1979) [108 points, 5 votes]
75. MOOSE "Jack" (1991) [109 points, 4 votes]
TIE 74. PALE SAINTS "Throwing Back the Apple" (1992) [110 points, 5 votes]
TIE 74. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "I Only Said" (1991) [110 points, 5 votes]
73. LUSH "For Love" (1992) [110 points, 6 votes]
72. THE TELESCOPES "High on Fire" (1992) [111 points, 4 votes]
71. SPACEMEN 3 "Hypnotized" (1989) [112 points, 5 votes]
70. RIDE "Taste" (1990) [113 points, 5 votes]
69. DISCO INFERNO "Second Language" (1994) [114 points, 4 votes]
68. SLOWDIVE "Souvlaki Space Station" (1993) [115 points, 7 votes]
67. THE HOUSE OF LOVE "Destroy the Heart" (1988) [116 points, 7 votes]
66. A.R. KANE "Lollita" (1987) [117 points, 3 votes]
65. RIDE "Drive Blind" (1990) [118 points, 3 votes]
64. CHAPTERHOUSE "Breather" (1990) [118 points, 7 votes]
63. GROUPER "Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" (2008) [119 points, 4 votes]
62. SLOWDIVE "Avalyn I" (1990) [120 points, 3 votes]
61. SPIRITUALIZED "Medication" (1992) [121 points, 5 votes]

60. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "Off Your Face" (1990) [122 points, 4 votes]
59. TEENAGE FANCLUB "Star Sign" (1991) [123 points, 6 votes]
58. THE BOO RADLEYS "Does This Hurt?" (1992) [124 points, 5 votes]
57. THE SUNDAYS "Here's Where the Story Ends" (1990) [124 points, 6 votes]
56. COCTEAU TWINS "Heaven or Las Vegas" (1990) [125 points, 6 votes]
55. BARK PSYCHOSIS "A Street Scene" (1994) [126 points, 3 votes]
54. SPIRITUALIZED "Run" (1992) [127 points, 4 votes]
53. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION "Drive That Fast" (1990) [128 points, 7 votes]
52. SLOWDIVE "Morningrise" (1991) [129 points, 6 votes]
51. M83 "Don't Save Us From the Flames" (2005) [130 points, 4 votes]
50. LOOP "Arc-Light (Sonar)" (1989) [132 points, 5 votes]
49. BLUR "Sing" (1991) [134 points, 5 votes]
48. BRIAN ENO "Here Come the Warm Jets" (1974) [135 points, 5 votes]
47. CURVE "10 Little Girls" (1991) [136 points, 6 votes]
46. TALK TALK "I Believe in You" (1988) [137 points, 6 votes]
45. SLOWDIVE "Catch the Breeze" (1991) [139 points, 7 votes]
44. CURVE "Horror Head" (1992) [140 points, 4 votes]
43. GALAXIE 500 "Blue Thunder" (1989) [142 points, 5 votes]
42. LOOP "Black Sun" (1988) [143 points, 6 votes]
41. GALAXIE 500 "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" (1990) [146 points, 6 votes]

Of their material, tho, I at least think "Blue Thunder" should qualify

Still (STILL!) can't believe only 3 other people voted for "Horror Head". One of ILM's greatest threads ever is sort of about that song.

Oh how times change.

I didn't even notice that "Here Come the Warm Jets" was nominated. That's what happens when you vote in a rush, etc. It's probably my favourite Brian Eno song.

Every track from #60-#41 is a winner (I voted for six of them)

Yeah sorry that would be 4 other people if I'd got my shit together and voted :(

xpost

only 3 from the last 20, making my grand total = 11

Reading the responses here is like overhearing people trying to decided which bands are punk or metal. I didn't realize dream pop/shoegaze fans were so militant.

For me, dream pop includes a lot of early Siouxsie and the Cure, and it certainly includes the Sugarcubes. If I'd seen the nominations thread I would have nominated a lot of stuff which, seemingly, would have proven controversial to a bunch of you lot.

for me, it's just to stop the poll options being ridiculously unwieldy. i like almost all of what's been nominated but when 'easter theatre' was nominated it felt like things had gotten a bit silly

3 for me too, bringing me to 5. Though I only voted for 28 tracks & frontloaded my ballot w/ those of my favorites which I thought had the potential to score highly, so I imagine the days to come will yield more returns.

I think Mudhoney was where I drew the line. I mean I fucking love Mudhoney, I like them more than pretty much every other band nominated, but shoegaze/dream pop, errr??

nominated 25. 4 picks have come up so far

I remain baffled that Loop were nominated, on the same kick, CP. They're psych/drone, theyre not shoegaze by ANY stretch. Thats liek saying Suicide are shoegaze i mean come on.

Reading the responses here is like overhearing people trying to decided which bands are punk or metal. I didn't realize dream pop/shoegaze fans were so militant.

For me, dream pop includes a lot of early Siouxsie and the Cure, and it certainly includes the Sugarcubes. If I'd seen the nominations thread I would have nominated a lot of stuff which, seemingly, would have proven controversial to a bunch of you lot.

― Kent Burt

Siouxsie and the Cure got nominated and voted for, I think I even voted for them. The Sugarcubes is closer to 'post-punk' than 'dream pop' at least I think the band seemed fashionably closer to punk than pop. I'm willing to say The Sundays border on dreampop, the Sugarcubes definitely dont.

"Mission From God" is where it's at for Curve.

Siouxsie and the Cure got nominated and voted for, I think I even voted for them.

I was surprised there weren't more selections from both is all - and earlier stuff. I see them as the inventors of this so-called genre (Happy House, Israel, Fireworks, A Forest, The Drowning Man, etc.) - especially The Glove project from Smith/Severin.

How "Birthday" is not dream pop I will never understand.

Agree the whole "Just One Kiss" / "This Green City" phase is predictive of a lot of subsequent material stylistically, but I suspect very few people really listened to those records.