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

Oh rly? Who you on lastfm?

Wait nm found yer.

:)

I don't know that I've ever heard the original of Listen Snow Is Falling. (or if I had, it was so long ago I had forgotten it) But <3 <3 <3

I don't even think this poll has anything to do with shoegaze any more, it's just "a cluster of songs that people who tend to like one, they like the other" with no regards to genre, really.

"yer" is a bizarre transliteration if you are an american

How?

I'm just assuming it's supposed to be pronounced like "ya" and not w/heavy american rhoticism??

"10 Little Girls" is the only Curve song I voted for, they're far from my favourite shoegaze band anyway.

I don't think people have been militant enough! The fact that something by Blur gets more votes than, say, "Off Your Face" in a shoegaze poll is crazy. But, y'know.

Crut: no, more like its spelt! "yer". Aussies slur everything.

I didn't nom or vote in this one (poll fatigue) but this is a great list so far. I'm surprised at how many of these I own. Clearly, I spent way too much money in the early 90s buying whatever Melody Maker recommended that week :)

I would have given many points to Claire Hates Me. Love that song more than anything on that list.

I gave that a few points myself. Damn thing cycled though my head all day after refreshing my memory pre-vote. Didn't really have any expectation of it making the 100 though.

3 on my ballot for this last twenty. Although when the tracks were being listed I kept saying to myself "Why didn't I vote for that one?"

From that last batch, my picks were "Off Your Face", which still might be my favourite MBV track

This was my surprise no.1. I bought the Glider EP the day it came out, but there didn't seem to be anything stand out about that track at the time. For some reason it's really grown on me.

Ok here we go again.

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40. Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford (7 votes, 148 points)
Son Of Mustang Ford (1990)
Youtube

the sleeves of the first 3 swervedriver eps are impeccable

Hurrah! Love that track

still trying to figure out how I completely missed Swervedriver back in the day

maybe I confused them with Skr3wdr1v3r or something

Yes!! My favorite Swervedriver track!

I thought I voted for this one, but it appears I did not. Thanks for picking up my slack, other people!

Yeah love those Swervedriver ep covers.

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39. Ride - Seagull (7 votes, 150 points)
Nowhere (1990)
Youtube

Another good one. I didn't vote for it but still like it a lot.

Oh damn missed Ismael's blurb on 'son of mustang ford'.

No way is this shoegaze, but they never get acclaim anywhere else so it's worth big points. A classic road epic.

- Ismael Klata

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38. Disco Inferno - the Long Dance (4 votes, 119 points)
The Last Dance EP (1993)
Youtube

^ (5 votes, 151 points)

it's worth big points. A classic road epic.

otm

still trying to figure out how I completely missed Swervedriver back in the day

same here. i like the tracks ive heard on this thread.

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37. Ride - Chelsea Girl (5 votes, 152 points)
Ride EP (1990)
Youtube

My first love – was a young band / fuckit any band ever so accomplished at controlling their feedbacking guitars as on this first EP?

- kraudive

i don't know how anyone could! i lived in an aussie country town and son of mustang ford was a big part of my musical growing up

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'Seagull': amazing record. Playing it on my tinniest, trebliest phone speakers and it sound just incredible. Fabulous intro, great drumming, love the eastern touches and the bits of feedback left in.

same here. i like the tracks ive heard on this thread.

― decent skinsmanship (Michael B), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:00 (5 minutes ago)

I was jogging in the park yesterday and 'Hypnotized' sounded like a druggy version of Buffalo Springfield Stop, hey what's that sound

Was going to say - we're way overdue a series of Ride tracks I think. Don't think I put 'Chelsea Girl' on my ballot though - they had other tunes that pulled off that trick, but better.

Does Leave Them All Behind have a chance of winning the poll?

More if I'd voted :(

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36. Mercury Rev - Frittering (8 votes, 153 points)
Yerself is Steam (1991)
Youtube

YAYYYY! One of my nominations!!

fucking unbelievable piece of music, all-time emo blog entry of a song

also best guitaring

^ sounds similar to King Crimson's softer songs in my ears (e.g.: 'I talk to the wind', 'epitaph'). Am I completely off?

ummm I don't get that, but it's got a really mellow slacker-sad vibe to it which perhaps the most dissolute of early Crimson kinda shared

to me it sounds like some kind of inverse american national anthem

also what this song does for sad, the subsequent and equally monolithic 'meth of a rockette's kick' does for happy, although granted this is the more shoegazey of the two

I don't know how to explain it... sounds like psychedelic shoegaze with the psychedelic on red levels and the shoegaze comes completely accidental, only a product of its time. I could easily imagine the song coming out 15 years earlier and given a progressive treatment.

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35. Slowdive - when the sun hits (7 votes, 154 points)
Souvlaki (1993)
Youtube

^ This is too low, btw. But then, I forgot to vote for it so I shouldn't complain.

Also it is an Oasis song.

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34. Curve - Coast is Clear (7 votes, 157 points)
Frozen EP (1991)
Youtube

TOO FUCKING LOW