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

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

http://optimisticunderground.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/disco-inferno-the-last-dance-ep-f1.jpg?w=320&h=293
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 :(

http://www.jungle-records.demon.co.uk/graphics/mintcd4.jpg
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.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M_jjIJQmP64/Syu7Hu8EhbI/AAAAAAAAAi0/M4guhclJUVM/s320/curve%2B-%2Bfrozen.jpg
34. Curve - Coast is Clear (7 votes, 157 points)
Frozen EP (1991)
Youtube

TOO FUCKING LOW

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33. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (5 votes, 158 points)
Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust (1983)
Youtube

lol I will admit that I just noticed that this poll is not just shoegaze, which makes including things like This Mortal Coil make more sense

ALSO TOO FUCKING LOW

that Mercury Rev track kicks so much ass. yet another back catalog to explore...

Such a classic cover on TMC.

I'd agree TMC is too low (not that I voted for it because my ballot was all stuff that I considered to be under the shoegaze umbrella)

i prefer bryan ferry's recent cover tbh

That puts me at 8 now. Only one of my #1s has placed so far, though. I'm not too worried about one of them, but I'm starting to fear for the other two.

http://optimisticunderground.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/disco-inferno-summers-last-sound-ep-f.jpg
32. Disco Inferno - Love Stepping Out (6 votes, 165 points)
Summer's Last Sound (1992)
Youtube

Oh I mean the LP jacket. But yes it is also one of the more famed cover versions.

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31. Pale Saints - Sight of You (6 votes, 167 points)
Barging Into the Presence of God EP (1988)
Youtube

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haha i see. it is a fantastic lp jacket, true. as a cover version, i think it flies below the radar a little bit. nice, spare instrumentation, but an uncharacteristically low-key vocal performance from EF, which doesn't really contribute much overall to the song. the song itself is of course astonishing with some of the most beautiful lyrics set to tape.

more pale saints! nice.

Jesus I remember seeing Pale Saints and Ride @ the Paradise in Boston. Apparently bradleysalmanac was there but we wouldn't meet for another 8 years.

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30. Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers (6 votes, 172 points)
Blue Bell Knoll (1988)
Youtube

Oh come the f--- on that is #2 and "To Here Knows When" is #1 and that is just a truism.

Actually:

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29. My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When (7 votes, 173 points)
Loveless (1991)
Youtube

lol