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

zzz MBV waaay overrated IMO

There wouldn't be shoegaze without the Velvet Underground, either, but I don't see them belonging on this poll any more than the Cure.

Slowdive et al sound more like the Cure than they sound like MBV (or the Velvet Underground).

lol I voted for "I Wanna Be Adored"and "Plainsong" but Wheal Dream OTM

find myself strangely disappointed in the lack of lush in the top 20!

We have already established that Slowdive are worse than Hitler. ;-)

Since my pick for #1 is #4, I'm rooting for Ride as underdogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saXZIBJQSsg

#1

nah, 'Ebeneezer Goode' for #1

find myself strangely disappointed in the lack of lush in the top 20!

― charlie h,

Sweetness and light at #15

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2. Ride - Dreams Burn Down (14 votes, 412 points)
Nowhere (1990)
Youtube

The DRUMS. The whole things hangs together like crystal wires; Loz smashes it apart with every beat.

- Ismael Klata.

“She’s effortlessly cool” haunted me as a teenager. I got her though, you’ll be pleased to know.

- kraudive.

"Where's Me Jumper" by Sultans of Ping FC for #1, fu purists if u disagree.

TOO LOW

I like Lush, but I'm puzzled at the love for Sweetness & Light

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Booter_DdZg/SmJKwNK2z_I/AAAAAAAAAAk/eMntNwYVmsY/s320/Ride+Fall+EP+cover.jpeg

TOO LOW

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:41 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

Came here to post that. I'm too slow.

Nice! I've always absolutely loved this song, even tho it was my #2 Ride.

(That's for Taste and Dreams Burn Down - those penguins deserve their place on this thread)

Is the number one soon?

So... anyone want to contribute a blurb on the following song for posterity?

Puzzled by the love for Dreams Burn Down, I would have switched that & Vapour Trail.

So if a track received 14 votes does that mean everyone voted for it?

Let me do the TOO LOW joke for the #1 before someone does

ha xp (was my #3, obviously)

Let me do the TONE LOC joke for the #1 before someone does

I'm disappointed that Close My Eyes didn't even make the top 100. (Unless miraculously it has and everyone has suddenly stopped liking Soon)

So if a track received 14 votes does that mean everyone voted for it?

How many voters did we get in the end?

"manic street preachers' 'kevin carter' is an exhilarating slice of swirling britpop cum shoegaze aimed squarely at disenfranchised youth."

nigh on 40 voters iirc

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1. Spirea X - Chlorine Dream (30 votes, 1406 points)
Fireblade Skies (1991)
Youtube

Ok, glad to see there were more than 14!

TOO LOW

^ still funny

I think I've long underestimated the amount of love there is for "Dreams Burn Down". Not that it's undeserving - it's one song that quite reliably evokes memories of being a schoolkid at the time.

The Pina Colada song does that for me.

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1. Smashing Pumpkins - Starla (15 votes, 643 points)
"I Am One" single (1990)
Youtube

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1. Pale Saints - You Tear the World in Two (40 votes, 1412 points)
Comforts of Madness (1990)
YouTube

JUST RIGHT

Here we go! Uh-huh! Here we go! Uh-huh!

(dammit, I can't even find my Andrew Weatherall remix now...)

Still: Only two Pale Saints trax? Only one Kitchens of Distinction? No Seefeel, Secret Shine, Medicine or Swirlies? I dunno..

That *is* actually a great Pale Saints track, but I see it as inextricably linked to The Way The World Is because they flow from one into the other.

That whole album is pretty much unassailable imo

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"You Tear the World in Two" was my #1, btw.

Oh come on. I lined up Soon for the big announcement, but it's finished and Glider has just started clanking and groaning in the background and it's still not announced.

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1. My Bloody Valentine - Tiger In My Tank (16 votes, 709 points)
This Is Your Bloody Valentine (1985)
Youtube

It was my #11 (xp)

That has actually reminded me - to whomever it was that said MBV started out as JAMC copyists - RONG! - they started out as Cramps copyists to be exact.

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1. My Bloody Valentine - Soon (17 votes, 490 points)
Glider (1990)
Youtube

Eternal. Should be included on the next spacecraft that leaves the solar system. Could listen to this on endless loop for the next half-hour or next three weeks.

- Elvis in Telecom.

TOO LOW

- Shin Oliva Suzuki.

It wouldn't make my best psychobilly tracks list