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

Personal preference isn't wrong! "I don't like so-and-so's voice" is a wholly different animal from "so-and-so can/can't/doesn't sing" and I only ever wade into the latter argument.

Well, it's the vague line between "can sing" meaning "can hit the notes in a timely and on pitch manner" vs anything from "can emote in an evocative and effective way" to "uses a showy kind of technical proficiency" but you're right, we don't need to have that argument.

I like Mark Gardener and I don't like dude from KoC and now I'm going to go back to staring at photos of Cedric Villani and thinking about time reversible entropy... ::little swoony sigh::

I think one of the key features of shoegazing was the contrast between the aggressive, noisy, FX-laden guitars and the soft, 'dreamy' vocals (as opposed to shoutier 'rock' vocals by, say, Nirvana or The Pixies, or the gruff-strangulated vocals of, say The Wedding Present, Happy Mondays, The Fall).

http://web.archive.org/web/20011202075606/http://www.thewire.co.uk/out/1297_4.htm

^ this is the original Simon Reynolds post-rock piece from the Wire that I mentioned unthread but couldn't find at the time

Never Lose That Feeling is just fucking brilliant. Listening to it so much at the moment

Ah yeah, totally!

actual l-o-l @ yr DN fwiw

Thanks feller

just wish someone wd notice the Autechre-flavoured brilliance of the one I've been sporting

Cap.Off Monsieur

"the scene that celebrates itself" is the worst genre name in hell.

fortunately it's not a genre name

The dream that celebrates its shoes.

In my world, Slowdive's "When The Sun Hits" would have won this poll.

It's shoegaze week at mah crib!

perfect damp cold weather to listen to this playlist all over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShaAPL0eF6M

fuck, these guys should not be forgotten