I always thought this captured something of shoe gaze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzzP29fw930
fwiw "Psychocandy" came out two months later.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
What other art-rock has a similar feel or plays in a similar space?
Maybe some of the songs with layered guitar segments on third and fourth Camper Van Beethoven albums?
― timellison, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
(The self-titled one and Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart)
― timellison, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
Very overdue, but thanks for all your replies (esp. bendy, Josh, tim). I realized in retrospect that Bob came back to this proto-shoegaze sound for Sugar (post-shoegaze?) which is kinda awkward.... yet I think the moments on the Sugar records that get psych-gaze are not sloppy enough for me to love, which is why I keep coming back to "No Reservations".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
Ok hold on a second!
From a Kevin Shields interview on how he created the MBV "glide-guitar" sound:
So I'd been playing the song 'Slow', and previously I'd been using this reverse reverb which I'd read about in a Bob Mould interview
https://thequietus.com/articles/08745-kevin-shields-interview-mbv-my-bloody-valentine
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
lol, Josh in Chicago from 4 years ago upthread:
Apparently Mould was also doing proto MBV stuff (slowing guitars down, blending them) pretty early, which maybe in those days accounted for his stun guitar sound. I know Shields has cited a Mould interview for giving him the idea of using reverse reverb. Billy Corgan cites Mould, too.― Josh in Chicago, Monday, August 8, 2016 7:59 AM (four years ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, August 8, 2016 7:59 AM (four years ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
I seem to remember reading in Tape Op or somewhere that it was a rackmount fx unit, Alesis Midiverb II that had a short reverse reverb setting that inspired the glide guitar sound.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
Any deep Husker fans know of any earlier reverse reverb examples prior to "No Reservations"?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
And what the hell is "stun guitar" anyway? The only other place I've seen it referenced is on Blue Oyster Cult album credits.
― henry s, Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
There's a guitar part during the intro to Eiffel Tower High that sounds a bit reverse reverbish
― this is my clean tone (NickB), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Also Don't Know Yet off Flip Your Wig has a lot of backwards guitar but whether or not that's rev reverb I don't know. They obv played the tape backwards for the cymbals though
― this is my clean tone (NickB), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link