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

TOO LOW

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

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― 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!

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^ 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.

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- Shin Oliva Suzuki.

It wouldn't make my best psychobilly tracks list

Thanks for the poll, Moka

Wining by a wide margin. Also winner of the 90s singles poll and I predict it will also win Johnny Fever's upcoming 'THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS' poll.

I mean 'Tiger in my tank' of course

Thanks everybody. It's been a fun ride.

can't really argue with that. Thanks a million, moka

I predict it will also win Johnny Fever's upcoming 'THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS' poll.

oh god I hope not

Aftermath of the Shoegaze / Dream Pop / Post Rock Poll - post yr ballots here

Yay! Obvious, but totally worthy. Thanks for doing the poll, Moka.

Yay, three cheers for Moka.

Hip hip HOORAY!

Hip hip HOORAY!

hip hip EEEE--OOOOO-EEEEYAAAHHH EEEE---OOHHHHH-EEEEEEE--AAAAAHHHH!!!! (typed representation of the Soon guitar noises)

As promised here is the excel spreadsheet: http://www.moteldemoka.com/moka/shoegaze.xlsx

And the top 200 list:

1 My Bloody Valentine - Soon
2 Ride - Dreams Burn Down
3 My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
4 My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
5 The Cure - Plainsong
6 Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand
7 Ride - Vapour Trail
8 Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
9 House of Love - Christine
10 My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
11 Boo Radleys - Lazarus
12 Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops Drop
13 My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
14 Ride - Like A Daydream
15 Lush - Sweetness And Light
16 My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
17 Verve - Gravity Grave
18 My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
19 Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
20 Stone Roses - I wanna be Adored
21 Chapterhouse - Pearl
22 Slowdive - Allison
23 The Telescopes - You Set My Soul
24 Ride - Leave Them All Behind
25 Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
26 The Sundays - Can't Be Sure
27 Swervedriver - Rave Down
28 Adorable - sunshine smile
29 Lush - De-Luxe
30 Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
31 Pale Saints - Sight of You
32 Disco Inferno - Love Stepping Out
33 This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
34 Curve - coast is clear
35 Slowdive - when the sun hits
36 Mercury Rev - Frittering
37 Ride - Chelsea Girl
38 Disco Inferno - the Long Dance
39 Ride - Seagull
40 Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford
41 Galaxie 500 - Listen, the Snow Is Falling
42 Loop - Black Sun
43 Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
44 Curve - Horror Head
45 Slowdive - Catch The Breeze
46 Talk Talk - I Believe in You
47 Curve - 10 Little Girls
48 Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
49 Blur - Sing
50 Loop - Arc-Lite (Sonar)
51 M83 - Don't Save Us From The Flames
52 Slowdive - morningrise
53 Kitchens Of Distinction - Drive That Fast
54 Spiritualized - Run
55 Bark psychosis - a street scene
56 Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
57 The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
58 Boo Radleys - Does This Hurt?
59 Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign
60 My Bloody Valentine - Off Your Face
61 Spiritualized - Medication
62 Slowdive - Avalyn I
63 Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
64 Chapterhouse - Breather
65 Ride - Drive Blind
66 A.R. Kane - Lollita
67 House of Love - Destroy the Heart
68 Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
69 Disco Inferno - Second Language
70 Ride - Taste
71 Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized
72 The Telescopes - High On Fire
73 Lush - For Love
74 My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
74 Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple
75 Moose - Jack
76 Wire - the 15th
77 Verve - a man called sun
78 M83 - Run Into Flowers
79 Spacemen 3 - Suicide
80 Julee Cruise - Falling
81 Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound
82 Glenn Branca - Lesson No.1
83 Slowdive - Slowdive
84 The Chameleons - View From A Hill
85 The Sundays - Skin and Bones
86 My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
86 Swervedriver - Never Lose That Feeling
87 Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6
88 DNTEL - This Is The Dream Of Evan and Chan
89 My Bloody Valentine - Swallow
90 Lush - Nothing Natural
91 Bardo Pond - Tommy Gun Angel
92 My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
93 Mogwai - mogwai fear satan
94 Cranes - Starblood
95 My Bloody Valentine - Cupid Come
96 Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the Bottom
97 Slowdive - 40 Days
98 Moose - Suzanne
99 Mahogany - supervitesse
100 Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk
101 Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
102 My Bloody Valentine - You Never Should
103 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle
104 The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
105 Ulrich schnauss - on my own
106 Moose - Boy
107 Drop Nineteens - Winona
108 Ride - Polar Bear
109 Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker
110 The Telescopes - Flying
111 Bowery Electric - Freedom Fighter
112 My Bloody Valentine - Blown A Wish
113 Spacemen 3 - Take Me To The Other Side
114 Blonde Redhead - 23
115 Kitchens of Distinction - Mad as Snow
116 Spectrum - Undo The Taboo
117 Curve - Perish
118 Underground Lovers - i was right
119 Galaxie 500 - Strange
120 Ride - In a different place
121 Ride - Sennen
122 Death in Vegas - Dirge
123 Sonic Youth - Star Power
124 Seefeel - Plainsong
125 Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
126 The Cure - End
127 Lush - Scarlet
128 Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favorite
129 Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger
130 Pale Saints - Half-Life, Remembered
131 Blind Mr. Jones - Dolores
132 Pale Saints - You Tear the World in Two
133 Third eye foundation - sleep
134 Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
135 Lush - Thoughtforms
136 Prolapse - Autocade
137 Ultra Vivid Scene - mercy seat
138 The Sundays - My Finest Hour
139 Cocteau Twins - Violaine
140 Ride - Unfamiliar
141 Sigur Rós - Glósóli
142 The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
143 Boo radleys - lazy day
144 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
145 Ride - Grasshopper
146 Stereolab - Super Falling Star
147 Verve - all in the mind
148 Loop - Collision
149 Ride - Decay
150 The Field Mice - Sensitive
151 Velocity Girl - Crazy Town
152 Bark psychosis - absent friend
153 Cranes - Tomorrow's Tears
154 My Bloody Valentine - honey power
155 Spiritualized - if i were with her now
156 The Amps - Breaking the Split-Screen Barrier
157 Skywave - All I Had
158 Boo Radleys - Memory Babe
159 Pale Saints - Time Thief
160 Curve - Faît Accompli
161 My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
162 Smashing Pumpkins - Starla
163 The Dandy Warhols - Nietzsche
164 Cloudland Canyon - White Woman
165 Curve - mission from god
166 Mercury Rev - Meth Of A Rockette's Kick
167 School of seven bells - ILU
168 Piano Magic - Snowfall Soon
169 Revolver - crimson
170 Ride - Nowhere
171 Clinic - Porno
172 Bailter Space - X
173 Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
174 Nightblooms - crystal eyes
175 A.R. Kane - So Far Away
176 My Bloody Valentine - sunny sundae smile
177 Blur - Oily Water
178 Catherine Wheel - Crank
179 Chapterhouse- Falling Down
180 His Name is Alive - love's a fish eye
181 Rollerskate Skinny - Speed to my Side
182 Bark Psychosis - From What is Said to When it is Read
183 Lilys - ginger
184 Medicine - One More
185 Moose - Last Night I Fell Again
186 School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
187 The Joy Formidable - Whirring
188 This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo
189 XTC - Easter Theater
190 Boo Radleys - I Hang Suspended
191 Boo Radleys - Kaleidoscope
192 Moonshake - gravity
193 Blur - Battle
194 Stereolab - Ping Pong
195 Th' Faith Healers - Love Song
196 Black Tambourine - Black Car
197 Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me
198 A.R. Kane - Spermwhale Tripover
199 Breathless - Wave After Wave
200 Nice Strong Arm - Cloud Machine

lol Wheal Dream, but maybe The Birthday Party a bit more than The Cramps? Honestly, I think I have listened to that album exactly once, even though I've owned it for almost 20 years.

Thanks Moka!