LUSH Albums POLL

and Split really did get buried in the critical backlash to shoegaze.

Not so sure about this. The shoegaze critical backlash had already started in the second half of 1991. By 1994 shoegazing was ancient history, it was more a question of a backlash to grunge with Britpop taking over.

Poll results in chronological order (hence in order albums are pictured at the top). I voted Split.

Poll results in chronological order (hence in order albums are pictured at the top).

"Matador" off Topolino came up on shuffle a bit ago & w/o looking over, I just assumed it was Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Prob not a whole lot of opportunities for that case of mistaken identity.

O man, I TOTALLY forgot about this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2GoFl3bHc

If you immersed this track in a swimming pool of chorus & reverb fx, this could have been a standout on either Gala or Split

As it stands, it is merely the great, lost Velocity Girl track!

this band was so so so great

I kinda wish that last album hadn't gone the direction it did, but I otherwise agree hardcore. Sing-Sing is a decent post-breakup consolation prize, too.

The whole of their discography is on Spotify now.

oh I KNOW

Not too much post-band activity, huh? Sing Sing was nothing special, and Miki guested on a few tracks here and there. Guess real life took over...

the first sing-sing album is great, 'tegan' and 'i can see you' as good as anything lush released imo. they did go a bit less interesting but were never crap.

Lush would be the winner of the "when the shoegazers stopped gazing" poll.

Always an appropriate soundtrack to winter weather.

Not sure why I wasn't vociferously defending Spooky on here first time around.

I was listening to "Undertow (Spooky Remix)" last night and I wasn't too into it, but after going back and listening to the original it made me think that Studio could have done an amazing remix of the same track.

I would love to hear a version of their cover of Love At First Sight in this form.

Oh I would love a whole album of remixes, I must listen to the "Undertow" one practically every day! Who originally did "Love At First Sight"?

I'd be totally OK if Lush decided to play all of Topolino on the reunion tour. B-side Britpop Lush is just proof-positive that they wrote better songs and covered better songs than all those other blowhards.

spooky turns 25 today

That's...that's hard to take in.

. . . yeah

Jesus. I still have dreams about the room I was in that year (I had this and Scar then and Sweetness & Light on Shiiiine compilation predecessor Happy Daze). I need to get a new dream writer, he's way out of touch.

Spooky is the one for me, gossamer Guthrie production and all

I once interviewed Emma Anderson and she hated Spooky, said they felt like lab animals during the recording because Guthrie wanted everything quantised and time locked to reverbs etc. I remember being so disappointed after Black Spring that they made this anaemic, stiff sounding record.

Emma ranks Spooky as her favourite these days. https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/rank-your-records-lush-emma-anderson

Hate the process, love the result, maybe. The interview I did was in '94 so the bad experiences were presumably more vivid.

Split > Spooky > Lovelife