In Praise Of...Slowdive's first album, "Just For A Day"

what were they?

my copy came with a second disk: 'Blue Day', a compilation of (most of) the first 3 singles as mentioned above. but i've a feeling you're talking about something different.

the Morr music tribute cd (Blue Skied N' Clear) is good, people like isan and mum doing slowdive covers...

i think it's a beautiful record but to be honest it was a disappointment after the gobsmackery of the first three EPs.

That pretty much covers it for me. I had the first three EPs, but I was far more into the noisy groups like Ride, Boo Radleys and the Pixies at the time. I didn't buy the album, and I think I've only heard it once. By the time it came out the backlash against Shoegazing was already starting up.

Oddly enough I got really back into those EPs in 1993, so I bought their second album and the In Mind stuff, but the first album is still a gaping hole in my collection. Should I bother getting it?

(Spencer, are you already back from Brazil?)

Did you arrive just yesterday? If so, I forgive you for not coming out last night. ;-)

WORST. BONUS. TRACKS. EVAH.

It's really only 2 out of the four, but they are so goddamn bad i can only listen to souvlaki if i cook up a playlist omitting the bonus tracks.

i put erik's song on a mix once and my friend was all "is this from the soundtrack to less than zero when robert downey jr is on the phone in his bedroom?" wtf

this kind of production (turn of 80s/90s "dream pop") has turned around from seeming like it was dating badly to seeming like really nice period production

'meh' on Just for a Day's sound, but I will say that this:

wishy washy and empty sounding

perfectly characterizes all the third-generation (-plus, now?), creatively bankrupt shoegaze revival stuff.

Bethany Curve? c'mon.

also many of those bands don't have two halves of a tune to rub together

OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL OUT THIS ALBUM AFTER ALL EVEN THOUGH I'D BEEN THINKING OF IT A FEW TIMES THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL IT OUT AREN'T YOU

This is my #1 going to sleep album of all time. If I'm not counting sheep by the time the "Waves/Brighter/Sadman" trilogy of awesomeness cues, I'm sure to be off to blissful slumber shortly thereafter.

OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL OUT THIS ALBUM AFTER ALL EVEN THOUGH I'D BEEN THINKING OF IT A FEW TIMES THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL IT OUT AREN'T YOU
you'll thank us later

tell us how it went

As I was going home from the club tonight, the words "to believe in everything" came into my head and I racked my brain trying to figure out what lyric that was from. I finally got home to look it up, but a Google search didn't do me much good right away...it took a bit of looking...it's "Catch The Breeze"!

I don't where to put this which popped up as related video when I was listening to the youtube tracks of the 2018 poll. An amazing performance of an amazing song. I also love the parts where you see that blond girl with pony tail in the audience which is just about to break into tears. I am not too familiar with Slowdive but this semms like their top song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZhG9YSY_c

I am not too familiar with Slowdive but this semms like their top song.

TBF, it's one of Syd Barrett's top songs.

I knew i had heard that title already somewhere...

TBF, the title and lyrics are James Joyce.

To be fair, the Slowdive version extends and improves on the Syd Barrett original tremendously. Or let's say it translates it adequately into the shoegazing nineties.

Hell, I'll take Slowdive 2018 over 90s Slowdive. I love that they're still playing it and have claimed it as their own

Yeah the current tours are just phenomenal -- I loved all the early 90s shows of theirs I saw but this is next level time.