I can't do links so... http://www.evo.org/html/group/lillies.html
― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.live365.com/stations/glove7?play
― David Gates of Delirium, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
― d.w., Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
(God, I am pathetic that I remember these sorts of things)
― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
Another great band often overlooked is Half-String from Arizona. They put out several discs on IPR. A Fascination With Heights is the strongest in my book, with "Momentum" being my favorite amongst a strong set of songs.
Boston act the Curtain Society were on Bedazzled, their second disc Life Is Long Still is a bargain bin staple and worth the small change for the opener "Mouthwithout" ... perhaps one of my favorite opening riffs of a shoegaze song ever.
Another not mentioned is Alison's Dress (their comp was on Burnt Toast, "Torn is my fave).
I have a shoegaze CD-R I made for myself, if anyone wants a copy just drop me a note. Contains all the above and Ropers, All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors, An April March, Revolver, Belltower and others mentioned above.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
How 'bout the first two Straitjacket Fits records, if we're looking to Flying Nun type stuff? The first one especially is great...
― M Specktor (M Specktor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
You mean Alison's Halo. Since we're out here, Love Spirals Downwards' second album is a 'gazing classic in my book, it's called Ardor.
The Secret Shine compilation CD should be out soon, you won't go wrong with that.
Sugar Plant's most shoegazing album is probably Trance/Mellow, somewhere close to Slowdive's Souvlaki. Their first two albums are more in the Galaxie 500 vein... After After Hours is classic.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
double recommendation for Swervedriver's first album.
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
I would also put in a small shout for Verve's early singles, Gravity Grave, She's a Superstar and All In the Mind. In fact, the whole of the Storm in Heaven album was the tail end of shoegazing-type music for me, and reminds me what a beautiful band they were before they went shit. Although they weren't really shoegazers per se, it fitted in with what I was listening to at the time.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
Two of the bigger local labels were Mind Expansion Records & Burnt Hair Records- some of the local acts included Fuxa, Windy & Carl (who run a nice indie record shop in Dearborn - Stormy Records), Miss Bliss, Tomorrowland (more ambient/idm, but in the same local scene), His Name is Alive, Auburn Lull, & Transient Waves (outta Philly but w/ ties to the Michigan scene).
Other related stuff was coming out around the US as well from the likes of Darla Records & Kranky Records, and groups like Hopewell (members of Mercury Rev), Jessamine, Bowery Electric, etc, etc..
― pete from the street, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
bona-fide classic, absolutely! i never tire of this wonderful record, which recreates dreamlike strolls in rainy cities like few others have done. their later garage-mod output is...interesting, but i never listen to it much. are half-string or curtain society anything like toulouse?
― chomicat, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
I wouldn't have automatically thought of Levitation as shoegazers either, but someone else did upthread (I wouldn't describe them as also-rans either).
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
i'd call them "indie-rock" but those more genre-centric may refer to them as "slow-core".
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
still extant bands out here:Color Wall, from LAThe Jealous Type, from Ann Arbor, MIThe Flashing Astonishers, from i ferget where
oh yeah, and the Dykehouse album, when it finally comes out.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
The comp that comes with the new issue is really really good.
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
Other Medicine-influenced California-based shoegazers of note: The Lassie Foundation.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
Apart from them, burn the rest except MBV obviously.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
mention of IPR is OTM - an amazing label. everything i buy on that label is a gem of shoegazing or Factory/4AD influenced wonderment.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
One of my all-time favourites.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― fernando, Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― steve, Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
MogwaiGYBE!(some) Mercury RevSigur Ros
― turkey (turkey), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
Do Lorelei count too? Their early singles were pretty shoegazey. And the Moon Seven Times?
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
Half-String have the right tone but not as many hooks and the singer is slightly more mopey. Curtain Society have the hooks but are more crisp than Toulouse. I definitely recommend Half-String's A Fascination With Heights.
And everyone who praised the Ropers as one of the best groups of all time is unequivocably correct. Don't forget the early singles, handily compiled on the s/t ep. Does anyone here have the Boyracer/Ropers tour split 7" ... I've been dying to hear that song for years.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
I have the Whipping Boy album (Heartworm) and consider When We Were Young as one of the great lost singles of all time, but in no way on this earth would I ever have thought of them as shoegazers.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
i have that, somewhere in the deep recesses of my vinyl stacks. i'll have a look for it. it's a nice track..
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't they have a new name like Locheed? I'm sure there was a new band coming from the duo?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
this?https://www.discogs.com/release/1600577-The-Pastry-Heros-Horn-Rim-Fury-EP
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
It was in the myspace era and there might have even been sample tracks
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOxlsKu3Ak
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
A lot of gems on the Eastern European Shoegaze channel, like Bizarre from Estonia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIT-omWhX7Q
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:03 (one year ago) link
This instant-classic from the Netherlands I heard for the first time last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp20s51w0Cs
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:07 (one year ago) link
^ The Nightblooms - Never Dream At All
Same song, more noise. Take your pick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpdIFZgAz8
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:08 (one year ago) link
Secret Shine - Toward the Sky:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-KCC4GRyQ
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link
I love both versions of Never Dream At All, long time fan of the Nightblooms
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 4 February 2023 10:42 (one year ago) link
Maybe more dreamy than shoey, but anilore (Hudson valley/Brooklyn) got back together, reissued their 90s record, and put out 2 new things that keep the original flames alive w much fancier pedal boards
https://anilore.bandcamp.com/album/still-awake
― bb, Saturday, 4 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
ArchCarrier - I discovered Bizarre's Beautica on a shoegaze forum and I was very fond of it at the time, nice to see it's been reissued but still no CD
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 February 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
Anilore sounds good, new to me
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 February 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
Yes, same here!
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
On the Secret Shine tip, I've been really loving Dreamscape this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zNabzf8POw
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Truly a very lost classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cffRUsuxg
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:44 (one year ago) link
I don't think Polar made anything quite as good as Con Dolore's This Sad Movie (I still consider both Polar albums very great) but this is one of my favorite Polar songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYL28yFgtE
I could swear the singer had another band going after with tracks on Myspace, she was fantastic
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
The new Pencey Sloe album strikes me as a future lost shoegaze classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLv0P5dKClA
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 13 February 2023 02:14 (one year ago) link
Okay so wayyyyy back on this thread a few of us were talking about Australia's Gaslight Radio, who had shoegaze in their makeup if not totally that. They've recently put up a best of on Spotify and a slightly older one on Bandcamp -- worth checking out:
https://gaslightradio.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-gaslight-radio-1996-2006
https://open.spotify.com/album/13LPSQCsi5BNXoCQhMFASl
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
Difference Engine quietly released their shelved 1994 album Flex Lavender on streaming services last year, with no accompanying info and no mention of a forthcoming physical release 🤔. it's less Disco Inferno and more Stereolab (at least on the Margie-sung tracks) than Breadmaker) and veers into trip-hop-gaze on the last track. imo the first six tracks + the intro of 'Sky Hutch' would have made for one of the best EPs of the era. it gets a little more pedestrian after that but it's solid enough throughout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSfzmpyEoI
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:38 (two months ago) link