Shoegaze

quaalude · 08-06-2012 11:31am

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Loop's LP A Gilded Eternity was great. Two slabs of heavy heavy wax.

I saw them at McGonagles in December 1990. Therapy? supported.

Here's a photo from the gig - by Karl Burke.

I was at that too! Deadly gig. Thanks for posting, nlgbbbblth.

Jim_Kiy · 08-06-2012 5:37pm

Great thread some music here I ain't familiar with..my favourite kind!:cool:
Never considered shoegaze as a genre..some bands in this list surprised me by their inclusion e.g Blonde Redhead/Spiritualized but they are I guess when you think about it.I like shoegaze I do!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shoegazing_musicians

Killed By 9V Batteries - great name I just had to check them out on utube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_3T8z21Fs

SilverScreen · 08-06-2012 7:19pm

cranks wrote: »

Not sure Loop could have been considered Shoegaze but much of their stuff up to and including the album Heaven's End wasn't far from it - albeit a little dark. One of the few bands I travelled for and whose sounds frequently accompanied my getting very familiar with my shoes..

Loop were an incredible band, their music is as trippy as hell. They were more of a neo-psychedelic/space-rock band in the vein of Spacemen 3 but definitely an influence on shoegazing. Heaven's End is my favourite album of theirs, especially 'Forever' and 'Fix To Fall', but Fade Out and A Gilded Eternity are both amazing albums too.

cranks · 08-06-2012 10:14pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseWxLNpGO4

cranks · 08-06-2012 10:46pm

At the psychedelic end of shoegaze.
Fuxa2000 & Supercharged albums worth a listen

More recent release

cranks · 16-06-2012 11:33pm

Fovourite cover-shoegaze?, favourite cover-shoegaze?, favourite cover=shoegaze?, faovurite cover..............
I'll go with shoegaze

SilverScreen · 16-06-2012 11:37pm

^ Their cover of Suede's 'The Drowners' is pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsRJDx5hM4

Flying Saucer Attack were an amazing band, it's a real shame they're not around anymore. By favourite album by them is Further, which has a really eerie and atmospheric feel to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqid1r8y-k

cranks · 17-06-2012 12:00am

Zero1986 wrote: »

Flying Saucer Attack were an amazing band, it's a real shame they're not around anymore.

I was a latecomer to FSA. Some wonderful stuff but some tough going stuff too IMO. I recall John Peel being fond of them and, if I'm honest, it was the name of the band that caught me before the music.

Didn't one of them (the main man?) lose it (mentally) or am I imagining things?

SilverScreen · 17-06-2012 12:10am

cranks wrote: »

I was a latecomer to FSA. Some wonderful stuff but some tough going stuff too IMO. I recall John Peel being fond of them and, if I'm honest, it was the name of the band that caught me before the music.

Didn't one of them (the main man?) lose it (mentally) or am I imagining things?

I only discovered them about 3 years ago myself. I don't know what happened him (Dave Pearce) exactly but he just seemed to stop making music about 10 years ago and just disappeared into oblivion. Unless you're thinking of Jason DiEmilio of a similar band Azusa Plane who suffered from tinnitus and hypercusis and commited suicide in 2006.

duckysauce · 19-06-2012 9:33pm

The Telescopes Taste was a great album

Chairman Meow · 21-06-2012 3:11pm

i wouldnt be a big fan of the genre, but i think this album is classed as shoegaze, and its probably one of my favourite albums of the last few years

Solar powered people - self titled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibrtzfYdGc

Brilliant album, tho what i heard from their follow up album didnt sound nearly as good

Fishooks12 · 28-06-2012 6:34pm

Saw beach fossils a few weeks ago in Barcelona and they were brilliant

Their touring guitarist is this guy:

fillefatale · 07-12-2014 11:29am

Dragging up an old thread I know, but Ride have recently uploaded most of the singles and videos to youtube

SilverScreen · 07-12-2014 5:32pm

I'm really digging the album Ujubasajuba by Kairon; IRSE! from this year. It's quite trippy and weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvjMJcN8gh4

iomega · 18-12-2014 10:04pm

Curve - Superblaster. I love the stylized production & guitar parts. Oozes coolness, still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh25cWav6Xs

iomega · 19-12-2014 12:33am

Have a listen to Moon King. Their obsession album from last year really nails that classic shoegaze sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSiQj72SBb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa3vAPaRu4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089rkY1KtFg

iomega · 30-12-2014 8:39pm

More modern electro shoegaze with psych touches.

Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDyhl5GSje4

Great album. Sounds Incredible. Produced by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala.

Full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrRTeMq8fw

IamNotNumber · 03-01-2015 3:16am

A place to bury strangers ..upcoming album ,upcoming gig ..If you don't know them then get busy..awesome band.

fillefatale · 04-01-2015 11:41am

New Irish shoegaze fb group if any of ye are on it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432780123678859/

Valmont · 09-01-2015 2:09am

The husband and wife act of Joy Zipper fall squarely into the shoegaze/dreampop genre. Their album Apathy is brilliant.

Dubhthamlacht · 09-01-2015 4:36pm

If you're looking for new bands in the shoegaze/dream pop vein, then Cork band Elastic Sleep are ones to watch. Their EP Leave You from last year was one of my favourites of 2014.

iomega · 09-01-2015 11:01pm

Okay, not your typical shoegaze, but the telefon tel aviv remix of the green green grass by the american analog set is just swirling gorgeousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDPG_LOM0w

iomega · 09-01-2015 11:05pm

More "trad" cocteaus style shoegaze. The Cranes - Tomorrows Tears from 1991.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0riFXq_yT3s

Eileen Down · 10-01-2015 2:33pm

A few years ago artists from The Morr Music label realeased and tribute to Slowdive called "Blue Skied an' Clear".
If you're a fan of slowdive and you like a bit of electronica, then you'll love this.

nlgbbbblth · 10-01-2015 3:32pm

Eileen Down wrote: »

A few years ago artists from The Morr Music label realeased and tribute to Slowdive called "Blue Skied an' Clear".
If you're a fan of slowdive and you like a bit of electronica, then you'll love this.

It's brilliant - now 13 years old, came out around the time I got married.

I liked it so much I bought it on vinyl and CD.

Eileen Down · 10-01-2015 11:11pm

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

It's brilliant - now 13 years old, came out around the time I got married.

I liked it so much I bought it on vinyl and CD.

It's definitely one of my top 5 completions. I've got to know so many of the Morr music acts thanks to it. Isan, Lali Puna, Ulrich Schnaus are still making great music today.

13 years already...that's scary, I'd much prefer it if was only forty days.

Eileen Down · 26-01-2015 9:34am

Anybody here listening to Grouper aka Liz harris?

Anesthetize · 26-01-2015 11:33pm

Eileen Down wrote: »

Anybody here listening to Grouper aka Liz harris?

I'm a huge fan of Grouper. Even though her music is more ambient/drone it definitely has prominent a shoegaze influence, particularly on Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill.

Here's a couple more artists that I enjoy who have blurred the boundaries between shoegaze, ambient and drone in a similar spirit to Grouper:

Windy & Carl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3aT9OTvpqI

Jessica Bailiff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnnyhVnymc

Eileen Down · 27-01-2015 10:47am

I'm not meaning to be a smart arse but aren't Ambient and Drone the key elements of shoegaze. I suppose they have become or have always been their own thing. I definatly agree with you about that Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill. I'm also a huge fan of her music too, I'm slowly, slowly taking in Ruins at the moment. Did you hear the colaboration she's made with The Bug?
The music that's coming out of the kranky label the last couple of years is amazing. Their playlist on soundcloud is really worth listening to.

roll · 02-02-2015 10:10pm

SilverScreen wrote: »

A shoegaze band with a flute player anyone? Blind Mr. Jones were jokingly dubbed the "Jethro Tull of shoegaze" by the media in the early 90's, but they have some solid guitars to back it up. Their 1992 album Stereo Musicale is a must have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPAxowzYTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2JMUzpYHk

blind mr jones was a chris hufford creation who i think produced the slowdive albums? i would google and find out but am still shocked that blind mr jones are on boards.ie!

Anesthetize · 02-02-2015 10:41pm

Eileen Down wrote: »

I'm not meaning to be a smart arse but aren't Ambient and Drone the key elements of shoegaze. I suppose they have become or have always been their own thing.

I've always felt that shoegaze itself flirted with ambient and drone but never completely crossed over.

roll wrote: »

blind mr jones was a chris hufford creation who i think produced the slowdive albums? i would google and find out but am still shocked that blind mr jones are on boards.ie!

Chris Hufford produced a lot of bands of that period including Blind Mr. Jones and Slowdive. He also produced some early Radiohead recordings.

Dandelion6 · 03-02-2015 8:33am

I've always felt that there were kind of two sides of shoegaze, the ambient/drone side and the noisy guitar side. Kind of like shoegaze was born from a marriage of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins, and some of the children inherited more from one parent than from the other.

daUbiq · 03-02-2015 9:41am

Dandelion6 wrote: »

I've always felt that there were kind of two sides of shoegaze, the ambient/drone side and the noisy guitar side. Kind of like shoegaze was born from a marriage of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins, and some of the children inherited more from one parent than from the other.

Makes sense! I reckon the cocteau twins or maybe the cure are the original shoegazers!

Birneybau · 03-02-2015 4:41pm

NSFW but one of my favourite bands of the last few years.

Also, another of my favourite bands, EVER!

Actually, one more came to mind, incredible.

Anesthetize · 03-02-2015 8:06pm

daUbiq wrote: »

Makes sense! I reckon the cocteau twins or maybe the cure are the original shoegazers!

Both have certainly had a big influence, Cocteau Twins more so than The Cure. Could also throw in The Chameleons, Lowlife, Loop and This Scarlet Train as precursors.

But when I think original shoegazers I think MBV with Isn't Anything.

Dandelion6 · 04-02-2015 8:47am

Anesthetize wrote: »

But when I think original shoegazers I think MBV with Isn't Anything.

Yes, so do I.

daUbiq · 04-02-2015 9:41am

I never really considered "Isn't Anything" a shoegaze album, more like odd indie pop. My entry point into the classic shoe gaze sound was the early Ride and Slowdive EP's. I'd grown up with the Cocteau Twins and The Cure but didn't think much of Isn't Anything when it was released... Loveless on the other hand is definitely a shoegaze album. It has the guitar sound but "Isn't Anything" doesn't sound like shoe gaze to me at all. Loveless is, in my opinion, a far superior album which I listen to intermittently but for me Slowdive and Ride were more important because at the time they released more records, played more gigs, did more press and were only a few years older than me, whereas in 1990/1991 MBV were already beginning to fall apart.

roll · 04-02-2015 9:27pm

Anesthetize wrote: »

I've always felt that shoegaze itself flirted with ambient and drone but never completely crossed over.

Chris Hufford produced a lot of bands of that period including Blind Mr. Jones and Slowdive. He also produced some early Radiohead recordings.

chris hufford was (in) BMJ? not (just) d producer?

roll · 04-02-2015 9:35pm

have loved reading through this thread over the last day or two... i just remember 'shoegazers' being a laughing stock back in the early 90's! from an irish perspective, do Cane141 count?

seachto7 · 05-02-2015 4:56pm

New Swervedriver album next month folks.

Dandelion6 · 08-02-2015 10:00am

daUbiq wrote: »

I never really considered "Isn't Anything" a shoegaze album, more like odd indie pop. My entry point into the classic shoe gaze sound was the early Ride and Slowdive EP's. I'd grown up with the Cocteau Twins and The Cure but didn't think much of Isn't Anything when it was released... Loveless on the other hand is definitely a shoegaze album. It has the guitar sound but "Isn't Anything" doesn't sound like shoe gaze to me at all. Loveless is, in my opinion, a far superior album which I listen to intermittently but for me Slowdive and Ride were more important because at the time they released more records, played more gigs, did more press and were only a few years older than me, whereas in 1990/1991 MBV were already beginning to fall apart.

The thing is that when the first Ride and Slowdive EPs were released, they were immediately pegged as part of the shoegaze scene. It might not have been called "shoegaze" at that point, but there was definitely a scene and MBV were regarded as the main inspiration for it. So much so that the buzz around Loveless was whether and how MBV were going to show that they were still the innovators not the imitators. Which, of course, they did.

daUbiq · 09-02-2015 11:14am

It was called shoegaze at the time!

Eileen Down · 09-02-2015 12:46pm

I only became familiar with the name Shoegaze around the time Ride became really popular. I was listening to MBV, Cocteau Twins, Spaceman3, Loop and many others, a few years before then and to me at that time the music was simply called Alternative or maybe even Goth.
Come to think of it, at the time most of the fans were Goth's.

I certainly was:o

Dandelion6 · 10-02-2015 8:53am

daUbiq wrote: »

It was called shoegaze at the time!

I don't think it was called shoegaze quite that early. The first Ride EP was released in January 1990; the word "shoegaze" was coined by a journo reviewing a Moose gig and Moose were only formed in 1990. I don't think it was called "alternative" then either and it definitely wasn't called "goth"!

nlgbbbblth · 10-02-2015 7:19pm

Moose were classed as "noisy indie" by me when they started off. Jack is a great track.

From memory the shoegaze label started around the summer of 1991. Around the time of Indie Top 20 Volume 12 and before Slowdive's Just For A Day (released in September and overshadowed by Creation's big three).

nlgbbbblth · 15-02-2015 10:39pm

A loose fit.

Eurythmics - Your Time Will Come.

From their debut LP produced by Conny Plank.

Like Stereolab, 10 years too early.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsQPXmUlNhM

daUbiq · 15-02-2015 11:37pm

Dandelion6 wrote: »

I don't think it was called shoegaze quite that early. The first Ride EP was released in January 1990; the word "shoegaze" was coined by a journo reviewing a Moose gig and Moose were only formed in 1990. I don't think it was called "alternative" then either and it definitely wasn't called "goth"!

Didn't they refer to it as the scene that celebrates itself because they, the shoegazers, went to each others gigs!

nlgbbbblth · 15-02-2015 11:57pm

That phrase was coined by Melody Maker. Could equally apply to the Dublin scene at any time over the last 25 years.

seachto7 · 20-02-2015 12:20pm

Swervedriver also on a UK tour in May. I would doubt we'd get a Dublin date though.

IamNotNumber · 10-04-2015 10:37pm

If you like bands like lower dens,cloud nothings,wild nothings,nothing nothings,monster club,no monsters,of monsters and men or monster monster give these guys a listen.Dublin band 'shoegazey sorta'segrasso sounding great on this gem of a track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA-g-2DQOuU

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