mbd Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 Some is afoot with My Bloody Valentine… https://mybloodyvalentine.org 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BugPowderDust Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) On 29/03/2021 at 1:20 PM, Dingbat said: Underground Lovers - Promenade - Is that Shoegaze!?!?! I like the Underground Lovers - and have like 5 albums of theirs - but I don't know that I'd call them Shoegaze? Promenade is a brilliant song. Catherine Wheel - There's two different bands with the same name, but I haven't been able to track down the albums of either of them. The one I really want is the Australian one, the UK one seems to be the one everyone references. Early Underground Lovers (Leaves Me Blind) was very shoegaze of the time. They got signed to 4ad then because of their closeness to the UK scene. Catherine wheel in Australia was the band that turned into Pollyanna and they did a half passable attempt at a cross between the Posies and Sugar. This was a good read when I found it a while back: https://lnwy.co/read/story-shoegaze-7-records/ Edited March 30, 2021 by BugPowderDust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenikoy Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 On 10/03/2021 at 11:04 AM, metal beat said: for maybe 5 years I listened to Ride - Going Blank Again at 33 speed instead of 45rpm. I did not realise it was a double 45rpm release. still to this day, I actually prefer playing it at 33 1/3rd - Mark's vocals just sound drug fuuked and the music so much denser - quite cool actually. I'm now trying to imagine "Leave them all behind" 45 played at 33. It seems like it was playing slow even at correct speed. I will admit to almost getting through one side of a War on Drugs album 45 at 33, before chucking a fit about dirges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingbat Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 12 hours ago, BugPowderDust said: Early Underground Lovers (Leaves Me Blind) was very shoegaze of the time. They got signed to 4ad then because of their closeness to the UK scene. Catherine wheel in Australia was the band that turned into Pollyanna and they did a half passable attempt at a cross between the Posies and Sugar. This was a good read when I found it a while back: https://lnwy.co/read/story-shoegaze-7-records/ Never personally in my mind labelled Underground Lovers like that, but yes, Leaves Me Blind is in a Shoegaze style. That and Cold Feeling (totally different in style) are the albums I like most from them. Thanks for sharing that article. Interesting read. Most of the bands I've heard of, though at the time, I didn't get a chance to track down some of their material. I remember hearing a Moose song on the radio - Uptown Invisible - thinking it was fantastic, but couldn't find their CD in the store back then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugPowderDust Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 22 hours ago, mbd said: Some is afoot with My Bloody Valentine… https://mybloodyvalentine.org Now on streaming services and represses of everything I have on many formats before. I grabbed a few T-shirts but otherwise I have it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdDrawerDown Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Edited March 31, 2021 by ThirdDrawerDown 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafe67 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9966-the-50-best-shoegaze-albums-of-all-time/?fbclid=IwAR2mhSm8cJgQC4ek85A9za4EAYhF3vULvs0S755jQ3kQi6WY8ZapfIRNH7o&mbid=social_facebook&utm_brand=p4k&utm_campaign=falcon&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook oddly enuff this came up in my feed today Edited April 1, 2021 by cafe67 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 34 minutes ago, cafe67 said: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9966-the-50-best-shoegaze-albums-of-all-time/ "You Won't Believe What's Number One!" Unsurprisingly, I don't entirely agree with their top 10. Can't believe Chapterhouse isn't in the list until #17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zog Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 I've been a fan of LUSH, MBV, J&MC and CLOUDS for a long time. I missed this song at the time it came out, but this is a shoegaze masterpiece 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zog Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 The Posies shoegaze? sometimes, sometimes power pop, sometimes indie. Burn and Shine - brilliant shoegaze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 For anyone looking for something new, I'm really liking this new album by British band 93millionmilesfromthesun: https://93millionmilesfromthesunofficial.bandcamp.com/album/why-do-we-fall-apart They also have a good back catalogue, including some cover EPs of Ride and Slowdive songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRG Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Someone mentioned Curve above - half of which with his daughter became SPC Eco and have released shoegazy stuff (amongst going in other directions) over time: It's also hardly surprising that the guy from Curve (Dean Garcia) and his daughter (Rose Berlin) can sound a lot like Curve did back in the day: They're latest release was just 5 days ago on bandcamp: https://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/take-the-world-all-for-the-best But for those genre purists it probably qualifies as dreampop rather than shoegaze. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd Posted May 13, 2021 Author Share Posted May 13, 2021 Speaking of Curve, it was a fine arrival day today, after some late night eBay hunting a few weeks ago... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxmaniac Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 On 31/03/2021 at 8:27 PM, ThirdDrawerDown said: I came here to put in a vote for JPSE! Saw them a handful of times in Christchurch early '90s (at Warner's hotel, probably). Love love love! Especially Bleeding Star, holy stagedive Batman, what an intoxicating mix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugPowderDust Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 https://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/rage-shoegaze-and-dream-pop-special/13347390 Tune in to the rage Shoegaze and Dream Pop Special: Saturday May 22 from 11am, and later that night from midnight on ABC TV. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Perkins Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 (edited) See if you dig any of this Shoegazey type stuff Bands are Starflyer 59, Whirr, Nothing, Narrow Head Edited May 23, 2021 by Carl Perkins Added band names 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esoterica Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 (edited) Not sure if I've heard much shoegaze before (Belle and Sebastian perhaps?) but I want to broaden my horizons, hence listening to a playlist of the genre on Tidal tonight. It's called 'Still in a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995'. I really like the slow grooves, but the lyrics can be too repetitive. First band I have since looked up is Blow-Up. Their track 'Somersault Sunrise' is great. Edit: Just saw this compilation mentioned earlier in the thread Edited June 2, 2021 by Esoterica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 stumbled across this in my collection: brilliant shoegaze - Lush - Spooky with that unmistakable 4ad cover art. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingbat Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Speaking of Spooky, one of the singles off it - Nothing Natural - is also on the Black Spring EP. It sounds a little different from that on the album. Another track - Monochrome - is also on both. Apologies to vinyl lovers, I only have the CD, this is my scan from the CD cover. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 The KVB - Of Desire - shoegaze or darkwave? maybe too much synth to be classed as shoegaze? great music regardless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christosd Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 On 04/05/2021 at 8:01 PM, metal beat said: The Posies shoegaze? sometimes, sometimes power pop, sometimes indie. Burn and Shine - brilliant shoegaze. I also wouldn't have put them in that shoe gaze box. In fact I got to hang out with them when they toured Aus (our bass player at the time played with them during his trip to the States) . I'm not sure what box I'd put them in after meeting them that night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christosd Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 No mention of the Pale Saints yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 31 minutes ago, christosd said: No mention of the Pale Saints yet? we have now. haven't played this for years!! thanks for the reminder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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