Shoegaze
 

Following yet another MBV thread, I figured I'd get started finding out what people's favourite album from the scene in question is.

For me, it isn't Loveless. It's Souvlaki by Slowdive - another favourite of a lot of boarders. It's a masterpiece.

Anyone got any better ideas?

Ride's "Nowhere" and the first Slowdive EPs.

Enlighten me a little in this.

Loveliescrushing - [anything]
MBV - Isn't Anything
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton (it's like shoegaze math rock!)

those are my shoegaze jams.

Green Day - American idiot

I think both Isn't Anything and Loveless are the best albums of the scene, short followed by Souvlaki and Pygmalion by Slowdive (Just For A Day is good but isn't as great, I mean without the bonus CD of the 2005 reissue, because it makes him as great too, with all these songs from the firsts EP)

Everything's Alright Forever by Boo Radleys is also great, Nowhere from Ride too.

In young bands, my favorites are Amusement Parks On Fire and Experimental Aircraft

The Swirlies are amazing.

ooooooo :)

shoegaze.. i hate tha term but it does fit the bill!
mbv are obvious
ride- nowhere and the 4 pre nowhere e.ps
swirlies- blonder tounge
slowdive- just for a day (much better album than souvlaki)
curves early e.p.s
lush- the e.ps and gala album more so than spooky
verve- storm in heaven (so good until they addedthe "the"
chapterhouse- whirlpool
catherine wheel
telescopes
cocteau twins- can they be lumped into here for heaven and las vegas era?
and the mighty seefeel!!!!

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Yeah 'shoegaze' is a crap name that doesn't fit many of the bands involved.

Album: A.R. Kane, "i"
anyone?

nah, the name shoegaze rules.

a.r. kane- wasnt he responsible for 4ads only number one hit...
m/a/r/r/s/ pump up the volume???????????????????

flying saucer attacks distance is also a great shoegaze record.
medecine, cant remember the name of the album
moonshake- pre stereolab boogie moreso than shoegaze

moose- the jack e.p.
wonderful band before they turned all country and stuff.
boo radleys everything alright forever and giant steps before they turned all shit on us...

velocity girl- copacetic (i think)
can we count his name is alive- home is in your heart?

MBV - Loveless
and I really like this new band called LSD and the Search for God. Really great modern shoegaze. I've been listening to their EP a lot lately.

I always use the term shoegaze to describe my bands music and no one ever knows what im talking about. I don't know if some people will hate me for saying this but what about Siamese Dream to be decribed as a shoegaze record?

No, I wouldn't call it that, but it does have very spacey sounding shoe-gazeish moments.

Galaxie 500 - are they classed as shoegaze?

No, I dont think you should call that a shoegaze record. Go with alternative.

I love the term shoegaze, its awesome

Catherine Wheel's 'Chrome' is a good one to check out. Slowdive's early EPs and Isn't Anything are my favorite shoegaze releases though.

Souvalaki is really good, but I wouldnt call it my favourite SG album purely for the fact that there are 2 or 3 not so good tracks, mainly the more electronic songs. Cool that other people like swirlies on this board, san cristobel is one of my favourite songs. A good new band (If you can call them shoegaze) they sound like hum.

best albums:

1. my bloody valentine - isn't anything
2. boo radleys - everything's alright forever
3. pale saints - in ribbons
4. ecstasy of st theresa - susurrate

forgot about pale saints... nice call

no way, they are too wonderful to be shoegaze!!!!!!!!!!

new shoegaze... may i add windy and carl to the list?

You've forgotten about this splendid record:

BOWERY ELECTRIC - B E A T




It's like nothing I've ever heard before or after it...so eerie and hypnotic. A perfect record when you come back home drunk and your head's full of emotions. A beautiful one.

slowdive - souvlaki
lush - split
curve - doppelgänger
ride - nowhere
chapterhouse - whirlpool

Curve were not a shoegaze band, Moose weren't either, Chapterhouse were considered garbage even then, and so were Cathrine Wheel. Good call on Bowery Electric, even though they aren't/weren't a shoegaze band either. The first three tracks on Souvalaki are really good but the rest of the album leaves quite a bit to be desired. As for the new breed, Lali Puna are a good band, not strictly shoegaze but they take inspiration from it and do some good things.

BE might not have been shoegazer band, ("Lushlife" is far far from shoegaze record), however "Beat" sounds very shoegaze.

As for a great recent shoegaze-sounding record, I'd also mention this one:

GLIFTED - UNDER AND IN

 

It's basically an offshoot of the members of the American band Hum. I'm not at all a fan of Hum, but when I heard this CD, I really stumbled...Really catchy guitar riffs, drowned in endless wash of layers and MBV-like feedback loops, great melodies and dreamy atmosphere. A must-have.

The good thing about them is that they took inspiration from the genre, rather than just mimicking the poses or the 'cathedral of sound' thing. I don't know if Drop Nineteens have already been mentioned. Some good songs on this album, even though they ripped off MBV quite a bit:

curve - horror head

I suppose the indie- dance crossover with tinges of goth genre has never been given a category all its own.

Horror Head is a beautiful song.

hahaha

i admit, all i have listened from that album are the 30 sec song samples(amg ones), (LOL, haha)after listening to the song samples on amazon, i found out a totally different album. LOL

what pork said its true...

it's more like a shoegaze inspired album, little things that you can notice here and there...

what? moose were definitely shoegaze, as a matter of fact i've heard that the whole term shoegaze originated from a review of a moose gig where the singer had lyrics attached to his shoes... but of course they were musically shoegaze only in the beginning, 2 or 3 first ep's. chapterhouse were great until their second lp, but you're right about catherine wheel.

The story about Moose is true, i was referring to the fact that by their first album the shoegazers status started going amiss. I've never liked Chapterhouse and i've found them heavily derivative of the whole scene that was about at the time. Another band i remember being around was Scorpio Rising from Liverpool, not a great one. The singer went on to form Plastic Fantastic and kick-started the whole short-lived Romo movement.

I'd just like to say that I saw Slowdive once, and they were the most motherfucking boring band it's been my displeasure to see, ever.

slowdive are one of those bands that I worship, but can understand why people hate them at the same time.

Yeah, try track seven:

Here

You can still buy this album so that track won't be up long. But if that's not an incentive to buy the thing I don't know what is...