Pursued By Trees
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 19:06
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Slowdive was all droney guitar harmonics, reverb and delay ... and those Thames Valley voices!
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zphage
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 20:11
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lots of great stuff,
more obscure the better,
have checked out almost everything
and ordered a few
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Lonesome Cowboy Bill
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 22:53
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Daminxa wrote: That IS a good freebie cd isn't it?
I'd forgotten about Lush. I bumped into the lead singer (her wi' the pink hair) in the toilets at that club in Camden, the name of which I can never remember - well if I'm honest my memories of that whole period of my life are blurred to say the least!) They were great. Time for a mosey down memory lane, methinks...
That'd be Miki. I met her in Camden once too, or Chalk Farm, maybe Archway, at a Thee Headcoats (Billy Childish) gig. She was quite the indie boys dream back then.
Modern day varieties of shoegaze - Maps, School Of Seven Bells, M83.....
Or check out http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/about.html for more. Or this http://drownedinsound.com/lists/shoegaze which has a few great reads amongst it.
Spacemen 3 get lumped in with shoegaze but I've always thought of them as beyond that scene.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 23:11
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keith a wrote: Valve wrote: Talking of toilets and hair dye... Bleach - D'you remember them? Girl singer with cool hair and they had a great EP with a cover that was a pic looking into a birds nest with all the little chicks beaks open. Not sure they were card carrying members but around the same time as Ride etc. and they had thrashy churning guitars.
Yeah, I liked them, esp Wipe It Away. A bit spirit of '77 with Honey Bane-like vocs. Really good live, too.
I have a Bleach single called "Shotgun", which was pretty good. Saw them in Hereford once (playing live, not looking round the shops).
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 23:13
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Not shoegaze at all, but coming from the same period and with drone-y leanings: Disco Inferno.
One of the greatest lost bands ever, to these ears.
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Debaser
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 16, 2010, 23:57
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Lonesome Cowboy Bill wrote:
Modern day varieties of shoegaze - Maps, School Of Seven Bells, M83.....
May I be bold and add these too? The Boxer Rebellion, have travelled many a mile to see these (even on a school night) and they NEVER fail to disappoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMMRkclZ450
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7A1qmt0Mo
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LMan
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 17, 2010, 01:21
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thesweetcheat wrote: Not shoegaze at all, but coming from the same period and with drone-y leanings: Disco Inferno.
One of the greatest lost bands ever, to these ears.
Agreed. "D.I. Go Pop" is a sadly forgotten masterpiece.
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Stevo
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 17, 2010, 10:07
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I prefer the earlier stuff, the Meat Puppets play Joy division meets Durutti Column on the first lp. It used to be available on cd with some of the Science e.p. as In Debt. i have 4 or 5 tracks on my walkman.
They started out with custom instruments, which i would guess meant they came from a somewhat moneyed background. I saw them a couple times around that point, remember once being the White horse in Hampstead with the Whipping Boy. So they were a Che band like Bark Psychosis and that period whipping Boy.
Seems they added equipment to their instruments to trigger samples. & I'd bet that wasn't that cheap to do at that time.
Not really bothered with later stuff, so I'll probably find out I'm missing out?
stevo
np Gryphon Midnight Mushrumps title track
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Stevo
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 17, 2010, 10:16
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Of course immediately on posting that I realise that I didn't mention the Whipping Boy in the thread itself, just as being on the same bill.
Che & Submarine era Whipping Boy were good shoegazer band meets Iggy singer. Do wish they'd got it together to compile the singles/e.ps from that time together when they reissued Submarine. Also that I'd been able to find the tape I did of them at the Trinity Fresher's Ball in Dublin that I did from the mixing desk. This became the basis of the bsides to the Heartworm singles with some overdubbing I think. I moved out of a place a couple of houses back. found that I'd previously left the tape behind, rescued it to my pocket. Then spent the rest of the night giving the place a final going over to make sure I hadn't left anything, dozed off, then left leaving the key in the door and my tape fallen out of my pocket. depressing or what?
I still think I may have made a backup but haven't found it.
stevo
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Wiggy
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Re: Jane From Occupied Europe
Mar 17, 2010, 10:58
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JFOE - THE great lost band of Shoegaze;
http://www.myspace.com/janefromoccupiedeurope
http://janefromoccupiedeurope.blogspot.com/
You really should get those free downloads while they last. The EP is best, but Coloursound is an ace album.
They're from my hometown, Salisbury. Some of 'em were in terrible/wonderful Subway anorak band Bubblegum Splash! and some went on to be in 7% Solution with our very own cHarLIE (BTW Yali, I will be sending you an lp next week, bit busy at the mo.)
Really hope you enjoy this.
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