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Jasonaparkes
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 23, 2010, 21:49
I think Blur being associated was a social thing - their early good stuff like the Seymour-material (basically a C-86 style Cardiacs)and the psychey likes of 'Mr Briggs', 'I Know', 'Sing', 'Birthday' etc were nothing like shoegaze bands.

The Dream Pop tag works for me more, The Cure's Disintegration was quite associated with that too...

Though associated more with post-rock types like The For Carnation and Daydream-Sonic Youth, Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You is musically not that far from the noiser end of things...

I recall Earwig, who I think were later re-tagged Insides were really decent. Wasn't someone from Seefeel in a band with Robin Guthrie - Violet Indiana? The early years of Bella-Union has lots of this stuff.

Cranes were great, though I tuned out in the mid-90's for reasons I'm not sure of. Enjoyed the fact both them and Mogwai were suitably full-on when supporting The Cure one summer in Hyde Park. It even got The Cure into the mood to play a set chock full of woe - Plainsong, Pornography, The Drowning Man, M, 100 Years, The Kiss, From the Edge of a Deep Green Sea etc...The early Cranes stuff was very indebted to Swans - they felt like them when they did songs like 'Starblood' and 'I Hope.' Things like 'Adoration' moved towards This Mortal Coil and The Hope Blister. I did find it a bit sad they named an LP after a Cure-song, possibly as it's similar to The Bluetones naming their LP after a Buffalo Springfield song...

A bit too late for shoegaze and a little bit dated were Geneva - was very fond of their 1st Mike Hedges-produced LP Further. Maybe it was the cover and the high pitched vocals - songs like 'Transquiliser', 'Into the Blue', 'Nature's Whore', the title track etc were dandy....

I did think the Delays' Nearer Than Heaven sounded like Lush !!
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