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Jasonaparkes
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Re: Shoegazer Recommendations
Mar 27, 2010, 03:25
keith a wrote:
Jasonaparkes wrote:


*Fade Out/World In Your Eyes by Loop
*any of the Galaxie 500 reissues
*Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
*the Rain Tree Crow LP
*Heaven Scent by The Perfect Disaster


I really can't see how any of these come under title 'Shoegazer Recommendations' personally!

Spirit of Eden?


My point here is that it was all very vague. Bands who were nothing to do with the 1991 tag were deemed that; had they turn up a few years before/decades after...


The problem with the derided shoegazing tag, or the derided US "dream pop" notion is that stuff happened musically that was related before, during, et after....

All the so-called shoe-gazing bands loved Spacemen 3, Loop, and Galaxie 500.

Ride supported G500 and aspects of the latter aren't far away from much shoegazing.

I think the generic tags miss out on lots - especially when most of those bands were into the Aphex Twin, MBV, and Talk Talk...and that Catherine Wheel got in the co-songwriter/producer on those key TT LP's. Likewise, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Banshees, etc pointed towards shoegazing...

Category is odd here; I know all of this as I worked in an Our Price in Maidenhead in 1990 with the bassist from Slowdive, har-de-har....
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