New compilation comes out today
Like a Daydream: a Shoegazing Guide
- Like A Daydream - Ride
- Pearl - Chapterhouse
- When The Sun Hits - Slowdive
- Sweetness And Light - Lush
- Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene
- Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel
- Tomorrow's Tears - Cranes
- Horror Head - Curve
- Son Of Mustang Ford - Swervedriver
- You Tear The World In Two - Pale Saints
- Everso - Telescopes
- Heaven Sent An Angel - Revolver
- Suzanne - Moose
- Anyway That You Want Me - Spiritualized
- Shotgun - Bleach
- Over My Head - Blind Mr. Jones
- City Girl - Kevin Shields
curve really? i never really thought they were shoegazer, same time and all sure, but sound? maybe my interpretation of shoe gaze is off.
I wouldn't exactly think that Curve and the Cranes were shoegaze, more Kiddy-Goth. Also they could've gotten a better Spiritualized tune, I mean I like The Troggs and all, perhaps the single version of 'Medication' might've been better.
who collated it HEB?
No idea
They were chatting about it on a new releases programme.
It seems like an updated version of Feedback To The Future though...
It's on Sanctuary Records
It was reviewed last weekend in [The Observer] Music Monthly(http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,,1797422,00.html)
Compilation of the month
*Various Artists, Like a Daydream *
Floppy hair, blissed-out songs and reverb with everything: Mike Barnes strolls through shoegazing's finest hours
Sunday June 18, 2006
'Shoegazing' was a term coined by an NME writer to describe the hazy, psychedelic music that emerged at the end of the Eighties. A typical piece of journalese, perhaps, but it did accurately describe the onstage spectacle of insular young guys - and women - staring down at their guitar effects pedals. The phenomenon was peculiarly English, but whereas their mind-expanded Sixties predecessors purveyed a parochial, Alice in Wonderland-style disorientation, shoegazers had reached a state of grace - singing dreamy, sweet nothings, they were the eye of the guitar storm that raged around them. Ride's 1990 hit single 'Like a Daydream', with its mix of messy, noisy guitars and swooning vocal harmonies, is a perfect example.
The songs on this compilation have generally worn well. Slowdive, who used back-projections of pre-Raphaelite paintings in their live shows, epitomised the negative image of shoegazers as middle-class ninnies with bowl cuts. But 'When the Sun Hits' is an incandescent track. Even more brazenly effete were the Pale Saints, whose gorgeous 'You Tear the World in Two' finds Ian Masters's choirboy-pure voice swathed in gauzy reverb. A close cousin sonically, the female-fronted Lush's weightless 'Sweetness and Light' is rock music as pure bliss.
Even so, it comes as a relief when Swervedriver's 'Son of Mustang Ford' - a souped-up, gas-guzzling monster - comes roaring out from the middle of the playlist. A few other tracks sound equally anomalous, but are less impressive. Curve's 'Horror Head' is too calculated, too goth, and Spiritualized are represented by one of their dreariest tracks, 'Anyway You Want Me', which is basically the 'Wild Thing' riff played for six minutes.
One group is conspicuous by their absence: My Bloody Valentine. Easily the most innovative and influential group of the era, they had patented the combination of sweetly cooing boy/girl vocalists menaced by their own guitar maelstrom back in 1988. But their absence is no oversight - guitarist Kevin Shields refuses to lease out any of their back catalogue for compilations.
This scene had all but fizzled out by the time Britpop arrived. The legacy lives on, though, and can be detected in Mogwai, Sigur Rós and Bardo Pond, while Norway's hotly-tipped Serena Maneesh sound like they've just been teleported into 2006 from 1991. Which shortens the odds on a full-blown shoegazing revival. But only slightly.
Review link: The Observer Music Monthly
that is all very detailed. thanks!
ahh cool, i saw this advertised on the spiritualized forum with a few less tracks
so i'm guessing they couldn't get approval to include any pre-Lost in Translation Kevin Shields, huh?
Curve is definitely contentious, but they were big on the bendy, wall-of-noise stuff that characterised much of the grouping. Just a tad more electro-goth. Chapterhouse seem to me a kind of bridge between MBV and Curve with their enthusiasm for beats.
i just got my copy of the remastered 2CD of slowdive's "just for a day".
marvellous.
where did you pick this up from?
jbhifionline.com.au $25.99
got it in 4 days.
buy the individual records. much better idea!
and yeah, some of the track choices are a little weird. spiritualized? i reckon 'suzanne' is proto-dance rock! but i may be making up genres. and why would you put 'you tear the world...' instead of 'throwing back the apple' or 'henry'! BAH!
feedback to the future is so awesome, but it would be kinda not worth it without the booklet. you can get any indie shoegaze nerd to make you a mix CD like this but better!
i think i still have your feedback to the future disc, TR.
i hate how swervedriver got lumped in with that lot just cause they were from the same geographic/time era. son of mustang ford is a killer rock song, and mezcal head is certainly no shoegazer either
listen to 'Duress', or even "Never Lose That Feeling" ShitBonanza and you will see quite clearly why swervedriver belong in the "shoegazer" category as much as any of the bands mentioned on this thread.
why isnt my bloody valentine on that list? they are the shoegazing band!
i grew up on swervedriver
dang. it's $35.99 now. souvlaki too...
i know you do, kandos. it's not mine, it's rebec's. but umm.. i have the cover and should return it at some stage.
nah, i'm with shitbonanza. sure they have those songs, but even at the time (ie the eps and raise), they were hailed as the "antidote" to shoegaze, a british appropriation of what was going on in the states at the time. listen to songs like "over" and "out" - total grunge-metal. listen to the mustang ford demo. BAHAHAHAHAHAH!
by the time MH had come out, most people had forgotten about them cos of the US touring and the line-up changes. i think a lot of the reason they were lumped with shoegaze was them being on creation.
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Very fucking good. Am liking Golden Awesome, thanks for the heads up electricsound.
thread is sorely missing some telstar ponies
Saw Underlights supporting Underground Lovers the other day.
MASSIVE Ride sound, and not half bad.
speaking of ride sound. Maybe tnot the wall of sound bit, but definitely the tunefulness
This sounds like my kind of compilation. And what an ALL STAR line up
This just reminded me to check out The Golden Awesome.
Thank shoe, electricsound!
More perhaps oriented towards dreampop, but Kitchens of Distinction, The Autumns (early on), and Majesty Crush need more love in this thread.
Interesting article on shoegaze in 2012 with contributions from Mark Gardener (Ride), Robin Allport (Club AC30) and Nathanial Cramp (Sonic Cathedral)
This has just had a reissue - [VERY VERY](Words On Music is proud to re-release Should's classic 1995 American shoegaze CD-EP A Folding Sieve. This reissue doubles the number of tracks of the original album (which was released on Austin Texas' ND record label under their former name shiFt). Added to this album are both tracks from the 1997 7'' single on ND that featured Should's cover of the Jean Paul Sartre Experience song ''Own Two Feet,'' a cover of the 18th Dye song ''Merger,'' and four unreleased songs recorded in 1995 and 1996. The mini-album garnered enthusiastic praise from Alternative Press who decreed A Folding Sieve had even outshone the Lilys brilliant In The Presence Of Nothing debut album. ''Rolling'' opens the album with Tanya Maus' naked, wax-melting voice that recalls Mimi Goese of Hugo Largo. Expansive atmospheric guitar washes propel the breathlessly beautiful ''Breathe Salt'' and ''Pulling.'' The looping guitar riffs on the catchy ''Feels Like Morning'' recall the Ultra Vivid Scene anthem ''Mercy Seat.'' In addition to the notable Jean Paul Satre Experience and 18th Dye interpretations, Should also give a nod to Loop and Playing With Fire-era Spacemen 3 on ''Inst1'' with its dulled howling guitar and bass pulsations. ''Faded,'' another bonus track, has the buoyancy of early Pale Saints, with the imprecise, lush vocal patterns of Chapterhouse. A Folding Sieve stands tall among the giants in the first wave of great shoegaze albums and is an essential album for any collector of dream pop. ) nice.
''Words On Music is proud to re-release Should's classic 1995 American shoegaze CD-EP A Folding Sieve. This reissue doubles the number of tracks of the original album (which was released on Austin Texas' ND record label under their former name shiFt). Added to this album are both tracks from the 1997 7'' single on ND that featured Should's cover of the Jean Paul Sartre Experience song ''Own Two Feet,'' a cover of the 18th Dye song ''Merger,'' and four unreleased songs recorded in 1995 and 1996.
The mini-album garnered enthusiastic praise from Alternative Press who decreed A Folding Sieve had even outshone the Lilys brilliant In The Presence Of Nothing debut album. ''Rolling'' opens the album with Tanya Maus' naked, wax-melting voice that recalls Mimi Goese of Hugo Largo. Expansive atmospheric guitar washes propel the breathlessly beautiful ''Breathe Salt'' and ''Pulling.'' The looping guitar riffs on the catchy ''Feels Like Morning'' recall the Ultra Vivid Scene anthem ''Mercy Seat.''
In addition to the notable Jean Paul Satre Experience and 18th Dye interpretations, Should also give a nod to Loop and Playing With Fire-era Spacemen 3 on ''Inst1'' with its dulled howling guitar and bass pulsations. ''Faded,'' another bonus track, has the buoyancy of early Pale Saints, with the imprecise, lush vocal patterns of Chapterhouse.
A Folding Sieve stands tall among the giants in the first wave of great shoegaze albums and is an essential album for any collector of dream pop. ''
LINK
the should album was reissued by captured tracks.
it's good, but far from a classic.
I have that EP and an album as well... something about ''Fishes''?
Bought them from Tonevendor years ago, when I was in a ''nu-gaze'' purchase frenzy. I have no recollection of what the music was like, though.
nobody said it was a classic, did they?
feed like fishes - the better record imo
attention is far better spent on the for against albums that WoM put out. now those ARE classics.
This dude loves girls from indie bands and dedicated a blog to them. A bit stalky/creepy though.
This dude loves girls from indie bands and dedicated a blog to them. A bit stalky/creepy though.
http://t.co/AWfUP29q
bump for night chats to share the cringe...
Doncaster (UK) band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Before You Leave - from their 2011 album Northern Sky