always loved the first smashing orange album. it is very derivative but all the same, it fucking rocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HNOeXDHDaU
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
Me too. Someone taped stuck a few of their songs on the end of bootleg tape of a Ride concert for me in the summer of 91. I then spent a few hopeless months going into record shops trying to find anything by them and repeatedly being asked "Don't you mean Smashing Pumpkins?" until I gave up. I eventually found an album of theirs in 1993 which had at least one of the tracks from that tape on it (Not Very Much To See), but mysteriously had a very different version of My Deranged Heart on it. Another year passed and then I finally tracked down another album that had the 'proper' version on it. I don't actually know which of those albums came out first and I assume the group had split up long before I actually finally managed to buy them.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 11 February 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
(A quick visit to discogs later) Weirdly it seems that both the albums I bought were released in 1991, but that the four songs originally taped for me were the A-sides and B-sides of two singles also released in 1991 (that also featured on the albums).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeSvPNFe6bg
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
john peel used to play 'my deranged heart' and 'only complete in you'. they did actually survive until 1995-ish, they got signed to MCA in the big clamour for alt-rock bands and put out one last album that totally stiffed afaict. all their stuff is supercheap on the cogs now
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
Love Smashing Orange! Everybody is pointing out my favorite bands this is great
― Evan, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
This feels like something Ned would like?
Anyway, this was circulated for years on blogs but I recently stumbled on this OFFICIAL download complete with the cassette artwork and this was exciting for me.
FREE DOWNLOAD, too!
https://washperth.bandcamp.com/album/wash
― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
Huh, wonder what their deal was.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
Obviously I don't have much info, but I heard they once opened for Swervedriver (in Australia where they're from). I do wonder why they didn't happen...
― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
This tape is great though. Glad it exists. More people need to hear it.
― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
Bumping because: see above post
Also I crave engagement (needy as usual) and am currently hopped up on music discoveries
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
Like this incredible one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjIzmQ1BGYM
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
This one kind of a Lorelei mixed with early Lilys, early Swirlies & early Polvo sound! Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uoCdmGIouw
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
This band is great too:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=OLAK5uy_k4Km8ZWlJyZE9BXcF3bsyG3sZHs6Iwlqk
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
It's Mean Red Spiders. For some reason that link used the app interface or whatever
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
Hey, thanks for the heads up on that Wash album!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 00:32 (one year ago) link
You’re welcome!
― Evan, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link
Yeah that's a damn good listen.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
Ned - question for you - that band I posted above "Study of the Lifeless". I'm having a heckuva time finding concrete info about their 2nd album "World Revolves Around You". I presume it must have released on CD but the internet weirdly has no evidence of this. Do you know?
https://www.allmusic.com/album/world-revolves-around-you-mw0000986965
(btw someone made wild guesses with those "style" tags... way off)
― Evan, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
very weird hearing Filosofem by Burzum for the first time in the mid 90s and hearing the guitars on there. If you didn't hear the harshg vocals I think Shoegaze is very much what you would be thinking.JUst checking this now and yeah definitely what I'm hearing.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
xpost Hm, couldn't tell you. One of those turn-of-the-millennium bands keeping the sound going as they could. Had almost forgotten about them!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
Pluramon 2003 & 2007 albumsLuminous orange 1999 ep
― CerebralCaustic, Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
Dang I guess I'll need to keep digging
xp
― Evan, Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
Ultra Cindy!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-LgxRc_GDxbibbpTVGDJoAvv0fmk-Z7&themeRefresh=1
― Evan, Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
Another Heaven is great for nugaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgv9n8ApQbs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 January 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
Just noticed that Fleeting Joys are active againhttps://fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVZTe5XOAE
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 January 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
It's fairly well known but I don't see it mentioned enough outside Rateyourmusic: The Angel Pool by The Autumns is really gorgeous, can't recommend it highly enough, and the singer is the opposite from 99% of vocalists in the genre.
The Autumns - The Angel Pool Sianspheric - (first two albums)Teenage Filmstars - Star
two great bands with mostly same lineup:Polar - A Future History Of The frigid Polar NightPolar - Lies Set By The Polar MobCon Dolore - This Sad Movie
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link
The third album This Sad Movie is particularly amazing.
Another vote for Alison's Halo - Eyedazzler
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
Alison's Halo have been working on a kind of wrap EP for, well, years now (not a complaint, I think they're just fitting it among other things, pandemic, etc.). Backed it a while back and seems like it should be coming out this year.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
Didn't they have a new name like Locheed? I'm sure there was a new band coming from the duo?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
this?https://www.discogs.com/release/1600577-The-Pastry-Heros-Horn-Rim-Fury-EP
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
It was in the myspace era and there might have even been sample tracks
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOxlsKu3Ak
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
A lot of gems on the Eastern European Shoegaze channel, like Bizarre from Estonia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIT-omWhX7Q
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:03 (one year ago) link
This instant-classic from the Netherlands I heard for the first time last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp20s51w0Cs
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:07 (one year ago) link
^ The Nightblooms - Never Dream At All
Same song, more noise. Take your pick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpdIFZgAz8
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:08 (one year ago) link
Secret Shine - Toward the Sky:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-KCC4GRyQ
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link
I love both versions of Never Dream At All, long time fan of the Nightblooms
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 4 February 2023 10:42 (one year ago) link
Maybe more dreamy than shoey, but anilore (Hudson valley/Brooklyn) got back together, reissued their 90s record, and put out 2 new things that keep the original flames alive w much fancier pedal boards
https://anilore.bandcamp.com/album/still-awake
― bb, Saturday, 4 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
ArchCarrier - I discovered Bizarre's Beautica on a shoegaze forum and I was very fond of it at the time, nice to see it's been reissued but still no CD
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 February 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
Anilore sounds good, new to me
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 February 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
Yes, same here!
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
On the Secret Shine tip, I've been really loving Dreamscape this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zNabzf8POw
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Truly a very lost classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cffRUsuxg
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:44 (one year ago) link
I don't think Polar made anything quite as good as Con Dolore's This Sad Movie (I still consider both Polar albums very great) but this is one of my favorite Polar songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYL28yFgtE
I could swear the singer had another band going after with tracks on Myspace, she was fantastic
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
The new Pencey Sloe album strikes me as a future lost shoegaze classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLv0P5dKClA
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 13 February 2023 02:14 (one year ago) link
Okay so wayyyyy back on this thread a few of us were talking about Australia's Gaslight Radio, who had shoegaze in their makeup if not totally that. They've recently put up a best of on Spotify and a slightly older one on Bandcamp -- worth checking out:
https://gaslightradio.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-gaslight-radio-1996-2006
https://open.spotify.com/album/13LPSQCsi5BNXoCQhMFASl
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
Difference Engine quietly released their shelved 1994 album Flex Lavender on streaming services last year, with no accompanying info and no mention of a forthcoming physical release 🤔. it's less Disco Inferno and more Stereolab (at least on the Margie-sung tracks) than Breadmaker) and veers into trip-hop-gaze on the last track. imo the first six tracks + the intro of 'Sky Hutch' would have made for one of the best EPs of the era. it gets a little more pedestrian after that but it's solid enough throughout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSfzmpyEoI
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:38 (four months ago) link