Sweet Jesus: A Shoegazing Band

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Since someone mentioned them on the latest shoegazing revival thread, I've check these guys(girls?) out and have been mighty pleasantly surprised. I had low expectations because I'm almost sure I heard them back then ('91) and just dismissed them for whatever reason. Sure is fun to experience a good first-wave-of-shoegazing band 10+ years after the fact! ILM rawks. As if you all didn't know that already.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I only ever heard the one song by them a long time back thanks to the Volume series and remember them sorta being pitched alongside Suede as a new glam revival. The relative fame and fortune difference between the two acts afterwards was a bit apparent.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm...maybe that's where I heard them, then, a Volume comp...makes a lot of sense.

Can't see the glam/Suede relation to save my life.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i had all three of their singles at one stage, don't know what happened to them as i only have "honey loving honey" now (which is probably their second best after "phonefreak honey").

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that's the only one I haven't managed to find on slsk so far. :(

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i mp3ed all the singles and put them on slsk

they were a great band, the great glam-shoegaze band, lost, to the mists of time, but fantastic.

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Searching...not to much avail yet.

― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet. Jesus: A shoegazing band.
Sweet Jesus, a shoegazing band!

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Shoegazing Jesus: A Sweet Band

― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus and the Shoegazing Sweet Band

― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they suffered a bit from their lead singer looking like Dave Gedge with fancier hair.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 20 June 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

slsk: racing santander

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 20 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweetshoeing: A Jesus Gaze

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Story of my life.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Gazing at Jesus: Sweet Shoes!

Well, G., I know I've seen that nick before, recently, but for some reason I wasn't able to catch up with you. Anyway, I think I've got everything now anyway except this song supposed to be called "Honey Loving Honey"? No one seems to have this song, but yet Gemm lists it as an A-Side of a 7" for which I have the b-side! And I don't mean phonefreak, either. It's kindof weird. Maybe it's just a bad version of Phonefreak, and I can live without it anyway. Certainly the non-original version of "Your Baby Loves Me" sucked, so I wouldn't be surprised.

They sure do have a lot of Honey and Babys going on in their songs.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 21 June 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i have "honey loving honey" but it was only ever on vinyl

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Monday, 21 June 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and it's great, probably their noisiest moment, very Nightblooms-ish

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Monday, 21 June 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm. Well that could be good or bad. I was never big on the Nightblooms. Maybe it's cause I had them on tape next to the far superior Wedding Present b-side "Niagara".

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A glam shoegazing band? Surely that's a contradiction in terms? Though oxymoron or not, it sounds like I want it!

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

early nightblooms though, i.e. original version of "crystal eyes", that makes early JAMC sound like philip glass

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

always liked Sweet Jesus. their songs were like swift jabs from a honey-dripping noisepop knife. and whenever one rears its fuzzy head on an old mixtape, it catches my attention. never fails to bring about those "ooh - i really must buy this - oh, wait, i already own this" thoughts. shame that the press dismissed the band as the "gay MBV" (shoe gays?) and let them slip into obscurity.

>A glam shoegazing band? Surely that's a contradiction in terms?

dunno about that. short-lived Sweet Jesus successor Venus could only be called glam-gaze. same goes for the Bardots, though they ultimately left all the gl/aze behind.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Phonefreak Honey is an interesting animal. Half shoegazing and half Suede, it inhabits a completely unique territory in the pop landscape. They released a few singles then split up and the vocalist and the guitarist formed a band called Venus, realesing a single, No.1 Fan, and an album, Miss Paris. After that came a new band, Groupie and two more singles. The last track on their last single (Genius), is very close to Sweet Jesus, though the typical Groupie tune is more rockier.

― AndreNY (AndreNY), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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