July 11, 200521 yr Shoegaze Rock Named after the fan's propensity to stare at their shoes while dancing, shoegaze or shoegazer as it is sometimes called is characterized by its sound. Typically the music which was characteristic of this genre was loud, with droning riffs, distortion, and feedback. Vocals and melodies disappeared into the guitars, creating an almost orhestral sound where no instrument was distinguishable from the other. A type of alternative rock apparently...?
July 11, 200521 yr Apparently :/ Never heard of that word. The description reminds me of Nine Inch Nails music though :P
July 11, 200521 yr Yes! I couldn't point it out to you, but my boyfriend really likes it... It's not a Nine Inch Nails kind of thing.
July 11, 200521 yr Yes, I've heard of this. I think groups like My Bloody Valentine, Catherine Wheel, and The Stone Roses were groups that were lumped into that "genre".
July 11, 200521 yr Of course I have heard of it. This includes bands such as Graham Coxon, Mojave 3, Yo La Tengo, Gloria Record, Stereolab and more. And more common bands like My Bloody Valentine, as has been mentioned, were the epitomy of shoegazer rock.
July 11, 200521 yr I like all of those bands you mentioned Justine especially Stereolab, Yo La Tengo and Mojave 3
December 2, 200520 yr The genre also includes bands like Slowdive and Lush. (The Cocteau Twins are also considered a proto-shoegazer band.) "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine is considered by many to be the best shoegazer album, with Slowdive's "Souvlaki" and Ride's "Nowhere" also well-regarded.
January 22, 200818 yr http://www.myspace.com/thefoundryfieldrecordings They describe their sound as "shoegaze". Pretty damn good I think. Everyone should listen and add them. :cool:
January 22, 200818 yr http://www.myspace.com/thefoundryfieldrecordings They describe their sound as "shoegaze". Pretty damn good I think. Everyone should listen and add them. :cool: As do Dardanelles http://www.myspace.com/dardanelles
January 22, 200818 yr Was around in Britain till Britpop (another buzz word) replaced it. Stone Roses is the band best known for it with their self titled album considered a British all time classic. Early Blur and The Verve stuff was shoegazer too, 'She's so high' being a shoegazer anthem, its sometimes called Dream pop as well as Shoegazer.
January 22, 200818 yr I'm not very familiar with it either. But I love 'Loveless' by My Bloody Valentine a lot, which is shoegaze according to last.fm's tags.
January 23, 200818 yr was radiohead part of the late shoegazer movement in the pablo honey era, or am i making that up? i may be confused with another band, but i could have sworn i read that in the radiohead book i have.
January 23, 200818 yr was radiohead part of the late shoegazer movement in the pablo honey era, or am i making that up? i may be confused with another band, but i could have sworn i read that in the radiohead book i have. I always through of Pablo Honey as RH jumping on the punk/grunge band wagon.
January 24, 200818 yr Boss Shoegazer Songs Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers, Bluebeard Slowdive - When The Sun Hits, Souvlaki Space Station Amusement Parks On Fire - Venus In Cancer, In Flight Verve - Gravity Grave, Slide Away, A Man Called Sun Spiritualized - Shine A Light Ride - Seagull, Vapour Trail Engineers - Said And Done, One In Seven Giant Drag - Kevin Is Gay MBV - To Here Knows When, Sometimes, Blown A Wish For me this summarizes 90s and post 90s shoegaze. Get on these tracks!
January 24, 200818 yr I always through of Pablo Honey as RH jumping on the punk/grunge band wagon. Yeah you're right, by that point shoegazing had died down completely and grunge was on it's way out... but it was the whole Britpop phase that really got RH noticed.
January 24, 200818 yr Yeah you're right, by that point shoegazing had died down completely and grunge was on it's way out... but it was the whole Britpop phase that really got RH noticed. People say the Bends was brit pop, I can't see how personally. When I think of brit pop I think of bands heavy of regional accent, sneering away about life of the working class in a happy, over produced poppy way. Closest RH came to anything of the sort was Let Down which wasn't very dancable. OK Computer stood out to Americans as being a none Brit pop release from the UK, if Radiohead sang something like boys and girls or Common people Id propably say they were brit pop, but their big 90's hits were Paranoid andriod and Street Spirit.
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