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I sadly don't think I will be in the city this weekend, which makes me a bad bad person because I never go to any of your clubs anymore. But I would love if the CD was made available on Soundheadspike, maybe?
Shoegaze and I go way back. I discovered Ride back in '98 or '99 due to fortuitous circumstances which I can't remember. But I remember finding an EP of theirs on KaZaa or something like that, and being like "Hey, this sounds like Oasis!" And I remember liking a My Bloody Valentine song, though they generally don't do much for me - I know, blasphemy, but I much prefer Slowdive and Ride. Souvlaki is a favorite record of mine - I love to listen to it when I'm having trouble falling asleep.
Also, I never realized that dreampop wasn't the same thing as shoegaze. I think genres are silly, in general. But I thought dreampop was either A) the pansy name for shoegaze or B) the American equivalent.
Also...no The Verve? I mean, Urban Hymns was full on Britpop, but their early stuff is definitely shoegaze.
To me, really, it's ALL British alternative rock with the slightest bit of glam influence. Oasis sort of defines that, for me. Definitely Maybe being the proof. I mean, they were even on Creation Records...
But yeah. Good music. :)
It took me a LOOOOOOOONG time to appreciate MBV. I actually think Loveless is overrated. I love it, it's a great album, but the heaps of praise it receives is ridiculous. For me, the ultimate shoegazer album will always be the first Slowdive album, followed by Gala from Lush and Ferment by Catherine Wheel.
Oh, and check now. I didn't have Ride or Slowdive at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pCp1Naz
It's totally like Smashing Pumpkins meets R.E.M., am I not right?
Thank you for verifying that Loveless isn't really all that. I really think it's sort of Sonic Youth-ful, and I'm "eh" about Sonic Youth as it is...it's just so loud and discordant compared to something like Souvlaki.
Totally unrelated, but I think it's not hyperbole at all to say that Doolittle is the most important album of the past 25 years, am I right? I mean, without that record we wouldn't have Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, or Interpol. And even though the latter 3 have all sort of gone to shit (the other day I listened to "Say Hello to the Angels" and fully realized how disappointing Our Love to Admire is), they have each put out some amazing records. Nirvana did not put out a single bad record, in my opinion (even if Nevermind is overrated and Bleach is nothing spectacular), but Kurt Cobain was another case of geniuses dying way before their time (John Lennon and Ian Curtis specifically, Hendrix too...Hendrix is actually a big influence on the way I play guitar).
I firmly believe Rivers Cuomo should have killed himself after Pinkerton failed musically. It would have been so suitable, and made the record that much more special. I also think Paul Banks should have overdosed on heroin after touring for Antics, and that Billy Corgan should have killed himself after the Zwan record came out, but before he put out that atrocious solo record. Ideally he would have put out the 2nd Zwan record that never actually came to be, saw that nobody cared, and jumped off some bridge in Chicago. As far as Rivers goes, hanging himself seems to be appropriate. Maybe cutting himself or swallowing a whole bottle's worth of painkillers. Yeah, that's the one. Painkillers from his leg-lengthening operation. They'd find him laying in bed with a bottle of painkillers, a KISS record, and his "old man cane".
I know that's really negative to think, but I mean, isn't it sort of true? Not that each of the bands hasn't had their redeeming moments since. Just...man.
And I really do think Ian Curtis was somewhat of a genius. Look what happened to the band after he died. I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE New Order, in the very same way that I love the Foo Fighters - but after a while each band got really shitty.
For New Order, Get Ready had its moments, but was kind of the beginning of the end. Republic might have even been the beginning of the end. Foo Fighters had theirs with One by One. The Foo Fighters have irritated me ever since then. Severely. They are total bro-rock now. What happened to my self-titled Foo and The Colour and the Shape?
Okay, I digress now.