The SHOEGAZING revival, starts.......HERE!!!! OH YES!!!
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Good call on Seefeel, saw them supporting Spiritualized and the Cocteaus at various points. "Quique" a long-term fave...
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: Pretty good for a rich Jewish smackhead....
The slightly geeky guy with glasses playing guitar in this video is Moby..
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: Pretty good for a rich Jewish smackhead....
Oh, how could I forget that first UVS album eh? THis is taking me right back!!
BLATANT RIP OFF OF THE VELVETS ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES TOO!!! :)
Love "Crash" as well - no, not that insipid 4th rate Blondie-by-numbers Primitives hit!!!
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: Good call on Seefeel, saw them supporting Spiritualized and the Cocteaus at various points. "Quique" a long-term fave...
Seefeel's side project SCALA were also interesting...but they had a lot of problems translating their recordings to live performance due to their stubbon equipmentalways playing up. I remember seeing Scala at a gig once where absolutely everything that could go wrong with their sequencer and computer set up went wrong...this really pissed the band off cos they ended up doing just three songs before calling it a day...fucking shame really.
Seefeel were a great band - like Cocteaus meets the Orb meets MBV...... they were arguably the first WARP act that had a guitarist (or was it Broadcast?)
:) 
Quique is an astonishing album, disappointed by their comeback though... This thread has made me dig out several old albums I haven't listened to in years - been listening to the Swallow album today, not the best for keeping you alert when driving though, so switched to this for the way home:
Snorri xxx
Swervedriver all look like the folk who used to do tent-to-tent drug sales at Glastonbury.
Anyway, about time this lot made an audio-visual appearance:
Seefeel remix the Coc's. Very pretty for a song about giving birth and being torn from your fanny to your arse.
When the Cocteaus last toured in 1996 they had Mark from Seefeel playing with nobs and buttons and other clever stuff. They did all these wonderful, barely-there ambient versions of stuff from 'Treasure' and 'Garlands'. Sent my girlfriend to sleep they did, which back then was the highest of compliments...
They sounded like MBV at first, the title "Everything's Alright Forever" a direct nod to "Isn't Anything".
This is ace, like all the best summers rolled into one. There was another Martin who used to frequent this place who loved this...
Everything's Alright was genius... As was Giant Steps, one of my favourite albums of all time... Me and my best mate from way back then used to marvel at how the Boos could take an absolutely perfect pop song and fcuk it up with ridiculous amounts of feedback, weird noises, odd trumpets, etc. Noone else got it - our Boo Radleys DJ set at a college disco cleared the room in less than a song...
And on a 'before they became shit' theme:
Good times, top tunes...
Snorri xxx
Snorrimon wrote: Everything's Alright was genius... As was Giant Steps, one of my favourite albums of all time... Me and my best mate from way back then used to marvel at how the Boos could take an absolutely perfect pop song and fcuk it up with ridiculous amounts of feedback, weird noises, odd trumpets, etc. Noone else got it - our Boo Radleys DJ set at a college disco cleared the room in less than a song...
And on a 'before they became shit' theme:
Good times, top tunes...
Snorri xxx
The Boo Radleys were so underrated for what they achieved. They had a number 1 album for goodness sakes (although it was their pop record Wake Up Boo, which I didn't like as much cos it felt contrived, and not the twisted genius that was Giant Steps, Everythings Alright Forever OR C'mon Kids - which was deranged!). FRom Dinosaur Jr copyists via MBV to Beatles eclecticism and out-there expertimentalism with a hefty does of pop tunes.... there were very few bands who operated like them. I saw them and Pale Saints co-headlining in 1992 when they both had albums out together and it was like Yin and Yang. Lorraine preferred the more sedate Pale Saints but I was blown away by the wall of noise the Boos concocted up there on stage.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: They sounded like MBV at first, the title "Everything's Alright Forever" a direct nod to "Isn't Anything".
This is ace, like all the best summers rolled into one. There was another Martin who used to frequent this place who loved this...
THis was such an amazing tune...your description is pretty much spot on. Me and the wife woud spend lazy days (geddit?) chilling out in our backyard with this album playing and some of the tunes were just bliss: Firesky was immense, as onomatopoeic [?] a song as you could expect, Song For The Morning To Sing was just that, Does This Hurt and Sparrow were perfect twisted rival siblings: one brash, the other introverted......and Paradise, although nicking its title from New Order, is actually a far better song than its namesake....I love the way the languid strumming guitars evoke the blissful reverie of lying on the grass gazing up at the sky (not our shoes!!!) without a care in the world. I couldn't rave about this record any more than I have done (with the exeception of that first Pale Saints album of course).
THis thread is fast becoming a really nostalgic one now just cos of the number of old tunes people are bringing back up in this way! :) :)
Heard this one in Fac251 a few times, love it [the full 8 minute version]
Another decent tune I would class as Shoegaze, though from 1985
everyoneverywhere wrote:
Another decent tune I would class as Shoegaze, though from 1985
Ah, Felt... 
Though this was probably the only bit of their career that could be considered even vaguely shogazey, thanks mainly to the fact that Robin Guthrie produced the album - it sounds much less crisp than any other Felt release...
As a nice link between the above two vids though, have 8 minutes of Felt from 84, slightly disproving my earlier point about only one bit of their career being even vaguely shoegaze...
Snorri xxx
...not least because there is a direct ambient continuum between Talk Talk's finest moments and late-period Slowdive's more abstract-minimalist offerings...
And linking things nicely together and back to where it all started for me:
Having bought most of the first first 30 or 40 Sarah Records singles, I remember being struck by how different this one by Eternal was (aside from the Golden Dawn's rather noisy but much less fantastic effort). I think either wrote to the band or Matt from Sarah to enquire about where I could find more of the same... Little did I know that Christian from Eternal would end up in Slowdive... Eternal's one and only single still always sends me to sleep, which I suppose is half the point of drifting walls of sound or whatever... Late period Talk Talk are peerless... Currently assembling a nice playlist from all the posted tracks on this thread... Top stuff - keep it coming...
Snorri xxx
Before they added the "The"-prefix and stopped openly dropping acid on stage and became lumpen wank, Verve were astonishing - everything was fluid, polymorphous genius:
Cranes were usually seen as plinky-plonk goths, but this is somewhere sad and lovely between Cocteaus & Slowdive...
AR Kane were fucking bonkers:
Czars best songs were always quite ethereal. This is one of them (via Tim Buckley):
I adored early Spiritualized gigs. Air muggy with dope smoke, sit down yer bum, here comes another ode to love/smack...
I am not at all ashamed to say that this is one of my favourite songs ever. After the music press lost interest, Moose went ace and sold no records. Play this fucker at my funeral.
[The] Verve may well have been cosmic in their early spaced-out days, but there was the small matter of them forgetting to write actual tunes.....
;) :p 
AR Kane..... they were also a 4AD act for just one [astonishing] EP "Lolita".
I can still feel the sheer white heat from the climax of the track "Butterfly Collector". I know I know, Robin Guthrie produced that first record that's probably how I got into them (AR Kane, that is). Mind you, their second album "i" was fucking incredible...... I recommend everybody who has any interest in this genre to get hold of that album as a matter of priority because it is as awesome and kaleidoscopic as the Boo Radleys "Giant Steps"....i.e. it's all over the shop, and brilliant with it.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote:
Wow, now you're talking!
I saw Loop at the Bristol Bierkeller on the A Gilded Eternity tour, unbelievably loud. Supported by Godflesh and World Domination Enterprises, so my eardrums took a right kicking.
Talk Talk, Slowdive, Cranes, AR Kane - this is getting me all misty-eyed and nostalgic.
Cranes were proper scary. AR Kane journeyed into space and they're still out there somewhere, 'i' sounds bonkers even now.
I must investigate Giant Steps sometime, it sounds just like my kind of thing!
