classic song ..werent many american shoegaze bands worth a shit.. yeah there is the obvious british slowdive, ride, my bloody valentine, etc which we all know but these dudes were from boston
I've gotten some good ideas from the comments here, but I was wondering if anyone could send me their list of top 10 (or more) shoegaze albums? I really like this stuff!!
@Shirokinukatsukami They fit the word Shoegaze pretty well. If you think they are fakers that is just your opinion... Their style screams the essence of 90's gaze.
In the time since I last commented, this song has gone from a nice late night find to possibly my favorite song ever.
I feel an indescribable rush of emotions when I hear that riff that opens and closes the song. It's like a longing for an idealized version of the past and a realization of an uncertain future. Nostalgia, joy, confusion, regret, bliss, a sense of wonder for how large the universe is and how everything we feel is such a small part of it. All within seconds. It's perfect.
@pierstheoneandonly well Mojave 3 are a fantastic band, I think you can love them both.. M3 put out some finest quality stuff really - althought very different form Slowdive obviously
@pierstheoneandonly Pretty much everybody I know that likes Slowdive likes Mojave 3 also. So I'd say they took a lot of fans with them. On the other hand, I don't know many people who like Drop Nineteens' second album, National Coma.
You could say Drop Nineteens went from shoegaze to generic indie rock, and how many fans did they take with them on that? :-)
@iwishiwasalice You're not alone...I'm 21, and I feel nostalgic after hearing this type of stuff, too (even though I only found out about it recently. =).
@iwishiwasalice I know what you mean. I was 18 years old when this song came out, so I can have genuine nostalgia for it. But I know what you are talking about because the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" makes me nostalgic for New York City in 1970, even though I wasn't born until 1973 and never lived in NYC, only visited. :-)
@leamanc Glad I'm not alone! :) I think it must have something to do with being a kid at the time a and idealizing teenage years. Looking up to your older siblings and thinking "it must be so cool" haha.
I'm 22 now, but to me, the 90's are still" the image of youth."
@thekingofid rap was around for long before the current pop radio trend. If anything, the current music scene is great for alt rock because there are so many ways to find bands that provide an "alternative" to the more packaged and marketed popular rock. One might even argue that the need for alt-rock on mtv or the radio is now gone thanks to the internet. Anyway, once something is played on every rock radio station, what is it an "alternative" to? Tons of great musicians out there now.
Fuck, this could be me and my friends soundtrack for this boring summer that just passad. Didn't really do anything.. just drew around in my friends car on highways, listening to this song. Drank a lot of beer and recorded stupid silly songs on my macbook. Well I gues that is doing "something".. I don't know, this song is just perfect soundtrack for a couple confused friends who just graduated who has no plan for their summer or future.
@FiLninja -You know what the funny thing is, five, ten, maybe twenty or so years from now you're going to cherish every second of that summer that passed. Because someday you’re going to be older, maybe married maybe not, working fulltime without any time2spare and always on go wishing that you could go back to that summer that you felt so dissatisfied with, wanting to have no responsibility again, hanging out with friends you no longer talk to and forgetting all the reasons why it felt mundane.
What is it about being in a shoegaze band that makes a person 10x more physically attractive? Don't attempt to discredit this fact; it was proven by internet science!
@SHOEGAZEFAN73 What they are on the grunge side of the nu gaze spectrum. I'd still have them fall under nu gaze though. Personally, lyrics < instruments in terms of determining genre.
Respond to this video... you all should be ashamed to call yr selfs artist if no one likes shoegaze sweet more indie for us if you want more join a band meet people
well, sometimes shoegaze does come back a bit. went to a band called eins zwei orchestra lately in Utrecht (the netherlands), and they are good. maybe they are already found on youtube. sometimes a bit poppy maybe, but apart from that they were pretty damn good. (or try the 3voor12 website.)
i hate categorys....its all rock and rolll...look in my cd collection on one page i have hum's"youd perfer an astronaunt", my bloody valetines "loveless",..public enemys" it takes a nation.....',Dj Shadows 1996 classic.."Introducing..."......but i think the one thing we can agree on is that the years 85 -97 will never happen in music again...12 years of the most origianal, groundbreaking,vibrant music that will ever be made. they will talk about these years 200 years from now as the best.
A classic! Always sends shivers up my spine. Like a comment below, I was finishing school when I used to listen to this - although, showing my age, that was when it first came out!
chumbscrubber42 bcoz teens like screaming vocals and headbanging.standing still doesn't appeal to the majority.i was headbanging til i discovered the genuis of mbv,drop nineteens in 93
oh man back in may my last year in highschool the last week, as we were preparing to leave for our senior trip i was walking in the hallways for the last time blasting this song on my ipod i saw this boy i had a thing for in the cafe' window
i never got a chance to say goodbye
so now when I hear this song the boy and the school hallways will forever be projected in my mind I could cry
its funny shoegaze always gave me a nostalgic feeling of being a teen, even if ii had never listen to a certain shoegaze band when i was still in highschool.
I always thought shoegaze was kind of a British answer to grunge or maybe vice-versa. Bands like Swervedriver definitely crossed lines, maybe I'll call them shoegrunge. OK I just officially came up with the worst named genre of music.
yep the same nostalgic feeling comes over me when I hear come in alone by My Bloody valentine and Alison and moringrise by slowdive even though I was only a baby when this albums or songs came out
@chr1ssboy that is fridgin awesome! I saw a hardcore punk band that was all black dudes back in the day and the audience was full of skin flutes. It was pretty gnarly but def interesting. All the skins in my hometown listened to NWA, one was jewish and one was black. These were the Nazi white power types too. What a bunch of douchelords.
shoegaze lasted way longer than grunge if you think about it it was started by the cocteau twins in the late 70s and continued through the end of the 90's and grunge went from mid ninetys and just died when curt cobain did haha shoegaze is still alive in my heart and always will
I'm not arguing with you in anyway birin, just wanted to point out that Kurt Cobain died in 94....and I mean, that's the beginning of mid-nineties lol. So yeah, your statement kind of makes no sense technically..but outside of that, you're right. haha.
@chumbscrubber42 because when shoegaze came out along with grunge it has screaming vocals and riffs a formula for teen angst.shoegaze is more literary and uni students often dig them
@bugnaw75 i always though shoegaze was the appropriate music choice for teenagers it has a dreamy feel (you know how teenagers are always livin in a dream) and has a little bit of angst and feels somewhat innocent, listen to amusement parks on fire there a good example
Because with grunge you can make a million songs about being upset, angsty, not caring, confused, lost, hurt, etc easy but with Shoegaze takes talkent.
I think it was a few years too early. Grunge just resonated with people because of the recession. It was similar but more accessible to the mainstream rock consumer because of the metal/hard rock influences. I've always kind of thought that if more of these bands were around at the time of the britpop stuff in the mid-90s (or even pop-punk towards the end of the decade), they would have reached a lot more people.
@chumbscrubber42 You know... I'd prefer it not to be popular.. If shoegaze became mainstream it wouldn't be a rare treasure anymore.. Mainstream would ruin shoegaze.
@meinLiebsterFeind well see the reason why i care is because ive been hoping that someone like you would make such a reply like that because ive been in search of a remarkable person like you. im in love with you and i hope i get to take you out sometime and have coffee together so we can debate peacefully how America holds the factory and how they tell us what we should like. im sorry if i have offended you and i hope i havent ruined my chances with you. XOXO love you sweet cheeks ; )
All the comments to this video make me even sadder than the fog and the rain outside my window. And the video itself is just as amazing as the song with its spirit of teenage freedom. Looking at youth now, I understand that those sweet time will never come back again.
Christian Savill, and Nick Chaplin. Nick's wife is Christian's boss isn't that great?! I still can't believe it though. I would have tried like they did with like Monster Movie and Mojave 3. It sucks that only some of them got to move on.
I miss shoegaze bands. It's like people's taste in music got dumb or something ya know? I was reading an interview with the members of the band Slowdive ( I am sure you guys know know who that is) and some of them work in computer software offices.. It should be against the law for them to have to fade like that ya know?
Oh god yeah me too. It is so Gen X ya know? It's like it sums up that type of person into a couple of sentences. When I mean that type of person I mean a shoegaze lover back in the 90's.
Unfortunately the majority feeds off what they are fed and those who are doing the feeding know fuck all about anything other than economic charts and graphs.
@XxsilentninjaxX i loved slowdive/saw them live loads of times/i agree thats a real shame about their jobs now/kinda ruins the magic of the band/linda steelyard from prolapse writes bar reviews and last i knew nina pascale from quickspace works as a data inputter in a hospital/i know these 2 arent the same genre but the feeling is the same
@XxsilentninjaxX At the same time, don't you think that these great bands would have eventually been diluted if they had won the mainstream ear over Grunge? Shoegaze was a very exclusive genre; a scene that celebrated themselves, really. I think that adds to the appeal...the best music is NEVER popular.
@steelres211 Oh yeah I completely agree with you on that. I just wish that Shoegaze had lasted longer than like five years ya know? Slowdive was my favorite and I think shoegaze died when they released Pygmalion lol. But it's still around today though. Bands like Daysleepers, Meeting Places, Tears run Rings. It gives me hope that it'll come back around. I don't even care if it isn't popular.
@XxsilentninjaxX are you serious?slowdive is an orgasmic band,in my top 5,by the way I really appreciate shoegaze(because of slowdive maybe) but not that much
yeah- pay 79p for it at itunes. I worked out that it was cheaper than recording my vinyl version to cd and then putting it on the pod. Blinding record.
Not to be overly dramatic, but, really, this is one of the finest musical creations of the 90's. Not only is it their crowning moment, but it's one of the best indie rock AND shoegazer songs of the era. Amazing.
video "Chilblain (with lyrics)" bring me to awesome music
Theblackspy12 2 weeks ago
erghh. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong generation. This is awesome <3
idis1abad 1 month ago 2
twas me i sang in xanadu
imliterallyacat 2 months ago
this song into kick the tragedy is the coolest thing
SuperUpsidedowncross 2 months ago
classic song ..werent many american shoegaze bands worth a shit.. yeah there is the obvious british slowdive, ride, my bloody valentine, etc which we all know but these dudes were from boston
faceinembryo 2 months ago
Amazing band, awesome song, cool video...Greg Ackell you rule...
glowball01 2 months ago
Woow. Images get older but the music seems so modern..
quintinebio 4 months ago
Woow
quintinebio 4 months ago
this is like pavement dueting with slowdive.
447GHT 4 months ago
the chord change that happens when he says "I'm the only star who wants to show" or whatever, is sooooo awesome.
mattisprettycool 5 months ago
They were fantastic. Really.
alcohalls 5 months ago
muito bom
MrBoypos 6 months ago
this is early 1990's college days groovin'......"we know who we are".......the last and best times for guitar-driven music in America
brokensaphire 6 months ago
anyones else with a seirus case of nineties nostalgias
creepbehindyourback2 6 months ago
sounds like a thurston Moore side project, or maybe the smashing pumpkins minus Billy Corgan. (-:
iamcarpetpython 7 months ago
amazing track!
1angelmiike 7 months ago
damn....he threw that jazzmaster.
buddude420 8 months ago
I miss the 90's, tappered and cuffed jeans, twin peaks underwear, bowlie haircuts...
TrawlingKismet 8 months ago
Hello, A AMAZING GREAT BAND with this song, good 90's, thanks, bye.
yaze6972 9 months ago
The amazing and otherwise forgotten 90's.
thekingofid 9 months ago
the 90s truly were the bored teens' generation : (
fullspellcaster 9 months ago
one of the best 90's songs
TheAlfie66 9 months ago
wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too poppy
grodyfishbanger 10 months ago
@grodyfishbanger hey you shut up.
JayRocks311 10 months ago
omg 90s
FrobblOo 11 months ago
Who cares what "genre" they are classified as...... just enjoy what is a pretty cool tune! I think it still sounds fresh and amazing today!!!
Enjoy!!!
neviatha 11 months ago
I've gotten some good ideas from the comments here, but I was wondering if anyone could send me their list of top 10 (or more) shoegaze albums? I really like this stuff!!
VincentsVideoVisions 11 months ago
@VincentsVideoVisions
Just get anything by Bailter Space, starting with Robot World, I dunno if it's shoegaze because that's a stupid fucking word.
meinLiebsterFeind 10 months ago
@meinLiebsterFeind Noisegaze is better
spipper 10 months ago
The Drop Nineteens were shoegaze fakers, riding the coat-tails of better bands.
Shirokinukatsukami 11 months ago
@Shirokinukatsukami They fit the word Shoegaze pretty well. If you think they are fakers that is just your opinion... Their style screams the essence of 90's gaze.
thatguyyoudontfeel 11 months ago
@thatguyyoudontfeel
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
The Drop Nineteens were nothing more than competent hacks... they are but a minor (very minor) footnote in regards to '90s music, including shoegaze.
Shirokinukatsukami 10 months ago
@Shirokinukatsukami But so fucking fun!
spipper 10 months ago
@Shirokinukatsukami RE: Hipsters
spipper 10 months ago
Just awesome!! Love this band and other Shoegaze classics..
bugazer 1 year ago
Is it just me who thinks that National Coma isn't very good and Delaware is?
TwistedArmco 1 year ago
Makes my brain to flips and hairs on back of my neck stand on end. Special music...
Acidbeats9 1 year ago
In the time since I last commented, this song has gone from a nice late night find to possibly my favorite song ever.
I feel an indescribable rush of emotions when I hear that riff that opens and closes the song. It's like a longing for an idealized version of the past and a realization of an uncertain future. Nostalgia, joy, confusion, regret, bliss, a sense of wonder for how large the universe is and how everything we feel is such a small part of it. All within seconds. It's perfect.
godis4sale 1 year ago 4
Slowdive went country and semi-acoustic. Wonder how many fans they took with them on that..
pierstheoneandonly 1 year ago 4
@pierstheoneandonly well Mojave 3 are a fantastic band, I think you can love them both.. M3 put out some finest quality stuff really - althought very different form Slowdive obviously
crelp74 1 year ago 7
@crelp74 Without Slowdive, Mojave3 wouldn't have much following. Neil and Rachel have to thank Slowdive for life.
poorsofreign 2 months ago
@poorsofreign point noted: but, mojave 3 IMHO is a great band unregardless of Slowdive (alltough I rly get ur point)
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@pierstheoneandonly Pretty much everybody I know that likes Slowdive likes Mojave 3 also. So I'd say they took a lot of fans with them. On the other hand, I don't know many people who like Drop Nineteens' second album, National Coma.
You could say Drop Nineteens went from shoegaze to generic indie rock, and how many fans did they take with them on that? :-)
leamanc 11 months ago
Mojave 3 are different. But they are also very good at what they do.
Gmancrap 4 months ago
Check out the homemade vintage porn music video to this tune at xhamster.
TheTiptopdontstop 1 year ago
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what is this hipster bullshit
Will403536 1 year ago
@Will403536 hm. hm.
SpamNapkin 1 year ago
@Will403536 shoegaze music was way before any "hipster bullshit" so... no
ses110 1 year ago 15
there is an even bigger gap on the 21st century.
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Fuck This Muisc is Depressing.
88lopez4music 1 year ago
i know i was born too late when i listen to this.
mariamassacrante 1 year ago 2
This band's demos were ten times more dreamy.
betercore 1 year ago
Drop Nineteens, My Bloody Valentine, Boo Radleys, Swervedriver, all great shoegazer bands
Ronin27x 1 year ago
I'm still 21 but when I hear this type of 90's songs, I feel like I'm old now and this music makes me feel nostalgic for my youth. am I crazy? haha
iwishiwasalice 1 year ago 2
@iwishiwasalice You're not alone...I'm 21, and I feel nostalgic after hearing this type of stuff, too (even though I only found out about it recently. =).
AtaroMorelia 1 year ago 3
@iwishiwasalice I know what you mean. I was 18 years old when this song came out, so I can have genuine nostalgia for it. But I know what you are talking about because the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" makes me nostalgic for New York City in 1970, even though I wasn't born until 1973 and never lived in NYC, only visited. :-)
leamanc 11 months ago
@leamanc Glad I'm not alone! :) I think it must have something to do with being a kid at the time a and idealizing teenage years. Looking up to your older siblings and thinking "it must be so cool" haha.
I'm 22 now, but to me, the 90's are still" the image of youth."
iwishiwasalice 11 months ago 2
We were young and we were pur
gigi46 1 year ago
Why do these guys put me in mind of a prototype Smashing Pumpkins?
puffinstuffsmum 1 year ago
I miss the 90's so. I miss 120 minutes. Alt rock destroyed hair metal. rap destroyed alt rock. when will rap be destroyed? not soon enough
thekingofid 1 year ago 2
@thekingofid rap was around for long before the current pop radio trend. If anything, the current music scene is great for alt rock because there are so many ways to find bands that provide an "alternative" to the more packaged and marketed popular rock. One might even argue that the need for alt-rock on mtv or the radio is now gone thanks to the internet. Anyway, once something is played on every rock radio station, what is it an "alternative" to? Tons of great musicians out there now.
neodorian 1 year ago
Fuck, this could be me and my friends soundtrack for this boring summer that just passad. Didn't really do anything.. just drew around in my friends car on highways, listening to this song. Drank a lot of beer and recorded stupid silly songs on my macbook. Well I gues that is doing "something".. I don't know, this song is just perfect soundtrack for a couple confused friends who just graduated who has no plan for their summer or future.
FiLninja 1 year ago 28
@FiLninja -You know what the funny thing is, five, ten, maybe twenty or so years from now you're going to cherish every second of that summer that passed. Because someday you’re going to be older, maybe married maybe not, working fulltime without any time2spare and always on go wishing that you could go back to that summer that you felt so dissatisfied with, wanting to have no responsibility again, hanging out with friends you no longer talk to and forgetting all the reasons why it felt mundane.
ApotheosiZ 11 months ago 3
@ApotheosiZ Gah, what a fag mannn
spipper 10 months ago
@FiLninja
Rad, authentic.. MacBook. Sick 'brah'...
meinLiebsterFeind 10 months ago
@FiLninja faggot
gorkysire 6 months ago
I so loved this tune - and so glad I found it on here
MsBunnykins 1 year ago
absolute classic...love love love
glowball01 1 year ago
What is it about being in a shoegaze band that makes a person 10x more physically attractive? Don't attempt to discredit this fact; it was proven by internet science!
marvalbertlovesyou 1 year ago 21
@marvalbertlovesyou bowl cuts
ABMayweather 1 year ago
@marvalbertlovesyou it's all the bones sticking out of your skin cuz there's no muscle at all. That and that awesome scoliosis posture!
tekmind 1 year ago
@marvalbertlovesyou Being in a shoegaze band automatically turns your flaws into products of nonchalance.
hkim927 3 months ago
silversun pickups are finally bringing back shoegaze
MiklZz 1 year ago
@MiklZz yeaaaaaahhhh
yenproject 1 year ago
@MiklZz silversun pickups isn't anything close to shoegaze.
WarGoatForestWolf666 1 year ago 2
@MiklZz No they aren't.They aren't shoegaze.
SHOEGAZEFAN73 1 year ago
@SHOEGAZEFAN73 What they are on the grunge side of the nu gaze spectrum. I'd still have them fall under nu gaze though. Personally, lyrics < instruments in terms of determining genre.
Jerehk 1 year ago
Respond to this video... you all should be ashamed to call yr selfs artist if no one likes shoegaze sweet more indie for us if you want more join a band meet people
angelfistbomb 1 year ago
well, sometimes shoegaze does come back a bit. went to a band called eins zwei orchestra lately in Utrecht (the netherlands), and they are good. maybe they are already found on youtube. sometimes a bit poppy maybe, but apart from that they were pretty damn good. (or try the 3voor12 website.)
thomasTMD 1 year ago
i hate categorys....its all rock and rolll...look in my cd collection on one page i have hum's"youd perfer an astronaunt", my bloody valetines "loveless",..public enemys" it takes a nation.....',Dj Shadows 1996 classic.."Introducing..."......but i think the one thing we can agree on is that the years 85 -97 will never happen in music again...12 years of the most origianal, groundbreaking,vibrant music that will ever be made. they will talk about these years 200 years from now as the best.
imortality1995 1 year ago
I'm looking for musicians interested in joining a 90's Shoegaze/Punk/Indie band!
YouthPrank 1 year ago
shoegazing classic.I wish more people discover this
beslum 1 year ago
this song kicks so much ass.
WarGoatForestWolf666 1 year ago
I like both grunge and shoegaze. Genres come and go, that's a simple fact.
krookroorocket 1 year ago
i wasn't aware they were any American shoegaze bands until very recently. RIP, 1990s
WarGoatForestWolf666 1 year ago
I saw these guys in Bristol a couple of times. The first time they were brilliant. Radiohead were the support.
cookiebird 1 year ago
love shoegazers they're better than everyone else.
Counsciousness17 1 year ago 5
great track, makes me wanna go out and get smashed
acidacid624 1 year ago
I am a teenager, but Shoegazing always reminds me I'm one. Don't know any other way to explain.
SHOEGAZE FOREVER.
betravia 1 year ago 3
same here im 17 i love this music and i have a shoegaze band
birinbirinbirin 1 year ago 5
IM 22 AND JUST FOUND THIS HAHA AWESOME!
Damnkid76 2 years ago
I was 22 and now I'm 41 and still listening to this of course !
BorlandRIP7 2 years ago 3
A classic! Always sends shivers up my spine. Like a comment below, I was finishing school when I used to listen to this - although, showing my age, that was when it first came out!
ropelee 2 years ago 2
chumbscrubber42 bcoz teens like screaming vocals and headbanging.standing still doesn't appeal to the majority.i was headbanging til i discovered the genuis of mbv,drop nineteens in 93
bugnaw75 2 years ago
oh man back in may my last year in highschool the last week, as we were preparing to leave for our senior trip i was walking in the hallways for the last time blasting this song on my ipod i saw this boy i had a thing for in the cafe' window
i never got a chance to say goodbye
so now when I hear this song the boy and the school hallways will forever be projected in my mind I could cry
This song is the embodiment of youth
beautiful
Iammyownhero90 2 years ago 7
its funny shoegaze always gave me a nostalgic feeling of being a teen, even if ii had never listen to a certain shoegaze band when i was still in highschool.
chumbscrubber42 1 year ago 6
used to watch anytime and record also. this one is my song of 1992. didnt dropout from school though ;)
"...all there is to know to lose your sooouuul..."
joggamc 2 years ago
Recorded this off from 120 Minutes back in the day. Brings back great memories. Great song!!
mandobizar 2 years ago 2
90s shoegaze. im still wondering why grunge became more popular than this.
chumbscrubber42 2 years ago 60
@chumbscrubber42
Meh, it was the nineties. This psychedelic stuff was for the sixties, said the grunge fans. Or thats what I guess. lol idunno
Caleeboy123 2 years ago
I always thought shoegaze was kind of a British answer to grunge or maybe vice-versa. Bands like Swervedriver definitely crossed lines, maybe I'll call them shoegrunge. OK I just officially came up with the worst named genre of music.
kemicon 1 year ago 3
who knows maybe its because grunge came from america and you know how america popularizes stuff from america
chumbscrubber42 1 year ago
yep the same nostalgic feeling comes over me when I hear come in alone by My Bloody valentine and Alison and moringrise by slowdive even though I was only a baby when this albums or songs came out
Iammyownhero90 1 year ago
I guess its just pride
spipper 1 year ago
Swervedriver were aewsome, did you know a bunch of skin heads turned up at one of their gigs thinking it was skrewdriver.
chr1ssboy 1 year ago
@chr1ssboy that is fridgin awesome! I saw a hardcore punk band that was all black dudes back in the day and the audience was full of skin flutes. It was pretty gnarly but def interesting. All the skins in my hometown listened to NWA, one was jewish and one was black. These were the Nazi white power types too. What a bunch of douchelords.
kemicon 1 year ago
is that true? what happened then? do you know?
RabbitHolocaust 1 year ago
@chr1ssboy That's great!!
34muggsy34 1 year ago
shoegaze lasted way longer than grunge if you think about it it was started by the cocteau twins in the late 70s and continued through the end of the 90's and grunge went from mid ninetys and just died when curt cobain did haha shoegaze is still alive in my heart and always will
birinbirinbirin 1 year ago 6
I'm not arguing with you in anyway birin, just wanted to point out that Kurt Cobain died in 94....and I mean, that's the beginning of mid-nineties lol. So yeah, your statement kind of makes no sense technically..but outside of that, you're right. haha.
hereisasix 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 teenage anger
cornyking1992 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 because when shoegaze came out along with grunge it has screaming vocals and riffs a formula for teen angst.shoegaze is more literary and uni students often dig them
bugnaw75 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 shoegaze has laconic lazy vocals which doesnt appeal or excite teenagers
bugnaw75 1 year ago
@bugnaw75 i guess but grunge has lazy vocals.
chumbscrubber42 1 year ago
@bugnaw75 i always though shoegaze was the appropriate music choice for teenagers it has a dreamy feel (you know how teenagers are always livin in a dream) and has a little bit of angst and feels somewhat innocent, listen to amusement parks on fire there a good example
chumbscrubber42 1 year ago 2
@bugnaw75 Agreed. Shoegaze and grunge are polar opposites I think. Shoegaze is too introverted for the "cool" and "trendy" masses.
cvijetics 1 year ago
Because with grunge you can make a million songs about being upset, angsty, not caring, confused, lost, hurt, etc easy but with Shoegaze takes talkent.
Gmancrap 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 so am i!
mattborel 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 weak videos like this one didn't help
swanditch 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42
I think it was a few years too early. Grunge just resonated with people because of the recession. It was similar but more accessible to the mainstream rock consumer because of the metal/hard rock influences. I've always kind of thought that if more of these bands were around at the time of the britpop stuff in the mid-90s (or even pop-punk towards the end of the decade), they would have reached a lot more people.
godis4sale 1 year ago
@chumbscrubber42 You know... I'd prefer it not to be popular.. If shoegaze became mainstream it wouldn't be a rare treasure anymore.. Mainstream would ruin shoegaze.
thatguyyoudontfeel 1 year ago 3
@thatguyyoudontfeel RE: Hipsters. It's already mainstream man. Already there.
spipper 10 months ago
@chumbscrubber42
I'm still wondering why you give a fuck?
meinLiebsterFeind 10 months ago
@meinLiebsterFeind well see the reason why i care is because ive been hoping that someone like you would make such a reply like that because ive been in search of a remarkable person like you. im in love with you and i hope i get to take you out sometime and have coffee together so we can debate peacefully how America holds the factory and how they tell us what we should like. im sorry if i have offended you and i hope i havent ruined my chances with you. XOXO love you sweet cheeks ; )
chumbscrubber42 10 months ago
@chumbscrubber42
Woah there dumb-chubber!
meinLiebsterFeind 10 months ago
@chumbscrubber42 Always looking for a scapegoat, aren't ya?
spipper 10 months ago
nice
kreisveldd 2 years ago
Is it just me or is the line "I've got my feet in the sky" a pixies reference?
spipper 2 years ago
were is my mind?
chumbscrubber42 1 year ago
we were all so fucking rad in the nineties....
meatisburger 2 years ago 20
@meatisburger Indeed we were my friend..indeed we were.
Crackmandan 1 year ago
There`s something about this damn song. Everytime I listen to it I end up hearing it like 5 times in row. It`s still so catchy to me.
dropd26 2 years ago 4
Awesome!!! Love this song!
I remember back then a friend taped 120 Minutes for me and it was on there, I watched it over and over
paisleyfairy 2 years ago
All the comments to this video make me even sadder than the fog and the rain outside my window. And the video itself is just as amazing as the song with its spirit of teenage freedom. Looking at youth now, I understand that those sweet time will never come back again.
wtficantfindanyuser 2 years ago 8
Which ones work in a computer software place?
Christian Savill, and Nick Chaplin. Nick's wife is Christian's boss isn't that great?! I still can't believe it though. I would have tried like they did with like Monster Movie and Mojave 3. It sucks that only some of them got to move on.
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago
I miss shoegaze bands. It's like people's taste in music got dumb or something ya know? I was reading an interview with the members of the band Slowdive ( I am sure you guys know know who that is) and some of them work in computer software offices.. It should be against the law for them to have to fade like that ya know?
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago 70
whom of them?
yeah, its a crime man
decoreh 2 years ago 2
This song is amazing but in my opinion I think kick the tragedy is better. Just because it's like 100% washed out shoegaze magic.
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago 2
I really like the rant at the end of kick the tragedy too
spipper 2 years ago 2
Oh god yeah me too. It is so Gen X ya know? It's like it sums up that type of person into a couple of sentences. When I mean that type of person I mean a shoegaze lover back in the 90's.
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago 2
are you serious? thats nuts.
Circa7 2 years ago
Unfortunately the majority feeds off what they are fed and those who are doing the feeding know fuck all about anything other than economic charts and graphs.
meinLiebsterFeind 2 years ago 2
@XxsilentninjaxX i loved slowdive/saw them live loads of times/i agree thats a real shame about their jobs now/kinda ruins the magic of the band/linda steelyard from prolapse writes bar reviews and last i knew nina pascale from quickspace works as a data inputter in a hospital/i know these 2 arent the same genre but the feeling is the same
wilson2810 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX At the same time, don't you think that these great bands would have eventually been diluted if they had won the mainstream ear over Grunge? Shoegaze was a very exclusive genre; a scene that celebrated themselves, really. I think that adds to the appeal...the best music is NEVER popular.
steelres211 1 year ago
@steelres211 Oh yeah I completely agree with you on that. I just wish that Shoegaze had lasted longer than like five years ya know? Slowdive was my favorite and I think shoegaze died when they released Pygmalion lol. But it's still around today though. Bands like Daysleepers, Meeting Places, Tears run Rings. It gives me hope that it'll come back around. I don't even care if it isn't popular.
XxTraBenxX 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX are you serious?slowdive is an orgasmic band,in my top 5,by the way I really appreciate shoegaze(because of slowdive maybe) but not that much
placebo150 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX
holy crap you're kidding right? They're up there on my favorite band list......that makes me a sad panda....
desolatesamurai 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX
You just need to look around a bit...the new-gen Shoegazers are amazing! Check out my profile on Last.fm for a taste: last.fm forward slash shoegazr
motodude1 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX what???
djdarkmonkey 1 year ago
@XxsilentninjaxX well at least they didn't like...have to become janitors. but i totally agree.
CopyCopyOriginal 1 year ago
does someone knows when can i get this song?? it's impossibel to fint it in ares or limewire
tnanks
gornostai44422 2 years ago
yeah- pay 79p for it at itunes. I worked out that it was cheaper than recording my vinyl version to cd and then putting it on the pod. Blinding record.
theoriginaldrlove 2 years ago
Buy it on Ebay, champ
lehah 2 years ago
Try getting the album off a torrent website. I know they have Delaware the complete album.
XxsilentninjaxX 2 years ago
My ex GF bought the album deleware for me. Better than anything she did. Even better than the sex.
spipper 2 years ago 5
the 90's sighhhhhhhhh
kksandy71 2 years ago 4
WHOOO! GO DELAWARE!
Caleeboy123 2 years ago
I've been listening to this song since a bought the cd in 1992.... I read it sometimes, when mood needs it, in loops....
The one I'd take on an island.
BJK
bjkalahann 2 years ago 2
"There's a gap in the 20th century and it fills the world with dreams" - best opening line ever.
DeMaulwurfn 2 years ago 3
One of my favorite songs, ever.
joconnor6 2 years ago 3
Gaaaaze!
robmac323 2 years ago
omg¡¡¡¡
it's awesome
and i'd just teo years old¡¡
gornostai44422 2 years ago
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Awesome song and video! Thanks for posting.
iEPCfun 2 years ago
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iEPCfun 2 years ago
Ahead of the times indeed!
I mean - this was 1992!
Amazing band - amazing song - amazing album, by the way!
Poll4Life 2 years ago 4
Welll.... it is kind of a silly video, but looks like they had fun making it, KILLER song!!!
astrozombierat 2 years ago 2
i fuckin love this song but the video is just really stupid to me.
pollypatron 2 years ago
This is just amazing
polanskii 2 years ago
Awesome. Love guitar and bass parts on this song. 5/5
BleedingFeather 2 years ago 3
Great track. Ahead of the times. REAL indy.
Call Deathcab something else...
jdonaldlukas 2 years ago 3
Deathcab? I like to call it shite.
meinLiebsterFeind 2 years ago
this album was one of the greatest rock collections of all time...sad they did not go further
tajgooba 2 years ago 2
The sound is a little more abrasive than the UK shoegazing bands. This song has a beautiful undertone to it
MiaoPurrington 2 years ago 3
Not to be overly dramatic, but, really, this is one of the finest musical creations of the 90's. Not only is it their crowning moment, but it's one of the best indie rock AND shoegazer songs of the era. Amazing.
masonjarjar 2 years ago 8
I've also been looking for Everything About You - My Jealous God. But otherwise, this is what music's all about!
thefonz43 2 years ago
Cherry Red have re-released Delaware. Wish they'd release the Mayfield demos as well.
Schuhgazer 2 years ago