Swervedriver - Rave Down

[Charrasca]

I just fucking love this song.

[CricksTicks]

Psyched for the boys to come back to Boston!

[kungfucowofgooeynes]

DAT JAZZMASTER <3

[rhettpeter83]

theres nothing i can really say that can really capture the feeling of desperation sadness and nostalgia i get from this song. its quite incredible and timeless. thats my attempt to describe it!

[travisnealtodd70]

@rhettpeter83 well said and on the goddamn money.

[djb1969]

This song will forever remind me of blasting downhill on the fogbound M40 between London and Oxford in January 1992 doing 85mph with the windows rolled down (to keep the windows defogged) in my rented little red Metro. Amazing tune, amazing band. Glad to see they're back.

[666USA]

great video! Is there are a second version of this video with a disco dance floor somewhere on it...? I finally think I get it about this song. Is this sound to you a song against rave music? There are many psychedelic images all the way...and for the title.

[FenderJaguarmaster]

One of the most under-rated/overlooked bands ever.

This is timeless guitar genius.

Jazzmasters rule!

[learntofly55]

@FenderJaguarmaster hell yeah! :)

[learntofly55]

i just CAN'T fint the tabs,pisses me off big time!!!

[leves777]

They made it in 16:9? awesome

[Enjoyaidss]

Hypomanie has a nice cover

[mresplendent]

Loved this song from the first time I heard it many moons ago. Awesome how the vocals come in at a weird spot in the guitar phrase. Genius.

[halation777]

There's kids on the corner that want to beat box my brains to bits...

[src456]

what a fantastic song - saw these 20 years ago and they were great. This song is aural sex

[Naefukabootio]

Who are the two stoopid carrots that disike this??

[dreck93]

they inspired japanese bands

[MrGoatEyes]

Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine and Ride were the most awesome UK acid trip bands of the 90's but in all respect there were tons of US bands pulling this sound playing to empty clubs back then. This scene died a hasty death due to lack of support, general apathy and kids running out to see some DJ spin at a rave in Ibiza.

[akis723]

@MrGoatEyes nah i was a rave kid and loved shoegaze. it was a natural course i think, but still there are a lot of bands playing that style you just have to dig lil deeper :)

[lizardspawn]

Saw them on Sat 20th Feb 2010 in Melbourne Australia. It took me 20 years to see them live and now i can die happy :)

[eljuli1003]

swervedriver rules my shoegaze world.

[pacinoodles1]

What happened?........Radiohead matured this sound and started writing songs about mature stuff...and we all grew up a bit....this shit needs to be recycled to influence the future bands and it would be good to remember it like this....word up

[PhilT616]

Dropped my first acid to this tune.......quality

[dwightfried665]

I'VE always loved this song, great, great, great post!!!!

[bklyndude77]

this band rocked every way to sunday backwards upside down with marshall stacks really loud with heavily distorted reverb and a twang how could you not love it

[MsMiguel70]

Great band at their best. Twenty years ago and I don't forget a note.

[gibby1117]

I miss this so so bad. What the hell happened to good music like this? It takes you somewhere, can completely change your mood... how did the stuff today replace this?

THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!!

[alcohalls]

Simply: thanks. 

[TheBruisedHead]

my teenage life condensed into 5 minutes of wonder :)

[Daz902]

BEST SONG EVER. They don't make'em like this anymore.

[Clayman1234567]

wicked track!

[coughcool72]

classic indie / alternative, those were the days, late 80's early nineties, late night video clips on Rage here in Australia, this clip would usually succeed Son Of Mustang Ford, arguably their best song.

[russellyb]

@coughcool72 Late 80s?? This was about '92....

[coughcool72]

@russellyb did you read my comment, I said late eighties early nineties, this song was originally released as a 12 inch ep in 1991

[HitmanJenkins1]

@russellyb he was talking about the music scene in general at this time, not this band specifically

[djdarkmonkey]

honestly this is the first time i herd this song the second part of this song is amazing!!!

[meestafeesh]

My ears just had an orgasm :D :D :D

[joydivisionboy1]

Fucking love it :-)

[osidekevin]

saint andrews hall detroit they did walk off the stage before finishing however this band rocks the C

[aJazzcat]

can't believe i didn't know there was a video til just now..

one of the best bands of all time

[ct440ex]

1991- Feb. 1, 1994 was the greatest era in Music history ... even without Nirvana and PJ. Sub Pop couldn't go wrong. Greatest label of all time. Swervedriver blew me away when Dave Kendall introduced them on MTV's 120 Minutes doing this Vid.

Oh, 2-1-94 is when GD's Dookie came out and it's been down hill ever since.

[powerdesa]

@ct440ex Interesting I my self hold 94 to 95 to be the high point in music burn my eyes demanufacture around the fur heartwork korn except chaos AD 92 AEnima 97 joust a thought Ok Ok I c you are 44 :) im 29 my self im new to shoegazing never loved it before and now i found out at least 10 grat songs that i like

[dpotemkin]

I worked (played?) in college radio during this era. What a great time to be there! Every new delivery of music yielded something amazing!

[dpotemkin]

@TheShoegazer: Your comment gets a thumbs up from me just because you said J. Mascis should punch Eddie Vedder. Too funny.

[TVFlam]

Swervedriver is one of the best bands EVER!

[richardrockt]

DEZE single dus!

[kevyk135]

In the early 90s guitar music was not all about guitar solo's. I remember vividly about doing something different pre nirvana you knew it was gonna change(pop music). It destroyed LA's butt rock then turned out to be just as shity.

I loved thrash metal as a kid in the 80s but it lost it's integrity i wanted something different.

This post punk noise whatever music never seemed to grow. I still love sonic youth but....

what the fuck am i tryin to say?

[dudeman1999]

@kevyk135 yeah I hear ya...couldn't have said it better myself......only solo's I wanted to hear back then was j Mascis....Swervedriver rocked...layers of guitars...

[econogate]

Dinosaur Jr then would be "Cream" and Sonic Youth would of course be "the Velvet Underground" of grunge! :>)

[econogate]

I guess that would make Mudhoney the Rolling Stones of Grunge? And Pearl Jam were the Who?

[ct440ex]

@econogate Would that make Mother Love Bone... Led Zepplin then?

[econogate]

@ct440ex They seem more like Blue Cheer to me or MC5.

[econogate]

I too remember this debut, it floored me! I thought Sonic Youth was being brought back to America by the next British Invasion via this group, and it never made much sense why this was not as important or more important than Nirvana whom were ironically tossing the original British Invasion back to the UK mutated via american post punk. Both bands I was able to see live in the same venue that held about 200 people at most, Swervedriver were like Pink Floyd Nirvana like Beatles to me.

[ct440ex]

I remember Dave Kendall premiering this on MTV's 120 Minutes... One of the best songs of that era for sure. Great lyrics.... Great noise.

[felixjeanne]

un grand groupe...

[rhettpeter83]

..timeless...