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  • they see me shoegazin'. they hatin'

  • It's winter here in Montreal, snow everywhere, I can't stop listening to Souvlaki and Loveless

  • <3

  • One question, how come noone has uploaded The Sadman?

  • yes, truer words have never been written!

    real men do watch in 240p

    real men do.

    real men do.

  • IT MATTERS WHERE YOU ARE

  • Twas my birthday, and I was listening to music as I was walking up Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh, I reached the top, and this song peaked. Tis my 30th birthday song.

  • @TheChimp1980 - I'm celebrating XMAS alone in Dublin (I'm from the States)------same weird experience here.

  • been listening to slowdive since the early 90's... can anyone beter this?! It matters where you are...!

  • the all girl band definitely sounds somewhat similar. like a little bit.

  • I love slowdive!!!!!!

  • if you like these guys you should listen to drake, he's pretty similar in artistic stylings.

  • @WOWstevoo lmao.

  • Right lol.

  • @WOWstevoo obvious troll is obvious

  • I got a fever now. It spreads like daylight. A few melodies like that can mess with emotions back to old memories, i am a child again, i wanna runaway, and makes me see a different bright.

  • I love The Gathering and Slowdive, but The Gathering's cover of this song can't compete. They're still a great band though! No reason to shit on one band because their cover sucks!

  • The gathering version is for girls, but this one is for real men

  • lol yeah i was gonna say "is that a MTV logo at the top right corner?", damn its changed so much. i wish MTV would go back to how it was

  • amazing <3

  • This is one of the few bands that can make me tear up while listening.

  • this song should be like 3 hours long

  • Real men watch in aalib

  • con esta cancion CONOCI A MI NOVIA kon esta cancion me casare!

  • superb. like a cathedral of sound.

  • so beautiful...it hurts.

  • "Real men watch in 240p" that should be YouTube slogan.

  • Long live Shoegaze!!!!

  • @MotherfuckinSquirrel The nostalgic properties of Slowdive are incomprehensible

  • Slowdive is my heart and soul.

  • amazing , simply amazing and breathtaking , after all these years there still my favourite band of all time with the stone roses.(and ride Lol)

  • Slowdive should be the only band ever. Why listen to anything else?

  • @KayPeepers Because a lot of the time I'm not feeling dreamy or introspective but angry and angst-ridden. And I don't think Slowdive covers the latter very well.

  • Still gives me the chills. F***ing beautiful. Listen to the song over and over to peel off the layers.

  • 5 people are obviously deaf...and stupid!!!!

  • When you made such an album as Souvlaki, there's no need to make another one. Each of its songs has started a musical genre on its own ;-)

  • restores my soul like nuclear battery charger

  • why is there even a dislike button ALLOWED on this video? it's visually pissing me off.....

    i could listen to slowdive for the rest of my life and be okay with that. more than okay, probably.. <3

  • Amazing music. Such a underrated sound. I remembers the days.

  • This must have been at least a minute longer. Did they shorten the outro riffs?

  • 1:42 that guitar riff takes my breath away. I don't understand how 6 people could dislike this.

  • 1:00 ..just, ugh. Beautiful, I don't understand how 6 people could even dislike this.

  • All of there songs are amazing I don't understand why they're not that well known

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  • Robin Guthrie and the Cocteau Twins started it all!!!

  • @Cragiesea Yes, yes they did!

  • this might be the saddest song ever

  • Ethereal Bliss

  • Cannot believe this was missed of The Shining Breeze

  • @marcingolenia you're an idiot.

  • @marcingolenia You mean cover? I really dislike how idiots are even allowed to own computers /=

  • You have such a horrible taste in music. Just shut up...

  • i hate these stupid labels if you notice every shoegaze band sounds different you cant compare slowdive to mbv and then compare them to a band like swervedriver but yet these bands still go under the same same genre i prefer the term musicinstead of labeling

  • @ABMayweather Yeah yeah, heard that a million times, but bands can be different and at the same time share certain characteristics. It's painfully obvious that the bands labelled shoegaze have a fetish for reverb, delay, and echo pedals.

  • @FuckingStanz there's just so many okay there's dream pop, theres the term ambient music, ethereal, shoegaze, spacerock theres so many stupid labels to describe music. Honestly why does it even matter people care more about labeling than listening to the actual music

  • @FuckingStanz Yeah, so does rockabilly and surf rock. Doesn't mean they should be labeled as shoegaze. But I get your point. It makes it much easier to group similar tastes together. But I also understand ABMayweather's point. Who gets to decide what a particular sound is labeled as? The label? Whomever that band tours with? But I agree, you gotta call it something. It's like calling a lion an "animal". It's just not enough to describe it.

  • you can only compare them in that they tended to stand still on stage and almost ignore the audience. quite literally looking down towards thier shoes. everything post creation records, MBV, jamc, slowdive, KoD and the like are really just melancholy atmospherics ..but really, it doesn't matter. if it's good, i like it. and i'm a melancholy atmospherics kinda guy. sometimes.

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  • @ABMayweather that's because shoegaze isn't a genre... it's what they do... look at their shoes while pressing pedals. It's a late 80's "smart guy" term. MBV definitly invented Dreampop. Slowdive is something else. Something good, just not the same. You have to have respect for all of them for actually trying to sound like themselves and no one else

  • @ABMayweather Yeah, it's completely true that "shoegaze" bands are all different, and there's no such thing as "shoegaze". But, I like labels because if I say I like shoegaze, someone else knows what I'm talking about. Or, sometimes I'll find a band that I really like, and I'll be like "man, I want to find other music that sounds like that", so then I'll look up the "genre" and it's usually at least somewhat helpful. But yeah, of course you're right about labels and genres being factitious. :)

  • @ABMayweather Then how can you easily say what kinda music you say? Just because My Bloodt Valentine and Slowdive sound different, doesn't mean they have less similarities between them than Blink-182 and Metallica. If you had those 4 bands in a list, and you had to put 2 together, it would always be Slowdive and MBV, if there were no other influences except for the music.

  • Love it!!!!!!!!!..First time i ever heard this song..Thanks for the upload:)

  • this group this future? shoegaze,space rock

  • this song is so awesom and the video ican remember this shit coming on early 120mins might have been called somthing else but damn makes me cry to think how cool things were when i was 11 or 12 and how miserable now. thanks fuckingstance

  • my personal favorite song by them. it gives you a sense of nostalgia of the 90's

  • I wonder why Rachel went from making music as amazing and original and this to, music, err, not quite the same ... and how she / the rest of the band feel about this amazing stuff. Hmm.

  • how has nobody made a video for this? !!....this one is not good if you know the song Allison as its the same video and thats the way you associate it in your mind..

  • My favorite slowdive song (:

  • I wish I had some MDMA.

  • @InterstellarBrad ecstasy with slowdive? xD that's odd, atleast smoke a joint or something, it's shoegaze not psytrance hehe

  • I've played it in the car,at home,seen it played live loads of times and played it to friends and family...most amazing sound

  • what are you guys talking about drugs for? of course this is not drugs music that's just silly. just smoke a joint and enjoy it, sheesh.

  • I love your page and dream about a Slowdive reunion one day. This is my favorite track by them. Haunting and beautiful. Slowdive and Catherine Wheel for a reunion tour with Ride thrown in for good measure would make my adult life worth it!

  • Why are people saying that this is drug music? There is no such thing. To make such a judgment is not only silly, but arrogant.

    Lots of people use drugs not just to get "high" and trip out. Some use them for understanding themselves. When on drugs, it's like discovering your inner self. It's a beautiful experience to people who have the mind for it.

    You don't have to agree with me, but if you cannot -at least- understand this, then you don't have the privilege of listening to this music.

  • Reunion! A reunion, please!

  • this video cuts out the end of the song.....which is the best part.....

  • i love this music!

  • mtv played this?!

  • I love this song. There were better songs in the past.

  • hahaha @ kicksex....

    this little brats are gonna do whatever they please, and trust me, i doubt Slowdive is going to be the catalyst for that.

  • slowsexxxxxxxxxx

  • Slowsex 

  • Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me You burn so fast it scares me mind games don't leave/lose me I've come so far don't lose me It matters where you are As the sun hits, she'll be waiting With her cool things and her heaven Hey hey lover you still burn me You're a song yeah, hey hey -repeat-
  • woooooooooooah. 

  • cant believe anything this good was ever on mtv.

  • @okendido MTV had a program: "240 minutes" which was only alternative music. After that came Alternative nation which was also great. Now MTV is just Tila Tequila and Jackass, but it is a luck there is internet, unless they come here and forbid us to share things, we have still a chance to survive this irresponsible world

  • @okendido This fact can leave someone depressed actually. But it's true, MTV was a Music Television.

  • @okendido mtv used to be good in the 90's. then music started to suck. all of the shit music creates bad sound waves and its throwing off the earths homeostasis. thats why the world is gonna end, negative vibes from bad music.

  • @okendido if you were lucky enough to catch MTV not playing nirvana or pearl jam. grunge smothered the market for 'gaze, and i'm bitter

  • @okendido Amen.

  • @okendido I'm crying over that. I mean I can still listen to it today, right? But I was like 4 when this came out... and it's obvious I won't be able to hear such great piece of art in music clubs. I mean this is my favorite kind and I wish I could dance to such music in clubs. Unfortunately you have to find such thing with a candle these days. Especially in my country where this genre mostly doesn't exist in music. That makes me suicidal... :(

  • @okendido MTV Europe in the UK used to be great. You'd get quite eclectic videos during the day alongside the playlist but the charts were more varied and interesting then so the quality was better. You also had all the specialist shows like 120 minutes (alternative/experimental/indi­e), Partyzone (rave and dance), Headbangers Ball (Metal/punk) and magazine programs like Most Wanted (live performances/interviews/videos­)..Actually thinking about it, it was amazing.

  • How do I find mp3iffy to download this song? I was told to google mp3iffy.

  • @EricAndrewfulify  Try Frostwire or Limewire, if not try a bit torrent program Cheers

  • @EricAndrewfulify BUY THE ALBUM...

  • i love this song this was the first song i ever heard of theirs

  • space song

  • Thanks for sharing this gem.

    5****&Fav.

  • @ELMELO80 Fantastico!!!! 10000*

  • FABULOSO !!!!

    un maraviloso guitarreo .....UN TEMON !!

  • Amazing!

  • people dont understand the word shoegaze. . . shoegazing is what you do when your playing guitar and stepping on the pedals for all the different effects and you were always stairing down at your shoes because of this. Shoegaze was origionally called dreampop the genre was started by the cocteau twins so shoegaze is what you do dreampop is what you are listening to.

  • @birinbirinbirin didnt know that.thank you

  • * * * * *

  • i will read these comments later when i am not gazing at my shoes

  • the gathering cover (a good band, otherwise) is absolutely atrocious. great original song though.

  • i love slowdive and shoegazing all together

  • yeah i remember seeing slowdive live in Norwich, they hit a climax in one song it was all dry ice and blue lights, I was totally lost in it , bliss out I loved it ....

  • Wow, I had no idea this wasn't a song from The Gathering. Anyone heard their version?

  • just listened. can't stand it. no offense.

  • @lungful shoegaze isnt for everyone i guess. I like it more that way anyways.

  • @benciano what? i love slowdive. i didn't really like the cover.

  • Yeah, but....

    SORRRRRRyyyyyyyy

    It's not good...

    Slowdive >>>>>>>>>>>> The Gathering

  • @ThatGirl87x yup heard it just now...fantastic cover! but doesnt beat slowdive

  • fucking stanz (verb) or fucking stanz (adjective)?

  • savršena stvar

  • Slowdive is pure elitism. If you don´t get it you are a subhuman.

  • @Combat242 this is heaven

  • @janjosjas Yes, you are so right. When the sun hits are a guide the galaxy.

  • @Combat242 there is no need to pretend to be intelectual i think. i love the track btw

  • @Combat242 Interesting comment, Obviously no one checked out your channel before rating, unless of course they're NAZI SCUM like you!!

  • @777system777 You showed him who was the boss. Ignorance towards everyone who thinks differently than you makes you a better person. unless of course, you find society under the NSDAP attractive, in which case you are worse than the devil.

  • @JeremyxFisher No one with a brain likes nazi's, what are you talking about?

  • @Combat242 Elitism. What tards say when they don't like something.

  • @tonedeth

    I promote elitist values. Beauty, monumentalism and eternal souls. You can go on watching sex and the city and choke on your big mac. I wish all subhumans could drown in lakes of Coca Cola and playstation games.

  • @Combat242 I'm sorry I don't speak retard. And that Big Mac was deliciously subhuman!

  • @Combat242 Well spoken. They would have been massive on a planet where beauty reigned.

  • anytime someone gives slowdive some thought and love... f anybody who has any negative response. f'n losers.

    SLOWDIVE IS GOD!!!

  • very nice....

  • ....beauty

  • awesome song

  • hey FuckingStanz nice clips collage of Slowdive, good work!!!

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  • "it's homemade from other slowdive vids, not real. sorry for da confusions. "

    fuck it ,it's still great and it fits the music quite well

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  • @aidanday it's not a real video. the footage is taken from alison and a live performance wif purdy colors. 

  • This has always been one of my fave songs on Souvlaki, only topped by "Alison".

  • Gorgeous! Great song! I'm from Peru. This is a song I've been listening for a long time. Slowdive es una genial banda. Espero verlos algún día por acá. Saludos a todos los fans!

  • I'm always amazed that South Americans are into bands like this and The Smiths.  I think we (Americans) are taught to believe that South Americans cultures are directed inwards, that they value indigenous culture more than the WASP culture which the world media shoves down their throats.

    Good stuff.

  • second song i listened to of thiers.... i can not believe i have never heard of them before... f*****ing amazing

  • i wish people wouldn't call this "drug music".

    thats a little silly and irresponsible if there are youngsters reading and im sure there are.

    you dont have to do drugs to listen to slowdive.

    these guys rock my sober world...when im sober.

    :)

  • Well put :)

  • thx

  • agreed, it makes you feel a bit high, but that's all natural yes?

  • yes. otherwise your not "getting it".

    :)

  • I've never done a drug in my life and I love shoegaze & dream pop.

    You dont need a smoke to work out this sounds great!.

  • definitely.

    I think music is better than any drug.

    It affects you phisiologically better than many other drugs and without the bad side affects (*besides listening to it too loud, thats ok tho*)

    Also, avalyn, if you have never done a drug in your life don't bother. It's really completely not worth it. Yes there are legitimate uses for them (in religious contexts for many of them), but the recreational use exhibited by most people is extremely unindicative of the "true uses" of these drugs

  • You speak much sense 'kicksex'.

  • Thanks.

    This "sense" is something that humanity needs to recover.

    Its called the 6th sense by some and there is a strong possibility that this 6th sense is going to become stronger as 2012 comes to pass.

    Slowdive is a beacon in that it is similar to the sound technology we must cultivate. It is one of the sonic lessons that is evolving humanity to the next level.

  • @kicksex I kind of kicked my habit, im only 14 but i used to listen to this song 20 times at a time when i was fucked up. Still as powerful sober.

  • I find if (especially when its been awhile) I listen 2 almost N E slowdive song (sober or not) I am taken 2 another place where we're all 1 and we all understand each others needs psychically & that anything is possible and that all is not neccesarily love but that it's so real.....its ecstacy.

    I know of no drug that consistent or wonderful. In truth, much of the worlds problems are solvable w/musick & sound. but I ramble...

    lovelee

  • @kicksex no such thing as drug music too. Music is made by imagination not drugs, but i must say drugs may stimulate the imagination.

  • @kicksex blaze4lyife!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @kicksex i agree with you, but that's probably i never use drugs lol

  • @kicksex i think this is "drug music" because when you listen to this song, it gives a pleasure similar to real drugs and not beacause you have to take drugs to get high...

  • @PaulaPOS If you've ever done drugs or even weed, you'll know that this has no comparison and to judge it as so would be unfair and foolish.

  • nothing wrong with pot in moderation.

  • @kicksex If your profile is truthful you are around 10 years too young to know what the atmosphere of this time was like. A bit like how it takes mainstream radio 10 years to know what music people are listening to and so then they start using that style, of course by then the "cool kids" with their finga on the pulse move on. Everyone I knew was dropping acid and smashed at this time, sad but true, it was "cool" to be F'kd up! just look at shaun and bez (btw they were my role-models lol, true!)

  • @MrBornagainzombie Fuck off.

  • @borntoend94

    I second this.

  • @alarianb Why? He jus tellin it like it iz. U mad? 

  • This is the video for the Slowdive song 'Alison', not 'As the Sun Hits,' by the way.

  • yeah its a mix of a couple of vids. obviously home made.

    is there even a video for when the sun hits?

  • this is the definition of drug music

  • wtf this has nothing to do with drugs.

  • yeah, but this is drug music

  • fuck that, this is MUSIC music, I am sober and enjoy this stuff daily. Spacemen 3 would call themselves that, but isn't classifying music by whether or not your high a bit limiting?

  • well yes and no.

    I think that this music should give you a "high". Like an 'out of body' high. Not like a high off a drug.

    The physics of sound is how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza and it also gives a hint as to the true use of the pyramid.

    The answer lies in the culmination of the advanced sciences of sound and of the inherent resonant vibrational structures of the triangle.

  • @gtg263r No...i get my friends into shoegaze all the time, slowdive is the band that i hand out the most, and most of them are sober and they love it!

  • yeah man in all honesty slowdive is one of the best bands to listen to when you're high.

    either way they're probably one of my all time favorite bands.

  • I have to personally say that drugs aren't bad in every situation. If it is a catilyst (sp?)then so be it. I mean seriously would be there be amazing music that is mind orgasming?! There might be yeah.. But not as much.