Best Shoegazing Band?
 

Besides my bloody valentine, what are ur favorite showgaze bands and why? i think after MBV, my favs are slowdive and ride, but i havent explored much outside besides them. anything i should check out?

slayer

when i saw them live, they were sometimes staring at their shoes

that's what shoegazer means, right?

oh yea, of course.

Swirlies (who have shoegazer tendencies) and Slowdive.

oh man. totally forgot about the swirlies. i love blonder tongue audio baton.

"Then there was the whole “shoegazing” scene that we weren’t really into. We had that term tagged to us, and it seemed slightly derogatory. It was partly because a lot of the people in those bands used to go see us when they were younger, then they all formed bands, and they were openly into us. But they all kinda had their own thing going, but what they all had in common was chorus and flanger pedals. That wasn’t what we were doing. It was literally that approach to music that made me do what I was doing. I couldn’t stand that you could hear the pattern of the effect. So instead of being psychedelic, it was the opposite. It was something that your mind immediately recognizes, and ignores. So it was weird being linked to something that was in many ways the exact opposite of what we were about."

Kevin Shields

at the amusement park... its a great neo-shoegazing band, anyone into them?

I was going to say Swirlies too.

at the amusement park? do you mean amusement parks on fire?

if yes then i most definetely am into them. theyre from my hometown of nottingham, and theyve helped completely rejuvinate nottinghams local scene. cant wait to hear their new album, its recorded at sigur ros' studio in iceland apparently...

gonna see them for like the 4th time at the dot to dot festival in may...

It seems like every shoegazer tagged band has an argument going against them for their not being so.

I liked the first Telescopes album (with the Perfect Needle), before they signed to Creation to sound like Chapterhouse & others

Loop, by a long long way.

JAMC plus the Swirlies......

Slowdive
Pale Saints
Cranes (not really shoegazer after all)
Curve
Lovesliescrushing

When you think about Isis are sort of shoe-gazie

have some fucking sense of humor!!!!!!

genres suck!!!!

i put isis in the same sorting as mogwai, EITS, pelican, jesu, but yeah i think they are a modernized shoegaze band in a way. kind of like sigur ros.

my shoegaze elite would definitely be:
slowdive
swervedriver
pale saints
the verve
lush
catherine wheel
jatmc

haha, yeah, amusement parks on fire lol :D i dont know what i did, i apparently mixed up names of "at the drive in" and "amusement parks on fire" LOL... i just cant believe what i wrote :D its like: "so you like sonic blink182 ? :D

I'm not sure if Swervedriver actually count, but they're SO awesome why not. I also think Ride are wonderful, at least their first album. Another great album is The Buried Life by Medicine.

hey I'd like to thank you all for these. I've always liked the sound of loveless, despite only hearing it like twice. I've been wanting to check out some shoegaze so this is helpful.
Also I've heard a few amuesment park on fire songs and thought they were cool.

After MBV, my favorite shoegaze band is Slowdive

In fact, shoegaze is my favorite scene :D

Loop
Jesus and Mary Chain
My Bloody Valentine
Spacemen 3

i don't knoiw about shoegaze but I loves me some CODEINE!

I bought two COME albums at the used store yesterday. chris brokaw from codeine plays guitar in COME

are COME shoegaze?

Is it super fuzzed out trippy stuff with melodic vocals?

haven't heard it yet!
I listened to the specials and Ron Carter and Woody Shaw all night!

favorite....LUSH by far the best of em all in my opinion

slowdive.

the headstall

they call themselves post-post punk, but they are shoegazers.

Damn!!! I love Slayer..........
They're my favorite Shoe-gaze band too!!!!!!

Okay.........When did this 'new' genre come about?
It seems to me that there are too many bloody labels being thrown around these days.

I've become relly interested in MBV lately.
I've downloaded Loomer and Sometimes, and I think it's pretty damn good

I don't think anyone mentioned the records Swallow "Blow", or Henry's Dress "Henry's Dress." Other bands/artists that were/sound shoegazy that haven't been mentioned are Jessica Bailiff, Bowery Electric, and Chapterhouse.

the ecstacy of saint theresa, not so much their later efforts but debut album sussurate is a fave,

its like an extreamly noisey heavier isnt anything, expect all the words are in french or something, not that you can hear them anyway,

confusion is dante-

i believe the term shoegaze is about 15 years old. certainly, most bands of the genre died out by the time grunge hit the uk...

slowdive/ fukin love them

oh, ecstasy, y'know them?
they're from Czech Republic, really quite a mysterious project. I've seen them live on a summer festival three years ago at like 3 in the morning, it was quite a stunning experience.
Lately, they've been experimenting with ambient and soundscapes, however the 'sussurate' CD is the shit.

darn tooting,

i knew they were from somewhere in europe i just forgot where exactly, so thank you,

I really think that henry's dress is more of like a noise-pop band, you know? They aren't really too much of a shoegaze band.

Now rocketship on the other hand, I really think alot of their early stuff was shoegaze stuff.

I always associated a bit more noise with shoegaze for some reason. But yeah Rocketship does resemble MBV.

You're probably right about HD being noise pop, but then you would have to say that JAMC is noise pop too because that album sounds like JAMC quite a bit....and people are always saying JAMC is shoegaze (which they can't be really, because there was no such thing in 1985).

for you jamc fans, a decent modern shoegaze band to check out would be skywave.

other great modern shoegaze bands -
brief candles
ariel
high violets
tom spacey (they are not around anymore)
dorian gray (ditto)
sigur ros (of course)

let try to keep the list going?