heh my next album will have plenty of noise pop stuff, in fact a couple of my songs sound like total My Bloody Valentine rip offs. Only Shallow and Blown A Wish, particularly.

Holy shit dude. I've loved My Bloody Valentine for a while now, and I've been meaning to get more into the genre for ages now. I just checked out Asobi Seksu and I fucking love them, Citrus is an amazing album.  I've downloaded the rest and I'm going to listen to them one by one!

Citrus is incredible. It's so damn melodic and sexy, I love it. Glad you liked it.

And Shep, I'll definitely check it out then!

Dinosaur Jr. and much more alt-rock (think Pixies) than the other bands mentioned, but they do contain elements of shoegaze, such as a helluva lot of noise.

i am not pointing this out in a i-already-said-this way, but just as a i-put-them-in-because-they-have-some-shoegaze-elements-and-i-wanted-to-provide-a-range-of-shoegaze-from-relaxing-to-rock kind of way.

 

Can someone tell me how the term "shoegaze" got coined? I mean I can understand neo-classical trip-acid beats, but jesus...

I think it was something like the bands kept staring at their effects pedals all through a concert, making it look like they were literally 'shoe gazing', or something like that...

Yeah, they're not the most charismatic of bands live, they generally need to concentrate on the guitars and pedals, so they just stare down a lot.

More shoegaze/dreampop bands that are awesome, links to sample vids

Starflyer 59
Airiel
Cyann & Ben
The Depreciation Guild
Mahogany (not their best song by far and the vid is kinda gay)

This is pretty different stuff, some parts I really like. Plus Souvlaki is such a yummy food

Yeah, I really like it. It's a different take on a lot of different music. Reminds me of Dntel at times.

Working on new topic, should be up tomorrow.

So I gues this is a Bi-Weekly topic. Or not, I dunno.

Next one is Post-Punk.

You should include Reggie And The Full effect in your Post-Punk topic.

why would you include a band that isnt postpunk in a postpunk topic?

I never really thought of My Bloody Valentine as shoegaze

something tells me JOJOFACE knows nothing about genres.

(for the record, MBV is the seminal band when you mention shoegaze, to the degree that it could be the ONLY band you mention since it's generally credited with the genre's creation)

Yeah, exactly Pidgeotto. They basically created it.

But eh, JOJOFACE, use Wiki or something before you mention a band, just to make sure it is what you think it is, otherwise you will get called out! I just looked up Reggie and the Full Effect, and when My Chemical Romance and New Found Glory are your associated acts, and pop punk is stated as the genre (I've never heard of the band btw), then it's pretty safe to say this is nothing like Post-Punk.

Anyway, we can save this for the topic, It'll be up in a couple of hours.