Zoe ,'The Train Job'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
If you're going to get a Church album, go with Starfish.
Tempted, because the video for "Reptile" had all kinds of cool dual guitar interplay. The Catherine Wheel video for "Black Metallic" really caught my eye and ear. I think I'd (unfairly) dismissed them as MBV wannnabees, but there was obviously something going on that was smart and interesting in that song.
Isn't Anything - MBV
Is that the one with "Cupid Come"?
t checks collection
Yep, it is. Seminal.
Nowhere - Ride
From Allmusic:
Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era, and with very good reason. All of the common words, phrases, and adjectives commonly used with the short-lived subgenre fit properly here, and they're all positive, every one of them. Whir, whoosh, haze, swirl, ad nauseum -- this record holds all of these elements at their most exciting and mastered.
I wouldn't be quite so effusive, but it is very good. Equally worthwhile by Ride is the "Smile" album which collects their first two EPs. "Chelsea Girl" (not that one) is a great song and worthy of the title.
PJ Harvey & Bjork & Tori Amos
Oh my god, that would so be my hell.
Tempted, because the video for "Reptile" had all kinds of cool dual guitar interplay.
And also because it really ought to be against the law not to have "Under the Milky Way" as a part of your music library.
And also because it really ought to be against the law not to have "Under the Milky Way" as a part of your music library.
stamps Jen's "Goth Forever" visa into perpetuity
Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era,
The shoegaze era?
Man. I love technical vocabulary with which I am unfamiliar. For me, the "shoegaze era" is the time I spent in adolescence trying to avoid people's eyees.
t Stands in corner with Betsy, looking at my feet...
stamps Jen's "Goth Forever" visa into perpetuity
You'd be the best passport control officer ever down at the Goth INS.
The shoegaze era?
Heh. It's a whole genre of British rock from the early 90s, notable for (a) it's thick, swirling (rather psychedelic) guitar textures and (b) the tendency of the bands to be anti-charismatic. That is - they stood on stage and stared at their shoes while they played all the effects pedals on their guitars.
You'd be the best passport control officer ever down at the Goth INS.
Awwww. Come on to my house and we'll drink tasty things and critique gothy videos for style and execution.
And also because it really ought to be against the law not to have "Under the Milky Way" as a part of your music library.
I have two songs by The Church in my possession; yet "Under The Milky Way" is not one of them. This is ok, because it is in my brother's possession, and will thus be mine once I return to Melbourne. (PS: I am right in taking them to be Australian, not British, right?)