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?)
The Church? Goth?
I love Lush, MBV, The Church and Ride. But I don't have any of the mentioned albums. What was I doing in the early '90s that I don't own those? Oh yeah, mostly leaching off my friends' record collections.
"Black Metalic" and "Crank" are the only Catherine Wheel songs that comes to mind, but I loves them both dearly....
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.
Truer words were never spoken.
PJ Harvey & Bjork & Tori Amos
Some magazine did a story on all three back in the mid '90s. The three of them were annoyed that the magazine saw fit to lump them together, as they all felt their music had little in common other than being made by "weird chicks" or somesuch.
