An Ignorant Guide to Shoegaze
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Shoegazers are shrouded in as much mystery as their instruments are in reverb and distortion, lets peel back the layers, with this COMPLETELY unbiased and factual account of the history of shoegaze.
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Ignorant Guide to Shoegaze
modern shoegaze massively slept on any time it’s talked about. what’s happened in the recent years has been great with so many awesome releases
It's interesting how 00's and beyond shoegaze sounds different in many aspects when compared to 90's classic shoegaze bands. I can (roughly) say that classic shoegaze bands had a lot of influence from post-punk, 60's rock and even surf music. But modern shoegaze in many times blend the genre with other things, especially post-rock (my fav combination post-rock/shoegaze). There is also the Japanese shoegaze which is a whole unique scene with awesome bands too.
Just Mustard my beloved.
nothing comes anywhere near Whirr.
what are some recent shoegaze bands that sound the closest to MBV? Most modern shoegaze seems to be either too noisy and off-putting or too slowdive and boring.
@@jp.dlamini The band Nothing are also pretty damn good, funnily enough.
As an Irish person, I can confirm it's so boring here I'd probably invent shoegaze too.
As an Irish person I guarantee 95% of the Irish viewership of this video have experienced this exact thing
Neokandi:
I think you'll find that it is YOU who is boring. Not Ireland. (It was dull in the 60s and 70s though .. a shitshow of Showbands, Catholic guilt, Big Tom and no diversity. That has all changed).
Check again!
Check again!
@@MrMookRecords I have been to at least 10 other countries and they were all better. sure there's stuff to do here but if you don't live in the city and don't have a car it's all very much inaccessible. most other places have more to do, better public transport, and places have decent opening hours. I swear it such an Irish thing to have crazy inconvenient opening hours, I'm always shocked when I visit a different country and I can just show up and a place is open, and I don't have to check ahead days in advance to know if the planets have aligned for a place to be open the same time I'm able to visit. Ireland has some cool stuff, but it's also very limited. for example, there are absolutely no goth clubs here. I find that outrageous. but at least we've got a thriving metal scene.
@@k4nd1incyb3rsp4c3 the Goth clubs thing is a supply and demand thing. Not sure but does Dance To The Underground count (In Fibbers).
Opening hours for clubs are changing. That's a recent development. A long time coming. It's impossible to find a supermarket open in Austria on a Sunday. UK pubs close quite early on a Sunday too. . Ireland has an amazing underground music scene right now (Rising Damp, Lankum, Gilla Band, Myles Manley, Fixity, Hubert Selby Junior Infants, Jinx Lennon, VillagersThe Bonk, Search Results, Panik Attaks, Woven Skull) and the amount of outdoorsy things ye can get up to once you buy some hiking boots or swim socks is off the dial!
In short, Ireland rapidly getting way less crap than it was...
@@MrMookRecords Fibbers doesn't really count, they're sort of a place for everything, they don't cater to any particular group. But yeah, I totally agree, it's way better than it used to be. At least we have Fibbers at all. You ever been to Dolan's in limerick? That's pretty great too. But you've got to admit, almost everywhere in Europe has a better scene.
as a die-hard shoegaze fan I understood basically every joke, and it genuinely made me laugh out loud, great work
same
I loved watching this video 😂😂😂😂😂😂
From another die hard shoegaze fan 💜
same
Shoegaze is like listening to really good music while being buried alive
I like to describe Shoegaze as: "Sleeping at the bottom of a bucket of drugs, dreaming of a lost love that you haven't met yet".
A mermaid falling into a black hole
Low had a song called Sleep At The Bottom
God damn that's cringe
wtf is a bucket of drugs xD
@ignasiusiu it's a bucket....but made of drugs. Very fragile and expensive if you got a good connection.
To me shoegaze is a depressing, yet hopeful and beautiful sounding wall of noise that makes you feel like your floating inside a rainbow
The word you're looking for is melancholic, and it is absolutely as you described it
so gay
@@Andrew-qc8jh how??
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Melancholic yet hopeful, sounds like a good cyberpunk.
When he said “its shoegazing time” I really was taken back.
That picture of Slowdive and Drake is beautiful
shoegaze is like listening to the music at the party while youre in the bathroom.
This might be my favorite description.
this video is so irony poisoned I can't even tell if you like shoegaze.
That's kind of the point ngl.
Shoegaze is just the crescendo of post rock songs but for 7 minutes aka the best part.
FAX
The UK trying not to make the worst fan bases to music genres is like an English person getting out of N Ireland it's not possible
how do we(the rest of the world) brexit from the uk 🤔
We’ve been doing it for two and a half centuries
just found your channel, and i think you're well documented and funny as fuck 💀
you seriously deserve more subs, views and likes mate! you just earned a new sub
agree, good shit mateyyy
Wish content on youtube was this good still.
@@CJ_YT. TOTALLY
so glad you mentioned julie at the end there. they're such an important modern staple of what a shoegaze band can be.
Julie is really good ngl
Yeah pushing daisies was great, as was flutter. Their latest ep was a bit of a letdown but im sure they'll come back better than ever. It's also just really exciting to have up and coming musicians I like who are pretty close to my age
julie❤❤
Julie trying too hard to sound like Nirvana. Makes sense that youngsters would latch onto them. Definitely worse things to listen to though.
@@TrevorLahey3 mr lahey shush urself
I feel obligated to mention Verve’s earliest EPs and their debut A Storm In Heaven as being criminally underrated genre high marks. Nick McCabe’s guitar work is nothing short of inspiring, as visceral as it is ethereal.
He sounded like 3 players up there it’s massive
this is the best shoegaze video of all time and it ain't even close
Catherine Wheel was my introduction to this genre (specifically their album "Ferment") really good shit
Holy Fawn and Slow Crush are phenomenal shoegaze/blackgaze bands. Love this channel
Bro really paraphrased Trash Theory’s “Before Loveless, How Shoegaze Became Shoegaze” video entirely, bar for bar and made it hehe-haha
Totally failed to mention AR Kane, the band that made the first songs we would recognise as "shoegaze" - see their song "When You're Sad" from 1986.
ur welcome. Artist names in vid: wire, my bloody valentine, slowdive, deafheaven, alcest, candy claws, julie, blue smiley.
This vid is rlly nicely edited hope u get more recognition
sonic youth and Dino jr were literally the main influences on Shields in the late 80s and trying to sound like them was the reason he changed his songwriting style from twee lovely sweet Darlene to You made me realize. Im sure he pinched a few ideas from AR Kane too. Ride were also without any doubt the most popular and succesful shoegaze band despite gen z morons reinvention of the history of the genre.
Shoegaze is like black metal for people who drink Yerba Mate
I've never been remotely into it before, but some friends are dragging me to a shoegaze house show
Es una banda lo que decís
*As someone who makes Shoegaze, I fucken enjoyed this vid. I love this; I'm subbing
Yo it’s awesome seeing my video on here! Thanks man! Great video too!
This is the best video explaining shoegaze and its history. Straight to the point, not narrated by a 4chan/RYM user who takes the genre too seriously, making fun of the genre, the bands, fans, and no bullshit.
The only cringe thing is the wojaks in the thumbnails, but beside that, very swag. Shoegaze is pretty swagger and I'm probably the only guy that couldn't give a single shit about MBV or Loveless.
I was told about shoegaze at a house party by some rich trust fund kids who kept complaining about how boring life was, I think this perfectly exemplifies the genre.
These guide vids are awesome! Good work brudda
I’d say, a lot of shoegaze came from the post-punk and is usually a goth fusion; from the Darkwave spectrum and usually from Etherial Wave aswell
Interesting fact: the guy who said Slowdive were worse than the moustache man was Richie Edwards, the lead singer of Britpop band Manic Street Preachers
Also I chuckled at the Night at the Museum reference
I love Shoegaze. Ringo Deathstarr, Ride, Airiel, Allison’s Halo, Astrobrite, Slowdive
I'm starting to think Coolea doesn't like the Internet's Busiest Music Nerd that much
the editing in this vid is gold
These videos are great dude keep them up
I love shoegaze but it really did peak in 1991. You simply cannot top Loveless.
Loveless is to shoegaze as American Football is to emo. Take that as you will.
Nah MBV is pretty mid. Some good songs in there but very overrated. Lush is the band for me
nah
Actually my bloody valentine topped loveless in 2013 (imo).
loveless is all you know lol, modern shoegaze on bandcamp goes crazy hard there's some insane stuff that no one's heard of. Shoe gaze has never been so popular, everyone's trying it now and with such new and nice takes
I'm surprised The Silversun Pickups weren't mentioned when talking about modern shoegaze. They are kind of seen as a one hit wonder because of their song Lazy Eye being super popular for a but, the album with that song, Carnavas is absolutely amazing. Definitely a little bit of an underrated band.
I know youre talking about the origins of Shoegaze, but I think it is also worth mentioning Dynamo, SodaStereo's Shoegaze album. SodaStereo is one of the most popular bands argentinian bands, but in 1992, after the release of Loveless, they decided to experiment with Shoegaze. Being their most alternative album, it wasn't a succes at the time, but it's definitely one of the best Shoegaze albums and the best album of the band. I highly recommend listening to the track "Luna Roja"
yup, also Mellonta tauta and Suárez are two amazing shoegaze/dream pop argentinian bands from the 90s
You get it
Great band and album (by the way) :)
The edits in this vid are amazing 10/10
Best genre ever.
Also, i need that Souvlaki Lover Boy meme
sludge metal next mr coolio 🫡
It'll happen one day, Mr Baguette, don't you worry.
@@coolea I await it with immense gratitude.
I always thought Smashing Pumpkins had some real shoegaze songs on Gish and Siamese Dream
Yes, some describe them as Grungegaze.
you should do a surf rock guide
what's the difference between Shogaze and Dreampop and my hate for the industrial revolution and their consequences were a terrible disaster for the mankind ?
RIP Saint Ted.
It is said that if you start playing Loveless on repeat at 4AM a shadowy figure called Mum will come beat you up and you'll then awake in a place called The Orphanage
i love listening to music underwater!
2:04 "There are more ways to play the guitar than just spamming 3 powerchords in sequence."
You're just a DIRTY F-ING LIAR YOU TAKE THAT BACK! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I like to describe Shoegaze atmospheric melancholic grunge.
ive always found the way to know if a shoegaze song/band is good is if you fall asleep before the 3rd song (i fell asleep twice at the same concert to the point that i needed to take 4 caffeine pills to remain concious)
hahahash 2:57 my dad adores Cocteau Twins, it's all he would ever play in the car going to the beach etc as a kid
Pretty much any artist who didn't make it in the 90s are being reborned from the ashes and continue to produce music, dreampop and shoegaze seems to have a good relationship with the internet considering how many artists were discovered and distributed on the internet by the users in cases like ozean
slowdive are so good
I need to make a progressive metalcore djent shoegaze band
I love your content, keep it up!
idk if it’s me being a big shoegaze fan but out of all of your videos this one is definitely the funniest to me.
Great videos. There is no second “the” in The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Shoegaze has been back
I'd like to point out a few early proto-shoegaze songs:
Captain Beefheart's Kandy Korn, released in 1968. It's basically just the extended outro, which has psychedelic effects caked on.
Brian Eno's Needles in the Camel's Eye and Here Comes the Warm Jets, released in 1974.
This is actually such a good intro to shoegaze
I thought you were gonna recommend Me some beginner albums, but I guess learning the history is pretty cool too
Just listen to the bands and albums he mentions lol
Glad I watched this didn’t realize I was into shoe gaze thought it was all just post punk and Deftones 😂
nice picks of modern shoegaze at the end
Hilarious vid. Souvlaki is incredible. Everyone should also listen to Delaware by Drop Nineteens
cmonnnnnn how you not gonna mention the dudes who literally coined the term dreampop, A.R. Kane
fr tho this is a v good overview of the genre's origins, your editing style is v funny too
The only thing missing from this great video is a mention of the absolutely crazy amount of shoegaze coming out of Japan
THX for this vid bro! I love it sm that I could relate to you in some way! this is the magic about the Internet, although I don't know you offline, I feel connected to you!💌
good video A.R. Kane should be in here though
Killing Joke....not mentioned???? 😮Especially Geordie's sound. Listen to the Revelations album....and many more. We need more walls of guitar!😎
Was about to shit on you about not mentioning Nothing then FLIPPED MY SHIT WHEN YOU MENTIONED BLUE SMILEY
I got into shoegaze because i love silent hill and wanted to find more music like "End of Small Sanctuary".
Dreamy melancholic somewhat industrial vibes.
I’ve just started to get into shoegaze despite already writing a few songs in the genre by accident. I’ve found that I prefer Souvlaki over Loveless. Guess I prefer being able to hear the vocals a bit more.
No
Felt the same way until i played Loveless with some really good speakers.
isnt anything is a much better album then loveless.
I very much appreciate the Night of the Museum joke.
If you want more pop sounding shoegaze, listen to alvvays
You should do Funk metal some day
‘Jesus and the Mary Chain’ 🤣
Great video old chap
The Jesus and the Mary Chain
do japanese shoegaze next
that's a big ass piece of chicken
What's the name of the song playing in the background?
i was not expecting reading slander in this video but i am here for it
Nice shoutouts to active bands!
Drake with slowdive got me.
Death Metal next pwease 🥹
After watching this vid for a while I thought I was watching a video about someone that just stared at shoes
I fucking love heroes and I did not realize it was dreampop adjacent
I love slowdive so much.
hi i'm experimenting on mixing genres. Heavily influenced on shoegaze tho. lemme know wht i can do better
plz do surf rock
i love this so much
4:00 vegeta flamenguista spoted
That roast on Reading tho😩
i defiantly recommend sleepwalk, slow crush, and glare :)
*YOU FORGOT HAVE A NICE LIFE!!!*
love the vids, mate!
great video bro. great research too. thanks to you I heard about candy claws
Can you make a playlist of the ignorant guide videos?
Brilliant and beautifully hilarious!!❤❤🎉😂
The Beatles - Its All Too Much alo sounds very proto shoegaze
Please do more on hip-hop
Lush, Ride, Chapterhouse, Drop Nineteens, Curve, Medicine, Catherine Wheel, My Bloody Valentine and Pale Saints are some of the best shoegaze bands to ever exist.
6:57 anyone got this picture?