GravitySlips

Impressive, I would love to have a bunch of Loop records, but the small problem of never having money has thus far stopped it happening.

I just finished listening to Pygmalion by Slowdive. What is the consensus on this album on here?

cardboard adolescent

step back from souvlaki, imo

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Urban Hatemonger

Here's another for your collection

THE COMMERCIAL ZONE: Loop - Fade Out (1988)

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GravitySlips

^ thanks

hmmm, well souvlaki is fairly outstanding.

The more I listen to Pygmalion though, the more it blows my mind. It's such a strange and compelling album. It's so full of mesmerising and trippy subtleties, with strange droning guitars over some beatifully strummed melodies, and the sparse instrumentation. Totally hypnotic and wonderfully produced, and with some of the most beautiful and eerie melodies I've ever heard as well. And the vocals as well, the way they're layered over it all creating that echo-vocal-wall effect is stunning. It is like every single sound has been meticulously thought out, and the dynamics of those sounds as well, and it all mixed together absolutely perfectly. Souvlaki is amazing, but this to me is their masterpiece. It evolved them from merely another shoegaze band (although a particularly good one!) to something more eclectic. The percussion is so subtle and strange, and the guitar work is unlike anything I've ever heard. How they came up with this stuff and made it work so well is beyond me. This to me is the perfect album to just lose yourself in, and also the perfect album to listen to while smoking some joints, for those of us into that. Ahhh this album is driving me crazy.

Souvlaki Space Station is still my favourite Slowdive song though.

cardboard adolescent

i'll light one up and give it another listen, i really am not all that familiar with it.

it's going to be hard to tear myself away from this rhys chatham album though... the more i listen to it the less impressed i am by sonic youth

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man of weak flesh in an armored disguise
all fall down'

GravitySlips

Oh yeah, what album is that? Rhys Chatham is someone I need to get more familiar with, I've not heard that much. SY definitely owe a lot to him though from what ive read...and Glenn Branca too of course.

cardboard adolescent

die donnergotter... guitar trio in particular is an amazing song

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Mr Nic

OK - not exactly a pure shoegaze compilation, more a 10 track shoegaze / noise / influenced by compilation...

1. Loop - Collision. The track that got me into this band. Taken from the 12" single.

2. My Bloody Valentine - Thorn. Beautiful track from the You Made Me Realise E.P.

3. Swervedriver - Rave Down. Lead track from the band's second E.P.

4. The Jesus & Mary Chain - My Little Underground. From the B-side of Psychocandy.

5. Lush - Etherial. The second time I saw Loop, Lush were the support band. this is from the Scar E.P.

6. Bleach - Seeing. A much under-rated track from one of the lesser known shoegaze bands of the time. taken from their Snag E.P.

7. Curve - The Colour Hurts. Curve were one of those bands that you couldn't quite catergorise. Part shoegaze / part goth influenced. This is from the Frozen E.P.

8. Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea. Classic pre-shoegaze influencers.

9. The Telescopes - Please, Before You Go. A dirty great slab of noise from the Taste L.P.

10. Mudhoney - Revolution. An homage to Spacemen 3. B-side to This Gift E.P.

PM me if you want a download link. The tracks are in the correct order but are un-named (as I digitzed some direct from vinyl).

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Mudhoney Basterdized the song "revolution" by Spacemen 3. And Sonic Boom and J Spaceman retaliated by ****ing up the song "When Tomorrow Hits" by Mudhoney.

Revolution by Spacemen 3
Well look out

Well I’m sick
I’m so sick
Of a lot of people
Tryin’ to tell me
What I can and can’t do
With my life

And I’m tired
I’m so tired
Of a lot of people
In a lot of high places
Don’t want you and me
To enjoy ourselves

Well I’m through with people
Who can’t get off their arse
To help themselves change this government
And better this society
‘Cos it’s ****

But hold on a second
I smell burning
And I see a change
Comin’ ‘round the bend
And I suggest to you
That it takes
Just five seconds
Just five seconds
Of decision
To realise
That the time
Is right
To start thinkin’ about
A little…
Revolution!

Revolution by Mudhoney

Allright, look out
I’m sick
I’m so sick
Of getting sick
Everytime I lose my connection
I’m tired
So tired
Of getting up in the morning
For that long uphill walk
To the methadone clinic
There’s gotta be an easier way

Now hold on a second

This burnin’
There’s a change comin’
My blackened spoon
I suggest to you,
That it takes five seconds
Just five seconds
To put a morphine suppository
All the way inside
Brothers and sisters
Do you know what I’m talkin’ about?
I’m talkin about a full on
Mother****ing
Revolution

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