Either you like this sort of thing or you don’t….
I think it gets better the deeper into the song you get.
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
8-Bit Version of Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer”
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014Shoegazer Sunday: My Violent Ego’s “Trail of Lights”
Sunday, September 21st, 2014“Trail of Lights” is a lush, laid-back, multilayered Shoegaze piece from Scottish/Italian duo My Violent Ego.
Shoegazer Sunday: Black Hearted Brother’s “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”
Sunday, September 14th, 2014Black Hearted Brother is a project featuring Slowdive’s Neal Halstead. Here they are with “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”.
Also, evidently the Judge Dredd remake has some impressive slow-motion set-pieces…
Shoegazer Sunday: Skip Skip Ben Ben’s “Last Light”
Sunday, September 7th, 2014Here’s “Last Light,” a pleasant little ditty from Taiwan’s Skip Skip Ben Ben:
Jellybelly Cover’s Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, August 31st, 2014And the Slowdive cover kick continues, with Indonesia’s Jellybelly doing their cover of “Machine Gun” in a jangly live performance.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Sleepover Disaster’s “Oceanographer”
Sunday, August 24th, 2014Here’s Fresno, California’s The Sleepover Disaster with “Oceanographer,” which sounds a tiny bit like Radiohead.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Golden Hair” Live
Sunday, August 17th, 2014Since their reunion, Slowdive seems to be a vastly better touring band than they were in their heyday. I think it helps that they’ve brought on more touring musicians to fill out the sound. According to the band on Twitter, it’s just the original five members.
Here they are covering Syd Barrett’s “Golden Hair” (from that post-Pink Floyd recording session here he never played anything the same way twice). The Barrett original is some two minutes long, and the original cover Slowdive did was four minutes long. This version is eight minutes long, and ends with one of the most beautiful, multiguitar Shoegaze solos ever recorded. (No wonder that one woman in the audience looks like she’s having a religious experience…)
This was recorded at the Best Kept Secret festival in The Netherlands on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
Shoegazer Sunday: Alcian Blue/The Antiques Cover Slowdive’s “Primal”
Sunday, August 10th, 2014The sound quality is not the best, and the vocals pretty much suck, but this cover by Alcian Blue (AKA The Antiques) is still the best live cover of “Primal” I’ve heard from anyone (including Slowdive, who only played it at early shows, and not particularly well).
Like I’ve said before, anyone doing good cover of “Primal” will get linked in this space.
As for Slowdive, their new tour shows their live shows have improved considerably, as we shall see next Sunday…
Shoegazer Sunday: The Swells’ “Golden”
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014The Swells were an Austin-based Shoegaze band. Here they are with “Golden.”
Evidently they’re now known as Seaholm Electric.
Shoegazer Sunday: SummerMay’s “Shine”
Sunday, July 27th, 2014Here’s “Shine,” another one from Zurich’s SummeryMay. The best description I can come up with for them is “Imagine a Christian shoegaze Night Ranger that doesn’t suck.” People I told this too were having some trouble wrapping their heads around the concept…