I’m not sure if this is technically Shoegaze or not, but it’s close enough. Here’s His Name Is Alive’s cover of Big Star’s “Blue Moon.”
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Shoegazer Sunday: His Name is Alive’s “Blue Moon”
Sunday, November 9th, 2025Halloween Horrors: Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop”
Thursday, October 9th, 2025For a Halloween Horror, how about a song from a band called Suicide actually blamed on causing real suicides? It’s Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop,” about a working stiff who can’t make it, so he kills his wife and kids and then himself, and ends the song screaming in Hell.
Just another feel good 1970s ditty.
(Hat tip: The Professor of Rock, who advises listeners not to listen to the song alone at night…)
Shoegazer Sunday: Charlotte Hatherley’s “Rejoice in the Sun”
Sunday, October 5th, 2025This isn’t Shoegaze so much as Chillwave, but it’s Shoegaze adjacent and reminiscent of something like Mallory: Charlotte Hatherley covering Peter Schickele’s “Rejoice in the Sun” from the soundtrack to Silent Running.
For comparison, here’s the original from the closing credits:
Silent Running is still tree-hugging space hippie bullshit, and I’ve always found something off-putting Joan Baez’s voice (maybe the excessive vibrato?), but I’ve got a soft spot for this song.
50th Anniversary Edition Of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Just Dropped
Wednesday, September 24th, 2025The 50th Anniversary edition of the Genesis prog rock masterpiece The Lamb lies Down on Broadway just dropped. Were I not between jobs for an unreasonably long period of time, I would no doubt plop down my $120 or so bucks.
Here’s the remastered title track.
And here’s Classic Album Review for What It All Means:
The usual metaphoric analysis caveats apply…
The First Appearance of Spinal Tap?
Friday, September 19th, 2025This sketch comedy TV show from 1979 features what is probably the first ever TV appearance of Spinal Tap. I was planning to post this right before Spinal Tap II: The End Continues came out, but I got distracted by shiny objects and the movie came out last week.
Alas, the sequel seems to have done very poorly at the box office, so I might just have to wait for it on DVD…
Shoegazer Sunday: Sleep Party People’s “The Dwarf And The Horse”
Sunday, May 25th, 2025It’s been over seven years since I posted a video featuring the spooky rabbit people, so here they are with “The Dwarf And The Horse.” I think it’s even from the same performance.
No, I don’t know what they’re singing. And no, I’m not a 100% sure this counts as Shoegaze, but I’m not sure what the hell else you would call it…
Shoegazer Sunday: Castlebeat’s “Change Your Mind”
Sunday, May 4th, 2025I’m not familiar with Castlebeat (which is evidently one guy), but the video for “Change YourMind” (which isn’t even his) has some 13 million views, so obviously other people are…
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Shoegazer Sunday: Speaker Gain Teardrop’s “Metaphorville”
Sunday, April 27th, 2025It seems that every six years or so I put up a song from semi-obscure Japanese Shoegaze/Post-Rock band Speaker Gain Teardrop, so here’s Metaphorville.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Prepare My Glider’s “Shimmer”
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025Although labeled as a demo of Slowdive’s sound, this is actually Prepare My Glider’s “Shimmer.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Sugar for the Pill’s “Falling Back To You”
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024Sugar for the Pill is another Shoegaze band named after a Slowdive song, and “Falling Back To You” is a pleasant uptempo song.