Slowdive (1 Viewer)

[Alan Latchley]

Continuing my never-ending quest to bring you, ma good frens at thumped, some tunes by those mind-numbingly fragile indie darlings beloved back in "the day" I can now bring you SLOWDIVE. Listen once again to the band decide they've enough lyrics written and its time for the pedals, recoil in horror at their version of Some Velvet Morning, fall over drunk when you realise they're probably still going...

Last time it was a page of Swervedriver. This time a page of Slowdive. Next time it may be Ride. I'm so excited I could grow my fringe floppy again.

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~torsten/Music/Slowdive/

 

[nlgbbbblth]

there is no excuse for not owning these records already.
well, age obviously

Slowdive were seriously underrated. Pygmalion esp

they have a double CD comp due soon
beats shitty MP3s if that's yr bag

 

[Rogue]

yaaaaay!

after many years of championing their reverbedness it's good to hear another voice in the wilderness.

where would mogwai etc... be without slowdive.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

btw they are not still going

Mojave 3 - whom we all know about

and Monster Movie nowadays

the Monster Movie Last Night Something Happened LP is great as is their s/t 5 track CD thing

 

[magnetize]

I always found the sound of slowdive, chapterhouse & all that lark to be a pointless middle ground between Pastlesesque tweeness, Cocteau twins dreaminess and Mbvs distortions. Taking the most obvious elements of each and bandying them together into unfocused, dreary cack. Chapterhouse knew the game was up when they heard the sublime reworking of their Lp that Global Communications did.
Although The Telescopes & Pale Saints first stuff were really good and i think they were unlucky enough to be lumped into that 'scene'.

 

[Donkey OJ]

i have 2 disc a morr music compilation and i only just twigged last week when anoraking the sleeve notes that all the songs on disk1 are electronic covers of slowdive songs. i used to make fun of a mate of mine who listened to slowdive years ago cos i thought they were gay so i dont know the tunes. interesting one tho.

 

[Stan Bowles]

I still play catch the breeze and slowdive once in a while. And Rachel Goswell, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

 

[krystal]

Oh yes?

 

[Rogue]

I always found the sound of slowdive, chapterhouse & all that lark to be a pointless middle ground between Pastlesesque tweeness, Cocteau twins dreaminess and Mbvs distortions. Taking the most obvious elements of each and bandying them together into unfocused, dreary cack. Chapterhouse knew the game was up when they heard the sublime reworking of their Lp that Global Communications did.
Although The Telescopes & Pale Saints first stuff were really good and i think they were unlucky enough to be lumped into that 'scene'.

Fair comment, i never "got" chapterhouse, but love that first slowdive album.

Pale saints though were a different kettle of monkeys altogether, i've been trying to find their first album again for ages. Any chance anyone here has a copy...?

 

[Alan Latchley]

I knew they weren't still going really, but I'm reliably informed they'll be back for a few dates next year.

 

[magnetize]

Pale saints though were a different kettle of monkeys altogether, i've been trying to find their first album again for ages. Any chance anyone here has a copy...?

clear your inbox

 

[nEiLo]

can we talk about Ride now?

 

[Rogue]

can we talk about Ride now?

"unfamiliar" ......mmmmm

 

[Donkey OJ]

can we talk about Ride now?

a mate of mine was so into ride back in the day we used to call him mawk gawdnuh. fair play to us eh?

 

[Rogue]

clear your inbox

oops, sorry, cheers.

pmed ya there !bing

 

[Stan Bowles]

I wish I had my ride records over here, boooooo

 

[magnetize]

can we talk about Ride now?

jesus...........creation have a lot to answer for

 

[Alan Latchley]

RIDE were the business... Sigh!

Some low grade stuff can be located at :

http://www.ticket2ride.it/mgmicro/goodies.htm

In there is a nice (decentish quality sound) Stolkholm show that Gardener and Bell reunited for.

And a poor quality gig from Milan can be d/l'd at

http://www.ticket2ride.it/sounds.htm

Saw Gardener at the Sugar Club last year (brilliant) and with his new four-guitar band at Glastonbury earlier in the summer. He was good, but only lobbed in a few RIDE numbers.

Alan.

 

[magnetize]

4 guitars !...............lol

 

[Pantone247]

Vapour Trail is utter genius... all the good bits of early 90's rock mixed up

tell you what 'shoegazing' or whatever you call it, one of the most underratted genre's in the music histroy.