[bobowar135]

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by bobowar135

This one is new to me from JP.

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From the glam rock 70's

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''All the leaves are brown
and the sky is grey'

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Too late

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From DJ Rick here is Jim Kirkpatrick

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What do you think of these Bobowar

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One more

[Murf993]

Mel Torme (The velvet Fog).... Secret Agent Man.

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[Esteban]

From the "Comments" section:

I could listen to this song on repeat all day. What an amazing array of musicians. Stevie’s voice keeps soaring after all these years and Nathan Watts’ bass line is one of the best.

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[TiMSport]

My all time favorite shoegaze band from the 80s/90s rocking it decades later. This performance was in 2018 and fantastic. I only wish I were high listening to this which would make it that much better. As always, those damn sound engineers at the KEXP studio make everything sound so damn good.

From the past....

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[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

My all time favorite shoegaze band from the 80s/90s rocking it decades later. This performance was in 2018 and fantastic. I only wish I were high listening to this which would make it that much better. As always, those damn sound engineers at the KEXP studio make everything sound so damn good.

From the past....

I'm liking these shoegaze bands and is a nice mix in my wide choice of music.

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I'm liking these shoegaze bands and is a nice mix in my wide choice of music.

Thanks Rick. I think you're the only one to appreciate my contributions here with this stuff. Respect!

There were/are a ton of indie bands out of the UK that I was obsessed with back in the day. I was glad and surprised to have seen this particular band taking another stab at it after a 20 year hiatus. They released an album back in 2017 where this track came from. There are some other good ones as well. Interestingly their album was self-titled "Slowdive".

Here's insight to the reaction when the album came out (sorry this is long):


“It felt like we were in a movie that had a totally implausible ending...”

Slowdive’s second act as a live blockbuster has already been rapturously received around the world. Highlights thus far include a festival-conquering, sea-of-devotees Primavera Sound performance, of which Pitchfork noted: “The beauty of their crystalline sound is almost hard to believe, every note in its perfect place.”

“It was just nice to realise that there was a decent amount of interest in it,” says principal songwriter Neil Halstead. The UK shoegaze pioneers have now channelled such seemingly impossible belief into a fourth studio opus which belies his characteristic modesty. Self-titled with quiet confidence, Slowdive’s stargazing alchemy is set to further entrance the faithful while beguiling a legion of fresh ears.

Deftly swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms “a trip down memory lane”, these eight new tracks are simultaneously expansive and the sonic pathfinders’ most direct material to date. Birthed at the band’s talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard – “It felt like home,” enthuses guitarist Christian Savill – their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady (perhaps best known for his work with Beach House, one of countless contemporary acts to have followed in Slowdive’s wake).

“It’s poppier than I thought it was going to be,” notes Halstead, who was the primary architect of 1995‘s previous full-length transmission Pygmalion. This time out the group dynamic was all-important. “When you’re in a band and you do three records, there’s a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record.”

Drummer and loop conductor Simon Scott enhanced the likes of ‘Slomo’ and ‘Falling Ashes’ with abstract textures conjured via his laptop’s signal processing software. A fecund period of experimentation with “40-minute iPhone jams” allowed the unit to then amplify the core of their chemistry. “Neil is such a gifted songwriter, so the songs won. He has these sparks of melodies, like ‘Sugar For The Pill’ and ‘Star Roving’, which are really special. But the new record still has a toe in that Pygmalion sound. In the future, things could get very interesting indeed.”

This open-channel approach to creativity is reflected by Slowdive’s impressively wide field of influence, from indie-rock avatars to ambient voyagers – see the tribute album of cover versions released by Berlin electronic label Morr Music. As befits such evocative visionaries, you can also hear Slowdive through the silver screen: New Queer Cinema trailblazer Gregg Araki has featured them on the soundtracks to no less than four of his films.

“When I moved to America in 2008 I was working in an organic grocery store,” recalls Christian. “Kids started coming in and asking if it was true I had played in Slowdive. That’s when I started thinking, ‘OK, this is weird!’”

Neil Halstead: “We were always ambitious. Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records, they’re still interesting in a few years time. I don’t know where we’d have gone if we had carried straight on. Now we’ve picked up a different momentum. It’s intriguing to see where it goes next.”

The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. This movie could run and run...

released May 5, 2017

[TiMSport]

Found this to be interesting and illustrates where they came from.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Found this to be interesting and illustrates where they came from.

That's cool you put that map on TiM to where they originate from, nearest one's to me would be Slowdive and Loop