Best Ever Albums

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

Norman Bates — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:55:05 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 10/27/2016 16:55

The absence of any reference to Cocteau Twins in the whole publicationis the dumbest thing I've read in a while.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

Skinny — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:44:17 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 10/27/2016 13:44

Pitchfork's is piss poor, Cellar's is stellar.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

Jorbaa — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:30:59 GMT

Author: Jorbaa

Posted: 10/25/2016 07:30

LordMark wrote:

Excellent top 5. I was worried that Going Blank Again was going to get snubbed from this list. I'm glad I was wrong. Although they're primarily black metal and were therefore probably not eligible for this list, I think that Sunbather by Deafheaven deserves an honourable mention, which somehow managed to successfully blend shoegaze with black metal. Lastly, although #14 is a perfectly fine number, I hope that m b v will rise on these shoegaze charts in the coming years. It managed to do the impossible of being a worthy follow-up to Loveless.

Jesu is on the list, so Sunbather should be that too.

I missed Spiritualized and Tokyo Shoegazer.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

Rhett — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:32:57 GMT

Author: Rhett

Posted: 10/24/2016 23:32

I went looking for The Raveonettes in this list but couldn't find them.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

imnotanotter — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:47:11 GMT

Author: imnotanotter

Posted: 10/24/2016 19:47

^ Sunbather deserved more than an honorable mention imho. Blended metal and shoegaze better than any Alcest album did - and I really like Alcest. Not a lot of representation in this current decade, for that matter. I really liked Whirr's Pipe Dreams.

Great points, LordMark - I was surprised Split by Lush didn't make it - along with some other disagreements with album and rank particulars.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

LordMark — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:37:37 GMT

Author: LordMark

Posted: 10/24/2016 19:37

Excellent top 5. I was worried that Going Blank Again was going to get snubbed from this list. I'm glad I was wrong. Although they're primarily black metal and were therefore probably not eligible for this list, I think that Sunbather by Deafheaven deserves an honourable mention, which somehow managed to successfully blend shoegaze with black metal. Lastly, although #14 is a perfectly fine number, I hope that m b v will rise on these shoegaze charts in the coming years. It managed to do the impossible of being a worthy follow-up to Loveless.

Re: The pitchfork's top 50 shoegaze albums

LittleM1971 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:18:13 GMT

Author: LittleM1971

Posted: 10/24/2016 19:18

It's a decent list...personally I would have added the following albums.

Everything's Alright Forever by The Boo Radleys

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins