timiscott wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:20 am
Well... I'm enough of an antique to have supported Ride (for a local gig) on their first tour in the UK. Shoegaze went from them and MBV wanting to be Sonic Youth to me (a Londoner) walking into Sam Ash in 2017 to be served by a kid in a Ride t-shirt and then sitting in a Manhattan bar drinking 'Shoegaze' pale ale. It was pretty weird. I'm guessing it's to do with the twenty year (generational?) cycle of pop culture. What I'm dreading is the Britpop revival that seems inevitable. Can you imagine how bad a Xeroxed Blur or Suede might be? Might bring Wire back though...
I was like a baby brother in the US Midwest in the '90s. Everything got to us 5 years late and time was slower then, so I was in high school hearing MBV and Ride in '95? I was smitten and started doing my best to jump off from whatever scraps of that and The Cure and Joy Division, etc, I could find.
But after college, I worked a very successful indie label, and used to get endless shit for my regressive tastes. "
The 90s called, they want their Dino Jr shirt back". About 5 years after I left, they signed one of the biggest OG shoegaze bands and some other heavy hitters from the original wave.
This wasn't far from the first big revival and I remember being super stoked to see Asobi Seksu and Ringo Deathstarr and adjacent things like A Place To Bury Strangers and The Big Pink and The Vandelles come up.
As far as the Britpop revival, my wife and I saw a local Boston show recently. She's got good taste but isn't a music geek quite like we are.
She leaned over to me and said "This is like they wrote a half hour of terrible London Suede songs and a shitty 'Live Forever' too."
I didn't know she knew who Suede was. The band were from Rhode Island.