that 2009-2010 shitgaze life

[Grumby]

you have no idea

[Grendel]

Times New Viking were so fucking good

[Grumby]

i still think it's funny that i saw wavves live twice (once as a teen, and once as almost twenty but still a teen) and it was a memorable experience because he was being an annoying person and putting on a mediocre show but he was so cocky about it

i don't even care to revisit the music but this was formative in a way

[Grumby]

the other bands associated with this tag were far better but i never saw any of them

[WeirdJungle]

Eat Skull
Eat
Skull
Eat Skull

[Grey Poupon]

I was officially too old for this shit

[grace cathedral park]

Are you gonna listen to some MAE SHI tonight

[Grumby]

wavves insulted the entire venue he was playing at (my local one) by saying it was a "teen meth lab", and we didn't have an indie scene at all. i just find that pretty memorable


it's like witnessing someone at peak ego (because he'd just gotten profiled in the new york times or something a week earlier)

[WeirdJungle]

Is Mae Shi really shitgaze

I always thought of them as spazpop

[jack]

Times New Viking were so fucking good

they ruled

[hologram]

[Grumby]

women's first album (the self-titled) is one of my favorites that definitely had strands of this aesthetic

[Grumby]

i wasn't even into them that much during their alive period though

[John plainman 4]

psychedelic horseshit was such a great product for the music journalism peak

[Cronos]

Listening to Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace and playing Mario Kart Wii was most of my summer 2008.

[Cronos]

I sold the Wavves 7" with the grip tape for like $45 on Ebay and was so relieved when the guy didn't return it because it had a pretty obvious scratch.

[Grumby]

[haddonfield]

bought a tascam 4 track because of times new viking

[Grendel]

This one has a hilarious comments section.

[draw]

Portals is still a jam

[WeirdJungle]

Listening to Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace and playing Mario Kart Wii was most of my summer 2008.

Thank you for reminding me of this classic jam

[hologram]

[hologram]

Hairdryer peace is so good

[France 98]

Times New Roman were just too, too bent to the scuzzy sound. at times you just couldn't even make out the melody or riffs. kind of seemed like a 'statement' rather than people who had lots of great musical ideas.

exclusively bound to the proper shoegaze tag and 2009-2010 years, the best album was The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. lots of other good records, like the first/only proper Yuck album, were a little bit later. I feel like the big records from these years (Merriweather Post Pavilion, Girls, Grizzly Bear) were more using shoegazey tropes. just underneath the main layer. which worked. they're all sort of bound by those textures and connotations, but they're all far more wide/electronic/rigidly Beach Boys-guitar-pop than that first Pains record for example.

[France 98]

I called them Times New Roman? could be a name at this rate.

[uncleoswald]

[jarsilver]

[Grumby]

abe vigoda was kinda fun

[Grumby]

no age still has some jams too

[Sobieski]

adjacent