Posts tagged ‘avant rock’
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Lush – “De-Luxe”
Another one for all the Miki fans out there. Track ten from volume two.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Cocteau Twins – “Iceblink Luck”
The official promo video. Track nine from volume two.
The Bubblegum Cage III will now be taking its (early) summer holiday. See you in June!
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Ride – “Drive Blind”
Track eight from volume two. Recorded live in London, 1989. Another gem from Snub TV. Shame about the audio/video quality here, though.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: The House of Love – “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”
Bit surprised to find that there doesn’t seem to have been a promo video for Loop’s “Black Sun”. Less surprised to find there most certainly was a clip for this major label-era House of Love single. Track seven from volume two.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Sonic Youth – “Teen Age Riot”
Can’t find a proper video for “Losing Touch with My Mind” and “Emptiness Inside” has already been covered here, so we’re skipping ahead to track five from volume two. This promo video is so official that it seems to have been posted on YouTube by (or at least on behalf of) the band.
And because SY is still one of the best live bands on the planet, here’s a performance of “Teen Age Riot” filmed by the BBC in 2009.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Some Candy Talking”
Skipping ahead again, this is track one from volume two in all its full promo video glory.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Black Tambourine – “Throw Aggi Off the Bridge”
Skipping ahead a bit here, track 14 from volume one.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Lush – “For Love”
Track 12 from volume one. Live at the Glastonbury Festival in 1992. Hands up anyone who had a major crush on Miki Berenyi at this stage.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Pale Saints – “Throwing Back the Apple”
Track 11 from volume one. This is a proper promo video and everything. 4AD always took that kind of thing seriously.
“Throwing Back the Apple” was this here blog’s one contribution to the “great guitar solos” debate that was rolling around our corner of the blogosphere recently. The solo in question is pretty interesting, coming from a supposedly “shoegaze” band, as it’s more about conventional musicality than textural manipulation.
The guitar tone here is a pure Rickenbacker chime. The thrill comes from the constant deferral of melodic pay-off and the piling on of harmonic intensity. Each little melodic flourish seems like a feint; a false start delaying the ecstatic moment when the whole thing shoots sky high – which it actually does on more than one occasion. A truly classic solo, basically.
Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: Slowdive – “Catch the Breeze”
Track ten from volume one. Seems like this is the official promo video.
But this live-on-TV clip is more of a laff. A real timepiece – and look at those archetypal shoegazers snogging in the audience!
