I LOVE me some internet! I've been on a major Chapterhouse bender due to a contact on another site who offered up a double out of print "best of" album called "Rownderbowt"(Released in '96) from these early '90s shoegaze pop rockers. I'm in shoegeezer HEAVEN! And thanks to Dale, I didn't even know about this best of compilation until we had a conversation last fall on the dark side about Chapte...
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Showgaze - the love that dares not speak its name - has gone mainstream!Britain's artiest broadsheet the Guardian has a big article today about the return of shoegaze, and its new incarnation "nu-gaze" (catchy!). It touches on a lot of points made in our recent "Maps thread.":http://mog.com/FluxCapacitor/blog_post/96888 It includes interviews with shoegaze luvin' film-makers and novelists, as well
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Pearl by the Reading shoegaze band Chapterhouse:About the time the female vocals (ably provided by the lovely Rachel Goswell of Slowdive and Mojave 3) kick in, the lump in the throat comes up, and the tears well. A lovely little song, go ahead, give it a spin, don't cost nothing.In case anyone's looking for that kind of thing.
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Anyone remember this band? One of the key bands from the early 90's UK Shoegazing scene, along with Ride, Slowdive et al. What with an impulse buy of Slowdive albums and finding the above on YouTube, I feel a shoegaze/dream pop week coming on. Blinkin-flip just spotted a timeline on Wiki - "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze#Shoegaze_Timeline":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze#Shoegaze_T...
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If you were never really into any of the early shoegaze bands of the 90's now might be a pretty good time to delve into them. Cherry Red just reissued Chapterhouse's classic second release Blood Music which was given a new mix and it sounds great. Not only that but they threw in the Mesmerise EP and the We are the Beautiful single. If you find that to your liking Chapterhouse's first one (Wh...
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Why people act as if Chapterhouse is a secret handshake that only super-kewl people have rediscovered is strange these days. Many think they were a typical under the radar UK band who didn't get any love, when in fact I remember MTV running the videos for "Falling Down" and "Pearl" every night for months. "Pearl" was also played on station like 89X at least 4 times a day -- not to mention they ...
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Probably the only postive thing you can say about ecstasy if at all. A really great song from their Blood Music album.
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So far this was the best one. To be honest, i already knew "Pearl" before i received this, but i must say that the other two songs were quite a pleasant surprise. I was always under the impression that chapterhouse was a one hit wonder band, meaning the rest of their music would be crap. To be absolutely honest, at the time of writing this im about to get into week six, and this is still the...
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Since setting short or long term goals for yourself tends to keep you focused and away from the dangers of drugs, so as such, it is my short term goal to write a few entries this week digging through my archives. My archives are kept in a fortress outside the city proper and mote-protected. However, [...]
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