I only know one Breaking Circus song, the excellent "Driving the Dynamite Truck", which was covered beautifully slowcore-style by Seam:

Fur Elise - Beethoven was like an early rapper, all that emphasis on furs and bitches.

It's going to take a while to ship that many, because they are a real pain to stack.

I agree that "grunge" was a stupid term (thank goodness nobody tried to come up with a similar catch-all for say Athens or Chapel Hill), but "(Sabbath's emphasis on low-end) + (punk influences)" is not a terrible descriptor to apply to all those bands.

It really was, but those other 7's are not slouching either.

I got the version with the extra track, and a tacky badge.

The ‘7’s usually have a bunch of good stuff. Seriously, check out ’67, ’77, ’87, and ’97, and they are all rock solid years. Didn’t look at 2007.

They've played some European dates and there are some US ones coming up.

I'd be surprised to see that, Luna didn't sell all that well back in the day and probably wouldn't now either. But of their albums, that's one that could probably use the remastering (it never sounded as warm to me as Bewitched or Pup Tent do).

OT, but I've been listening, obsessively, to the 20th Anniversary reissue/remaster of the s/t debut LP this past week and HOLY GOD what a perfect record that is (and the remaster is a significant sound upgrade, adds a ton of depth and detail and low end). I just wish they hadn't dropped "Elephant Stone" from the…

I love Wire and didn't care all that much about Elastica, so at the time the plagiarism accusations meant something to me (and the Elastica "lifts" are, let's be honest, fairly blatantly-similar to their sources); but in hindsight I have to wonder why Elastica in particular got so much grief, when this sort of thing…

There was a Sugar review (in Rolling Stone maybe?) for the first record and it said (paraphrasing, and I can't remember if the line was specific to Pixies/Nirvana, or more generally to the whole alt-rock-scene): "Attention, modern alt-rockers: Bob Mould is back, and he wants the rent." Mould was really good about…

"What are we gonna do tonight, @disqus_ywTDGPfDON:disqus?"

What was fun was when Bob Mould came back with Sugar, and started nicking tricks from all the bands that had done so from him - "A Good Idea" (Pixies); "Gift" (has that queasy MBV riff); heck, "Your Favorite Thing" even takes its chorus lyric and part of the vocal melody from MBV's "Blown A Wish" (play them back to…

Upvoted for the "Twisterella" love. That song went on many a Yeti mixtape back in the day.

the tone and texture are an essential part of the songwriting, rather than something that's just laid on top of it. That, for me is what defines those records as shoegaze,

Well, "but if you strip away" isn't exactly a fair comparison, since adding the overwhelming noise is in large part what makes it shoegaze. I'm not the biggest Ride fan (though I like Going Blank Again a lot, and I've been meaning to check out the Nowhere reissue since I've been told the sound is much improved - I…

Dino Jr. and SY (and Husker Du) were all key scene inspirations, and bands like Spacemen 3, Loop, and Galaxie 500 were on the outskirts, by virtue of being often more interested more in guitar textures and droning repetition than pop structure.

Then you are missing out on half of the scene ;-) The article names A Place To Bury Strangers as a modern one. Swervedriver are far closer to the Mary Chain in theme. The list of shoegaze or gaze-adjacent bands taking inspiration from the JAMC could fill a page. Even Kevin Shields would acknowledge the debt.

anytime I see someone call the Jesus and Mary Chain a 'shoegaze band', I
always wince. I agree that labels get increasingly meaningless, but
they had next to nothing to do with that era