Why is Shoegaze So Popular Again?
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i got a challenge for you lads, why not track down the band "hum" at the next gig they do and get an interview with them about shoegaze if it wasnt for my bloody valentine we would not have hum, and if we didnt have hum, we never would have known what it sounds like to take the og shoegaze to the next level..
Genuine question, why do you charge money for this community? Is the money necessary for "connecting people"? Am I missing something here?
@@BataraKadodude i'm the biggest hum fan ever but i don't think they're gonna do any more shows since bryan st. pere passed away :(
im str8 thnx homie
@@outer4560 presumably to "curate" the discord community, if you pay to get into a discord server you're a lot less likely to be a lame troll, but yeah unfortunately that makes it paywalled obvi. also to pay everyone and be able to have an income from making this content and the podcasts and whatnot.
being a fan of NEOPUNKFM is like staring at your shoes and avoiding eye contact at the function
wtf does that mean
@@Parmashorn autism
Shoe Gaze bro @@Parmashorn
More like GAZING at your shoes. Am I right, fellas?
It's called shoegaze because you gaze at your shoes when looking at your guitar pedals
asking a suicide prevention hotline worker why they want to kill themselves is crazy
But Doctor I am Pagliacci
he was by far the chillest dude theyve interviewed, nice and sensible, good guy
Cause this world is a shit hole hype fest of complete fookin hell. 😖😉
LONG LIVE LILYS
Neopunkfm fans so insane yall didnt mention the literal slowdive interview in any of the top comments. True brainrot.
I know wtf I’m shocked they didn’t even put it in the title of the video or something like that’s click bait material
being a NEOPUNKFM fan is like making a 15:48 long video about why shoegaze is so popular again
Hear me out: the music and lyrics sound good together!
(Also, the poor Zoomers have been traumatized even more than the Millennials, who've basically given up)
Being a neopunkfm fan is like having a thom yorke profile pic
i woke up eating a lemnom
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@@styx9637 tom bork
mewgaze or something
shoegoon
moggaze
Mew are great.
paragoon
My rizzy sigmatine
that guy at the slowdive show was actually super cool
he was too real we gotta get him out of here
i remember when u guys had like 10k subs and now ur interviewing slow dive and drop nineteens that’s insane congrats
Shoegaze is what happens when a midwest emo incel finally gets some schizoid strange.
god dude shut UP
what
@@aVRy_ Shoegaze is what happens when a midwest emo incel finally gets some schizoid strange.
naw thats DSBM
@@F41RY101 shit you just called me out
us emo kids were fucking like rabbits though, not much incel going on back then 🤣
suizide hotline guy is spitting facts man
I remember reading about the "shoegaze revival" back in like 2013/14 when bands like Whirr/Nothing and Cloakroom were coming out at the same time. I think that era of shoegaze shifted the overall aesthetic of the genre to the more grunge-y, deftones-y style of shoegaze. I think tiktok and social media in general took it the next level popularity wise nowadays but the groundwork for the modern version of the sound was laid a bit over 10 years ago. Shoegaze goes through cycles every 10 years or so, it did even back in the early 2000s with "nu-gaze" and bands like My Vitriol
I saw Cloakroom live a month ago and they still rule.
I love Cloakroom!!! I'm super late to them, but I love what I've heard so far. I would love to see them live.
@@NoName-us6vq they play a killer show and Doyle’s guitar tone is unmatched. They have such a huge sound for a 3 piece band.
@@benlazar6017 only 3 members. Wow! They have a huge sound for only 3 members. I hope they tour again soon.
@@NoName-us6vq I’m stoked to hear you like Cloakroom! I’ll link the best live recording of Cloakroom that’s on CZcams. Definitely give this a listen to get a sense of their live shows. Cheers!
czcams.com/video/zyFKzDHeXF0/video.htmlfeature=shared
Why is shoegaze popular again? Because it's fucking awesome, that's why!
For those of us who were actually there when shoegaze came around in the late 80s and early 90s-shoegaze was part of the underground scene. It wasn’t well known and it didn’t blow up and played all over the radio the way grunge became. And honestly that was the way we liked it. It was our secret and we loved it.
So please forgive me if I chuckle at the thought of shoegaze being “popular” “again”
But we snarky GenXrs are glad the newer generation found our hidden gem, as it keeps it alive.
I think it should be GenX.
@@oro88typo
Yeh talking abt genX during early days of pre n post nirvana teen spirit- like I mentioned it was part of the underground scene
@@oro88 definitely a Gen x thing as well. Just ask my dad lol
@Running4Daze What do you think of modern shoegaze/shoegaze adjacent bands?
@@user-ng3sl6gp4s I’m all for the new folks either diving back in or branching out on the sound.
Folks in the chat hv mentioned sm more current bands. Lots of good stuff coming from out of Japan over past few years.
Blonde Redhead had a decent sound-didn’t think they got their due back in the day.
More recently maybe Oeil and candy claws caught my ear. And of course Beach House (a bit overplayed but still decent).
m b v is such a slept on album. people don’t even know it exists 😢
Who sees you is a fucking masterpiece!
@@atrainofthought99 When I first heard this I had to pull my car over. Unbelievable.
In the 90s i didnt know shoegaze & dream pop existed. Closest to that that i was knew of was Mazzy Star.
Society (and "trickle-down" economics) failed my generation and failed the Zoomers. Don't even get me started on how pissed off I am on behalf of the younger generations.
Shoegaze resonates with me for the same reasons punk, jazz, hip-hop, metal, and hardcore do; it takes a type of instrumentation known for one style, or vibe, and does something totally different. Like, with grunge you had blaring guitars paired with lyrics about drugs, death, and politics, with shoegaze it was equally loud guitars paired with lyrics about love, sadness, introspection, all that romantic shit.
I didn't really get into shoegaze until college in the early 2010's, but the first few Slowdive albums and obviously MBV still get regular play around the house.
Shit sucks globally right now, but it's not hopeless. Never give up, never surrender, and never stand alone!
I'm a young gen x guy (making me old as shit) who feels like I've let down subsequent generations. i figured I'd take solace in the punk rock that would surely come from a Trump presidency and a pandemic. Strangely it was shoegaze... kind of makes sense really.
Goth and Grunge will never die.
Japanese Shoegaze is still alive and well.
>I don't browse 4chan, that shit is for PDFiles
>Proceeds to browse twitter
Comparing twitter to 4chan is like comparing a runny nose to terminal brain cancer with a side of AIDS.
How to say you have never browsed 4chan without saying you've never browsed 4chan.
never compare those two again lmfao
Old Twitter was decently well-adjusted, but new Twitter ("X") is literally indistinguishable in tone and content from 2016 4chan, and arguably more unhinged
@@Aname550 I still think there is no comparison. Elon's Twitter has a lot of unhinged people, but 4chan is cancer all the way down. There is still a decent population of normal, non terminally online people on twitter.
final interview guy is absurdly based
I love how they're so casual about getting to interview f-ing Slowdive (and kind of envious ngl)
NeoPunk failing to mention MBV isn't British
*angry Irish reverb pedal sounds*
@@GonzoCiosain exactly 😂😂😂
I thought that Belinda Butcher is English, but I’m too lazy too look it up to confirm.
Shoegaze in 1992 was a British phenomenon, an alternative to the Seattle grunge sound at the time. It also appealed to the more introverted X heads who weren't attracted to raves. Watch the 92 Ride show here on YT, everyone in the audience is rolling. If you want to hear a brilliant and catchy American offering of the genre, listen to The Lilys "a brief history of amazing letdowns”.
Got to watch Slowdive that night, was incredible. Great vid guys
Neopunk fm trying not to make a video about music
Wow, it’s almost as if they’re a music channel
@@nathanmcgill7249 average Neopunk fm viewer typing in order to reply to a comment
I guess my zoomer students and I were discovering shoegaze at the same time during the pandemic. It hooked me so intensely that I finally started singing with a band and recorded a shoegaze album. I was born '89 so you cant blame me for missing it its first time around.
Being a neopunkfm fan is like having the best taste in youtube content
Loveless was my favorite album of the 90s. It’s nice to get company, at long last, especially since everyone now seems so well studied across the genres. This earned a subscription.
Being at a Slowdive show is like dissolving into music and light. You feel the music travelling through your body. You're almost lifted from the ground, and detached from time and space. You feel the strobes flashing through your eyelids. It's a nuclear explosion. It's intense. You need earplugs if you want to stay healthy.
mustache man at the end was cool
Bro got all these fantano clips like it was a collab video.
Happy Pride Month! I love Shoegays ❤️🏳️🌈
Happy yes month
Genres never go away completely but very rarely does a genre make a comeback.
I’ve always liked psychedelic music in any style. I tend to prefer proto-Shoegaze like Jesus and Mary chain and Cocteau Twins, but it’s a style I love.
To me, who was there at the time. There was the JAMC and later there was MBV. Cocteau’s were an earlier thing for me.
I honestly have never listened to any of the bands who followed the style of the above. After Psychocandy and Loveless I didn’t see any need for lots of the records that followed.
@@maryburke5423 I’m still partial to Ringo Deathstarr’s discography personally. They had an album semi-recently that was good.
Let’s not forget AR Kane.
I love the Cocteaus, but they're dream pop. Maybe that's too precious a distinction, but shoegaze to me refers to something that goes a little harder.
@@ilznidiotic yeah, except that the term was applied to them retrospectively. What they were doing had no label in the 80s other than being a branch of post punk. Dream pop, like indie are 90s terms.
Is shoegaze truly becoming more popular again, or is this just an extension of a trend that has been on going for some time now in alternative and indie rock? In the 90s the influence of bands like MBV, Ride, and Lush could be heard around the college rock circuit in acts like Hum and Starflyer 59 to bigger acts like Smashing Pumpkins. In the 2000s I seem to remember a smattering of buzzy indie bands who were labeled as nu-gaze for the way they brought shoegaze guitars into more conventional indie songwriting: A Place to Bury Strangers, Silversun Pickups, The Depreciation Guild, and A Sunny Day in Glasgow, just to name a few. In the 2010s the style got introduced to a different audience as metal and punk bands broke through that incorporated many elements of shoegaze. Deafheaven, Title Fight, DIIV, and Whirr are some that come to mind who had a lot of hype and are exemplary of this sound. Today it seems to be experiencing a bit resurgence that is largely spearheaded by Parannoul's popularity ,but there are also some American bands explicitly citing shoegaze as an influence like Wednesday, Hotline TNT, and Alvvays. Ultimately I think another factor leading to the popularity of shoegaze has something to do with nostalgia, but also the idea of being in a band and rocking out with your friends is becoming more and more appealing to a whole new generation as a kind of oppositional move both to the increasing social alienation brought on by lockdowns and technology, and the overwhelming trendiness of electropop and techno throughout the 2010s. Another part of the appeal of shoegaze is that it doesn't necessarily rely on extreme technical aptitude: just get a guitar and enough pedals and a few chords and you too can make dreamy melancholy landscapes of sound.
Bro… I got into shoegaze in high school, maybe about 6 years ago. That faux-nostalgia is real. I make music and nerded out real hard, wanted to make a shoegaze or post hardcore band so bad, since I usually do all the work myself. Got a group of guys together in my first year of uni but then covid hit and it fell through. Things just move really fast now, and if you don’t live in a venue-rich city or have a rich parents it’s just really hard to organize a band recreationally
@@mattsmith2222 The "I make music" part is one of the things that draws some people to shoegaze, I think. An experimentally-minded person is always going to look at all those effects pedals and think "holy shit, I wonder what i could do with all that".
Neopunkfm, i am onto your secrets. I know what you have done, behind that pizza place in Miami. What did he ever do to you johnny? The man was running away, you smited him through a first up the cheeks. Not cool dude. I remember what you did back in 2014 in London as well. Your secrets are not safe with me.
Slowdive forever!!!!🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌
It's worth noting that shoegaze did have a lot of staying power in the late 90s / early 2000s American indie scene. That kind of influence would carry over to the late 00s and early 10s with bands like Beach House and DIIV, which would increase the popularity of the genre
We deff beed more third spaces where I don’t gotta spend my money
It’s actually pronounced Shoo-Gah-Zee, btw.
I never stopped listening to Slowdive, Lush, Curve, Cocteau Twins and a few more. I also spent time tracking and buying rarer stuff from these bands, occasionally.
There was a period from 1998 to 2010 approximately when shoegaze was really not considered cool or even palatable. The emergence of social media (especially MySpace) and CZcams suddenly gave everyone access to old obscure songs and bands that were impossible to find, but also to young emerging bands (which you could contract through social media!)
As a side note, I once chatted with one of the backing vocalists of Happy Mondays on MySpace. Quite an amazing experience for the era before Twitter.
In the late 1990s, I started creating mp3 files out of Slowdive songs, for personal usage, and even created a Slowdive themed "skin" titled Blue Day for Winamp. Shaded it in online forums!
wow neopunk 15 min video essay i have been waiting for this 😢😢
Bro was wearing an Injury Reserve shirt that how you know he's got taste!
My pedals will bury all that is dead within me.
I have always wondered if shoegaze music caters to a certain type of neurodivergence. I've always been on the ADHD / Schizo spectrum and wondered if the layered, buzzing wall of sound scratched my particular brain in a way that suited it's preference for diffuse modes of cognition.
And now with how social media has ruined everyone's attention spans etc, I wonder if this type of music is just more appealing to a new type of dominant psychological profile which is emerging in the masses and especially younger generation.
unironically, the members of the shoegaze bands being middle-class and the Thames Valley scene being dubbed 'The Scene That Celebrates Itself' was the first nail in the coffin for the genre's decline in the mid-90s. Being middle class and the scene's name meant that they were perceived by critics as over-privileged and self-indulgent. This was in sharp-contrast with the bands from the US grunge scene that was gaining popularity across the Atlantic, as well as the upcoming Britpop bands. Britpop also offered intelligible lyrics, often about the trials and tribulations of working-class life; a stark contrast to the "vocals as an instrument" approach of shoegaze, which often prized the melodic contribution of vocals over their lyrical depth.
Back then the British music press had so much power. Punk, grunge, Britpop, Madchester, New Rock Revolution; they became successful as a result of the press. Conversely, they can also break bands, with many bands' careers ending prematurely due to them constantly destroyed by the press, whether it was Melody Maker, Sounds, NME doing the critical smashing. Slowdive and shoegaze were a prime example of the latter scenario, they were the press's punching bag. Thankfully, the ability of the press to make or break bands is a thing of the past, and also thankfully Slowdive are now enjoying the critical acclaim and success they deserved.
Reminds me of Richey Edwards saying he'll always hate Slowdive more than Hitler lol. They really hated it lol
@@antekm2639jeez
Ask a Greek person, the pronunciation of souvlaki in this video has caused me irreversible psychic and cultural damage. Thx neopunk
I am an old person who was young when this all started, and it's pretty exciting to see all these bands keeping the sound alive. I just want to put it out there that shoegaze never actually died, there have been bands like Airiel, Highspire, The Joy Formidable and perhaps most obviously, DIIV that have kept the flame smoldering through the... let's call it "Millenial years".
The three cornerstones of Shoegaze are MBV's Loveless, Slowdive's Souvlaki and RIDE's Nowhere.
8:41 "its not videogames on your phone" lmao
i don't care if it's nerdy music, this genre knows my soul
Never thought I'd be seeing clips of my hometown being shown on neopunk, weird world.
one thing that need correction is Napster was mainstream music, back in the days we shared "underground" music on Soulseek
Guy in the cap at the slowdive show is such a legend
OG GenX Shoegaze fan thanks you for this great video!! ❤
got to see trauma ray live recently and i can confidently say i have never seen as many pedals for one band as i had then, 30+ total between 3 guitarists and 1 bassist
trauma ray are fucking crazy, love them
You can also say thanks to Nothing and Whirr that brought shoegaze back.
In my opinion loveless is the best piece of music ever recorded. It’s timeless catchy and has layers and layers. Really beautiful work on that record. Come in alone is the goat song. Alright carry on.
this early because shoegaze is my fav genre
Love you guys, thank you for your work!
Being a NEOPUNK FM fan is like witnessing them interview slowdive!! Happy for y’all
I was going to be at that Atlanta show, but missed due to unforeseen circumstances. At least I caught them in 2017, when they were here last. As an old Gen X shoegeezer, I think these things tend to skip a generation; I can relate much easier to Gen Z than I ever could to Millennials.
If anyone is curious about what a Nirvana Shoegaze album would have sounded like check out Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.
4:34 The king fish from Squidward's clarinet dream when he speaks.
I need to be homies with mustached hat man towards the end
Slow dive is better than my bloody valentine fight me
Love these style of videos, best stuff you guys put out
Blur weren’t working class at all. They got flak in the 90s for supposedly being disingenuous about their socioeconomic backgrounds and putting on accents, but were very much an upper middle class group, and are widely known to be as such today. Their rivalry was often referred to as the working class vs the middle class in uk media during the latter stages of the 90s.
i love slowdive!!! saw them at wide awake
injury reserve shirt !
LETS GO NEOPUNKFM SAVING SHOEGAZE
thank you for dropping a video, I was going insane 😭😭
The shoegaze revival began at least ten years ago. Catch up.
Recording Slowdive members on an iphone mic. Most NeoPunkFM thing I've ever seen.
Smashing Pumpkins and others in their earliest recordings were shoegaze. Janey mack, Radiohead hit that bell of shoegaze early on.
Idk about Radiohead being shoegaze at any point. I don’t think they ever got very close it tbh
I loved that little interview.
He seems like a really great guy
14:54 right on the money
Happy days are here again! 😄
I think Title Fight releasing Hyperview in 2015 had some part in the resurgence of shoegaze as well as all the hype surrounding Deafheaven and the Blackgaze trend. It had been slowly building up from the 2010s on and Tiktok was the final step towards bringing it back into the spotlight.
youve somehow crafted a video that made it into 2 of my political playlists and a top tier content list... thank you for your service.
guy at 14:00 seems so lovely and right
MBV appear to have made 3 albums
THE BLUR KISSING VID 😭😭😭
Interesting macro take. Shoegaze was always a very particular microbrew at the bar of late 80s/early 90s alternative music. MBV, Slowdive, Ride. I do agree that nostalgia and the internet helped bring the scene more visibility recently and there is appeal to this scene for kinda nerdy kids who want to be into something others don’t get or don’t want to get. But…you missed in major thing. Like the God Particle of Shoegaze…”Psychocandy” by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Having lived through these years, it was always obvious that JAMC were the godfathers of this scene. But I guess the further we go from those years and the more kids are forced to learn about this stuff through “the internet” and not real life, it’s understandable that JAMC would not be picked up.
Seasurfer is one of my favorite groups I discovered within the last year, and I highly recommend them
Hey, I'm relatively new to your guys' stuff, but I dig it! Just wondering what yall's opinion on Hum is? Idk if you've talked about them in previous vids but I'm interested why gen-z hasn't gravitated to them in the same way they have to bands like Slowdive, even though they have a pretty unique and gazey sound.
nicely done
Shoegaze stays popular. It was also super popular in 2012-2014 among everyone I knew and local shows I went to. I think the bigger reason were seeing it a lot is everyone can make a quick Tiktok or CZcams video about it and find an audience. More people have access to the internet and cool art shit.
The third space mention into immediate mention of public transit is hilarious. Glad they are getting talked about more as potential solutions to the high levels of isolation people face now.
You interviewed drop nineteens 😭😭😭😭 WHAT THE FLIP
Shoegaze shenanigans 😆
the slowdive shoegazer guy is mewgazin!!!
Ironically, some of the iconic shoegaze kids such as Miki Berenyi of lush and Toni Halliday of Curve, had a difficult childhood and lived through traumatic events. Not the suburban bourgeois the press pretended they were...
haven't you guys talked about this already
playing the my bloody valentine tune and instantly thinking of worlds a fuck by sematary
dude at the end was real.
I LOVE NEOPUNKFM
i fw the its not like video games on your phone refrence
CURVE and LUSH!!!!
Shoegaze has been cool again for at least 10 or 12 years. Surprised you didn't notice.😊