Boo-hoogaze

Here's a very interesting post from Wired's excellent music blog, Listening Post. It's about how the term 'shoegaze' is totally bogus, regardless of what Wikipedia says.

Performance, under the weight of the term, came to be valued more than the music behind it. And so its multiple effects were palpable: It effectively marginalized and, in some cases, even doom musical careers.

So-called genres I hate: any 'prefix' genre... 'proto-punk', 'post-punk', 'post-rock', etc. It's a mere label and does more to associate the music with that genre rather than making a distinction.

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This one was used in the excellent Lost in Translation soundtrack, produced by Kevin Shields of the recently reunited My Bloody Valentine: