🎵 Ashlee’s Three Tune Tuesday Trip To The Early Nineties Shoegaze Scene! 1991/1992/1993 Alternative Music 🎶

2 days ago (Edited)

In the late eighties & blooming by early nineties there was an alternative music scene called #Shoegaze. Shoegaze defined by its use of guitar effects like distortion, reverb, and delay to create an “overwhelming volume" and"wall of sound" effect, often with ethereal, obscured vocals buried in the mix. The name comes from the performers' tendency. That’s what the so called experts define it as but I just call it a chill ass vibe! Definitely “Grunge” got the mainstream attention in the early nineties but shoegaze did get some mainstream love when early Smashing Pumpkins came into the radio & MTV fold, although I would call early Pumpkins not exactly a strait up Shoegaze band but similar.

(After you hear my tunes check this out if you enjoyed the vibe)

I will pick three bands you might now know but who were heavily influential to the bands who would come in the Alt2k 2000’s years! & also to other strait up nineties acts. I’ll go in order 1991,1992,1993 for my choices to keep things organized and with theme 😄
My boyfriend @geneeverett likes to include album cover art with tunes so I’ll try that also. Though I’m going in a different order as he’s over my shoulder now cause I make him type these for me half the time 😂.

First up!

Band - My Bloody Valentine
Album - Loveless (1991)
Song - When You Sleep

Second Up!

Band - Lush
Album - Spooky (1992)
Song - Nothing Natural

Third Up!

Band - Slowdive
Album - Souvlaki (1993)
Song - Alison

A big thanks to @ablaze for hosting #ThreeTuneTuesday weekly along with his weekly prize giveaway! Go check ‘em out for more info! #TTT scroll down for a bonus tune btw!

And even though I said I’m not so sure Smashing Pumpkins fit the Shoegaze label as much as these three above I thought they’d be a good bonus tune. We’ll get to there first album in 1991.