Any shoegazers here remember the first Moonshake EP?

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I pulled this out today...I suddenly heard something from it in my head at work on Thursday, I think.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

She sings "I cut the rope today/I cut the rope today"

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Which songs are on it? I know some early Moonshake.

― emil.y (emil.y), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It was a milestone in my life at the time, it sounded like nothing else before it. Tracks were:

1.Gravity
2.Coward
3.Coming
4.Hanging

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

This was 1991 of course.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Having played it two times in a row now, though "Hanging" is definitely the favourite. Saddam notwithstanding. I don't know why these things happen coincidentally.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Their one thing on Creation, I recall. Never have heard this in full.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't thought of them in a dog's age. Saw their first US show way back when at William & Mary. They were pretty good live.

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Ned. (shakes head with tragic melodrama) Please, don't let your life be without it.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone who has any time whatsoever for Laika would do well to lay hands on a copy of this. It is completely and utterly brilliant.

I have special memories of this because M. Fiedler was one of my good friends at college. We both went to London after college and didn't run into each other the first six months I lived there (people didn't have phone lines then, as often as not) but unbelievably we were on the same flight back to NYC and she'd spent the previous week recording it. I thus became the first other person to hear it, 40,000 feet above the ground.

Sigh.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 1 January 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

hanging is the best track from this one. i prefer the first couple of too pure things they did, particularly secondhand clothes

― electric sound of jim (electric sound of jim), Monday, 1 January 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been putting "City Poison" into playlists recently, but that came much later. I'll have to hear this earlier stuff methinks.

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Monday, 1 January 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

CRE101T, I recall (Ride's Today Forever had been #100) - bought on the first day of release in the Left-Legged Pineapple in Loughborough(!). I hoovered up everything on 4AD and Creation back then but even a label-slave like me could tell it was something a bit special. I was relieved Margaret struck out on her own eventually though; Eva Luna was half-genius and that half was hers. (I'm sure Dave C's a lovely bloke and everything - in fact, I know he is - but his stuff wasn't for me).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 January 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

>Anyone who has any time whatsoever for Laika would do well to lay >hands on a copy of this. It is completely and utterly brilliant.

suzy artskooldisko seconded through nineteenthed. this EP represents the distillation of everything MBV had done, and much of what Seefeel would eventually do, into twenty of my all-time favorite minutes of recorded sound. it still sounds glorious. Guy Fixsen = genius. and while i personally love both halves of Moonshake, "Coward" may be the one Callahan track even the haters can enjoy.

there's an unlisted fifth track, at least on the CD. an "acoustic" remix of "Coward."

suzy, were you at UConn with Fiedler (and Moby)?

― Hal Jam (Hal Jam), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

*coughs* If, please, Hal Jam could see his way to a YSI of these five tracks...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll see what i can do.

and Dave's track is "Coming," not "Coward."

― Hal Jam (Hal Jam), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Dave Callahan was most definitely the "Einar" of Moonshake...

― henry s (henry s), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

....er, no. "city poison", "seance", "secondhand clothes", "capital letters" etc etc are fucking great songs.
also the wolfhounds ffs.

― zappi (zappi), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it was Sarah Lawrence, not UConn?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.moby.com/journal/2003-08-26/reminiscing.html

i don't know if that clarifies or further confuses. from what i've gathered, Fiedler and Moby were friends(+) since high school. i know Moby's a UConn alum and that Fiedler graduated from SL, but there seems to have been a period when they were both attending the same school and playing music together.

― Hal Jam (Hal Jam), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

anybody remember Moose? they did a series of Peel Sessions that were fantastic! go go Hut Records!

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Moose are still fantastic, tho not very shoe.

― Hal Jam (Hal Jam), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The Moose Peel Sessions were to die for - better than their entire recorded output.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Moose Peel Sessions were to die for - better than their entire recorded output."

Absolutely. Agreed.

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I once had a conversation about Moonshake with a member of Moose backstage at a Cocteaus gig! It all ties neatly together. Pat Nevin got me in, bless him.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

dave callahan certainly was not einaresque but he did fall apart pretty quickly once margaret and guy f. left. they had the perfect contrast, him with the sinister nihilism and her with the purring psychosis. eva luna is my favorite record of the 90s. sadly i've never heard this ep.

― keith (keithkeith), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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