Shoegaze and Grunge Compared

0:00 Intro
0:54 Origins
1:52 Etymology
2:46 Lyricism
3:29 Sonic Characteristics
4:47 Influential Shoegaze Bands
5:46 Influential Grunge Bands
6:36 Grungegaze
6:56 Commercial Popularity
7:18 Periods of Success
7:46 Revival
8:35 Conclusion

Songs that appear in the video:
1. Swirlies - Pancake
2. Nirvana - You Know You're Right
3. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
4. Pearl Jam - Alive
5. Slowdive - Sleep
6. Alice in Chains - Them Bones
7. Ride - Here and Now
8. Sound Garden - Black Hole Sun
9. Candy Claws - White Seal (Shell & Spine)
10. Foo Fighters - Everlong

Sources:

[MutantBurglar]

I think smashing pumpkins blended shoegaze and grunge super well especially in their Siamese dream album

[camzilla_does_music]

Shoegaze is like a manic pixie dream girl and grunge is like the boyfriend who is broke, depressed and probably addicted to some drug

[ХаирСантамариа]

I like bands like Swervedriver, Smashing Pumpkins, Love Battery and Drop Nineteens because they made a kind of fusion of both music styles and sounds interesting. Heavy but dreamy at the same time

[pizzatime]

I love both grunge and shoegaze. Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Slowdive, Lush...all fantastic.

[danilosaraujo]

Smashing Pumpkins's Gish sounds like the perfect balance between Shoegaze and Grunge for me.

[gdubtub.]

I didn't discover Shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine) until I was 60+ and had thought I had already heard it all. What an awakening that was -- it's never too late to be completely blown away by something!

[zatoichi]

I remember when I was a junior in college in 1994, I bought Soundgarden's SuperUnknown on the day of its release then took the CD with me the next day to France for my semester abroad. The kids in my French host family and I were totally blown away by it and it got a lot of play during that time and by summer it was a huge hit all over Europe. So many good memories... such a good time to be alive and young.

[gazeunderthesunmusic]

I love both of the genre, but I definitely prefer shoegaze much more due to the wall of sounds, swirls and ethereal voices, the genre itself made a lot of sense to my life in general. I remember getting into my bloody valentine and the shoegaze genre when I turn 18 especially with loveless that changed my life and my musical direction, this was when most people in my age group that I know were listening to fall out boy, my chemical romance, bullet for my Valentine, the killers, arctic monkeys (only to name a few in 2005/6), somehow getting into the shoegaze genre made me step away from the mainstream culture what was happening at the time. Even since them I got into Bands like LoOp, Moose, Lush, Ariel, Ringo Deathstarr, Heroes of Switzerland, slowdive, no joy, nothing etc.

[merchantofvenice]

it was really cool of you to give that shoutout in the intro. no one wouldve been able to tell you were inspired by him if you didnt say it yourself but you still did. really cool of you.

[soydeneptuno]

Loved the comparison format this video. Shoegaze & grunge will forever be my top genres

[Kelly-qyyr]

The Verve (before Urban Hymns) is one of the most amazing and underrated Shoegaze bands of the early 90s and deserves a mention!

[JalenJaguar]

Shoegaze & Grunge are both the sonic versions of abstract expressionism that just have two different interpretations on the same kind of melancholy feelings

[ARMORXV]

I remember discovering Shoegaze in the mid-2000s while falling down into the Pop-Punk, Alternative, Emo pipeline. The depth of the sound and mostly melancholic tone of it spoke to me a lot

[olocippicolo]

Metalhead at heart, but also a huge Pearl Jam fan since a young age, recently discovered the joy of listening to Soundgarden. Wish I would've found them sooner. R.I.P Chris.

[sonny_trinitron]

I'm a metalhead, but man, 90s alternative rock genres are so sweet and sick at the same time! I discovered shoegaze few days ago and it immediately reminded me grunge bands. It's funny to shift AIC songs with MBV songs...

[stagecoachrobbery]

Love that you gave Taylor Hawkings a shout out and RIP, and then played a snippet from a song that Dave Grohl famously played the drum parts on.

[hyaundo]

Seattle local here, love grunge and shoegaze!! Super awesome to grow up in the area all my favourite bands did too. Great video, and love your channel! I'm looking forward to seeing you grow even more!

[lunasrojas_]

I used to looove grunge in high school, I still do, but the more older I get the more I fall in love with shoegaze

[CmprDohn]

At the time that both genres were emerging, I was absolutely on "Team Shoegaze", being a big fan of MBV, Lush, Ride, Slowdive as well as other related Brit bands like Cocteau Twins, Chapterhouse, Charlatans UK ( as they were referred to here in the U.S. ) and Happy Mondays. As a musician going to jams over the years, some of the Grunge material started making it's way into the "curriculum" of tunes that might come up in the "so, whaddaya wanna play?" back-and-forth during jam sessions, Open Mics, etc. As a result, I started to gain more of an appreciation of some of the Grunge tunes that most people know and play. As of yet, I still don't own any Grunge albums, but I do now have a few dozen songs in the genre that I can honestly say that I like

[JoeyLevenson]

I’m an original shoegazer, and although I lived through grunge, I have come to love it recently. I can see the beauty in both kinds of fuzzy goodness.