You just killed me dead 😵 I am slewn.

You were misled. (Pronounced like measles)

Honestly the best post on this site in days

my popular posts are usually about the end of civilization so that’s nice to hear

it is if you're talking about the time that guy threw his shoes at george w bush

i just learned that it should be

I like that better actually.

Steep learning Curve

Shoeghazi is that time Gorge W got two shoes thrown at him, right?

It's only shoegazé if it's from the shoegazé region of Britain, otherwise it's just sparkling bumout

Sciugazzi. Il mio genere musicale preferito.

Today I learned I'm gonna pronounce shoegaze "shoo-GAY-zee" for the rest of my life

I refuse to accept this.

Mind = blown

lol

Shügazi is my next band’s name

Not now I’m riding my shoe guzzi

It is now…

im sorry for your loss

It's a shoegazey, it's a shoegazi, it's a wheezy, it's a whatsy...

We were all sharing our own of these a couple of months ago across a few threads! bsky.app/profile/stef...

Obviously, since it starts with “sh” not “f”

Johnny Depp to Al Pacino at a Ride concert: It's shoegaze

Be the change you want to see.

god damn this is gonna become my next vocal stim

Every day we’re learning

So, I can’t rhyme shoegaze with Nazi in the poem that I’m writing?

Clearly an error!

Wait, it's not?

but it CAN be if we dare to dream

Shoegazi ain’t going away!

Is that what middle aged foot pervs do?

I was gonna tag @chrisrichards.bsky.social, but I realize he’s from a whole other the band. Closer to Fugazi than Shoegaze.

I just learned that jokes been told before

ok! this wasn’t a joke but a legitimate thing that happened

you can never trust a vowel

lol

dont make her navelgaze

LOL. Wut? Now, I'm only going to pronounce it like fugazi.

show-EGG-uh-zay

shoëgaze

Sounds like an epithet from the Sopranos when you say it that way.

i’d only seen it written, never said out loud, and for some reason that’s what my mind came up with 😂

I'm in. Just to make sure: is it show-gazi or shoe-gazi? Anarchy is what we make of it.

SHOE

What if we made a Fugazi cover band but in shoegaze style?

Not a cover band, but there's an album of covers by Shoegaze bands doing shoegazi: theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/steady...

Omg I would totally go see it

But it's one of the most literal genre names - they stare at their shoes while mopily playing guitars. I salute your brain's unusual pronounciation.

This is what makes it so pure

They're actually staring at their pedalboards, though.

Or so I've heard. I haven't actually watched any of them play and maybe it's not entirely false advertising. But also they do tend to have a shitload of pedals.

It’s true. Source: me, an old hipster who saw all those bands.

Great, now I’m wondering whether I’ve been pronouncing Benghazi wrong all this time…

Maybe it should be though 🤔

that's amazing. though I'm genuinely curious what you thought it (i.e. "shoegaze") meant.

of course not its show-ee-guh-zay

God now I want a Fugazi shoegaze album

I can't provide an album of Fugazi doing shoegaze, but there is an album of shoegaze bands doing Fugazi covers. theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/steady...

Holy cow thanks!

Shögäz

now trying to think of the most "shoegaze" Fugazi song... Shut the Door, perhaps?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBCS... Fugazi - YouTube

It would be better if it did. If you like showgaze and have t heard these bands yet you might want to: The Telescopes, Chapterhouse, the first Boo Radley’s album.

Where’s @hayao.lol ?

Fugazi came first by a lot.

See, I thought it was, too. Apparently, it's one of those words I'd only read, not heard. Thank you!

It is now.

I'd have called it "shoe gaze" but then I pronounce "fatigue" as "fatty goo" (and yes, "fatty goo kills") and "segue" as "sea goo".

lmfao this is hilarious

[McConaughey voice] be a lot cooler if it was

Wait you mean they were never actually “FOO-gaze”?

I prefer my shugazi with some marinara and a nice chianti while I listen to My Bloody Valentine.

Do it anyway, this is great I might do it

Not sure I can read it any other way after this.

We're staring at our feet, Marisa!

I'm not convinced everyone is pronouncing fugazi the same way either...

I've never pronounced it as rhyming with "nazi" but now I might have to start.

Never apologize for mispronouncing a word because you've only ever read it. But also lol.

Did you have to go back to the waiting room?

We need months of congressional inquiries into Hilary Clinton's role in Shoegazi

But I like your way better now.

Shmoogaze, shmoogazi, hassenpfeffer incorporated

now check out a place to bury strangers

🤌🏻

are you even really friends with @milesklee.bsky.social if you don’t know how shoegaze is pronounced?

damn this is how i find out

never realized how considerate i've been all these years in not blathering to you about my favorite music at length

you know better than

catbus, are you seeing this

In case anyone actually really does like shoegaze and wants to explore the genre a whole lot more our dear friend catbus curates this feed bsky.app/profile/did:...

it is now

Shoegaze cause you spend the song gazin at shoes

one of my ex gfs thought that fugazi was pronounced mostly like shoegaze so i'm glad this is coming full circle lmao

shoegazi ain’t goin away

T-shirt. Now.

This is not a shoegazi t-shirt

they cant stop you tho

Yes it is

Lmao

Reminds me of the time in the guitar store, as a teen, I asked about an Epiphone guitar, pronouncing it epiphany. And as quick as the salesperson's face contorted, I had one.

Nicely done.

Unfortunately, that's a true story. Did not feel nice.

Oof. Sorry about that. 🙁

FYI I haven’t stopped thinking about this post for a single hour since I saw it yesterday 👍🏻

i’m sorry

Me too! Like last Friday just and I am so disappointed

🤌🏻

pie.yt?v=https://yo... Shoegaze is the most beautiful music in the world - played on lawnmowers. My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When

When you're getting grilled about Shoeghazi.

mamma mia, that’s a bloody valentine

My Bloody Valentine were loud, and noisy, and furious, but My Bloody Valentine were never shoegaze

My Bloody Valentine are about the most canonically shorgaze band there ever was. if you look up "shoegaze" on wikipedia I'm sure they're one of the first names you'll see. (along with probably Lush and a few others.)

What???

You know, My Bloody Valentine, that band famous for not being associated with shoegaze at all.

Looking forward to some more Neil hot takes like “The Ramones were never punk rock” and “Chic were never disco” …

Shöegazé

Is it pronounced "SHOW"-gazi? Like a mixture of fugazi & Sho'Nuf?

Oh.. it is now!

It's Italian, so "shoo-GAT-seh"

It is if you want it to be!

when hot hipster dudes whine my bloody valentine that's shogaze

“Shoegaze” is what I performed when I saw sneakers with a beautiful blue and teal color scheme.

be a lot cooler if it was

Shoegazi is the time Bush had to dodge footwear at a press conference.

Be a neat crossover genre

*Guy Picciolo has entered the chat*

You are not alone! I heard someone say it on a podcast finally and just stared at the wall for a minute and agreed to never address it with myself again 😂

what?!

it is, for real, so called because the guitarists are constantly looking at their feet.

lol i just learned that people thought it was pronounced like fugazi 🤷

Okay but Fugazi had a guitarist so now my head is self destructing.

my brain is sore

Ian mackaye was always staring at his feet!?!

(because they have such ridiculous pedalboard arrays)

What is the target demographic for shoegaze?

people who like shoegaze n

Jesus fuck, this reminds me of when the shoegaze, emo, pop punk, ska, and new wave kids all unified on "yeah, spookie daily pride is pretty good"

The jam band kids declared war on us, tho

sneakerheads

that's a weird question. why don't you listen to some? www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Ig...

yes. this gets left out. these kids got BIG TONE goin on

Jeez, I’m sure glad pedal boards don’t look like that no more! When was that photo taken? Early 2000s? Late 1990s?

this feels haram, stella

I couldn't possibly say. Just know I would never lie to you, unless doing so was really really funny.

😂😭

LIES

The traditional pronunciation of shoegaze requires mumbling into a Shure SM58 mic that passes through a BlueSky reverb pedal and out a Fender PA into an underground liminal space haunted by our exes.

marisa

am i in trouble

This is beautiful 🤩

My first week of college some dormmates got into a long conversation about whether Fugazi was pronounced Fugazzi, like Fozzie, or Fugatzi, like Nazi. I dropped out two years later. (I have still never actually heard a Fugazi song.)

Something something waiting room

But I’m thinking it should be.

Shoegazi was the name of my Ska band in high school.

big fan

If that's actually true, then you were the coolest high school kid to ever be in a ska band and I want to hear Shoegazi right away.

Now I'm off to listen to this youtu.be/Og7u3sKuegM?...

I wait I wait I wait I wait (for the Epstein files)

I prefer this video, which is one of the shows featured in yours. It's a perfect Fugazi venue.

And I immediately imagined a shoegazer band covering Fugazi tunes. Brilliant.

Someone's been pronouncing fugazi the wrong way.

it should be tho

shew-ghay-zee?

Nate shoegatze is that anything

Where’s my Fugazi/Ride mashup

If you're like me it always will in your head regardless of how you say it aloud