Is it me or is Heroes (the song) kinda like proto shoegaze?

Is it me or is Heroes (the song) kinda like proto shoegaze?

Heroes is the most blatant Velvet Underground ripoff I've ever heard

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Not true btw

Eno foretold shoegaze a few years earlier with Here Come the Warm Jets

YOU COULD BE MEAN

Yeah it is
Heroes sounds just like a VU song but with those electronic beeps and shit

Didn't Kevin Shields say that Heroes was one of his influences?

Is it a bad thing cause Heroes is an amazing song

It's not a bad thing just sort of interesting
Bowie was a huge Velvet Underground fan so it makes sense

I mean it has the droney and noisy guitars in the background, seems really proto-shoegazey too me

I disagree. It has the droney VU feeling sure, the main melody is very simple, it stays within an octave mostly, but erupts with Bowie raising the melody an octave. It's much too dramatic and heartfelt for a VU song.

Well, it doesn't sound *exactly* like a VU song, but it's pretty obviously Bowie's attempt at that sound

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needle in the camel's eye is also shoegazey

The Velvet Underground foretold shoegaze with Sunday Morning

I'M NOT SOME PIECE OF TEENAGE WIIIIIIIIILDLIIIIIIFE

This guy looks a lot like idubbztv

I think Queen Bitch would be a better example of that. ''Heroes'' sounds very ''Bowie-like'' to me.

The Beatles - It's All Too Much

Now that's proto shugazi.

this

oh my fuck this is such a good song
can't believe I never bothered to download yellow submarine

>not The United States of America - Cloud Song
wew

pleb

Ocean by TVU always felt like proto shoegaze to me

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Heroes sounds nothing like VU. You know who it sounds like? Robert Fripp