Beautiful Noise

I really want to see this movie about SG.

Kool & the Gang - Too Hot

[link] Top 40 radio played the hell out of this song.  I remember hating it for a while.  But now it's sort of a welcome blast from the past.  It holds up pretty well.
Here's another one I can say the same thing about (I really truly hated this song when it came out)
The Spinners - Working My Way Back To You

Blonde Redhead - Elephant Woman

[link] Although I hear these guys a lot on DKFM, the SG element is only a part of their sound.  As I said in the previous post, there is a more complex element in the songwriting and melodicism. Characteristic of the more retro sounds of the late 90s and oughts in alternative music. Bordering on 60-era jazziness.

Blonde Redhead - 23

[link] Begun in 1993 and still going these days, on 4AD, this band seems a very fitting standard bearer for SG into the future. Vocally, Kazu Makino is multidimensional, having all the standard qualities of a SG female vocalist in spades, along with a more complex 90s alt.rock sensibility, which can be heard in this track.

SIANspheric - Static

[link] I really like the main guitar riff and its variants.  That's where there's a lot of room for many subtle novelties in this genre.  And these guys have capitalized on that here. Aspects of the vocal track are experimental-ish as well. This sound takes me back to the 90s. These guys are Canadian and were active in the late 90s. I would call this High Shoegaze. A sort of perfection of at least some aspects of the original form.

Difference Engine - Simon's Day

[link] Couldn't find any info on this band but they are Kitchens of Distinction-ey. Even in the 90s, the name was a bit of an obvious band name. Proggy in the mixture of time signatures.

Kind of yearning for D&D

It would be great to have a weekly (or even monthly) D&D game (or board game night with Avalon Hill games and the like).  Probably still multiple years away given my current situation.  But I'd like to get back to that (after multiple decades of not having it) eventually.