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* [[Vindicated Byby History]] -- They got a pretty bad [[Hatedom]] among British critics because [[Sarcasm Mode|they had the gall to continue existing after everybody decided that shoegazing was yesterday's news]] (''Melody Maker'' trashed ''Just for a Day'' as "a major fucking letdown" and the reviewer assigned ''Souvlaki'' wrote "I would rather drown choking in a bath full of porridge than ever listen to it again"), but their albums are acclaimed nowadays.

* [[What an Idiot!]] -- SBK Records, in charge of distributing Slowdive's albums in the USA, came up with a promotional campaign for ''Souvlaki'' that included vandalising a statue commemorating the end of slavery and predictably getting sued for it. Also, they delayed the release of ''Souvlaki'' to the point that when the band supported [[Catherine Wheel]] on tour in 1993, the album they were promoting ''still hadn't come out''. And... let's just say the band got [[Screwed Byby the Network]] to the point that Milla Jovovich's album had a better promotion<ref>Not a slight at Jovovich's album, but despite the fact that she was a famous model at the time, her album was also a decidedly uncommercial blend of Eastern European folk music and alternative rock. Not something that would set the charts on fire, but it somehow managed to be better promoted by SBK. [[Blur]]'s first few albums with SBK as their US distributor had similarly bungled promotion</ref>.