― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Ohh shit should I start a thread here trawling for questions here for Mr. Shields, or is that redundant?
I tried trawling through here for ideas for the book a year ago and it all just seemed so redundant to type "Loveless" in the search engine, since almost every single thread came up! Hah.
What I REALLY need is help tracking down any of the people who worked on the album (esp. any of the 57 engineers) now that I got my "high quality" (hah) VOIP on and can make free phone calls to the UK...
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm greatly interested in your book, Michael. Do you have a title for it?
― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826415482
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― john'n'chicago, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Glad to hear that the 33-1/3 book on Loveless is well under way -- been waiting for that one. Sorry, can't think of any good questions off the top of my head, only idiotic/boring ones.
― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Question two: Really?
― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, have you talked or will you be talking to Bilinda, Colm, and/or Debbie? I'd be interested to hear what they have to say about the album at this point.
― box.of.rox, Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Except for those drums, which haunt me in their determinate sincerity. What the hell is it about them that just...stays there? Do they anchor the music or do they ground it? Because there's something about the rest of it all that feels so fucking free. But those drums -- they bring it all back down to earth, as if sound were not indeterminate at all. As if it were very much finite.
The thing about Loveless is that is should be anything I want it to be. But it isn't.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 30 April 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, I'm probably not fucking there. As the effect of that potent little cup of Chanticoâ„¢ wanes, it becomes clear that spending a thousand bucks or so basically just to go to one show is too insane at this point even for me, even to see two of my personal top five living artists (one of whom is in some sort of weird career limbo and whom I'll likely never get to see perform) on a stage together, probably for the only time ever. SOB. Somebody had better bootleg this, is all. Horses haters note: no one will have to "sit through" anything; see the schedule.
(However! When I got up yesterday I had perfect indie-rock bedhead, requiring no human intervention whatsoever, for the first and undoubtedly last time in my life. I'll take my karmic consolation prizes where I can find them.)
― box.of.rox, Saturday, 30 April 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
could be funny if Chan Marshall flakes onstage though, and Smith has to reprimand and corral her mid-set
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
so at the risk of being a credulous fool...
a boozy friend accosted shields over the weekend and he claimed the new mbv record was totally finished and he would be getting the gang together to tour it imminently. This pretty much tallies with the account of a mutual acquaintance who worked with the man 6 months or so ago. so maybe either ksheilds is a delusional tease or we might be getting some shinynewmbv. Has anyone heard anything that might corroborate this either way?
― cw, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I reckons he says that to everyone who asks, every time, for the past five years...
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
He's been too busy hanging out at Sonic Cathedrals, celebrating himself, to record an album!
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifksheilds is a delusional teasehttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
precisely! he's been out and about a lot lately so maybe he has something to celebrate. he claimed that all the mbvers had been contacted and were pretty much ready to start rehearsing.
― cw, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
And once they've had nine years' of rehearsals, they should be ready to hit the road.
― Matthew H, Monday, 16 July 2007 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm only interested if dave conway is involved
― electricsound, Monday, 16 July 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
No, see, he's totally telling the truth, it's just that Kevin Shields perceives time on a geological- nay, an astronomical scale.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 16 July 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmmm...
http://www.myspace.com/mybloodyvalentine
Please note it also links to this, registered with no content as yet:
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.co.uk/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
;-D
i will have some news to share with you soon!!!
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
well, it's a start...still, '92 was a long time ago, in so many ways...
― henry s, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yay the news! (Vinita J. co-runs the myspace site and is on the level, known her for a decade now, so i figure something's up.)
Henry S is right, though. Still, we will see.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
man you guys are suckers
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
All those mid-90s "he's really into jungle" and "he's really into speed metal" rumors created this expectation that if MBV did suddenly return, it'd be with something completely mind-blowing and out-of-nowhere -- an impression his sheer long absence seemed to back up. ("If he's been holed up working on something for this long, it MUST be because it's going to be as next-level amazing as Loveless was!") ... But given the remix work he's done lately, and his general involvement with the same sorts of people and sounds and trends as before, some grand new shift seems less and less likely. And while I wouldn't mind hearing new work or collaborations or whatever that just kinda follow the same path as before, the thought isn't actively exciting, or anything.
― nabisco, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
You are dead inside.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
reunions suck
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm perfectly happy with him making killer Primal Scream remixes and fiddling around with sdtks or whatever - who needs a filthy lucre-style reunion tour with his pudgy mug playing Do You Realise for 30 minutes yet again
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd be pretty pissed if he played Flaming Lips songs as well.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
haha sorry You Made Me Realize
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm looking at it like the Velvet Underground reunion (as their dormant period is now about the same amount of time). It's a chance to see them all on the same stage again before they start dying.
― everything, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a better world with *that* guitar and *those* vocals in it...in any form, really...
― henry s, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't VU reunite about 25 years after they split?
― henry s, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Part of me is still surprised that Bilinda has never had any kind of Beth Gibbon / Hope Sandoval / Martina Topley-Bird type semi-solo collaboration album. I guess the obvious difference is that people aren't all in love with Bilinda's voice in particular, but still.
― nabisco, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link