Best Song on "Loveless"

OK I ended up going for "What you Want" (just pipped "When you Sleep") because there's something about the way Kevin sings it that tugs my heartstrings and makes me feel really awesome.

no ned on this thread no credibility! it's almost spooky...

I wound up voting for "Blown A Wish." The "I'll turn it in with you" part wins me over.

While I love the way "Only Shallow" kicks off the album, and "Soon" closes it....I went with "I Only Said". It was hard to pick ("Loomer" was another contender), but I love that lilting guitar riff that floats through "I Only Said".

To Here Knows When is one of my favourite things ever, and I'm not a massive MBV enthusiast either.

So, that.

"to here knows when" is just a tiny bit more transcendent than the rest, so that

What You Want was first impulse, and I went with it.

I said Blown A Wish, but it could just as easily been I Only Said.

It's interesting that this thread came up now, as I've just been talking a bunch about how I love shoegaze, but never really "got" Loveless. It seems like MBV are most people's shoegaze band. Well, Ride is mine. I don't know, maybe I need to give it yet another listen.

Johnny OTM. "I Only Said" is the one.

Ride is mine as well, but MBV are pretty good. In the great shoegaze debate, they're probably just behind Slowdive, and just ahead of Catherine Wheel in my estimation.

I've always said "Soon," but on certain days, "Sometimes" sounds like the most glorious song ever recorded. Today is one of those days.

"Soon" if only because I keep waiting for some hip-hop artist to sample it.

I feel like there's some riffs on loveless that are wrong.. like a little bit too high or too low pitched for what else is playing

Also some of the super obvious mixing board stuff on this album is really crap.

it sounds pretty though

bump: results 'soon'

I like Sometimes a lot.

here 'tis, y'all.

see, touched IS the worst song, disappointing result for loomer tho ;_;

Interesting.

I know you'd rate 'Soon' tops, Ned, but where would 'Loomer' be? And where would 'I Only Said' be?

(both are far too low here IMHO)

I know you'd rate 'Soon' tops, Ned

I didn't vote and I am not making a choice.

I'm glad "When You Sleep" came second :)

tied for first, you mean!

nothing will

tied for first, you mean!

God dammit I need new glasses.

Why doesn't ned vote?

I'm not interested in poll structures as such -- the most I think about things like this and/or ranking in general is a year-end thing like Jackin' Pop, and even that's hard for me to draw up to my satisfaction. Discussion is something else.

woss rong wid Touched then?

The drummer wrote it.

Surprised at the tie, btw.

"I've always thought "Come In Alone" was the worst track off Loveless - rocks most conventionally, almost sounds like a Hendrix parody."

wrong. great song.

I didn't know "Soon" came out a full 18 months before Loveless. Damn. Fans must've felt ripped off. They didn't even remix it or anything.

Its 4 seconds shorter

4 seconds away from perfection

think my ultimate sympathies may have drifted from 'loomer' to 'to here knows when', because the latter still sounds beamed in from beyond our reality and stands up as a genuinely astounding work of synaesthetic sound-art on an album full of brilliant art-pop songs (like loomer, which also hints beyond itself, but with more specificity and less mindbending divergence)

I don't even know the names of half of these songs. I like "To Here Knows When" the best, and then the 30-second one that sounds like a whale song, then "Soon," then the opener, then the one that goes "Mrrrmmmrrrr oooohhhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmrrrrrr oohhh ahhhhhhhhhhhh" with the crushing guitars in the background, then the one that goes "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, ah, ooooooooooooooooh, ah." The rest of the album I'm not too crazy about. I'd say the one that goes "And when I look at you" is my least favorite because it wakes you up from a dream from the previous song, and I like MBV the best as ambient noise.

come in alone was robbed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXxTCxjPzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuBgaHFtzw

come in alone was robbed!

Feel like "I Only Said" is the tune that actually gets underrated.

I Only Said sparked probably my first genuine, emotional reaction to music. I mean it's always been up-lifting, mellow-making, enthusiasm-pumping stuff but I've never gone so far as to experience an actual head rush. I Only Said, max volume, headphones, and right at about 1:45 made me lunge over in my desk chair, literally literally overwhelmed with blood and this sense of catharsis or release I didn't think a song would ever, ever procreate. I might as well have prefaced this whole comment with a "I'm 14 and" as it's very sentimental, YouTubey thing to say but I could never be swayed to think that is not one of the best songs in existence.

Soon is actually a different mix on the EP according to Shields, iirc.

Soon is the obvious choice, and THKW too, but I also adore Only Shallow - magnificent opener, one of the all-time greats.

despite, i always have this really corny image of a jeep trailblazing it's way through some african desert when this song plays. it's especially unfortunate b/c despite loveless being my favorite album, i associate no other images with any other songs. no help that matthew mcconnaughey is occasionally in the jeep.

You're an odd boy.

would've voted loomer i think, dunno why but that "pretty boys with their sunshine faces carrying their heads down" is the 'eye of the duck' moment of the album, for me

Eye of the duck?

'i only said' is my personal highlight whenever listening to loveless, i like the relentlessness of it

To Here Knows When, pretty easily. Soon is awful.