The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

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Damn, this thread is turning into paparazzi press!

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Charlie, yer gossip is about ten years out of date!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 07:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

saw the Lost in Translation trailer!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 07:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

did I just completely miss this???

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1431220.html

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 01:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

Apparently you're not alone. But at least it's there!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

also, finally a new fansite:

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

With all the MBV dropping on ILM and the gaze thing and the fact that Kevin did several songs on Lost In Translation I would hope so. I hope so.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Kevin Shields and Ned Raggett are slowly merging into one being:

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/images/filter03.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Curt1s, Curt1s - be careful what you wish for!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

That joke has been made several times now on many threads! First by me I think. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

He loves cheese.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

A'right then, Ned. You've recorded you 'Ecstasy & Wine' now, obviously. When is yer 'Isn't anything' due?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

Kevin Shields is my Friendster.

Kevin Shields
Member Since May 2003
Last Login 01/06/2004

Gender:
Male

Interested in
Meeting People for:
Friends, Activity Partners

Status:
Single

Age:
40

Occupation:
Recording artist & dyslexia spokesman

Location:
United Kingdom

Hometown:
Long Island, NY and Dublin, Ireland

Interests:
Rearranging my recording studio, bankrupting record labels, the hypnagogic state, gourmet meals, martial arts, breeding chinchillas, smoking lots of dope, watching lots of TV, easy projects, writing fresh and simple material, and just keeping it simple!

Favorite Music:
Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, Beatles, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Ramones

Favorite TV Shows:
Just about anything, really.

About Me:
You may have heard of my band, My Bloody Valentine. Many critics have written about us in very flowery terms. I don't think I understood what they were saying in those reviews half the time. That guy from Phish loves me guitar sounds though. Do me a favor and buy my Lost in Translation soundtrack. Island Records isn't helping me out much these days. Also kids, don't forget to buy our box set that's coming out in early '04.

Who I Want to Meet:
Great recording effects designers, more film directors, those with good weed, record labels who understand my fondness for expensive food and all of the time I like to spend in and out of the studio. Just remember... I NO LONGER DO REMIXES!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sure sounds like him!

When is yer 'Isn't anything' due?

I must achieve my breakthrough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

that profile is CLASSIC.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hands up who owns his remix of Hurricane £1? < /old Select jokes>

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Shields lives in Long Island now? Where?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

the duties + demands placed on a dyslexia spokesman are immense¡
do you people really think he has time for anything else¿
surely he has found his true calling.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Can someone post the link to 'What Kevin Shields is doing now'?

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 22:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

site says to expect this in late '05 or early '06...

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/news/boxset.html

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

hmmm don't mean to be a cynical carl but i don't believe any of that page for a damn second.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

last i'd heard the retrospective was a double CD, not a million disc double box set

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

well, until then we'll have this "City Girl" video:

http://metroencoding.net/emperornorton/ref/kevinshields_city-girl_320x180_large-REF.mov

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

uh, has there been any speak of Kevin Shields playing this years Meltdown!?

what on earth is he going to play?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

WHOA.

"The Coral Sea 0 Text: Patti Smith Music: Patti Smith, Kevin Shields, Cat Power (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 22 June)"

I am so FUCKING there.

― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Now furiously googling for cheap flights to London.

― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm sure whatever it is, it'll be good. :-) Pity I'll miss it by two weeks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

what is this exactly?

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's this thing.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

you would sit through the whole of horses to see kevin shields eat some pie? that's dedication.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'll have to ask him about this if I can get him on the phone soon -- supposed to talk for the "Loveless" book I hope to finish in two weeks.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

xpost
What on earth do you mean, "sit through"? I fucking LOVE Horses. All the more reason.

― box.of.rox, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Ohh shit should I start a thread here trawling for questions here for Mr. Shields, or is that redundant?" - The most obvious questions seem so sadly unanswerable..

I'm greatly interested in your book, Michael. Do you have a title for it?

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Ohh sorry to assume everyone knows I'm doing this, hah -- first Mr. Keenan was supposed to do it then he had to bail, and I've taken a few months more than I was supposed to to write the thing -- but somehow that's all fitting given the topic, right? That's what I tell myself anyway!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826415482

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

you've spoken to mcgee already?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Nope, put mutltiple requests in but never heard back! I dunno if he doesn't want to talk or maybe my contact info is bogus? I'll keep trying.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

You asked for it. You've dreamed of it. Now finally, together, for one night only: Steve Earle and Patti Smith (Royal Festival Hall, 19)!!!!

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

"horses" is a peice of shit

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

You mean "piece"? In any case, I do not agree, obviously.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

Question one: To Here Knows When...HOW?

Question two: Really?

― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah...piece

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wait, here's a geek question. I swear I read somewhere that dude had an instrument specially built just to record "Sometimes." True? And if so, how was it customised? Like he'd even remember at this point. Still I'm curious.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

Kevin Shields and Cat Power are totally gonna get married and sit in an apartment for the rest of their lives getting stoned and watching kung-fu movies in Spanish and eating lentils and duct taping over the windows and bitching about how nobody understands how hard it is for them to make music. It's gonna be like Les Enfants. Starring Alan McGee as Paul.

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow, you are so beyond music julio.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yay for Mike! I'm glad *someone's* doing it -- I was asked once or twice by others if I ever wanted to try for it but I gotta be honest, I find it near impossible to talk about the album or its personal impact on me, it was simply that profound. I've learned to accept that the most entrancing, powerful and moving album and music of my life will ultimately be indescribable by myself -- but that's why I like reading other interpretations of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Really -- let's talk about this for a second. Is Loveless unbelievabl.y overrated? Think about it -- it's possible. I love it, too. It makes me feel completely overwhelmed, like I'm stranded in a studio with nowhere to go, where high frequencies are the norm and nothing sounds clear. It's all sound -- all dreamy, all fresh.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

Why should it be anything you want it to be?

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I guess you explained what you mean by that in the post (that it should be more formless and thus more malleable in the mind of the listener, i think?), but I guess I'm asking why any album should be expected to be everything/anything to everyone/anyone? Of course that's impossible.

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

The big question is between Cat Power and Kevin Shields will either of them manage to play a full set of songs?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 30 April 2005 08:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

What, does Shields have trouble playing live? I thought the problem was getting his own stuff recorded to his satisfaction. Anyway it sounds like the show is going to consist of Smith's "The Coral Sea" (her elegy for Robert Mapplethorpe, published in 1996) with music by herself, Shields, and Power, so "full set of songs" is probably moot.

Uh, I'm probably not fucking there. As the effect of that potent little cup of Chantico™ 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 (8 years ago) Permalink

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― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:15 (1 month ago) Permalink

was wondrin' 'bout the dongs..

― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:13 (1 month ago) Permalink

new cd on amazon as an "import" - £19.39

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BHUJ2XI/ref=s9_newr_gw_d63_g15_ir04

― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:31 (1 month ago) Permalink

£11.99 + £1.50 p&p

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/138932-my-bloody-valentine-m-b

― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:33 (1 month ago) Permalink

Having a giggling attack about dongs now

― the company of wome (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 25 March 2013 23:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

<i>taking too long between dongs ... just activating the passage that came between what you want and soon<i>
that's what she said

― MatthewK, Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

Enough about Colm and his dongs. How about we talk about some of the old 12"s?

― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:40 (1 month ago) Permalink

Dong.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

I complained to the MBV website about my damaged LP. They asked for photos. Today a replacement cover arrived in the mail. Better packaged than the LP, but still a tiny bit scuffed. It'll do

― Duke, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 18:51 (1 month ago) Permalink

was the packaging the same for the replacement?

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 18:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

The replacement cover came in the same box, but loosely wrapped in shrink wrap (my LP was completely naked). When I say "loosely" - I mean the shrink-wrap wasn't taped around it or anything. So the cover managed to wriggle a little loose in the mail and is slightly scuffed on one side.

― Duke, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 18:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

smh

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:01 (1 month ago) Permalink

yep -- you'd think they'd take extra care the second time.

― Duke, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

i wonder if whoever does the packaging just sincerely doesn't get it?

anyway. timely revive because i was listening to mbv on the way into work for the first time in a few weeks. it's nice to live with it a while and get to know it, know the songs and where they're going, look forward to certain parts

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

this makes me worried since they said they'll send me a replacement with "extra-secure packaging."

― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:13 (1 month ago) Permalink

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i have had this a couple of times & it has been sorta the nicest thing about it so far - i got off the bus into the snow a couple of weeks ago just as if i am or something was starting &, totally divorced from context or status, it was so nice just to be hearing it as a song, this bright sounding sweet melodic record i get to bop around to. i am still thinking this record more as this kind of a happy curio than as one of the mbv records at this stage i think.

― schlump, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:18 (1 month ago) Permalink

You realise the new Wire album has been longer in gestation than this one?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:20 (1 month ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Listened to this a few times last night, and it's still my favorite record of the year. And I think "Nothing Is" is my favorite track on the album. It's just so awesome and relentless. But because it's so repetitive there are many tiny things that one notices upon closer inspection. The changes in the mix. The turning up of the overall volume. I kind of see now why "It sounds like demos!" was a criticism when this was released. This track in particular is very raw, not just in sound and construction but in context. It's almost a meta-record experience, listening to it on headphones. Audio-verite or something.

The latter half of this record is the most experimental music I've heard all year, and I don't say that lightly, cos there seem to be plenty of established artists recently doing more experimental work than usual.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

For you LA folk:

― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:47 (4 days ago) Permalink

Wonder what Glasser is up to atm?

― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:49 (4 days ago) Permalink

I wonder that often.

― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:51 (4 days ago) Permalink

Looking forward to the show, if not the heat.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:53 (4 days ago) Permalink

Don't let Roky melt

― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:54 (4 days ago) Permalink

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