I presume you've had those moments...and I presume when you're describing them to others, you're not defending but explaining rapture. Just a little something to keep in mind.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Still, it's a great record though, isn't it? Now listening to 'Off Your Face' from the 'Glider' 12". Giddying, effervescent.
'you have to listen to it upside down drinking Tizer while masturbating with the volume turned straight up'
Must try this.
― DavidM, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I tried that and it didn't work. Was it 'cuz I replaced the Tizer with malt liquor, or because I was drinking it though a Crazee-Twisty-Straw. Plus is made the blood rush to wrong head.
― Lord Custos II, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This is probably the truest thing I've ever read on ILM.
― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lee G, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Matt Riedl, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marc, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― abby, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Me, too. I don't much bother listening to MBV at home, but my most intense gig moment EVER was MBV at the Ritz in Manchester in '92 or '93. The tweeters blew, our ribcages vibrated disturbingly, and a good deal of plaster was shaken from the ceiling. I was utterly transported, better than drugs.
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mal2478, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
*I* give a toss about the bass. Drums'n'bass are the most important parts of modern music IMHO, and they are the weekest bits BY FAR of this record, which makes it odd that Loveless is my favorite album. Plodding, static drums and dull bass playing sit lamely next to the fantastic melodies, harmonies and textures. A bit of funk to reinforce the wash would be bliss.
I was musing the other day that I love the album so much because my mind is filling in what the rhythm section (well, actually Kevin Shields - I believe he programmed the drums and played the bass) should have done . Isn't Anything is so much more fascinating from a rhythmic perspective, and You Made Me Realise is a step above even that - (ROCKIST ALERT) maybe it's because they recorded as an actual band for these records.
Primus suxxors BTW.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Could we please have an edit text function for all us pedants?.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate (suzy), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
Loveless is hands-down one of the best records I have ever heard in my whole sad life. I don't mind your not liking it, Robert, but I must admit that it wounds me in some deep and irrational way when you call it "bollocks" and "shite" (not least of all because such slang is irritating to my American ears).
And besides, since you hate this record and I love it so very much, I wonder about perhaps a fundamental difference in the way we hear music. You know the old saw about "does everyone see the color orange the same way?" Based on this evidence, I would have to say no.
Unless of course your copy of the album was a misprint, and you ended up with The Future Sound of London's The Isness by mistake. In that case, I completely agree with you.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
I say all this as someone who isn't a huge fan or anything and I don't listen to the album much. While it isn't necessarily native territory for me, I don't find it difficult in the way I find, say, Sonic Youth (who are native territory, sort of) difficult.
Or am I being reductive and missing something?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Z S, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
You know what's probably the best song OF ALL TIME, yet never gets much of a mention, even among MBV fans? "What you want". Also, Soon is nice and everything, but it's bugging me how it (and "Only Shallow", I suppose) has become the default MBV song recommendation. It's one of my least favorites on Loveless.
― William Selman, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Z S, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar, Monday, 26 February 2007 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Monday, 26 February 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar, Monday, 26 February 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― electricsound, Monday, 26 February 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Monday, 26 February 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
*intrigued*
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
feed me with your kiss VS when you wake you're still in a dream
and also are there songs that are better played at earsplitting volume? if there are just point me that way
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:33 (eight years ago) link
Imma go to this, I might sneak my recorder
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link
Sometimes is their indiest number - proper mumblecore - but good way to get some punters in.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Not that I'm going as I think this is MORALLY wrong
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
"Imma go to this, I might sneak my recorder"
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-SNHbzSvL._SX522_.jpg
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
That's exactly what I thought... maybe correctly?
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 13:30 (eight years ago) link
I had a feeling that might happen
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link