My Bloody Valentine boxed set

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I emailed a couple of people at my favorite import stores and will let you know what they say about getting copies here.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

We will get this.

We WILL get this.

It's all taken care of.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

db is an enigma!

also, can't Momus call Sofia Coppola and get her to ask Hiromix to send us a case of these or something?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

HMV list price = 3000 Yen + 5% tax = 3150 Yen = ~ $29 US

HMV has horrible shipping options, amazon japan is much better, i imagine you could get this for about $38 in about 2 weeks delivery time to the west coast of the USA.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

Not bad. When I get a job secured I will make the transaction. I need fancy box sets.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's just a double CD btw. Also, Amazon.co.jp is not listing it yet.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

following up from Spencer's question ... has anybody heard anything about the remastering? I'd assume that Kevin wouldn't let anybody else near the tapes ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

don't you think this would have been mentioned in the guardian article last week? doesn't that make this suspicious?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

"Sugar" is one of their very finest songs, but that long version of "Glider" (if it's the one I'm thinking of) is just interminable. Good thing they're putting it as the closer.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

don't you think this would have been mentioned in the guardian article last week? doesn't that make this suspicious?

Again, I would be more suspicious if it weren't for the naming of tracks I've never even heard about.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

that and the fact it has a record company-sanctioned release date

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

Actually what IS the company releasing?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

VERY badly phrased! What is the releasing company, I mean to ask.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

The forum at mybloodyvalentine.net mentions CBS Records.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

it's also listed on Amazon.co.uk

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i gather it's columbia/sony

(xpost)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:50 (twenty years ago) link

Which follows, they have the rights to Creation and all. Well well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

this has been up on siren disc for about a week now. it doesn't have their cover of map ref on it!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

Well, that's from after they left Creation, so I'm not surprised. To be totally complete they'd also need "We Have All the Time In the World" on there and that too was done after they left for Island.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

Also, all this stuff is pre-Loveless. I'm completely satisfied with the track selection. It is an awesome collection of music and an essential release for anyone without these EPs.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.pandore.net/magies/secret/images/2001-monolith.jpg

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:56 (twenty years ago) link

A naked emporor and a monolith?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:48 (twenty years ago) link

(That photo makes me me sleepy anyways.. good night)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:49 (twenty years ago) link

just received an e-mail from HMV Japan:

Thank you for shopping with HMV.co.jp.
Release date of your following order has been postponed.

===Information===
The new release date will be noticed on the site after determination.
We'll ship the item as soon as it comes out.

[Order Number]xxx
[Catalogue Number]EICP359
[Artist]My Bloody Valentine
[Title]Remastered Eps

*You will receive Shipping Information when your order is shipped

....patience is what?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

update from mybloodyvalentine.net

Update: March 23. This release has been postponed, problably due to the fact that apparently Kevin just got the masters from Island. No new release date has been set.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

masters? from Island? que? what the hell were they doing with them?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

MBV did sign with Island for a huge advance, some of it probably went to Creation to help bail them out due costs incurred making "Loveless" - losing the master tapes would have been part of the deal - Remember when Creation released a best of, it wasn't able to obtain any MBV songs.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

oh ok

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

cardboard is very expensive in japoan now. the fine for stealing from recyling centers is like $2000. china is buying all of the cardboard in japan.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

THIS CHINESE CARDBOARD SUPER GUN WILL KILL US ALL

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago) link

did anyone post this interview with Shields yet?

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hhsu/shields.html

― don weiner, Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

two unreleased songs from 'isnt anything'?
*faints*

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

Stop the presses! The release of an MBV album has been delayed!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

"No it's not, it's all real they're really doing it!"

Haha.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

I must say: this latest development kind of amuses me.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

It is hilarious and perfect.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

And it does mean that I can wait and save up a little more spare cash for it = hurrah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I just ordered this from amazon.com! We'll see how long it takes for them to send me a notice along the lines of "the release date for this item has been delayed indefinitely..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:11 (twenty years ago) link

it said, "ships in 2 to 3 days". sure....

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

We place our faith in you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

The next My Bloody Valentine album (or compilation) will be released sometime beetween the next Syd Barret album and the Armagheddon.

― francesco, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

That interview linked to a few posts upthread was interesting, but what really caught my attention was:

In Britain there was a big drum-n-bass movement and that was the last thing I got really into. I got really *really* into it at one point...we were programming all this drum-n-bass music...

Anyone have any idea if the drum + bass stuff Shields implys he worked on might have gotten released?

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

Probably not, but if you want to hear DnB MBV, just buy Third Eye Foundation's "Semtex".
It even came out around the same time Kevin was working on his DnB stuff.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps I should've changed 'gotten released' to 'seen the light of day in any form.'

Third Eye Foundation, eh? Will give it a listen (although Mogwai comparisons / connections have always made me steer clear in the past).

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

shields mentioned he was experimenting with DnB in a mid-90s interview that i read. i long since gave up hope of ever hearing this tho'.

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

There's a bit of a rhythmic drum'n'bass feel to that MBV Arkestra remix of Primal Scream's 'If They Move, Kill 'Em' that came out back in '98. First fruits of Shields' work with the Scream - or, indeed, anyone for a good few years - if I remember rightly. I thought that record was amazing at the time, but I've just dug it out and to be honest it sounds pretty ordinary.

― Jason J, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

third eye foundation don't sound anything like mogwai, so don't let that frighten you off.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Third Eye Foundation, eh? Will give it a listen

The first track on Semtex is indeed exactly what I imagined/hoped MBV-n-B would sound like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

is that "sleep"? that song slays me

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

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