The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

On another listen last night, it struck me that the craziness of the last 3 tracks, but in particular "in another way", gave me a similar sonic experience than the one I had the first time I heard "DI Go Pop" (the song not the album) by Disco Inferno. And then it occurred to me that the main sampled riff in DI Go Pop is an MBV guitar riff....

Those stats look pretty standard. It's basically the sequence of the album top to bottom but with the tracks that seem to have been mentioned most bumped up the list. I think Wonder 2 is the track most people mention. Strangest thing is how many people skip If I am.

http://i.imgur.com/Tdfa3fr.jpg

fuckin lumineers

'If I Am' is such a grower.

Its "is this and yes" that leaves me the most "meh", but I think its a context thing. In the right ambient surroundings it'd be pleasing but buried in this album it just feels like an odd, droning pause.

I see tracks like 'Is This And Yes' and 'New You' as moments of relief, for want of a better term. Placed in the albums sequence to allow the listeners to catch their breath a little bit.

'New You' especially, gives the listener a little bit of time to clear their minds out in preparation for the sonic onslaught of the last three tracks.

That just assumes kids these days actually listen to albums all the way through like they're supposeter >:|

Alex, I honestly don't know what happened to your comment on Yo La Tengo; it's not in my list now but I always approve everything not trying to sell drugs! Please make it again if you want to and I'll keep an eye out for it.

Is that a mellotron on "New You"? Sounds like a mellotron flute sample.

I LOVE the rewinding thing that follows "If I Am". The wah guitar is so cool. And the '90s beats of this thing are amazing. Sooner or later someone was bound to come up with the perfect '90s retro record and i think this is it!

But recording the drums live was a good idea, it doesn't sound consciously affected to sound retro. The songwriting is just timeless My Bloody Valentine. This record could have come out in 2093.

The coldness of "Is This and Yes" contrasts nicely with the previous tracks. It's like a moment of stillness leading into the album's low-intensity second act.

the cover art really is amazingly ugly. especially the violet mbv lettering. don't they have an art director or somethig?

nick, i made that comment at least two times, apparently it got lost in the aether. it really doesn't matter and i am happy that it wasn't you who deleted it.

Yes, it's bloody awful. I made my own classier one to replace it:

http://i48.tinypic.com/w7hdt0.jpg

It's because Kevin just made us this awesome mixtape called "mbv" and he dropped it on the internet and while it was uploading made this in photoshop.

Please tell me that's a Lost in Translation background.

Oh that would've been a good idea, but unfortunately it's just a photo I accidentally took once.

I love the artwork. Place it side by side with Loveless, and it all makes sense.

On RateYourMusic at this moment, top rated album of 2013 is Riverside's Shrine of New Generation Slaves, 3.74 from 305 ratings.

If you drill down to M B V, already its at 3.77 from 1446 ratings. Ie, enough ratings in 1 day to give it a lock in the top 5 RYM albums were it released in 2012.

I'll probably got shot for this, but it's better than the Glider EP cover.

otm

I love the artwork. Place it side by side with /Loveless/, and it all makes sense.

OTM

yes

but that blue is a little too blue if you know what i mean. at least they could have used a paler or darker blue but not the most standard, canonic, unimaginative blue around.

Maybe it is International Klein Blue.

I like that it's a deep, deep blue. I know this probably wasn't the intention, but my first thought when I saw the blue cover was that typically in developing languages the first color words to be produced are contrasting words for light/white and dark/black, followed closely by a word for red; a word for blue comes much later. Thus we have the covers for Isn't Anything, Loveless, and mbv. Sorry I know this thread is dorked-out enough.

not ikb at all.

Whoa

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Oh shit there's a new Fall Out Boy single?!?!? Thanks ilm.

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Went to the youtube full album trove to get a bead on the number of plays but this shit has been WEB SHERIFFED

You guys have seen this detail of the cover right?

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/images/uploads/mbv970600.jpg

nothing is this and yes i really love you

feel like this cover will be a lot cooler on the vinyl

oh yeah, you won't be able to see half that shit on the cd either

but my first thought when I saw the blue cover was that typically in developing languages the first color words to be produced are contrasting words for light/white and dark/black, followed closely by a word for red; a word for blue comes much later. Thus we have the covers for Isn't Anything, Loveless, and mbv. Sorry I know this thread is dorked-out enough.

You nerd <3

ok, now everybody seems to be enjoying the new album. great.

There really isn't much to see pixel-peeping at the 2400x2400 jpeg (looking at the blue channel only, enhancing contrast). All the members of the band, a studio with A1 sized prints of brick walls taped to the walls, a few shots through the window of a mediterranean tiled roofs. The cover of the You Made Me Realize EP appears on the left margin.

http://i50.tinypic.com/2v3r9c2.jpg

I'm not seeing any hidden messages. Just pictures pinned to white walls, rephotographed and overlayed as semi transparent layers in 'shop, rendered at max saturation in hue 238.

oh shit yes

just burned a disc of the mp3s, should be interesting to hear it tonight on my stereo

I think there are a lot of low quality jpgs of the cover floating around, it looks much better crisp.

Are there any stray mp3s out on blogs?

This is getting better the more I hear it, although the three tracks that stood way out on first listen (2, 7, 9) still stand way out, maybe even wayer

See whereas I hear the album as in 3 clear "acts" (which I think I touched on in my blogpost thingy)

just put this on my iPhone :D

This thread is so much fun to read from the beginning

hah thanks for making me re-read my account of the nyc shows from '08

"who sees you" has so much in common with "only shallow". the initial drums start-ups, the squealing elephant guitars. those last 3 minutes are occasionally cathartic, whereas i always felt "only shallow" was a novel song but one of my least listened to as it treats those said elephant squeals as having no real emotional basis but rather something to set the listener's head off in surprise with. "who sees you" i wish were longer, with that high-note held in perpetual motion, allowed to ring endlessly.

also worth noting that this album has had me access itunes for the first time in what feels like a year since signing up for spotify premium

quick thought: feels like "nothing is" was created solely for the live performances. i imagine KS adores the idea of killing his audience with love, but after so many holocaust sections he naturally is tired of going through the ordeal each and every show. as such "nothing is" is a song that is underscored right now but will be met with a huge amount of masochistic fanfare come touring. in sense filler, but only in this immediate environment. we forget that MBV is as much a ear-bursting live experience as they are suitable for solitary headphone confinement.