The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Just got my CD today. I live in the USA, just outside of Philly. I like the packaging myself.

It'll be interesting listening again. I listened non-stop the first week after the download was available but haven't since. I have a feeling I will hear a lot of new subtleties, not because of the medium (in theory any difference between this and the files I burned a disc from would be negligible at best) but because of the time.

no cardboard no paper no bubble wrap nothing. the record was loose and rattling around inside, amazed there was no dinged corners.

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god dammit Kevin Shields my LP better be OK by the time it makes it to Oregon

It was his chinchillas that packed those ones, not him.

As it turns out I did get to go to the sold-out other MBV show last weekend, thanks to a generous friend who couldnt. Awesome show.

And - as I said on FB about it - I was right at the mixing desk, and just as YMMR was about to start, the lighting/prjection tech turned and grinned at me and said "here we go!" and then added "this is the last time theyre ever doing this song this way, you know. You're seeing history!"

Then he put on some industrial earmuffs and sat there with a shiteating grin. The sound tech sat down, cracked open a beer, gave a thumbs up, and also grinned.

That sounds CLASSIQUE INDEED

i totally believe you trayce but that story has a real "& i picked up the guy's wallet & tapped him on the shoulder & he thanked me & said PERHAPS YOU SHOULD STEER CLEAR OF AIR TRAVEL NEXT SATURDAY" *winks* vibe

anyway i really hope this augurs a kind of mtv unplugged sensitive acoustic rendering of you made me realise at future shows

Anyone seeing them at Hammersmith on March 13th?

anyway i really hope this augurs a kind of mtv unplugged sensitive acoustic rendering of you made me realise at future shows

no, they said they're adding members for future shows

Vanessa Mae will be guest appearing at Hammersmith

i'm at the march 13th show...

are people getting different lp/cd packages?

mine came with the cd inside the gatefold, booklet is lol, why did they leave the last page blank? haha. sounds great anyway, looking forward to plonking it on next time my buddy has to set up a turntables + soundsystem somewhere

The LP/CDpackages all 'sound' the same (pizzabox mailer, no bubwrap, CD inside the gatefold) so far.

This album still rules.

Still waiting for my vinyl in Ohio. :(

MBV album arrived. Shitty packaging though.Nice big record mailer not the shitty envelope style. but no padding inside. no cardboard no paper no bubble wrap nothing. the record was loose and rattling around inside, amazed there was no dinged corners.

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^^ Fucking this. Mine arrived today, same story, rattling lp in a cardboard box, shaking about, no protection whatsoever. The corners visibly had to endure abuse during shipping.

Goddamnit. Was it so hard to put some bubble wrap in there?

For the price of shipping they have no excuse. If they are shipping lps abroad like that then they are going to be inundated with complaints for dinged corners.

I avoided this by buying the "mp3s". I listen to them on my "ipod".

ive pretty much stopped buying LPs in the mail cuz no one seems to be able to send a record properly packed. every record i receive seems to either have dinged corners or torn inner sleeves. the exception being the one record i ordered from Audio Fidelity

though i did impulse buy this LP X: fingers crossed that it makes it ok

No visible dings on my sleeve, but I haven't played it yet. Hope it isn't warped etc

Is anyone else still waiting on their lp?

me

yes, but I'm in Oregon

Me too, also in Oregon.

yes but i'm in california, the couriers may have died somewhere between here and the mississippi

don't worry everyone, rest assured that the poorly packaged mbv LPs are slowly bumping and rolling their way west across the U.S.

aargh thanks for the image there

rolling and scratching

that leap across the grand canyon will be particularly intense

Hope someone has put a ramp down for them.

kevin shields was asked about this issue in an interview the other day btw. kevin, they asked him, you're that much in control of your records that you're even mailing out the records yourself. what's in the packaging to make sure that the vinyl doesn't get all scratched up? nothing is, he quipped

"I lined the inside of the vinyl sleeve with Brillo pads in order to make sure nothing moved around."

At least it's not taking him 22 years to go to the post office.

I confess I lolled, Nick.

Was pretty blasé about this in response to all the hype, but man, this is actually a great record.

Sounds like he's doing it on purpose, not content with damaging people's eardrums.

for some reason that reminds me of

"Flip it over for a needle-destroying playable b-side etching hand carved by Wolf Eyes into the original laquers. Grooves cut in their own home lathe. Play at your own risk"

Haven't ordered mine yet. Nothing like an anal retentive.

Are the LPs being delivered by USPS?

See, for me the packaging with no bubble-wrap is completely in line with the whole picture regarding this LP.

Basically, it's like an album made in 2000, left in a corner, then eventually picked up and handed to you.

Not preserved in protective layers...

Dink right in the middle of the first track and a couple of clicks and skips on side 2. I don't need KS ageing my LPs any faster than I will do so myself, thank you very much.

He says this release is just part of the whole framework. What will the actual 'new' stuff sound like?

Jolly Belgian chants.

Oh splendiferous I do hope so

The CD sounds better than the 320 kbps MP3s. Hearing some things I didn't catch the first 50 times. Doesn't sound as muddied, in general.

The 320kbps MP3s they offered for download are actually 128kbps MP3s transcoded, so I'm not surprised.

Yeah? Bizarre. How do you know?

haha @ the second review

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/my-bloody-valentine-m-b-v/

There was a lot of talk on What about the transcodes, as there are loads of anal retentives on there.

Received the vinyl/cd combo today. Twelve days from Southall, Middlesex to the center of the NorthAm land mass. Not bad. Better time, in fact, than Media Mail drop ship from, say, Illinois. No dents. No dings. Don't understand the complaints about the cover art, which I find stark and stunning.

My vinyl/CD package arrived earlier this week. I finally opened it today It was rattling around in the box with no padding - not even a plastic shrink-wrap to protect the cover. During transit the LP has cut through the inner-sleeve and through the actual album cover itself at the bottom end: so a couple of millimeters of the disc actually hang out of the cover if I hold it upright. Will have to send this back.