The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Hmm. Well I've not tried that. Will do, thanks.

Just doing my 'civic' duty and reporting that I received my record today! (California)

It is flawless.

Sorry to hear about those who received theirs in less optimal conditions.

Oh I forgot to mention I'm in NJ, if that helps anyone in the proximity.

i know you guys would much rather they had never even bothered with this new record if they were going to be so cavalier in its mailing paraphernalia BUT can i just say, this sounds real fine, & also way more like a my bloody valentine record, on record. nice & way swampier than the digi-files.

like this is so nice

the packaging sounded better on loveless

The mailman came today, delivered a package (an eBay deal gone wrong, incidentally), said "hold on, I have another package for you!", walked down the street, and never came back.

Somewhere in DC a USPS guy is kicking back to Only Tomorrow, I know it.

in this koan the mailman is kevin shields

Either that or they wanted to slam the package on the curb a few more times before the final delivery

Glad to hear the record sounds good, though! Can't wait to put it on the turntable when it arrives.

don't worry, I'm probably going to destroy mine biking home from the office with it.

i don't want to be that guy but the difference is srsly night & day for me. i am not a big audio person & maybe y'all had better headphones for hearing this first time around but it sounds crazy good & the slightly more outré stuff on s2 sounds way more like an actual-next-other-era-of-mbv than it did before now - has a really serene futuristic quality to it, the sustained guitar & the midi programming & the propulsive drumming. really just super rewarding first listen.

i'm just gonna sell old CDs, buy a Visa GC, and buy this thing already (mp3s). clearly it ain't happening in easily available CD format and I'm sick of listening on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5ayNJKKw4&playnext=1&list=PL212213CC7A49F434&feature=results_main

Loveless and isn't anything always sounded like one glorious lump of sound on vinyl. On cd all the channels are separated out which sounds great for Dire Straits and Phil Collins but kills My Bloody Valentine.

I bought the combo intending to keep the cd and give my daughter the lp. I'll make a point to listen to the latter on her record player and assess its lumpengloriosity.

Crazy talk re: CDs as usual.

MBV sounds awesome on CD. It arrived today.

Last night...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8374/8544612672_fa8a408497_z.jpg
My Bloody Valentine @ Barrowlands by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr

Sorry to say that I was actually rather underwhelmed by seeing them in the end.

did they play anything off m b v?

krakow, I saw you taking photos on the stairs - we were on the other staircase across from you, but I didn't like to distract you.

I didn't enjoy them as much as the last time either. They did do some stuff off M B V, yes.

Great m b v-lighting on that pic, krakow

I see the setlists now include "wonder 2" as the last song (the ONE thing I wanted to see live and they didnt do it in Aus dammit). Can anyone confirm this does infact mean theyre no longer doing the holocaust note version of YMMR? Cos I was told the time I saw it was the last time they were doing it. Dropping that to fit "wonder 2" in would make sense.

YMMR w/like ten minute noise part still happening, I hear

Old habits die hard. Why not just a slightly longer concert. Reminds me of Dinosaur Jr. on the Rollercoaster tour. They had 45 minutes to play their stuff like the three other bands. They didn't want to drop any songs from their normal set, so they just played their songs 25% faster.

I might have a spare ticket going for Tuesday - my g/f can't come :-(

We are going on Thursday; anyone else?

m b v sounds absolutely delicious on CD. Really falling for it now.

it may be delicious on cd, it's an absolute smörgåsbord on vinyl :-p

I think it sounds best at fast-ripped 96kbps with glitches and snippets of Elvis singing "Hound Dog" interspersed through it.

OK, the LP just arrived here on the west coast. Looks to be in fine shape. LP sleeve is on the cheap size but I like the little cutout pouch for the CD.

I prefer to transfer it to cassette and play it full blast through the datacorder I used to use to load gamrs on my Spectrum 48k

Think my package was lost in the mail. :(

Got mine today. I was tiring a bit of the album and this has totally enlivened it again for me. Percussion really stands out, and the granular bits on Only Tomorrow are occasionally head-rushing. This is a much better album than I initially regarded.

vinyl finally showed up today. very minimal scuffs on the corners of the sleeve--not mint but not as fucked up as what some of you ended up with.

They were so amazing last night. The new stuff is tremendous

Mine showed up yesterday, very minimal scuffs but fairly disappointed in the lazy design considering how much it cost.

If anyone feels hesitant to buy from the band, Soundstage Direct has started carrying the record. I've never had a problem with their shipping.

They're quite loud, aren't they?

Yup. http://heystacks.tumblr.com/post/45303725771/my-bloody-valentine-new-you-mbv-2013-ive-got-a

my experience of MBV has been the same the past couple of times:

first few songs: gah this isn't the great wall of noise i was hoping for. it's not that loud is it?hmm maybe we're standing in the wrong spot. god I wish we weren’t in such a big venue. actually is there something wrong with the sound? not very dynamic are they? i know they bury the riffs and vocals in the mix but this is ridic.

middle section: this is getting tedious. i want to feel this rattling my bones, not tickling my ears.

then i guess the sound guy turns up a big knob called "meat". you start questioning whether it's sounded like this for the whole gig or if your ears have just acclimatised to the sound. whatever. you can finally feel the bass and hear the drones blending and shifting and swirling around. they’re playing some fan favourites, things are getting heavier, oh “you made me realise” this is it, here we go :-D

never fails to amaze me that bit. i guess they can’t really keep things LOUD like the do towards the end because of health and safety and stuff.

haha, that was EXACTLY my thought process, especially the "this isn't very loud and I'm right near the front" part at the beginning.

I was worried for the Apollo itself rather than health and safety.

did you go to the Apollo one, Nick?

Or were there two? I went on Tuesday night

My whole seat was shaking during YMMR on Tuesday. So glad I had 17dB professional earplugs - could hear whole spectrum of sound during the gig, and then could hear properly afterwards.

I was there last night.

I think I spotted you at the bar at one point actually, ithappens.

I was there last night too, and had p much exactly the same processes as yous, dog latin and Crackle Box. I felt that Wonder 2 was kinda diminished by having to follow You Made Me Realise, my head was so comprehensively in another place and took hours to regain some semblance of normalcy.

It's funny, because it wasn't until after the show that I came to realise just how much I'd enjoyed it. While I was there I kind of felt like I was enduring something that I ought to like, but afterwards I was just 'fuck I've gotta go home and listen to New You again and again'

I was lolling my head off all through the volcano bit.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/03/15/inside-a-volcano-of-sound-my-bloody-valentine-live/