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― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
listened to this album recently... it kinda doesn't hold up. sounds bad now. i remember when it sounded good to me.
― write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
actually it's good
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
I really love the 30-second whale song thing, "To Here Knows When", and "Blown a Wish". I wish the rest of the album sounded like those songs but they all try to rock too hard. I like my shoegazer music to be more slow and druggy, that's why I prefer Slowdive to MBV myself.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
i am starting to like mbv almost as much as loveless. "in another way" is better than anything off loveless.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/01/16/my-bloody-valentine-loveless-round-77-nicks-choice/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
i am starting to like mbv almost as much as loveless. "in another way" is better than anything off loveless.the 1st sentence is otm. but then i'd say "only tomorrow" is the best song they have ever done.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 16 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Classic, of course.
What never seems to get mentioned about Loveless is that the songs themselves are actually incredibly well-written.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 16 January 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
wouldnt go that far. sometimes theyre just written well enough (thinking of "come in alone" here, probably my least favorite track on the album and where the album loses momentum for me).
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
(love this album to death, but that song doesnt hold up well just on its own)
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
happy birthday!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Where were YOU 25 years ago?
― Noel Emits, Friday, 4 November 2016 11:38 (seven years ago) link
In some pub in Luxembourg. Probably the English Pub in the Grund. When Glider came out the year before, they often played "Soon" in the Blitz in the centre. People were dancing on the window sills.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 4 November 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Did I get "Bandwagonesque" that same day? I think I did... Good day, that.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 November 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
Bought the cassette at Rebel Rebel (RIP) on Bleecker St., NYC. Drove around with a friend blasting it. Thought my tape was warped lol.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 November 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
i discovered this mid-late-90s on allmusic and bought it the same day at Media Play. that album cover is just too cool to pass up.
still holds up imo, and i have yet to hear a shoegaze record this good and this surprising. MBV comes really really close though...
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
One of the absolute best albums.
― jmm, Friday, 4 November 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Drums still sound like shit. I could tell they were triggered/sample-replaced and probably spliced up to the point you're not really hearing a human performance even before I read something that confirmed my suspicions
― punksishippies, Friday, 4 November 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Team Isn't Anything.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 4 November 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
dunno why anyone would put on MBV and expect to hear Parquet Courts
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 November 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
I stopped by HMV on the way to work where I played the CD several times on a new-fangled device we were testing called a CD-ROM drive.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 4 November 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
<3 this album so much. very important to me
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Bought it at Kim's Underground. Brought it home. Wondered what all the fuss was about. Still do. Nice album, shouldn't have changed the world. I'm pretty sure I bought a few other CDs that day that I liked better.
― dlp9001, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
classic
― brimstead, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Inoffensive but just a bit shit, really.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Ok, yeah, Trompe Le Monde, Laughing Stock, Bandwagonesque, Yourself Is Steam, She Hangs Brightly, Perfect Sound Forever, Sebadoh III, White Light From The Mouth of Infinity, Distant Plastic Trees, Real Ramona, Eye (from the year before), Blake Babies (from the year before) all seemed more important at the time. And. Still. Do.
― dlp9001, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
i was in the midst of battling a crippling depression and this record was like a warm cozy blanket i could retreat to. it's still amazing how they managed to make a wall of freaky guitars sound so welcoming.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
beautiful guitar sounds
compositions themselves are a little lacking
a few good tracks
7/10 for effort
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 4 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
saying the drums suck on this or these songs actually aren't very good songs seems like entirely missing the point.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
I don't think this is a popular choice, but "Loomer" has always been my favourite on this album. One of the simplest tracks and totally perfect.
― jmm, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, November 4, 2016 11:00 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the drum thing is especially stupid because the only time they're high enough in the mix to discern their "suckiness" or whatever is in the first 3 seconds of the first track
― brimstead, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
beautiful guitar soundscompositions themselves are a little lackinga few good tracks7/10 for effort
honestly years ago I had the same effusive opinions as everybody else but these days this'd be about 2/3 of my opinion. I think all the tracks are at least pretty good and would still give it a 9 because the overall effect remains a great listen and if any given track comes up on the radio it's always welcome -- and, honestly, I think this is a hidden feature of this album. its songs, if heard in another context, always leap out: "now that's something different." the only way it might be otherwise if if your mix/show was entirely people/bands who'd been influenced by this album.
but I think it's fair to say that the actual songwriting is the weak point here and "well, the lyrics aren't the point" is always a cop-out when lyrics aren't on the level of the rest. like, yeah the lyrics aren't the point, but there's a whole lot of music out there that goes the extra mile and throws in some good lyrics ~whether they're the point or not~
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 4 November 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's almost analogous to the straw thrown by people who rail against audiophile pressings and stuff... it's not like "everything that doesn't go the extra mile is bad", it's "stuff that goes the extra mile is good"
― brimstead, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
In an interview with The Quietus prior to MBV's release, Shields said the album was "not going to sound like Loveless where it's like looking into another world ... more like Isn't Anything, where it seems to be of this world, but with one foot in another world ... the songs on Loveless had more in common with folk-blues music to me, just a verse and an instrumental passage, circular" and described the new material as "more elongated" and "raw." The Beach Boys' unfinished album Smile was an influence on the composition. According to Shields, he "wanted to see what would happen if I worked in a more impressionistic way, so that it only comes together at the end." He later expanded on his comments, stating that he was "purposefully not trying to write songs with a beginning, middle, and end."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBV_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBV_(album)
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
See, I don't know that better lyrics would make this album better. I think it's an important feature of this album that the lyrics don't draw attention to themselves. You can't always make them out, and the ones you can make out have a kind of hazy generality. There's never any lyric that stops your attention. I feel like that's part of what makes everything flow together.
― jmm, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
the lyrics are there for the sounds alone imo. i don't think i learned a single lyric until needed to learn the keyboard part to "When You Sleep" for a house show. the vocals being so whispery and abstract was a huge deal.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
"Loomer" so great!
not Wall of Sound, Mash Potatoes of Sound.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
the lyrics to this album have never bothered me because i've never been able to understand almost any of them
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I've got a confession to make, I've never heard this album. FP me now.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
All time best records/songs/lyrics you've never heard
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, November 4, 2016 12:32 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
right, my argument isn't that we should dock this album points for not having great lyrics, it's that great lyrics are a bonus because the vast majority of lyrics are shit
― brimstead, Friday, 4 November 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
lyrics in general i mean, w/r/t to my second clause there
― brimstead, Friday, 4 November 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
ymmv, i suck deal with it caveat etc
What is the best shoegaze band for lyrics, anyway?
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
it's a good album and there are v transcendently beautiful and affecting moments on it but for me personally it is not particularly classic or essential
― marcos, Friday, 4 November 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
i have no idea what the lyrics are on this album. a great album, i don't reach for it very often anymore, partly because my wife thinks it's shit. and i saw them when they did their reunion uk tour and they were the sloppiest band I've ever seen and it was garbage
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
- I don't know what any of the lyrics are on this album, and I've really never cared.
- Even with this, and the albums sonic qualities in mind, I think the songwriting is actually quite strong and loaded with hooks.
- The drumming is noticeably sampled throughout the record.
- My original CD version is one of the quietest CD's I own!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, November 4, 2016 9:25 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Slowdive.
― Trump le Monde (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Verve, probably.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 4 November 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link