lol
― calstars, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
did it tho?
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 27 April 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
I listened to the last album a couple weeks ago and man it’s so f’in good. Had one of those ‘whooooaaaaaaa’ moments during “In Another Way”.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
I mean, listened to it again
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
Deluxe vinyl of Loveless has gone up for sale again on the official site for those who missed out before. I don't expect these to hang around for long though.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 21 May 2021 10:37 (three years ago) link
apparently the EPs are on streaming in usa now at last
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
The shipping in the US store is still absurd, and it goes up the less you buy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 May 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
$15 if you order the bundle, $24 if you just try to check out with Isn't Anything and Loveless.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 May 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
I’m in US and it allowed me to select a cheaper shipping option
― Evan, Friday, 21 May 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
o rly?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, once you move past your cart page, you see the shipping options. Thanks!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
No problem!
― Evan, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
cool good looking outordered the deluxe of loveless and isn't anythingbullshit on the non deluxe versions looks like they were pressed differently
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link
I've been listening to the 96/24 FLACs for Loveless today. Certainly enjoying it more than I have enjoyed this album in a while. Maybe a little more dynamic and open, smoother top end and other hi-fi isms. Would probably need better headphones to notice a bigger difference.
I'm still not sure what the source of the new digital files would be. They seem to be the same with either version of the vinyl.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 21 May 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
yeah these flacs sound amazing
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 21 May 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
*strains ears at new loveless wav files* ugh i can't believe kevin shields is doing this to me again
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
sounds like loveless therefore it sounds awesome
"i only said" literally the greatest song of all time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
MBV has made at least half a dozen greatest songs of all time, and that might be one!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
Truly Depressing: This Elderly 36-Year-Old Man Is Babbling Incoherently About Something Called ‘My Bloody Valentine’ https://t.co/gniXtih0cL— ClickHole (@ClickHole) June 17, 2020
― Left, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
sorry that was mean. I love MBV too
― Left, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
as a geriatric milliennial, i pretty much have to
― Karl Malone, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Couple more tracks on the EP's CDs. An alternate version of Don't Ask Why and this dirty thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFGClL5jmDY
― Noel Emits, Friday, 21 May 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
I have always loved MBV but streamed the ep's for sixty seconds, felt decrepit and had to shut them off??? OTOH I can listen to some 50s jazz and feel daisy fresh. I think it's geriatric millennial cooties.
― Loud Tsu (I M Losted), Sunday, 23 May 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
sixty seconds of each song, 15 seconds of each EP, or 3.5 seconds of each song and then skipping to the next?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 23 May 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
do I have to buy any of this shit again if I already have the CDs from the last go around?
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 May 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
what’s the german word for the relief you feel upon seeing “sold out” on the 20th version of loveless you’ve been spared to have to get
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 23 May 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
? All versions are currently showing as in stock.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 23 May 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
xpi believe the german word is linderung
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 May 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
I got carried away (thanks to anagram) and pre-ordered but I'll probably sell the vinyl on when it finally arrives in October. The hi-res files however are worthwhile if obviously not essential.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 23 May 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
Oh whoa they're actually selling to the US now!!
Ordered, though for some reason there doesn't seem to be any download for Isn't Anything.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
...also the downloads instantly fail when i try to start them, womp womp
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
the mp3s do... not the other formats
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
Every format for me. Never had this happen with a label/artist shop using the Bleep backend before, but I could see server load being a problem, or maybe a new version of the files being migrated? It's not like I haven't heard these before; I'm just happy I could finally get the older albums on vinyl
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
i had it happen with that large batch of autechre live shows. after a month they refunded me.
― koogs, Monday, 24 May 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Has anyone on ILM heard both versions of the mbv vinyl (the original pressing from 2013 and the new pressing)? Somebody on another forum said the new pressing sounds less murky than the original, which I’ve always thought sounded muddy and muted. I don’t want to shell out for the new one, though, if it was made from the same master. The details have been vague on the Domino site.
― Skrot Montague, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
I too am looking for details on this, as well as the differences between the new standard and deluxe editions. I checked over at the Hoffman forums and lasted all of three minutes. I'm assuming the information is there but I really can't be bothered to spend an afternoon reading about DRM numbers and shipping notifications so hopefully ILM can help
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
i have both the original and the new one sitting right here waiting for me to compare them. I'll do it now.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
super quick check on the first track didn't sound appreciably different to me.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
(and I mainly bought it because the sleeve on the original is so fucking flimsy. new sleeve is better, but still not the thick booklike sleeves the last round of reissues came in unfortunately. I assume Loveless and IA are similar0
― akm, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
thanks akm!
Anyone grab both versions of Loveless and Isn't Anything?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
I'll check this again on my other stereo later today or tomorrow, it's more sensitive to things like this (I just listened on an AT-120 with some cheap powered studio monitors). It is hard to a/b when you dont have two turntables running through a mixer.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
Thank you!
― Skrot Montague, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Pretty good interview, learned some stuff and details I'd not heard before
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/27/my-bloody-valentine-kevin-shields-band-killing-songs
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Shields has a habit of making it sound like the most reasonable thing in the world one minute – bands are loud, he shrugs, but most gigs are “laughably quiet … something you’re consuming, not being consumed by” – then admitting that My Bloody Valentine reached a point where they were playing at such volume that they were causing structural damage to venues. “Chunks were falling out of the ceiling. It sounds like an exaggeration, but I’m serious – we were really concerned that eventually some roof was going to fall down,” he says. “It was a matter of time before a serious accident happened.”Not everyone was impressed. There is a bootleg recording circulating among fans of a late 80s London gig degenerating into chaos – the sound man has given up and fled the building. Shields says that was one of the less extreme reactions. “At one gig, a butcher was literally chasing my sister with a cleaver – he wanted to chop the cable because it was shaking his shop so much when we were doing You Made Me Realise. The police turned up and arrested our tour manager during You Made Me Realise. They arrested him, put him in the car, questioned him and let him go and when he got back we were still playing it. Countless, countless situations.”
Not everyone was impressed. There is a bootleg recording circulating among fans of a late 80s London gig degenerating into chaos – the sound man has given up and fled the building. Shields says that was one of the less extreme reactions. “At one gig, a butcher was literally chasing my sister with a cleaver – he wanted to chop the cable because it was shaking his shop so much when we were doing You Made Me Realise. The police turned up and arrested our tour manager during You Made Me Realise. They arrested him, put him in the car, questioned him and let him go and when he got back we were still playing it. Countless, countless situations.”
:D
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
that article is interesting but weirdly skips over, completely, MBV (the album) and says there has been nothing new from the band since the 90s
― akm, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Not quite!
With the switch apparently more off than on, the band quietly split up. Shields eventually gave up, too, joining Primal Scream and dabbling in remixes and film soundtracks. My Bloody Valentine eventually reformed for a succession of live shows in 2008, which prompted him to return to Loveless’s unfinished follow-up; m b v was eventually released, virtually without warning, five years later.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
That manager-getting-arrested story is golden.
This bit stuck out to me:
“Basically, I know when the switch is on or off. When the switch is on, everything’s fine, everything’s good, and when the switch is off, everything’s pointless. I would go: OK, I’m not trying, I’ll watch television, I’ll read magazines. That’s why Loveless became this seemingly long, drawn-out process, because I discovered pretty quickly that when circumstances around me turn the switch off, I just feel like it’s a labour, or I feel too much emotional and psychological uncomfortableness around me to be doing music in a way that’s pure, the way everyone should be doing music.”
It kinda just sounds like untreated depression to me. On the other hand, it's weirdly heartening because I think I have the same (lack of) work ethic, and if this guy could make Loveless then maybe I can make something 1/100th as cool one day.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Seeing that interview pop up on my feed last night was great. Always good to hear from the recluse.
Side note: any time I think of MBV, I can't help but think of Tim Smith (Cardiacs; R.I.P.), as well. The irony of the situation gets me every time.
― co11ective, Friday, 28 May 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
oooh my non-deluxe loveless arrived today
.... yes i have also ordered a deluxe copy of loveless
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link