My Bloody Valentine

ripe for an RSD rip off release that will disappear immediately then get reissued a year later

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/music/my-bloody-valentine-shields.html

Kept waiting for Kevin to say that they’re taking a back to basics approach, just four musicians in a room trying to get back to the heart music

Lucky to snag analogue copies of both and that gorgeous You Made Me Realise tee.

The EP’s being unavailable on vinyl is definitely annoying

still love the fact that re the 2012 reissues : lots of news re the 2cd edition of Loveless having a remastered edition of the digital and analogue version.
then they supposedly mixed up the labelling on the cds.
not that it was possible to tell any difference from what i can recall.

~ please tell me if i need to rip the other cd in my 2cd set (no idea which one i ripped at the time) and experience a massive difference ~

they mixed up the labeling and there was a digital error on the analog “what you want” it was a whole thing

to add to the confusion.. while the new deluxe versions of loveless and isn’t anything are claimed to be “fully analog” while the standard versions are from “hi res digital”, this doesn’t seem to be the case for mbv with the difference between the deluxe and the standard version being a different sleeve only, as far as i can tell from the description.

and don’t forget about the 2018 analog remasters including rejected pressings of isn’t anything as extras (at least that’s what i got, were there similar pressings of loveless?)

Ilx hive mind obsession with this band is puzzling. Sacred cows

summary : loving vinyl is hard work.

i will only be listening to a needledrop of the digitally mastered vinyl tyvm.

This album better be good.

Still got no idea what the heck any of the remastered versions are supposed to be

wasn’t the album recorded digitally? I remember disc 2 of the loveless cd reissue was bounced down to analog tape or something

loveless I mean

ordered the deluxe vinyl of mbv just because the cover will be better.

xp Recorded analogue but originally assembled digitally and mastered to DAT?

The AAA cut was reassembled by splicing tapd, I think he even said he replayed a guitar layer on Soon?

So a new "high Res" digital master will be a new transfer and assembly from the analogue recordings.

"Ilx hive mind obsession with this band is puzzling"

you know ilx is not the only place where mbv is revered, surely

i revisited the catalog a few weeks ago and decided mbv from 1988-1991 is the best band i've ever heard, can't disagree with any reverence

Decent band, I’d rate them 7.5/10, maybe 8 if I’m in the right mood.

mbv are as close to genuinely unassailable as any rock group that i can think of

They’re too corny to qualify, but I am a faux ILXor so you can discard my opinion.

ppl really swear by the 2018 pressing of loveless, even on this thread, i'm inclined to believe them, which is why i just attempted to order the deluxe loveless from a record store in belgium lol

looking forward to that order getting canceled

mbv aren't corny at all imo, they're almost maddeningly vague and ungraspable

God, I wish. But I’ve already bitched about this countless times across several threads. I’m not going to rehash my gripes here, especially since I do like MBV (I don’t love them tho).

It's sold out everywhere!!!

I suppose what makes the new digital source for Loveless worthwhile (and obviously ymbvmmv in that regard) is it will be truer to the original release than the analog cut and also closer to the recording than the original release.

ymbvmmv

new album title

It's a fact of human biology that neither Kevin Shields nor anyone who heard Loveless in 1991 has hearing that can still distinguish any differences in these remasters

The intro to “only shallow” reminds me of Skippy the bush kangaroo

ymmvbv

yes the guitar does sort of sound like that

The MBV store is also refusing to sell me anything but mbv. Fucking weird

ugh, pitchfork

But, to make things that much more complicated, listeners in North America still can’t hear You Made Me Realise or Feed Me With Your Kiss.

unless they have a CD player, own the original singles, or have access to Youtube or Soulseek. Otherwise, yes, impossible

The A-side, no relation to Deana Carter’s mid-’90s country smash of the same name

you don't say

deluxe Loveless seems to be back in stock at the webshop, don't sleep

and it wooooooooon't be looooooong

aaaand it's gone

Re that Pitchfork list; Slow is on Spotify as part of the ‘EPs’ compilation, at least in the UK. Must be missing for some reason in the States.

the EPs compilation isn't available on streaming in the States because of some issue with the rights to it being owned by Warner there according to the NYT article

"unmatchable in its sonic brevity" (Domino hype.)

What? I guess when everything has been said all that's left is complete nonsense.

Sonic brevity.

XP ahh right yeah.

"unmatchable in its sonic brevity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGOT4d2Hs8

Haha. Yes, that was my thought as well.

many xps--Speaking as an MBV stan, I have to admit that they are *definitely* kinda corny, especially on Isn't Anything. Some of those lyrics...yikes

which is especially funny considering how shields said he obsessed over the lyrics for loveless almost as much as the music because he didn't want them to be bad

tbf the audible lyrics of loveless are not bad

clunkiest classic mbv lyric: "slow"

I actually don't mind the (generic) lyrics all that much, they're barely intelligible anyway. It's the melodic contour of a song like 'Blown a Wish' that impels a kind of visceral disgust on my end. Maybe it's, uh, genetic – I've always hated twee-sounding music, even when I was a wee kid. Come to think of it, much of what I dislike about Loveless is of the same order as what I dislike about Pet Sounds, except MBV peddles quantifiably less of it and has those awesome geetars to make up for it.

Loveless > Pet Sounds confirmed

I've never once heard any MBV lyrics stand out as distractingly weak or bad.

I've never once heard any MBV lyrics stand out as distractingly weak or bad.

Right, I'm referring to the 15% of the time when one lyric or phrase is audible.

I'm pretty sure the point was that they're supposed to be felt more than heard, not emphasized above the music as something that could potentially distract. None of their records had lyric sheets.