My Bloody Valentine

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.

I guess I grew really accustomed to the sound of my old mp3s from the early 2000s bc the Youtube rip of the EPs comp sounds kind of amazing.

clunkiest classic mbv lyric: "slow"

thats the one with "lick lick lick and suck suck suck" right? def their horniest song.

kevin shields walked so khia could run etc etc

I just discovered the phrase "coffee cup" is not a misheard lyric.

xp Yeah the bass in "Slow" sounds like bone zone.

Can Slow be quantified as hornier than Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)? Might require polling.

A good hard polling tbc.

no way, this song is filthy I love it
― brimstead, Friday, April 2, 2021 8:19 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i love "slow" don't get me wrong

horniest my bloody valentine song is an impossible poll and you all know it

lol extremely otm

“To here knows where” is somewhat... horny

sorry i dont make the fuckin rules!! the song that says "lick lick lick and suck suck suck" is using the hornyman's dialect, anything less is eye-wagglin innuendo or blue whales on ambient trying to get hard.

lol *ambien but that works too

Thanks 4 the new dn

swallow me
into your bed
with glimpses of your thighs

New and long Kevin Shields interview in today's Libération. One great tidbit - dunno if this is old news but it was new to me - is his love for early De La Soul and Public Enemy and how their use of sampling evoked Long Island in the '70s for him. Then he realized both groups were from LI!