The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

No More Sorry is the track that first drew me in to this band, I can't think of anything anyone has done like it.

That song is not a million miles away from some AR Kane stuff e.g. WOGS, but they don't quite have the same multi-tracked fast strumming thing going on:

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

AR Kane also had a thing for young women with knives too.

The closest I've ever been able to describe the tone of the instruments in No More Sorry is of an orchestra tuning up in a cathedral with roadworks going on outside. I think the whole mood is just so bleak, dark, unsettling, menacing and odd.

It's all about the absence of body, isn't? Just the returns of the FX, not the source.

but yeah being able to non challopsingly claim that IA is as crucial as loveless is important & a sign of maturity & wisdom

I don't think IA is any better or worse than an Eric's Trip record on its own, but taken as a sketch for Loveless it's breathtaking. It's as if they identified all the human elements of IA-- "sexy" lyrics, Colm's juvenile drumming, distinguishable guitars, Sonic Youth-y dissonant chords, phrasing-- and bled them out of that record, replaced them with simpler structures, more brazen textural choices, to create something more stately.

When I first heard "Only Shallow" kick in as a teen, it seemed impenetrable. But listening to it after IA, it seems... well, simple, in a classical sort of way

i like eric's trip a lot, actually, but the relationship between eric's trip and isn't anything is pretty much

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44a947t6C1rurmqzo1_500.gif

If you can come up with a closer cousin to "Isn't Anything" than "Love Tara" I'll buy you a pizza

Quite ridiculous but aside from the 'a' sides I hadn't heard most of the stuff on the eps and rarities disc. I was somewhat taken aback when PE's 'Security Of The First World' beat kicked in!

listening to Off Your Face for the first time in years

Possibly my favourite track of theirs

Closest cousin I know of to "Isn't Anything" (which I like a lot) is Swirlies "Blondertongue Audiobaton" (which I also like a lot). Grandma pizza will be just fine.

hey guys debbie is primal scream's new bass player
http://www.nme.com/news/primal-scream/63501

& kevin said the new record's coming out this year on radio one. i know that isn't trustworthy but i mean at least it's well intentioned

& mbv are playing some shows in japan next year: http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/event/4809/My-Bloody-Valentine

The Swirlies are like the gluten-based imitation meat version of MBV so yes, you get a vegan pizza

http://www.nme.com/news/primal-scream/63501

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/MBV_rex_195765a.jpg

Photo Gallery: Primal Scream
Photo: Debbie Googe, pictured far left
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hmm, that's not all, btlot.

either that, or Bobby(2nd left) has suddenly got very good looking!

I was going to mention the Swirlies. If you can imagine "Isnlt anything" without the reverse reverb (and the sexiness) you've got the Swirlies' first album. BTAB - 7 / 10, IA - 10 / 10.

the praise for blonder tongue, which tbf has aged reasonably well, seemed so odd to me at the time, since it seemed like a major step back from the brilliance of the preceding singles..

I bought the singles comp by mistake thinking it was BTAB back in 93 so to me the album seemed a logical step forward. I know the album after with the long title gets all the praise but I couldn't get my head around it, or understand the love.

(Can't add much on the MBV reissues as my wife is giving me them at the end of the month for my birthday. Another week oif waiting won't make any difference after all this time)

ok, today i decided £25 for the full set was too good a deal to miss, and given that i've not heard loveless for a long long time and i dont have the original cd anymore (i have the tremolo ep buried in the archive, but again, unheard in years), i succumbed to the urge.

before the music hits the deck, the main thing is that i love the packaging.

if you ask me, the heavy duty large cardboard sleeves, and the complete lack of sleevenotes totally suits the aesthetics

ok. that was way way more emotional than i ever expected.

for the last 20 years i have viewed the cult of loveless from afar never really understanding the passion.

at the time of its release, i had the cd, and had memories of me listening to it, but the swirls of noise and melody not hitting me that much.

however, an hour ago i dropped the analogue remaster on, and suddenly i was back in '91 in our scum landlord underground one room bedsit with my newly wed wife, a little boombox/portable cd player, and our whole lives excitedly ahead of us.

as each track kicked in, my head just went 'oh fuck, i love this one .. '

the cd ended up going walkabouts when a friend emigrated to aus, ending up with me forgetting this album.

due to the heavy duty emotional kickback though, it could be a while before i listen to it again.

I celebrated the release of the reissue today by listening to the original CD in the car. Sounded fine.

sueisfine

sueisfinesueisfinesueisfinesueissinesueifidessuisinesuicinesuicidesuicide

^shoulda been reissueisfine

xp

back in '91 in our scum landlord underground one room bedsit with my newly wed wife, a little boombox/portable cd player, and our whole lives excitedly ahead of us.

Really feeling this, mark.

^shoulda been reissueisfine

good call

@bill a

yeah. it was a headf*ck too far.

given that i thought i didn't like the album, i never expected such an attachment to hit home.

I will always associate this album with playing Super Metroid on the SNES

Haha, I have the same connection between super r-type and computer world.

the remaster sounds fantastic. so much attack, and so much space around each instrument

was never a 'big fan' (probably because I never heard it on vinyl amirite) but I am really really digging the remaster!

Orginal vinyl didn't sound very different from the CD in my opinion, and was only 1 disc so a bit of a quiet pressing. I'm hoping the new analog remaster will be spread over two discs.

From everything Shields has said lately I'd really not thin it's "meant" to be heard on vinyl.

wat http://www.myplaydirect.com/travel-tunes/details/27422208?current_country=GB

were the remasters any good? i'm reluctant to listen to a new version of Loveless despite the quietness of the original master.

I would gladly pay you tuesday out of my loveless wallet for a new MBV album today

RMDE at "quietness".

The remasters from Analogue tapes sounded like an improvement to me, especially in the bass frequencies.

I'm not really getting what that product is supposed to be. Like for money?

for notes! HAHAHAHAHA

It's for Oyster travel cards and such.

does the fact it chops the bottom off the m annoy anyone else? it's like the one thing they had to consider and they got it wrong.

yes, is for travelcards, hence the name TravelTunes. that blue wavy design in the back is an oyster card, (virtually) everyone in london has one.

does the fact it chops the bottom off the m annoy anyone else? it's like the one thing they had to consider and they got it wrong.

Yes. Looking at some of the wallets they offer they just seem to be artist's impressions of what the cardholder might look like when they print one off.

It's a sony thing methinks, homing in on the 'fans who'll buy any old shit with their favourite band's likeness attached' market, thus:
http://images.junostatic.com/150/CS465172-01A.jpg

http://images.sonymusicdigital.com/autoimage/display/product-index/media.sonymusicd2c.com/dda/27422255/b42dcaee09ab929f062d57975763299.jpg/b42dcaee09ab929f062d57975763299

that said, it's £6 and looks like it comes with digital copy of the double cd... (7.49 on amazon.co.uk)

This is how they'll save the music industry for sure.

I have never heard of a "travel card" before. They're credit-card sized right?

yes. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

It's interesting though that they're marketed as travel wallets and not credit wallets or just card wallets. So I take it their ubiquity extends beyond major metro areas?