Best Song on "mbv"

I can totally see KS announcing a new album next year.
and then postponing it a few months, then to the following year...

didn't he said there is also some material worth of an ep or something?

i wish they made a relatively simple rock/pop album like Realise, but it won't happen.probably.

I've said it before, but a whole album like "Off your face" would be a very fine thing for me. So I chose "new you".

Just realised that doesn't really make sense.

it would be so amazing if mbv somehow turned into a normal band and released some new stuff a year from now

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nothing is

gonna guess your favourite spiderland track is 'for dinner' :P

(admittedly there's a bit more to 'nothing is', and it is kinda ecstatic)

(xps) Agreed re: Off Your Face.

The stand out tracks for me from the start were Only Tomorrow and New You, but If I Am is really growing on me.

Three way tie between Soon Is Now, Only You and Who Made Who.

Actually, I'm amazed no-one has picked Who Sees You (track 3). One of the best MBV songs of all time, for my money. Love the guitar solo too, particularly the chord progression under it. I hope they do a Neil Young & Crazy Horse on that solo next week.

I was listening to the CD at home yesterday at high volume on the stereo and it was so good.
I finally enjoy all the tracks.
It might seem crazy but I think I prefer it to "loveless" now.
The songs are not better but it sounds much better.

Gonna listen to IAW and W2 again right now and make a fucken decision

it's Wonder 2. level-up!

although I'm kinda slightly regretting it now because the seesaw guitar-effect in the background of IAW's chorus/fadeout is heartbreakingly wonderful

two astounding songs

Actually, I'm amazed no-one has picked Who Sees You (track 3).

I did. The guitar tone on that track is just thrilling.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"never too early" would be prefect for the make up fake mbv song titles thread.

Voted "wonder 2" cos it overwhelms everything right now. But I suspect longer term one of the more subtle cuts like "if i am" might become a stand out.

Cannot understand people picking Wonder 2 which I find so lifeless and boring. Will probably vote for Only Tomorrow but Who Sees You, IAW and New You are pretty much at the same level

"wonder 2" is dfferent from the rest, maybe people think it points into a new direction or something but i find it dull as well. i'd say it is one of those dead-ends in music, in the beginning it seems to be an interesting, promising road until you realise that it doesn't lead anywhere. "only tomorrow" on the other hand is still unbelievable and seems to stand the test of repetition. i must have listened to it more than 20 times (but i think i have to be creful no not to overplay it) and it still overwhelms me, i have to listen to it on headphones with eyes closed and pressed together so that i furrow my brow in order to concentrate even more, to suck the noisy and at the same time so melodic guitar sound into my brain completely. especially the 2nd half after 3:30 when the 2nd unfuzzy guitar comes in and plays the wistful theme. and as a second layer there is still the distorted guitar on top of it. the contrast between these two guitars makes the song for me.

creful no = careful now

I think I would be more into "Wonder 2" if I hadn't already burnt out on Third Eye Foundation

and "wonder 2" is by far too long, there are too few things happening in those never-ending six minutes, i have to skip the end. additionally i find the motif and the singing annoying, in the end there is just this "whirlwind" noise which blows through the whole track, a song on the slight side.

the problem is simple: drum n bass. a problematic genre.

actually a proper mix of mbv guitars and Dn'B could have been something - but in practice I don't hear and bass just some muffled drums, buried under that annoying whirring sound

i don't really know drum n bass but i am pretty sure "wonder 2" is not the classical drum and bass track, maybe mbv's take on it.

more drum less bass

There is nothing even remotely approaching drum n bass on this album.

Can't we have 3EF and mbv?

Where 3EF's (brilliant) last album was a stunningly intense dark night of the soul, catharsis thru absolute tragedy etc, Wonder 2, while using a similar percussive set-up, is sheer ecstasy, glory-of-God shit. And it's all about the organ, rising and rising, rising a few semitones beyond what you'd expect, veering upwards as feedbacking guitars alternately struggle to keep pace or overshoot, and a wallowing distortion timbre charges in lustily during the instrumental parts in a vain attempt to anchor it all. I don't know about you but when I listen to that song I feel I'm perpetually falling forwards into space, the tension is how far it can go, how long it can keep expanding for

If I am

reminds me of 'Swallow'. Another hit for me

I am increasingly loving If I Am (but have already voted for Only Tomorrow)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Good winner, but this Nothing Is 3:34 12 is mystifying

As someone who has maintained that the final third of the record is the best, having those three songs finish in the top 4 and receiving 43 votes to the 38 votes the rest of the disc garnered, this poll gives me a little validation.

So thanks, ILM.

It is mystifying that different people like different things?

aw, poor 'is this and yes', you grew on me a lot after a couple of listens

that was close. i must say that i relistened to "wonder 2" after imago's post and it started to grow on me. in the beginning besides the rather subdued drums i only heard the "whirring" sound and a cacophonous orchestral part which reminded me of modern classical music à la stockhausen and late talk talk. but i think there is much more in this song. maybe i cannot hear everything due to the bad quality of the mp3s. i have to try again.

It is mystifying that different people like different things?

No, but mystifying that so many people found that their favourite track out of all of them. It's a bit like voting for that short whale song thing off Loveless (names ecapes me).

It seems there hasn't been a Loveless tracks poll...

Best Song on "Loveless"

ah, it's those damn quotes again, makes it 'difficult' to search for.,

No, but mystifying that so many people found that their favourite track out of all of them.
perhaps they were trolling

not that i really care but 'if i am' was my fave

I rly care and I agree

This really does seem to get better and better with each listen

Surprised to see Who Sees You ranked so low, that's the one that grabbed me first and the one I wind up going back to often. Best guitar work on the album imo

New You is definitely my favourite followed by In Another Way.

Wonder 2 just feels like an idea Kevin Shields has had lying around since 1997. Which might be true of quite a lot of this actually.

Wonder 2 is a bit of a messy track in execution IMO.

Just posting up a bit of early Third Eye Foundation for comparison for those who don't know it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90rIyiuQ5B0

No, but mystifying that so many people found that their favourite track out of all of them.
perhaps they were trolling

Voted "Nothing Is" and definitely not trolling. Pleased it got so many votes. When I listened to the album through for the first time it was the only track that demanded to be heard again. Obviously the dark horse of the album.

the middle run of tracks really does grow on ya

the first track became my favorite now

In Another Way gives me all sorts of crazy synaesthetic yearnings. I think it's one of the best songs of the last ten years. I didn't even vote for it here (because Wonder 2 is just as good)

Wonder 2 is great but in another way beats it. Only tomorrow has no business being in the top 3 here.

it does tbf, it's the 3rd best track

Wonder 2 is the only song I skip on this (ok, besides the boring stereolab one), can't understand for the life,of me what people hear in that song. In another way & only tomorrow otoh are career highlights

New You is the only one I go back to.

voted for IOW. still think it's the best song here.

She Found Now should be higher

this will have been one of the great records of 2010-15

kevin shields is too much

I still haven't heard this!

Wow "Is This and Yes" got 0 votes? I love that song! It's like a really really really chilled out Stereolab.

This album is great, I agree. Way better than it should have been.

"new you" has the biggest hook, surprised it didn't get more votes

New You is the highlight by far. Can take or leave the rest.

I love this album and yes, one of the best records of the decade so far

"and for you?"

^ def their best song

This is one great album.

lol crut

If I Am so underrated :(