The Eno-Shields is EXACTLY how you'd think that would go. Its an 'this is ok and here is why' sorta thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4d8wA9XieQ― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 26 October 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 26 October 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's beautiful.
Has anyone put together a comp of these one-off tracks and remixes he has put out over the years before their last album?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
It's interesting that they must have decided not to rebuild the album cross-fades as a live mixdown and instead spent a year making custom edit blocks to do it! Presumably so the timing is as close to the original possible.
Surely they weren't editing the original masters so this analogue cut will be from a 3rd generation(?) tape.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
apropos of nothing, here is a youtube mbv cover which i find inspiring. skip to 1:58
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
came across this jpop song from 1997 recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQNw8CwsyKg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Wow, that is kind of impressive how well they integrated that into the song. It almost feels like a sample.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Good, that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
I don't actually listen to a lot of live shows, but came across this recently and it's really something. "Isn't Anything" era soundboard recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNki8XTw5U
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 3 November 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
0:00:00 - You Never Should0:03:52 - Cigarette In Your Bed0:07:55 - Sueisfine0:10:28 - Cupid Come0:15:04 - Lose My Breath0:19:09 - Nothing Much To Lose0:23:19 - Thorn0:27:11 - I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)0:31:26 - Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) 0:34:03 - Feed Me With Your Kiss0:38:21 - When You Wake (You're Still In A Dream)0:42:24 - Slow0:46:11 - You Made Me Realise 0:52:45 - Lovelee Sweet Darlene
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 3 November 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
Thank you Spencer.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 November 2017 06:33 (six years ago) link
Thanks, sounding great.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 November 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
I must admit (sorry...) that this band is not my cup of tea ...and sincerely, i thought my recording was completely failed cause the voices are very blurred in the mix ... But no, it's the way they sound ...
lol
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Friday, 3 November 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
this has gotten me to revisit MBV which I hadn't listened to much in the past two years. It's very good! It's certainly a less produced album than loveless.
― akm, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Belinda's vox missing from this SB recording... :-(
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
Otherwise, A+
Very extensive new interview with the man:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/my-bloody-valentines-kevin-shields-looks-back-on-loveless-w509837
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
Let's settle this once and for all.
Many have tried to sound like MBV and without exception every single one has failed. But who's come closest? Maybe for just one song. Maybe for just one bit of a song.
― imago, Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
I'll start the bidding with Cornelius - New Music Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzZ_HmjPvA
― imago, Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
fucking do my head in this band. i think theyre the best guitar band of their time, untouchable, so powerful, but kevin shields needs to get a haircut and move on. sitting about moping and remastering age old albums, recycling old material and passing it off as a new record... just write something new already.
― meaulnes, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
m b v was new though, kind of - and it was great
now everyone answer my questionnnn
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
There's a fantastic guitar band from Canada called No Joy. They can approximate the sound when they want to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AivFulF-NPk
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
Guitar - House Full Of Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxsXEM73Xio
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
this album is basically a loveless ripoffhttps://fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.com/album/despondent-transponder
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
the first song on crush by astrobrite?
― brimstead, Monday, 12 February 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWi3ZWIEZEI
― wmlynch, Monday, 12 February 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
i recorded this album by my mates band and they really had glider guitar down. https://sorryescalator.bandcamp.com/track/remit-like-i-do
― meaulnes, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
you have to crank this at mbv levels, but give this a shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrzCQ0rHb4s
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
ooh, both Fleeting Joys and meaulnes' mate's band get pretty close! I think the latter is marginally winning this so far
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
Swirlies - Pancake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3imCyjuyE
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 12 February 2018 09:56 (six years ago) link
oh of cooooourse! and the best thing about swirlies was that they were also completely their own thing, while also being able to fairly closely replicate the aural magic of shields
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:05 (six years ago) link
Our Destiny, from the Purple Rain reissue has some woozy proto MBV guitars.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
I Was A Lover by TV on The Radio.
Almost sounds like MBV samples are thrown in there.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
cosign swirlies, "jeremy parker" for me to be more precise :)
― nxd, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
The second album is where they really spread their own wings
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
Belong - Same Places (slow version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXxreB9AhI
― neilasimpson, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
Not really a total sound-a-like, but definitely heavily inspired by Soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhVcLac45Y
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 12 February 2018 11:52 (six years ago) link
Fleeting Joys, meaulnes' mate...
Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing (which I seem to still have tagged as In the Presence of MBV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7mUBb394JE
First couple Ringo Deathstarr albums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xATi5s9-A
― Acanthonus armatus (Sanpaku), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favorite
― sleeve, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Dälek - Ever Somber comes pretty close except for the drums obv.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Z9i7fxIgk
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
I'm also voting Cornelius: Salon Music - Galaxie Express (69 mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA_JaLyZFJo
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Ladytron - "Sugar" was very MBV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95lvxzyptj8
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II9aWvcP66w
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I was going to suggest this one by Ulirka Spacek (where the guitar kicks in at 1:27): https://youtu.be/X_1VM36PaaA...but having listened to the tracks linked to above, some of those are *much* more similar to MBV. So I'll just link to it anyway because I like it.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Lilys - In The Presence of Nothing for sure. To me it is unfairly written off for sounding so similar because there is some excellent craftsmanship that went into that record.
But if the question is who blatantly copied them the most precisely that Ringo Deathstarr track in particular certainly wins the contest.
Swirlies had a very unique and American sound within the spectrum of artists-that-employed-bendy-guitar-and-krautrock-beats post MBV. Lots of slacker indie and lo-fi and punk added to the mix with them. Then They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons went much further away and it remains one of the most unique and timeless records of the time/scene imo.
― Evan, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTolIDDtfzk
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMDWuj_fsU0
Lock thread.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Re-open thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkCtkT4HRGQ
Lock thread again.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
xpostcome on LBI, that's totally different than "only shallow". for example, there are 16 snare hits at the beginning instead of 8
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Holy shit, I had no idea that a) the guy from Secret Machines was in School of Seven Bells or that b) he died of cancer in 2013. That's pretty sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
there are 16 snare hits at the beginning instead of 8
i mean instead of 4!
dammit
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
True, true KM :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link