The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Thank you Spencer.

Thanks, sounding great.

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

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.

Belinda's vox missing from this SB recording... :-(

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

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.

I'll start the bidding with Cornelius - New Music Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzZ_HmjPvA

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.

m b v was new though, kind of - and it was great

now everyone answer my questionnnn

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

Guitar - House Full Of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxsXEM73Xio

this album is basically a loveless ripoff
https://fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.com/album/despondent-transponder

the first song on crush by astrobrite?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWi3ZWIEZEI

i recorded this album by my mates band and they really had glider guitar down.
https://sorryescalator.bandcamp.com/track/remit-like-i-do

you have to crank this at mbv levels, but give this a shot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrzCQ0rHb4s

ooh, both Fleeting Joys and meaulnes' mate's band get pretty close! I think the latter is marginally winning this so far

Swirlies - Pancake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3imCyjuyE

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

Our Destiny, from the Purple Rain reissue has some woozy proto MBV guitars.

I Was A Lover by TV on The Radio.

Almost sounds like MBV samples are thrown in there.

cosign swirlies, "jeremy parker" for me to be more precise :)

The second album is where they really spread their own wings

Belong - Same Places (slow version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXxreB9AhI

Not really a total sound-a-like, but definitely heavily inspired by Soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhVcLac45Y

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

Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favorite

Dälek - Ever Somber comes pretty close except for the drums obv.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Z9i7fxIgk

I'm also voting Cornelius: Salon Music - Galaxie Express (69 mix)

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

Ladytron - "Sugar" was very MBV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95lvxzyptj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II9aWvcP66w

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.

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMDWuj_fsU0

Lock thread.

Re-open thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkCtkT4HRGQ

Lock thread again.

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come on LBI, that's totally different than "only shallow". for example, there are 16 snare hits at the beginning instead of 8

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.

there are 16 snare hits at the beginning instead of 8

i mean instead of 4!

dammit

True, true KM :)

I was going to post something from Bailter Space (who were of course more or less contemporaneous):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mlWfgxHfg

Oh god I love that song so much

Met too. Such an underrated band.

Xp. That Ulrika Spacek track is great and sounds like MBV without the occasionally unnerving hoover sound. I really like the powerful, doomy guitar.

i'm so out of the loop. has anyone received the represses of isn't anything or loveless? do they sound any different or is kevin shields, shockingly, an audio madman who obsesses over tiny details that the rest of us can't hear? also, did anyone get the bonus alternative secret free version of isn't anything that came with the pre-orders?

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one person i know says it's the definitive version

it's been a month since my order was apparently shipped. how mangled do you suppose it's going to be when it finally shows up?

supposedly they sound so good because of how warped each record is