Album Of The Week #66: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

insinkerator

Artist: My Bloody Valentine
Album: Loveless
Label: Creation
Tracks: 11
Length: 48:36
Release Date: 4 November 1991

I think everyone saw this coming, and i reckon we all know enough about it, so i won't bother with the mini-trivia etc :P

Creamy Goodness

i think you should put up a synopsis of it tbh, especially when there were people trying to argue that the script's album was better than loveless in another thread here somewhere.

ohh how i laughed for 2 days straight.

on the album itself, it's a classic, a pure masterpiece.

i was gutted when i didn't get to see them at EP cause i had to do a stupid presentation for college :mad:

Valmont

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

especially when there were people trying to argue that the script's album was better than loveless in another thread here somewhere.

:eek: Really? That's a bit mad. All that I could say about this album has been said before but I've had it for two years now and I still listen to it regularly. I wish I could say the same for the rest of my music collection.

11811

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i think you should put up a synopsis of it tbh, especially when there were people trying to argue that the script's album was better than loveless in another thread here somewhere.

how in gods name could somebody thing that???:eek:
Anyway there's loads of info about the making of a masterpiece on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveless_(album)

stateofflux

i dont think anything in the english language can explain this album...its beyond words really....like the best dream you ever had.....even the smashing pumpkins based most of their career on the template created by loveless.......i was told the other day that kevin shields lived around the corner from me which was really wierd....

stovelid

Epochal album. Hearing Soon just brings me right back, such associations.

Is it true that you get given earplugs at their gigs these days?

Dudess

Totally from my favourite indie era, and contemporaries of some of my favourite ever bands... but MBV never fully did it for me. I really got into the shoegazing stuff in 1991 and I lapped up Melody Maker and NME nearly every week. The writers were constantly worshipping at the altar of My Bloody Valentine and mentioning them in the same breath as people whom I loved like Ride, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, The House of Love, Lush, Spiritualised, Sonic Youth etc... I couldn't wait to hear them - presumed I'd absolutely love them. So when Loveless was released, I saved up for a copy and bought it a few days before Christmas '91 (I also went to see The Addams Family in the cinema that day ).

Hated it (the album - oh, and The Addams Family too). I was only 13 and age has since helped me appreciate other groups - in particular Joy Division (couldn't stick them back then, adore them now) but very little has changed for me where MBV are concerned. I appreciate how they've pushed boundaries, how original they are - it's not going to make me like them though. It's certainly not going to make me feel I have to like them, because I do think they are something of a sacred cow.

That said, Only Shallow, Sometimes and Soon are frickin' awesome. Then there are a few shoegazing-meets-grunge-by-numbers tracks which are... grand. Anything by Ride (their so-called protegés) pees all over those though, imo. When You Sleep is, I suppose, quite good. To Here Knows When is the most boring dirge ever recorded, Touched isn't far behind. Blown A Wish is them doing pretty and ethereal - nothing as good as Cocteau Twins or Lush.

So, in my opinion, an album/band with some great moments, but most of it just sounds like dreary, self-indulgent twaddle to my ears...

Black NG-60-90

I love this album to bits it's one of those albums that you just have to listen to from start to finish because all the tracks are like pieces of a jigsaw. My fav songs on the album are Sometimes, Blown A Wish and Soon, Blown A Wish just sounds out of this world with the help of some fine herbal produce but overall every track is just fantastic and the album really takes you places.

exiot

There should be a sticky archiving all the Album Of The Weeks, would be fairly handy for people looking for good albums

John

exiot wrote: »

There should be a sticky archiving all the Album Of The Weeks, would be fairly handy for people looking for good albums

There is.

Brian Capture

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i was gutted when i didn't get to see them at EP cause i had to do a stupid presentation for college :mad:

They played EP on the Sunday night. Surely you don't have college on a Sunday night?

This was the last album I bought on record. I thought my stylus was dusty when I played it. So I started buying CDs then.

OneForTheRoad

I saw them at Roskilde this summer before Electric Picnic.

They were absolutely awesome. Loveless is ridiculously good.

Dudess

Brian Capture wrote: »

They played EP on the Sunday night. Surely you don't have college on a Sunday night?

Monday morning I presume, and I don't think Creamy Goodness lives anywhere near Stradbally.

Creamy Goodness

Brian Capture wrote: »

They played EP on the Sunday night. Surely you don't have college on a Sunday night?

Dudess wrote: »

Monday morning I presume, and I don't think Creamy Goodness lives anywhere near Stradbally.

Dudess is on the right track. I live in civilisation :P :pac:

i was on work placement and the presentation was worth the same as 6 exams so i wasn't going to miss it, if it was a ordinary college day i would have been there front row centre.

Dudess

I hears ya. I missed New Order at EP in '06 because of my work placement... :mad:

Earthhorse

Weren't there a thread on this afore and you done deleted it?

In summary, you are all wrong to love this album but I don't judge you for it.

Dudess wrote: »

MBV never fully did it for me.

Yeah, agreed. And I did give this album a chance. Even went to see them at Electric Picnic. I guess I'm just not hearing what others do though.

Dudess wrote: »

Hated it (the album - oh, and The Addams Family too).

What!?! :eek:

Cannot believe this. Great performances, witty script, excellent direction. You are not nearly as "alt" as you make yourself out to be. :mad:

KnifeWRENCH

I have this album but haven't listened to it properly yet - I have a big pile of albums I need to get through!

I absolutely love "Only Shallow" though, I could listen to that song all day.

John

Earthhorse wrote: »

Weren't there a thread on this afore and you done deleted it?

In summary, you are all wrong to love this album but I don't judge you for it.



Yeah, agreed. And I did give this album a chance. Even went to see them at Electric Picnic. I guess I'm just not hearing what others do though.



What!?! :eek:

Cannot believe this. Great performances, witty script, excellent direction. You are not nearly as "alt" as you make yourself out to be. :mad:

Somebody ban this loony

It's a great album, perfect in every way. I'll write a bigger, more indulgent and flowery post later on but seriously, this is as essential as having your dinner.