It was back in 2001-2002?. can't remember. I downloaded a few tracks from napster. On first listen I couldn't think of anything else, it was like a sonic revelation. next day I bought loveless (cd) and my life was changed forever
No sound engineer wanted to record them because they refused to sonically agree with them that vocals could be on same level as all the guitars and their pedal effects….the lead singer, he was a nutter (or aGenius ….) He knew what he was trying to achieve ….
I was always afraid to check these guys out because their name sounded like a generic 2000s emo band name... and now I know why. It would be hard not to be inspired by these guys musically. Great stuff.
I keep trying to tell my friends about them, but it's so hard to get them into listening because they're all convinced "My Bloody Valentine" is some emo band :-))
Bought Loveless at a music store, and I never heard MBV before. So naturally, when I put it on the stereo in my dad's car, the first five seconds of this song hit us like a sledgehammer...
Hi, I have a color and shape association with each key (each note, really), and this song is in A-flat minor. I see Ab as blue, and the coldest key. But to analyze this fully, we have to compare this to B-major (magenta), a very spiritual key. B is the last "color" on the rainbow before it disappears into ultraviolet. Ab is the Relative Minor of B-major, and his harmonically dependent on B-major. There for the song is "cold and dark" as would be Blue in the Minor-key, but it is reflective the dream (B-major) not Death (Ab minor). Also, come and visit any time! - _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Can anyone imagine what it must have been like to see this video come on MTV in the middle of the night and have your mind completely scrambled? Was anyone prepared for this? It's current year and this is still somehow ahead of its time.
Holy starlight! Those were the freaking good old days! Both TV shows: "Alternative-Nation", & "120 Minutes"; the two best & most essential music television programs that ever were! The sweet, mellifluous, mellow side of Rock depicted & represented, in a specialized music roster! The Alternative music 90's scene was the most golden age ever, for truly fantastic tunes! The Shoe-gaze sub-genre, was especially good.
It was so great because it gave a voice to a completely different and better style than everything else that they were showing. There is no thought in music television programming anymore and it’s the music that loses out.
What the hell were these guys snorting when they created this track? This is legitimately one of the most weird and craziest piece of music I have come across in my life.
Sleep like a pillow, no one there Where she won't care, anywhere Soft as a pillow, touch her there Where she won't dare, somewhere Sweet like a mallow, softer, fair Feel like you could swallow her Sleep, going to tremble, she's not square Soft like there's silk everywhere Sleep as a pillow, comfort there Where she won't dare, anywhere Look in the mirror, she's not there Where she won't care, somewhere
BobTheHammerGawd If you ever get the opportunity, go and see them perform. It will be the single loudest noise you’ll ever hear in your life. It’s literally mindblowing.
@@CynicSnacksI received permanent ear damage from their Denver gig in 2008. Should have worn earplugs, but I wanted the full MBV experience. They did not disappoint.
Still the gnarliest, heaviest and most awe-inspiring guitar riff in music history over 30 years later. The first time I listened to Loveless front and back, Kevin Shield's monsterous guitar feedback actually scared the hell out of me years ago. It was like experiencing an atomic nuke outside my window, obiterating every gas store, house and antique within its grasp.
I found this band through an "accident". my friend once told me about Bullet For My Valentine. when i get back home i forgot the name, i only remember about "My Valentine" so i decide to search it on youtube about "My Valentine Band". and now im here, falling in love with My Bloody Valentine..
BRO SAME I remember my dad showing me Bullets for my Valentine, and when I wanted to search it to listen, I forgot the complete name so I assumed it was Bloody Valentine, since I just remember something Valentine and bloody sounded right. Here I am after falling love with this band.
28+ years on it's still mind-blowing. I had the pleasure to see them on their 1992 US tour promoting this album. I stood about 10 feet away from one of the PA columns during all 25 minutes of "You Made Me Realise". My ears are still ringing.
This album came out just a few months after Ten and Nevermind. It was and is groundbreaking and warrants much more love. I’d put it up against most records from 1991, which was a year full of great albums.
When I was young 4 or 5 we had a cylinder hoover + when it was switched on I used to lie down near it as I found the noise comforting . It's very similar to this MBV song.
I heard a story that the drums on this record are entirely chopped up and used like a drum machine cause the drummer was too out of his mind on heroin to record.
I've read a lot about him being 'too sick' to play, could be heroin related or be a legitimate thing. This is the only song Colm played live on, all the other drum tracks he played basic patterns and beats and then they sampled them and put them together. Kevin also played a bit of the drums on this record too. Fun fact, Colm composed 'Touched' all by himself, although Kevin probably had influence on the mixing and post production.
INDEED! My first time I sat in a chair & was dumbfounded for hours.....Heroin most likely...very popular with this scene and times....I'm talking about acid by the way....
From 1:44 to 1:47 looks like Colm (the drummer) is smiling. I don't know exacty why, but this detail made my day. However this is the song that one year and a half ago introduced me to shoegaze, and it was a point of no return because it has changed forever my view of the music. There is something special and unique in this genre but I'm not able to describe it with my own words. Thanks MBV, I will always love you and your music
I can still feel shivers down my spine like when I bought this record back in '91, got home, played it first and thought "these guys know places we can't even imagine could exist"
I remember trying so hard to appreciate this band when I was 15-16, I was into all kinds of rock/emo/ punk etc... but everytime I'd play this band i'd feel underwhelmed. After 7 years this morning I decided to play a bloody valentine song and holy shit was this great!
They didnt sound emo enough, they didnt sound punk enough, not even post punkish nor goth. But having acquired some maturity I want to say that their sound encapsulates what languor is and feels like.
Gish came before this song. But Billy was a fan of mbv since "Isn't Anything", when they weren't all that popular, certainly not in the U.S. He claims "Daydream", which was one of the first songs written for the album back in '89 was him ripping off "Lose Your Breath".
You've got to give Shields props for persistence, he spent 7 years copying other peoples sounds, the cramps, c86 jangle, and sonic youth, until he finally hit upon 'his' sound and did something stunningly original with Loveless.
@@NashSpaceRocket Never understood the Sonic Youth comparisons, to be honest and can't recall anyone making them 88-92 or so. I certainly wouldn't say Isn't Anything sounds like Sonic Youth.
Summer July 1993 ‘Only Shallow’ first exposure. I was hitchhiking alone across the USA from Oregon, I was 19. I stopped in Boulder, Colorado to visit my school friend Reid & Eric. They played this song & album for me while we smoked some of my dads Oregon Green Bud. That experience and especially this song, deeply imprinted my life.
I was reading through Pitchfork's list of the 200 best songs of the 90s and this song is in 6th place. I was curious to check this out since I've never heard of this band before. I can't even explain how I feel about this song, it's strange but I really like at the same time. I never heard anything like this before. Today is august 25 2020, almost 29 years after the original release of the album and this still sounds ahead of its time. Just wanted to comment my first impressions here cause we don't have this opportunity everyday
I went on to become a Classical pianist (focusing on my own recordings rather than performance), but when I first heard this at 17 years old, still in High School, I was so shocked by it's sound that it changed me instantly. The was it sort like blurred the lines between sound-effect and actual chord progressions, and even the blurring of words verses vocal "sounds." It was so unlike anything I'd ever heard that it's like a had a instantaineous cosmic experience. The song haunted my mind for days!
Oh hell yeah. Much better if you actually get stoned and listen to it, though it works best with MDMA, you get sort of feeling anyway (this is what the band were doing, sleep deprivation, MDMA and smoking tonnes of weed) but when the music hits you feel it everywhere. Hard to put into words, it exceeds the capacity of words, you can oly really say "like the first time you heard loveless times 10". It's the one album I've ever heard that is at the same time trippy and romantic, like Blown a Wish, its simply the most beautiful and bizarre thing I've ever heard. Kevin was very interested in certain sounds and frequencies that are supposed to make people trip, its part of the reason for the loud live shows.
Frisson (/ˈfrɪsən/ FRISS-ən;[1] French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or musical chills, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding auditory and/or visual stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia (skin tingling or chills), sometimes along with piloerection (goose bumps) and mydriasis (pupil dilation).
Occasionally something totally brilliant comes along and stops you in your tracks - When I first heard this track the hairs on my neck stood up as that wall of glorious sound knocked it out of the park - My Bloody Valentine are something very special... Musical Art.
I was just commenting above how Phil Spector in the 60's created the "Wall of Song" by laying orchestra and instruments together into saturation-point. // My Bloody Valentine did it here, but with distortion pedals. I almost had a hallucinatory experience when IU first heart this at 17. I'm a pianist, so I don't know how distortion pedal works, but the Smith's created a similar cosmic-act using the tremolo-pedal in "How Soon Is Now," if you haven't heard it! "C" u at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole!_
Sleep like a pillow, no one there Where she won't care--anywhere Soft as a pillow, touch her there Where she won't dare--somewhere Sweet and mellow, softer there Feel like you grew stronger there Speak your trouble, she's not square Soft like her silk everywhere Sleep as a pillow, comfort there Where she won't dare--anywhere Look in the mirror, she's not there Where she won't care--somewhere
Was surfing and stumbled upon this song. Weeks later all I remember is VREEEEE VRWWWW, and tbh I'm low key proud I could find it again with just that lmaao.
I'm an old school shoegazer since 1985 thanks to The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy & The Cure - Head On The Door. I remember the term "Shoegazer Music" was 1st used around 1990 -91 as the scene was getting some deserved attention. It was originally meant as a "nasty critical description" by the music press to make fun of the lack of stage presence by the genre's musicians "shy kids who use too many pedals & seem to look down at their feet more than their audience" Weird how it's now an acceptable term.
As a musician shoegazer never came up, this was the crossover between punk and prog rock in my neck of the woods. Still doing as it is only natural as many of the guys I've played with through the years continue to experiment with sounds we've done in previous bands since the 80s. First time I heard this I knew it was a keeper!
Classic @jonanjello, good eye, I'd missed that somehow. Another good example caught on film was in the Pink Floyd video for Echoes, in Pompeii. The drummer who looks like Animal from the Muppet Show and beat the drums like they owed him money tears into a drum solo with these giant drumsticks and completely shatters one, and has another stick in his hand within two beats without most people even being able to notice, it happens so quickly. It is Fierce!
This is the moment where "wall of sound" created. Every chorus you see in pop songs resembles to this is because of this. This was the beginning. Never forget. These guys were genius. Edit: And don't forget why the "most replayed" part is the beginning: its because this is a masterpiece. You gotta replay it over and over again like a prayer, because its divine. The God or Allah or Buddha...etc speak through this song
You ain’t wrong, but the “wall of sound” technique started back in the ‘60s with Phil Spector. I think this was a pioneer in its sound effects though. Either way, good observation.
Sleep Like a pillow Down(ward) And (Where) She won't care Anyway (where) Soft As a pillow Touch her there Where she won't dare Somewhere Sleep Like a (royal) (Subject) Think That you grew Stronger there Speak Your troubles She's not scared Soft like there's silk Everywhere Sleep (Is a) pillow Come Where she won't dare Anyway (where) (Look) In the mirror She's not there Where she won't care Somewhere
Nevermind the lyrics it's about the backing vocal properly buried in the mix, just giving the most beautiful soaring melodies it almost hurts your ears. Seriously though I think this is a pretty good transcription.
I remember one day in 1991 when I was very young on the northside of Dublin I went outside and heard a beautiful loud noise. It was Kevin Shields tuning his guitar FXCVNR was the tuning from what I remember.
Eternal crush on Belinda Butcher since 1992. There will never be another guitarist like Kevin Shields. Ever. This album (Loveless) is the closest music in existence to sex with love: powerful, but still tender, sensual, and transcendent.
Absolutely agree. All fans of rock music, in general, should own this album. Shield's use of so many effects, feedback, and loops make this the quintessential "shoegazer" album. Many have tried to recapture this sound, but have failed miserably. Best album of the 90's in my opinion.....I wish everyone could see and hear this piece of art for what it truly is, but the fact is that most people aren't that intelligent when it comes to GREAT music. Good music is easy to make, I think, but the great shit transcends the mediocre....too obvious, right? Anyone, good post Andrew.
When I was a music major (music theory) decades ago, we learned the most basic definition of music: organized sound. MBV pushes those boundaries in 3D ways that 2D people don't understand. I don't mean to be elitist about it, it's just that they don't speak the language. MBV is organizing emotion via sound in unique ways, with cues that only people who have experienced those emotions will understand.
Oh my freakin' Gawd! The guitars sound like the mating calls of gigantic chainsaws. So overwhelming but so sexy at the same time. No wonder Loveless is considered one of the greatest albums of all time. What a way to kick off the 90s!
this is a amazing song to listen to if you need to clear your mind. just let the song envelope you. highly recommend listening to this through high quality headphones.
Loveless is my favorite guitar sounding album ever made, also one of the best albums ever. Very unique and intimate... Nodoby created a more complex and beautiful guitar sound.
My Bloody Valentine is better than some of the medicines I take for depression and anxiety it fills my soul with happiness these guys really rock they are deep in my soul with great riffs and great vocals better than the Zoloft from taking and other medicines for depression this is better than depression that is sent this music is great
I’m so glad that this band & their music connects on such an emotional level for you as it does for all that love this truly original & innovative band. I hope your feeling better within yourself my friend & never forget that your never on your own. Take care.
Man, fuck depression.. Anyone reading this who feels hopeless, alone, scared.. You are loved. When you're inside of depression it doesn't feel like it. It might be that you feel nothing at all. Depression is a thief. I don't say this to try to make you feel better, because it wont.. many more of us than you might realize have been there though and the lucky ones are able to escape. It's never really gone though; but when you're there the first time it's easier to see that your brain is fucking lying to you. Take care of each other.
shoegaze saved my life. i cant even express how dark of a place i've been in. its like ive been to hell and back. only people with eczema would understand how hard this life is...... this album awoke something within me. it gave me a second chance at life and happiness.it numbed my pain. i'm 6 months of steroid cream and life is seeming brighter :) MBV forever
Saw these many times back in the day..had awesome live mix..Belinda beautiful looking as always..saw her in the flesh a while back..aged well..still gorgeous looking
I bought Loveless on a whim at the record store once. Took it home, cranked up the stereo and put the CD in, only to be greeted by:TATATATA VRRREEEEWWWW VRRRROOOEWWWWWW, etc.. needless to say, I was an MBV fan from that point on!
In the early '90's i read an article in an alternative press issue that talked about how band's like Smashing Pumpkins were ripping off elements of My Bloody Valentine's sound and getting more notable credit for doing so at the time. After i read that article i immediately went to my local Camelot music store. Found the only one copy of Loveless that they carried in the whole store. I looked at the album cover and knew this album was gonna be something special. I bought the CD, brought it home and played it in my brother's JVC 6 disc CD changer home entertainment system. No one was home so i turned up the volume a bit louder than usual. I also took bong rips before i started the CD. That was history. Kevin Shields became one of my favorite musicians instantly. I found out later that if u listened to Loveless on head phones with the right CD player that the more volume the more sounds u could find in the recording. Masterpiece!
You could describe it that way - I read they were given nearly 1million pounds to make Loveless and they spent a fair portion of that on drugs and fx boxes. What a sub-genre though - they re-claimed ‘ethereal ambience’ from the likes of Enya and Peter Gabriel and married it to Dinosaur Jr riff rock. I still love listening to this when so much else from the time sounds dated.
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what happened to RHINO?
"Wow"
It was back in 2001-2002?. can't remember. I downloaded a few tracks from napster. On first listen I couldn't think of anything else, it was like a sonic revelation. next day I bought loveless (cd) and my life was changed forever
When I first listen to Loveless I thought I discovered it all.
Not my fav album, but the best this music nerd has ever head.
What is this? There isn't anything like it.
I love how Kevin is very calm while playing his maniacal riff.
Yeah I tried to stay as expressionless as possible
Kevin lmao
He's literally shoegazing lol
@@A_Salty_Fishe HAHAHAHA
His literally shoegazing lmao
This song is insanely addictive. I love the balance between the insanely heavy music and the beautiful gentle vocals.
esas beatiful gentle vocals son aburridas
Thats mbv for ya
No sound engineer wanted to record them because they refused to sonically agree with them that vocals could be on same level as all the guitars and their pedal effects….the lead singer, he was a nutter (or aGenius ….) He knew what he was trying to achieve ….
Hi I recommend an indie rock song & video called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
Also the killer drumming😊
Like waking up from a dream you can't quite remember the details of... Only the feeling it left you with.
omg masquerade!
Great description of a post dream state
Lazy you have great taste in music
Whoa
Spot on!
I was always afraid to check these guys out because their name sounded like a generic 2000s emo band name... and now I know why. It would be hard not to be inspired by these guys musically. Great stuff.
Ha, same here. Always got them confused with Bullet for My Valentine.
Topher Glenn same
Jack Jackson My thoughts exactly
I keep trying to tell my friends about them, but it's so hard to get them into listening because they're all convinced "My Bloody Valentine" is some emo band :-))
Same here. They're my favorite band of all time now.
I love that the music videos look like the music
The visuals of this albums are just like the damn songs, I bet they even taste alike
why tf are u here
so also the cover of the album
no the music video is trash,the song is great
i am boomer. Don’t say "trash" you boomer!
Colm O'Ciosoig: 💪😤😠🤯🤬😈💥🔥💢💣🧨🥁
Kevin Shields: 😔🎸
Bilinda Butcher: 👁️👄👁️
@@spoonmeanie5644 why is this so accurate
Who wins? Beauty Bilinda Butcher 1:22 vs creepy Kevin Shields 2:47 ?
@@twiguydk 2:48 Clearly confused Colm O' Ciosoig
Debbie Googe: 🎸🚶🏻♀️
DUT DUT DUT DUT
VREEEEEEEEEW
VROOOOOOOW
that is another one lol
so close
That made me think of "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths for some reason
@@WeDwellinaFiefdomVREEEEEEEEEEW i am the son i am the heir
Of nothing in particular
Bought Loveless at a music store, and I never heard MBV before. So naturally, when I put it on the stereo in my dad's car, the first five seconds of this song hit us like a sledgehammer...
its soooo sparkly and pink!!! :-)
:)
i can imagine so well hahahaha
As soon as that DUT DUT DUT DUT ends, it blows you against the wall with gorgeous noise.
First song i ever heard from mbv was soon and i was like "wow this is beautiful" so i gave this song a listen and had my skull pulverized
Kevin looks sunken and melancholic, Colm is just vibing, Debbie could be feeling a number of emotions and Bilinda is giving off a dreamy distant vibe
Hi, I have a color and shape association with each key (each note, really), and this song is in A-flat minor. I see Ab as blue, and the coldest key.
But to analyze this fully, we have to compare this to B-major (magenta), a very spiritual key. B is the last "color" on the rainbow before it disappears into ultraviolet. Ab is the Relative Minor of B-major, and his harmonically dependent on B-major. There for the song is "cold and dark" as would be Blue in the Minor-key, but it is reflective the dream (B-major) not Death (Ab minor).
Also, come and visit any time!
- _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Can anyone imagine what it must have been like to see this video come on MTV in the middle of the night and have your mind completely scrambled? Was anyone prepared for this? It's current year and this is still somehow ahead of its time.
Who B'stank
I remember
I saw the world premiere on 120 minutes, and was fortuitously tripping balls. I instantly had a new favorite band and song.
Holy starlight! Those were the freaking good old days! Both TV shows: "Alternative-Nation", & "120 Minutes"; the two best & most essential music television programs that ever were! The sweet, mellifluous, mellow side of Rock depicted & represented, in a specialized music roster! The Alternative music 90's scene was the most golden age ever, for truly fantastic tunes! The Shoe-gaze sub-genre, was especially good.
It was so great because it gave a voice to a completely different and better style than everything else that they were showing. There is no thought in music television programming anymore and it’s the music that loses out.
It happened to me. Just stared at the screen during 120 minutes with my mouth hanging open. Beautiful. (Same thing happened with Fake Plastic Trees.)
Shoegaze is an amazing genre.
Always underrated genre
@a w We called it dreampop back then... Shoegaze really only started being used with bands like Ride, Swervedriver, Lush, etc.
a w or ambient pop
The best genre but underrated af
Try sheogaze metal.
One of the greatest and most influential albums of all time. It will never age.
Loved it then and love it now❤
truth
What other songs from Loveless do you like? Because I listened tot he whole album and this is the only one that speaks to me.
@@TimeGallon what you want, into soon
Don't rush it, you'll like it soon.
That iconic snare at the start lol
dut dut dut dut
Emily Morris VREEE VREOOOOW VREEEE
Oh man. Like a ton of bricks.
That snare is so unique and so thin yet thick at the same time. Incredible.
That's not snare. That's Thor's Hammer hitting against that shield thingy that Captain Whatshisname has.
The first time I heard this song I thought the guitars sounded like a herd of elephants.
Garrett Johnson Hah bro you look like Morrisey.
Larethio The Wolf Dude. And here I thought we could be friends... lol
Garrett Johnson - Now I can't unhear it.
Lmaooo same!
they sound like dinosaurs to me
What the hell were these guys snorting when they created this track? This is legitimately one of the most weird and craziest piece of music I have come across in my life.
Lmao 😂 this comment is underrated
kevin shields is a fucking genious!
High on sound
Heroin, LSD, and atomic bombs.
They’ve probably been snorting a lot of pre-Geffen Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca…
God has this song in his playlist
This song is god
@@carlosmontufar1096 :+
god wishes he was this song
God's playlist is just Loveless 3 times over.
Amen
this song still holds up today, easily one of the top five 90's rock songs
"this song still holds up today" is probably the dumbest thing one could ever say. Good music like every good art dont age.
@@LASSEFITTA alright dude
@@LASSEFITTA I've heard of dumber things , like your comment.
@@LASSEFITTA bot type comment
Cool - what are the other 4 ?
I love the melancholy in her voice
Sleep like a pillow, no one there
Where she won't care, anywhere
Soft as a pillow, touch her there
Where she won't dare, somewhere
Sweet like a mallow, softer, fair
Feel like you could swallow her
Sleep, going to tremble, she's not square
Soft like there's silk everywhere
Sleep as a pillow, comfort there
Where she won't dare, anywhere
Look in the mirror, she's not there
Where she won't care, somewhere
Thanks
I thought no one could divine the lyrics on the Internet, yet here you are. Sounds right, unlike almost ALL other lyrics I saw on the web. :P
This is my first time listening to these guys but holy shit this is so good and different.
BobTheHammerGawd If you ever get the opportunity, go and see them perform. It will be the single loudest noise you’ll ever hear in your life. It’s literally mindblowing.
@@CynicSnacks wow you're verified :0
@@CynicSnacks hey it’s cynic snacks, love your stuff
@@CynicSnacksI received permanent ear damage from their Denver gig in 2008. Should have worn earplugs, but I wanted the full MBV experience. They did not disappoint.
Still the gnarliest, heaviest and most awe-inspiring guitar riff in music history over 30 years later. The first time I listened to Loveless front and back, Kevin Shield's monsterous guitar feedback actually scared the hell out of me years ago. It was like experiencing an atomic nuke outside my window, obiterating every gas store, house and antique within its grasp.
Pretty sure that was his intent
Hi I recommend an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
it was a revelation. ridiculously influential.
Love your choice of words here. Gnarliest, heaviest and awe-inspiring describes it so well. Bass line complements the noise racket well too.
Check out the Cocteau Twins, you can see where this band gets it's inspiration from.
I found this band through an "accident". my friend once told me about Bullet For My Valentine. when i get back home i forgot the name, i only remember about "My Valentine" so i decide to search it on youtube about "My Valentine Band". and now im here, falling in love with My Bloody Valentine..
Great accident! Used to listen to BFMV in my "emo" days back in 2006-2008, but this Valentine is much better!
there is sincere beauty in sheer luck as this proves. Big X from Amsterdam brother sister, and give Henri the horse a hug too. @@HenritheHorse
I like both bands lol
HAND OF BLOOD THO
BRO SAME
I remember my dad showing me Bullets for my Valentine, and when I wanted to search it to listen, I forgot the complete name so I assumed it was Bloody Valentine, since I just remember something Valentine and bloody sounded right. Here I am after falling love with this band.
28+ years on it's still mind-blowing. I had the pleasure to see them on their 1992 US tour promoting this album. I stood about 10 feet away from one of the PA columns during all 25 minutes of "You Made Me Realise". My ears are still ringing.
The infamous "Holocaust", eh?
I wore earplugs to that tour and my ears rang for a solid week
Saw them on that same tour and it has remained unmatched in sheer volume and blissful intensity.
Wonderful 🙉
so it IS true
This song has changed everything. nothing was the same after. Masterpiece.
same i have watched it over 60 times in the last 2 weeks.
Yea! Specialy for Peter Steeke.
How cute. You just discovered a 30 year old song. How cute, poser.
@@SamplingPercussion I discovered it 30 years ago. I just posted a comment one year ago.... u just make me smile honey
@@SamplingPercussion asshole, congrats!⭐️
This is one of those songs I wish I could listen again for the first time, that iconic snare and the first vreeeeewwvrowwwsywh
Don’t need drugs to listen to this, the album is a drug itself
who need heroin when you can listen to MBV
Chris Johnson seriously this
Chris Johnson they actually do this thing at their shows were the just make a bunch of noise at the end. They said it “gets them high”. Kind of cool.
@@ChrisJohnsonChannel Trainspotting reference
Drugs help tho
This album came out just a few months after Ten and Nevermind.
It was and is groundbreaking
and warrants much more love.
I’d put it up against most records from 1991,
which was a year full of great albums.
Great year indeed
Blood Sugar Sex Magic
The insane part is that it began recording in 89
Any records from 1991? You could easily argue that it’s the greatest album ever made.
Nevermind, Black album and other big 4 albums dropped in 91@@celebrity6781
I'm a vacuum repairer and this one has a serious problem
When I was young 4 or 5 we had a cylinder hoover + when it was switched on I used to lie down near it as I found the noise comforting . It's very similar to this MBV song.
@@philroberts1103dude i used to do the same w static noise from old tvs
Saul?
At 2:50 the drummer looks like he is balls-deep in the craziest trip of his life. Probably was, god bless these madmen.
I heard a story that the drums on this record are entirely chopped up and used like a drum machine cause the drummer was too out of his mind on heroin to record.
I've read a lot about him being 'too sick' to play, could be heroin related or be a legitimate thing. This is the only song Colm played live on, all the other drum tracks he played basic patterns and beats and then they sampled them and put them together. Kevin also played a bit of the drums on this record too. Fun fact, Colm composed 'Touched' all by himself, although Kevin probably had influence on the mixing and post production.
INDEED! My first time I sat in a chair & was dumbfounded for hours.....Heroin most likely...very popular with this scene and times....I'm talking about acid by the way....
The fact in that time Colm was on not good condition for recording, and finally Colm and Kevin making the drum samples almost for the entire album
Colm was sick with some muscle or nerve disease iirc. No heroin, I'm afraid. I don't think these folks were into doing that crap.
I love how Debbie is riding chords on the small strings for most of the song. It really rounds out the arrangement. She is a kickass bass player
From 1:44 to 1:47 looks like Colm (the drummer) is smiling. I don't know exacty why, but this detail made my day. However this is the song that one year and a half ago introduced me to shoegaze, and it was a point of no return because it has changed forever my view of the music. There is something special and unique in this genre but I'm not able to describe it with my own words. Thanks MBV, I will always love you and your music
I can still feel shivers down my spine like when I bought this record back in '91, got home, played it first and thought "these guys know places we can't even imagine could exist"
How can they sound so low and full of energy at the same time? I love this!
I feel that the key of A-flat minor is a dark but also very spiritual key.
I remember trying so hard to appreciate this band when I was 15-16, I was into all kinds of rock/emo/ punk etc... but everytime I'd play this band i'd feel underwhelmed. After 7 years this morning I decided to play a bloody valentine song and holy shit was this great!
They didnt sound emo enough, they didnt sound punk enough, not even post punkish nor goth. But having acquired some maturity I want to say that their sound encapsulates what languor is and feels like.
@@97Imserious it’s the worst feeling when you try so hard to like something but you can’t right away
This is one of those bands that you are immediately blown away by or not
cannot believe people write fucking emo on here
oh wow and styled like how we grew up
Sunny Sunday Smile in ‘87 on vinyl. Loved the fast drumming and fuzzy guitars.
Such a mesmerizing psychedelic masterpiece. How could this be over 30 years old? Timeless…
The Smashing Pumpkins "Gish" sound, especially on Rhinocerous, comes from this song and this band.
Both great albums.
Gish came before this song. But Billy was a fan of mbv since "Isn't Anything", when they weren't all that popular, certainly not in the U.S. He claims "Daydream", which was one of the first songs written for the album back in '89 was him ripping off "Lose Your Breath".
You can definitely hear the influence on Siamese Dream, especially with his vocals.
GISH is the best thing SP ever did or will do
@@MENFUSSMIKE eh Siamese Dream imo is their magnum opus
Love Belinda's sweet vocals rising through the cacophony of the guitar + drums. I could drown in her eyes. I want my hair back.
You've got to give Shields props for persistence, he spent 7 years copying other peoples sounds, the cramps, c86 jangle, and sonic youth, until he finally hit upon 'his' sound and did something stunningly original with Loveless.
Isn't Anything is at least as innovative. More so if you ask me.
@@slaterslater5944 Only if you had never listened to Sonic Youth before MBV.
@@NashSpaceRocket
Never understood the Sonic Youth comparisons, to be honest and can't recall anyone making them 88-92 or so. I certainly wouldn't say Isn't Anything sounds like Sonic Youth.
And AR Kane
@@etiennequartey5715
Now THERE's a good call..
*Such an iconic masterpiece. The face of a genre. And possibly my favourite song from 1991*
*Thank you, my bloody valentine*
Playing this song on repeat hearing those drums slam in the intro is such a deep hard hitting feeling I can’t describe
Today its been officially 30 years since this album was released, happy birthday loveless!
yes happy birthday
This is the first time to listen to this song, and now I’m fascinated by their sound!!! I love this!!!
Ok guys this music gave me desire to tell you that i love yall guys. Stay healty and strong.
Happy My Bloody Valentine's Day
Be still, my Bloody Valentine.
I love the dreaminess and grittiness of the song and the repetition makes it hypnotic! Glad I finally found this song again!
Summer July 1993
‘Only Shallow’ first exposure. I was hitchhiking alone across the USA from Oregon, I was 19. I stopped in Boulder, Colorado to visit my school friend Reid & Eric. They played this song & album for me while we smoked some of my dads Oregon Green Bud. That experience and especially this song, deeply imprinted my life.
I was reading through Pitchfork's list of the 200 best songs of the 90s and this song is in 6th place. I was curious to check this out since I've never heard of this band before. I can't even explain how I feel about this song, it's strange but I really like at the same time. I never heard anything like this before. Today is august 25 2020, almost 29 years after the original release of the album and this still sounds ahead of its time. Just wanted to comment my first impressions here cause we don't have this opportunity everyday
Bilinda's eyes here, wow. With this music of Heaven all aroud her, they seem so salvific yet as cold as ice. It's so intense.
Her eyes are mesmerizing in this video...simply beautiful.
@@bigmicro just commenting on them, idiot. Take your ghetto talk elsewhere.
@@bigmicro LMAO
All these years, I'm still waiting for the chorus 😆 kevin is a genius
One of the greatest tracks EVER recorded! Sublime, simple genius.
This song holds a lot of sentimental value to me.
There’s something so chilling about Kevin just staring down at his guitar working his magic
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Absolute masterpiece. A sonic marvel.
I went on to become a Classical pianist (focusing on my own recordings rather than performance), but when I first heard this at 17 years old, still in High School, I was so shocked by it's sound that it changed me instantly. The was it sort like blurred the lines between sound-effect and actual chord progressions, and even the blurring of words verses vocal "sounds." It was so unlike anything I'd ever heard that it's like a had a instantaineous cosmic experience. The song haunted my mind for days!
Anybody else get a mild high just by listening to this album? Like your mind literally gets all buzzy?
nah that's just the tinnitus
Oh hell yeah. Much better if you actually get stoned and listen to it, though it works best with MDMA, you get sort of feeling anyway (this is what the band were doing, sleep deprivation, MDMA and smoking tonnes of weed) but when the music hits you feel it everywhere. Hard to put into words, it exceeds the capacity of words, you can oly really say "like the first time you heard loveless times 10". It's the one album I've ever heard that is at the same time trippy and romantic, like Blown a Wish, its simply the most beautiful and bizarre thing I've ever heard. Kevin was very interested in certain sounds and frequencies that are supposed to make people trip, its part of the reason for the loud live shows.
Once I was jumping and spinning around while playing Loveless and I felt high even without consuming anything.
Frisson (/ˈfrɪsən/ FRISS-ən;[1] French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or musical chills, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding auditory and/or visual stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia (skin tingling or chills), sometimes along with piloerection (goose bumps) and mydriasis (pupil dilation).
yeah especially when the guitar glide, something weird felt in back of my head :D
Opening sounds like a vaccumm cleaner.
Welcome to shoegaze
vrewww vrooowww
Vrewwww vrowwww
My vacuum cleaner sounds more like Lush.
Alex Turner :o
Best drum intro ever..
So distinctive.
Still gives me shivers,like when it first came out!
YES.,,,,,,
dut dut dut dut VREEEEEEE VROOOOWWWW
@@iakh6339 Hello, based and redpilled department?
Well put, fine sir.
Best comment 😂
You just made me very happy
dunbaala bunboola
SEEEEEENCHUUUU KTSAAAANNNNN
Beautiful, beautiful noise. Fucking classic.
Word up.
Occasionally something totally brilliant comes along and stops you in your tracks - When I first heard this track the hairs on my neck stood up as that wall of glorious sound knocked it out of the park - My Bloody Valentine are something very special... Musical Art.
I was just commenting above how Phil Spector in the 60's created the "Wall of Song" by laying orchestra and instruments together into saturation-point. // My Bloody Valentine did it here, but with distortion pedals. I almost had a hallucinatory experience when IU first heart this at 17.
I'm a pianist, so I don't know how distortion pedal works, but the Smith's created a similar cosmic-act using the tremolo-pedal in "How Soon Is Now," if you haven't heard it!
"C" u at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole!_
these 4 snares are significant
Sleep like a pillow, no one there
Where she won't care--anywhere
Soft as a pillow, touch her there
Where she won't dare--somewhere
Sweet and mellow, softer there
Feel like you grew stronger there
Speak your trouble, she's not square
Soft like her silk everywhere
Sleep as a pillow, comfort there
Where she won't dare--anywhere
Look in the mirror, she's not there
Where she won't care--somewhere
Landau Touch her...there.
@dani cali It's anybody's guess, but odds are this song is probably about sex.
@dani cali its about a girl masturbating
@@TotinosOtherBoy You sure? I'm actually curious. Lyrics seems like it could be about either sex or male/female masturbation 🤔
Thanks, I never knew those were the lyrics
Was surfing and stumbled upon this song. Weeks later all I remember is VREEEEE VRWWWW, and tbh I'm low key proud I could find it again with just that lmaao.
I showed this video to my little brother, he liked it so much that he fell on the floor and started convulsing! God bless My Bloody Valentine!
I'm an old school shoegazer since 1985 thanks to The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy & The Cure - Head On The Door. I remember the term "Shoegazer Music" was 1st used around 1990 -91 as the scene was getting some deserved attention. It was originally meant as a "nasty critical description" by the music press to make fun of the lack of stage presence by the genre's musicians "shy kids who use too many pedals & seem to look down at their feet more than their audience" Weird how it's now an acceptable term.
As a musician shoegazer never came up, this was the crossover between punk and prog rock in my neck of the woods. Still doing as it is only natural as many of the guys I've played with through the years continue to experiment with sounds we've done in previous bands since the 80s. First time I heard this I knew it was a keeper!
...incredible guitar, but the vocals... absolutely exceptional! Love this band eternally..
0:49 Drumstick drop
jonanjello lol
lol
Classic @jonanjello, good eye, I'd missed that somehow. Another good example caught on film was in the Pink Floyd video for Echoes, in Pompeii. The drummer who looks like Animal from the Muppet Show and beat the drums like they owed him money tears into a drum solo with these giant drumsticks and completely shatters one, and has another stick in his hand within two beats without most people even being able to notice, it happens so quickly. It is Fierce!
I like fender guitars and long hair
I AM Fender guitars and long hair.
This is the moment where "wall of sound" created. Every chorus you see in pop songs resembles to this is because of this. This was the beginning. Never forget. These guys were genius. Edit: And don't forget why the "most replayed" part is the beginning: its because this is a masterpiece. You gotta replay it over and over again like a prayer, because its divine. The God or Allah or Buddha...etc speak through this song
You ain’t wrong, but the “wall of sound” technique started back in the ‘60s with Phil Spector. I think this was a pioneer in its sound effects though. Either way, good observation.
I saw them live last year in Birmingham and it was by far the loudest thing I have experienced.
I found this song a couple months after my break-up in 2017. Quite a sound to listen to while my heart was torn in two.
Hahaha, I love Kevin in that huge-ass coat for some reason.
He can wrap it around me. I'd be happy.
he looks extra cool
Ｉｓ ｉｓ ｎｏｔ ａ ｃｏａｔ ペ畏果むス
it effects the guitar sound doesn't it?
Thanks
Sleep
Like a pillow
Down(ward)
And
(Where)
She won't care
Anyway (where)
Soft
As a pillow
Touch her there
Where she won't dare
Somewhere
Sleep
Like a (royal)
(Subject)
Think
That you grew
Stronger there
Speak
Your troubles
She's not scared
Soft like there's silk
Everywhere
Sleep
(Is a) pillow
Come
Where she won't dare
Anyway (where)
(Look)
In the mirror
She's not there
Where she won't care
Somewhere
Concrete_Leper
I don't agree
These are not the lyrics.
Nevermind the lyrics it's about the backing vocal properly buried in the mix, just giving the most beautiful soaring melodies it almost hurts your ears. Seriously though I think this is a pretty good transcription.
I remember one day in 1991 when I was very young on the northside of Dublin I went outside and heard a beautiful loud noise. It was Kevin Shields tuning his guitar FXCVNR was the tuning from what I remember.
Eternal crush on Belinda Butcher since 1992. There will never be another guitarist like Kevin Shields. Ever. This album (Loveless) is the closest music in existence to sex with love: powerful, but still tender, sensual, and transcendent.
+Andrew Viceroy Well said.
Absolutely agree. All fans of rock music, in general, should own this album. Shield's use of so many effects, feedback, and loops make this the quintessential "shoegazer" album. Many have tried to recapture this sound, but have failed miserably. Best album of the 90's in my opinion.....I wish everyone could see and hear this piece of art for what it truly is, but the fact is that most people aren't that intelligent when it comes to GREAT music. Good music is easy to make, I think, but the great shit transcends the mediocre....too obvious, right?
Anyone, good post Andrew.
What's amazing is they can pull it off live. Brutal and beautiful as the same time.
I once heard some dude say he saw them live in coachella circa 2005 ans said he didnt like them cause it was all just noise to him. hes a musician.
When I was a music major (music theory) decades ago, we learned the most basic definition of music: organized sound. MBV pushes those boundaries in 3D ways that 2D people don't understand. I don't mean to be elitist about it, it's just that they don't speak the language. MBV is organizing emotion via sound in unique ways, with cues that only people who have experienced those emotions will understand.
the drumming makes this track one of my top 5 MBV songs
Oh my freakin' Gawd! The guitars sound like the mating calls of gigantic chainsaws. So overwhelming but so sexy at the same time. No wonder Loveless is considered one of the greatest albums of all time. What a way to kick off the 90s!
The best comment I have ever seen
@@moparsully Thank U!
this is a amazing song to listen to if you need to clear your mind. just let the song envelope you. highly recommend listening to this through high quality headphones.
Best band to come out of my home town. Proud to be Irish when I listen to MBV.
Loveless is my favorite guitar sounding album ever made, also one of the best albums ever. Very unique and intimate... Nodoby created a more complex and beautiful guitar sound.
Thurston Moore on drums!!! Kool!
Fuck lol I was thinking the same thing
Doesn't look like him to me.
HAHAHHAA actually, is Beck on drums
Bilinda's eyes and lips 😍😍😍and her voice 💓💓💓
Cuando eres gamer 👍🏳️🌈😍😍🥰
For non guitarists strumming jangley guitar chords on fresh strings is one of lifes true pleasures. You should try it for the experience.
Still sounds fresh in 2020
My Bloody Valentine is better than some of the medicines I take for depression and anxiety it fills my soul with happiness these guys really rock they are deep in my soul with great riffs and great vocals better than the Zoloft from taking and other medicines for depression this is better than depression that is sent this music is great
Rock On My Bloody Valentine keep it going fantastic therapy for me makes me feel great thank you
I’m so glad that this band & their music connects on such an emotional level for you as it does for all that love this truly original & innovative band. I hope your feeling better within yourself my friend & never forget that your never on your own. Take care.
Man, fuck depression.. Anyone reading this who feels hopeless, alone, scared.. You are loved.
When you're inside of depression it doesn't feel like it. It might be that you feel nothing at all. Depression is a thief. I don't say this to try to make you feel better, because it wont..
many more of us than you might realize have been there though and the lucky ones are able to escape. It's never really gone though; but when you're there the first time it's easier to see that your brain is fucking lying to you.
Take care of each other.
stop taking that shit right now man; the people who prescribed you that do not have your best interest at heart to say the least; just listen to this
Why are you depressed?
Con esta canción daba inicio uno de los mejores discos de la historia musical 🇮🇪 una completa maravilla este disco.
Saludos desde Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Si
After 20 years... Still slays me every time. Bilinda's raw beauty... The sounds... The lights...
My favorite My Bloody Valentine song! It's heavy yet chill and melodic. Instant feels. I feel like melting away to this.
shoegaze saved my life. i cant even express how dark of a place i've been in. its like ive been to hell and back. only people with eczema would understand how hard this life is...... this album awoke something within me. it gave me a second chance at life and happiness.it numbed my pain. i'm 6 months of steroid cream and life is seeming brighter :) MBV forever
holy shit you’re so right, I suffer from eczema and a lot of the time it’s so depressing
Saw these many times back in the day..had awesome live mix..Belinda beautiful looking as always..saw her in the flesh a while back..aged well..still gorgeous looking
I bought Loveless on a whim at the record store once. Took it home, cranked up the stereo and put the CD in, only to be greeted by:TATATATA
VRRREEEEWWWW
VRRRROOOEWWWWWW, etc..
needless to say, I was an MBV fan from that point on!
John Burns Did it not blow you against the wall? It did me.
Mr. Reich
it didn't quite blow me against the wall but it blew my face off for sure
In the early '90's i read an article in an alternative press issue that talked about how band's like Smashing Pumpkins were ripping off elements of My Bloody Valentine's sound and getting more notable credit for doing so at the time. After i read that article i immediately went to my local Camelot music store. Found the only one copy of Loveless that they carried in the whole store. I looked at the album cover and knew this album was gonna be something special. I bought the CD, brought it home and played it in my brother's JVC 6 disc CD changer home entertainment system. No one was home so i turned up the volume a bit louder than usual. I also took bong rips before i started the CD. That was history. Kevin Shields became one of my favorite musicians instantly. I found out later that if u listened to Loveless on head phones with the right CD player that the more volume the more sounds u could find in the recording. Masterpiece!
Kevin Shields playing in a winter coat for seemingly no reason at all is a v i b e.
I listened the hell out of this album back in the early 90's. I always wondered what they looked like. Now I know! Thanks!
The sound of jazzmasters guitars is the soul of shoegaze ♥️
what a fucking great song.
Who cares what the lyrics are just love the layers, shades, and moods of this song!
Goosebumps every time. I know people say that with music a lot, but this is genuine fucking goosebumps all over
Breaking news: musicians with foot fetishes get together to smoke pot and accidentally create a whole new sub genre
You could describe it that way - I read they were given nearly 1million pounds to make Loveless and they spent a fair portion of that on drugs and fx boxes. What a sub-genre though - they re-claimed ‘ethereal ambience’ from the likes of Enya and Peter Gabriel and married it to Dinosaur Jr riff rock. I still love listening to this when so much else from the time sounds dated.
Surprises..bloody..good
wait foot fetish?
Why the foot fetish tho?😅
@@lilroastbeef1840 genres called shoegaze
2019 and I'm still listening to this wonder.
Greetings from Peru!