Saw em a few years ago in Seattle, and it legitimately sounded like a fucking airplane was landing in the venue. It was insane. One of the few bands to demonstrate the sheer physical power of sound. I was so stoned at the time, that it made sense to me how you could move and levitate objects with sound.
i still remember hearing this album for the first time. i was 16 and walking around my neighborhood while in the eye of a storm with it playing on my headphones. it was a spiritual experience and had a deep emotional impact on me, and i can listen to the album now and be transported back to the sights and smells of that first listen viscerally.
fun fact !! in when you sleep, its only kevin shields (the male lead singer), and the second vocal track is just his voice higher pitched in various songs they sped up the tape
Its crazy cause the whole shoegaze is like loud and creppy sounding but like its lofi its unique structure just kinda makes it relaxing its like really extreme ambient post rock
The only band I'll wear earplugs for. I've seen them 3 times and they are without a doubt the loudest band ever. If you crank your stereo up to the loudest it will go and listen to the album again, you'll get a sense of what their concerts were like (and your stereo still won't be loud enough). Also, there are no synths or keyboards on this album. It's all guitar, bass and drums (and LOTS of guitar pedals, lol).
This shit is like groovy but also so freaking beautifil like i could meditate to this shit the fact that this is inspired by noise music is amazing as its like completly different
Great review! The first listen can be overwhelming, and at the same time, with additional listens, you will hear layers and nuances underneath. Their next LP 'MBV', from 2013,, is exceptional, and distinctive.
Great work man. It was originally supposed to be listened to on as a whole really with the break for turning the album over hence the transitional tracks.
YO! The weird third track... embrace it! I'm not saying that there is a secret you're missing. I'm just saying..I guess like, "try to like it". But by 'try' I just mean don't feel a need to question it.
Peoples reaction to this album fascinate me; everyone’s first listen is different. When I first was listening to loveless, touched became one of my favorites lol
I can comment on some of the things youre saying about this album. Many people consider shoegaze to be abstract expressionism in musical form. It was at least in its beginning and still from my experience seems to be kind of an anti machismo style and wanted to blend the sexes hence the mix of male and female vocals. You commented on the vocals, the female singer of the band Belinda Butcher would listen to the music and try to form words around the things that she heard in the music. The vocals in shoegaze are used more or less as another instrument that is supposed to blend into the "wall of sound" of the music. Id suggest listening to slowdives slouvaki if you havnt already. Ive seen both live and while the first time I saw slowdive was fucking amazing, seeing MBV was a religious experience. Shoegaze rules, just saying.
Shoegaze was a British niche of peddle reverb guitar music of the late eighties and early nineties, that passed most people by. At the period Shoegaze found traction, in the UK the Stone Roses dominated the indie market, whilst in the US, Nirvana and the Seatle sound era had come to the fore. The Oxford band Ride had the most commercial success, whilst MBV who were part Irish part English went their own way and conformed to nobody. Slowdive are worth checking out, whilst my favourite song of the genre and era is 'a thousand stars burst open' by Leeds band the Pale Saints. In recent years America has dipped into the genre via dreampop/shoegaze interest... DIIV and Beach house to name but a couple... Anglo American band Still corners also hat tip the genre. Mostly though shoegaze is a well kept secret.... Don't pass it on, lol...
@@lobotomyscam1051 As an alternative guitar band, it was always easier to crack England before the States because of the demographics. The British music press (pre Internet) was Indie orientated, and finding favour with them would likely ''crack' Western Europe, as many did.
It’s interesting bc it doesn’t make sense to lump in MBV with a genre defined by “pedal reverb guitar music” since Shields specifically said he didn’t use reverb and a bunch of effects and layers like shoegaze bands like Ride or Lush, but they still inspired all those bands
Their vocals may be quiet, but their concerts were LOUD
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Saw em a few years ago in Seattle, and it legitimately sounded like a fucking airplane was landing in the venue. It was insane. One of the few bands to demonstrate the sheer physical power of sound. I was so stoned at the time, that it made sense to me how you could move and levitate objects with sound.
Yes they are, i saw them live and half the crowd left when they started playing 😂
Yep. Saw them aged 18 in London 1991 and I'm still recovering
@@dpclerks09Was it worth the hearing loss?
This album feels like a dream
"it hurts my ears but i love it" basically sums up the album for me lol
6:36 is genuinely the most genius explanation of this album
i still remember hearing this album for the first time. i was 16 and walking around my neighborhood while in the eye of a storm with it playing on my headphones. it was a spiritual experience and had a deep emotional impact on me, and i can listen to the album now and be transported back to the sights and smells of that first listen viscerally.
This is so much a "welcome to the world". Seeing this live was one of the best experiences of my life.
fun fact !! in when you sleep, its only kevin shields (the male lead singer), and the second vocal track is just his voice higher pitched
in various songs they sped up the tape
I remember when it took years for MBV to come out and someone just sampled to hear knows when with an actual hoover in the background. Glorious
Interestingly there are not as “many” guitars on each track as you would think
Yeah its usually just 1 or 2 guitars just with alot of reverbs and pedals
Its crazy cause the whole shoegaze is like loud and creppy sounding but like its lofi its unique structure just kinda makes it relaxing its like really extreme ambient post rock
The only band I'll wear earplugs for. I've seen them 3 times and they are without a doubt the loudest band ever. If you crank your stereo up to the loudest it will go and listen to the album again, you'll get a sense of what their concerts were like (and your stereo still won't be loud enough). Also, there are no synths or keyboards on this album. It's all guitar, bass and drums (and LOTS of guitar pedals, lol).
swans are just as loud if not louder
@@jjooee6699 I've seen Swans a few times and I disagree, but there it is. Swans are awesome regardless :)
@@jjooee6699 Seen both bands several times. 2008 MBV was by far the most brutal.
You realize people who listened to this album when it came out didn't separate the tracks. We just put it on and listened to the whole thing.
Your face at the start of Soon LMFAO
This shit is like groovy but also so freaking beautifil like i could meditate to this shit the fact that this is inspired by noise music is amazing as its like completly different
loveless is my fav album of all time
Great review! The first listen can be overwhelming, and at the same time, with additional listens, you will hear layers and nuances underneath. Their next LP 'MBV', from 2013,, is exceptional, and distinctive.
Shoegaze, dream pop. Fuzzy loud dreamy guitars, light soft vocals.
Check out Silversun Pickups too.
'I think this guitar just called me a sl*t 😂😂'. Great review man
Slow dive are a great shoe-gaze band worth checking out
Great work man.
It was originally supposed to be listened to on as a whole really with the break for turning the album over hence the transitional tracks.
Life changing album right here
One of my top 3, adore this album so much
YO! The weird third track... embrace it!
I'm not saying that there is a secret you're missing. I'm just saying..I guess like, "try to like it". But by 'try' I just mean don't feel a need to question it.
Sorry I don't wanna boss you about :p Thanks for the video! Was fun seeing your reaction
thanks bro!
Peoples reaction to this album fascinate me; everyone’s first listen is different. When I first was listening to loveless, touched became one of my favorites lol
Really recommend their next album too, mbv
Your favorite picks are perfect brah
Just missing Sometimes
I like how he expected "Touched" to be an actual song and not just a bunch of noise 😂
touched is an older euphemism for the R word. everyone skips touched.
I can comment on some of the things youre saying about this album. Many people consider shoegaze to be abstract expressionism in musical form. It was at least in its beginning and still from my experience seems to be kind of an anti machismo style and wanted to blend the sexes hence the mix of male and female vocals. You commented on the vocals, the female singer of the band Belinda Butcher would listen to the music and try to form words around the things that she heard in the music. The vocals in shoegaze are used more or less as another instrument that is supposed to blend into the "wall of sound" of the music. Id suggest listening to slowdives slouvaki if you havnt already. Ive seen both live and while the first time I saw slowdive was fucking amazing, seeing MBV was a religious experience. Shoegaze rules, just saying.
Nice to watch you lose your mind to that album. The making-of story is like the Apocalypse Now of records.
Shoegaze was a British niche of peddle reverb guitar music of the late eighties and early nineties, that passed most people by. At the period Shoegaze found traction, in the UK the Stone Roses dominated the indie market, whilst in the US, Nirvana and the Seatle sound era had come to the fore. The Oxford band Ride had the most commercial success, whilst MBV who were part Irish part English went their own way and conformed to nobody. Slowdive are worth checking out, whilst my favourite song of the genre and era is 'a thousand stars burst open' by Leeds band the Pale Saints. In recent years America has dipped into the genre via dreampop/shoegaze interest... DIIV and Beach house to name but a couple... Anglo American band Still corners also hat tip the genre. Mostly though shoegaze is a well kept secret.... Don't pass it on, lol...
Nirvana was gaining a loyal fan base in England before they did in America.
@@lobotomyscam1051 As an alternative guitar band, it was always easier to crack England before the States because of the demographics. The British music press (pre Internet) was Indie orientated, and finding favour with them would likely ''crack' Western Europe, as many did.
It’s interesting bc it doesn’t make sense to lump in MBV with a genre defined by “pedal reverb guitar music” since Shields specifically said he didn’t use reverb and a bunch of effects and layers like shoegaze bands like Ride or Lush, but they still inspired all those bands
i wish we got a sequel with Jared Padalecki in it to face Tom
Neil Young : powder finger
Slowdive souvlaki next!!
what's up bro I did that one
@@smags1082 ohh thanks for letting me know. I will watch it
METH???
meth
😂😂😂
whats with all the "touched" hate in these comments
Say goodbye to the genre, my friend.
It's not exactly dead, my friend. There's more underground dreampop/shoegaze bands