My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3)
Mike McGonigal
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN: 0826415482
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up. In his book, Mike McGonigal talks to all the members of My Bloody Valentine, in an almost certainly futile attempt to get at the essence of this extraordinary record.
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trying to cajole, demand and blackmail an album out of the Valentines. In the end, it came down to protracted birth thing with Alan as the very hands-on midwife to this extraordinary beast. Every day there would be an air that this could be the last week of the label-scary but strangely exciting to be in that situation. It was a very real situation. I do remember discussing with Alan my theory that some of the titles of Valentine songs were signposted to him-I now call this the MBV code." "I have
"Emptiness Inside": it's Steve Shelley on steroids! Those fills on "You Never Should" are almost off, but they're perfect. "Feed Me With Your Kiss" is Keith Moon after taking lessons from Milford Graves; it's sick. Speaking of sick, that's what Colin was for much of the recording of Loveless, which was a long-ass time obviously, and that's why so much of the recording happened without him. "He had a really hard time when we were doing the record," Bilinda relates. "It's such a shame, 'cause he's
with the band and the reason I'd driven out all this way, my ride being exchanged for entrance and the chance to pal around backstage afterward. Loveless had been released a few months before, and My Bloody Valentine was now my favorite band. They were at this point pretty much everyone I knew's favorite band, so of course I was there. I'd seen them in '89, before I was much of a convert, at the behest of the Orlin crew. That entire show at the comparatively tiny club Maxwell's in Hoboken, New
Shields explains. Stelfox was a camp-loving psychobilly-ish lead singer, and I hear tell he was a super sweet guy and a charismatic lead singer live. The early records that he sings on, and that his girlfriend Tina plays keyboards on in lieu of bass, are pretty awful, however. To me, this is a big deal, and I tried to think of another band that went from sucking so incredibly hard to being so flat-out great, and I couldn't come up with one. Early, early Sonic Youth is pretty had but you can tell
to discard the overt Goth influence on Geek and a twelve-inch EP from 1986 called The Neu Record by illy Bloody Valentine, which showed a distinct Jesus and glary Chain influence. After Tina had split the band once Geek was finished, Debbie Googe was brought in on bass. Deb explains that an ex-girlfriend of hers named Annie Lloyd was living in Berlin when MBV had been over there. "Annie was a singer in a band called Leningrad Sandwich and she just met them because the Berlin underground scene was
