My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Label:

Creation Records

Catalog#:

CRECD 060

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

Nov 1991

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Shoegazer

Tracklist

1	Only Shallow	4:17	X
2	Loomer	2:38	X
3	Touched	0:56	X
4	To Here Knows When	5:31	X
5	When You Sleep	4:12	X
6	I Only Said	5:34	X
7	Come In Alone	3:58	X
8	Sometimes	5:19	X
9	Blown A Wish	3:36	X
10	What You Want	5:33	X
11	Soon	6:58	X

Credits

Artwork By [Cover Idea] - My Bloody Valentine
Bass - Debbie Googe*
Drums, Sampler - Colm O'Ciosoig
Engineer, Engineer [Assistant] - Adrian Bushby , Alan Moulder , Andy Wilkinson , Anjali Dutt , Charles Steel , Colm O'Ciosoig , Darren Allison , Dick Meaney , Guy Fixsen , Harold Burgon , Hugh Price , Ingo Vauk , Kevin Shields , Nick Addison , Nick Robbins , Nick Savage , Pascale Giovetto , Tony Falter
Guitar, Sampler, Vocals - Kevin Shields
Guitar, Vocals - Bilinda Butcher
Music By - Kevin Shields (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 9)
Other [Coordination] - Ann Marie Shields
Photography - Angus Cameron
Producer, Mixed By - Kevin Shields (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 11)
Producer, Mixed By, Music By - Colm O'Ciosoig (tracks: 3)
Words By - Bilinda Butcher (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 9) , Kevin Shields (tracks: 4)
Written-By - Kevin Shields (tracks: 5 to 8, 10, 11)

Notes

℗ & © 1991 Creation Records. Published by EMI Music.

Barcode: 5 017556 600603
Catalogue number: CRECD 060
LC6306
Made In France

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Rated 5/5

Review by skardas Jul 28, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

It can be said that MBV were the founding fathers of Shoegazing but also killed the whole thing off. When they released "Loveless" in 1991, it made the albums by all the other bands unnecesserary, cos it compromised everything Shoegazing was meant to be and took it a lot further. Music like this hadn't been heard before and has never been produced again.

The thing that strikes you first is the sound, layer upon layer, vocals and rythms drowned in a huge wave of feedback and sounds you've never heard before. Shields achieved this by using guitars in ways that had never been thought of before and sampling them, to the effect that you sometimes think to hear a whole orchestra or flutes, but it's always just guitars really. It was an absolutely amazing piece of work and seemed to make all the other bands realise that they'd been foolish to think they could ever come up with anything as good as this, so they all shot off in different directions (Moose went country, Chapterhouse went dance, Lush and Boo Radleys went britpop and Catherine Wheel went shit).

Review by pliiant Aug 31, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)

When you're madly in love; when you're desperately lonely; when you're optimistic and full of joy; when you're pessimistic and waiting for the next giro to arrive; when you think everything makes sense; when you think nothing makes sense.... this album sums up all the parts good and bad of being human. the music has a depth few could not latch onto. This album is utterly incredible.

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Rated 5/5

Review by casinovsjapan May 27, 2003

"Loveless" is by far and away one of the most important records of the 90's, and remains an influential cornerstone to hundreds of artists worldwide. It is easily my one of my favorite albums of all-time.

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