My Bloody Valentine ‎– Loveless

I'm not going to bother writing a long winded description about what a classic album this is. It's been said a million times and rightly so. I'll keep it short and sweet. To me this is the perfect expression of those heart wrenching feelings you experience when you're in the grip of being in love. A deeply sexy, sensual masterpiece.

Does anyone else have a copy without a printed inner sleeve? Mine just has a plain white paper one. I bought it sealed in 2008 and it's just now I'm learning it was supposed to come with a red printed inner. Any info on that? Do I have a bootleg of this release or something?

http://thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot.com/2012/05/mbv-loveless-2012-remasters.html

Check this, the CD's have apparently been swapped!

Recently said by Kevin Shields in a pitchfork interview (http://www.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8809-kevin-shields/):

"..in America, Warner Bros. licensed Loveless and Isn't Anything to Plain Records, and they basically just ripped [the audio] off the CD and put it on vinyl [in 2003]. They did an awful, terrible job. It was done without my permission, and the sound quality was 100% wrong. It was a rip off to anyone who bought it."

Recently said by Kevin Shields in a pitchfork interview (http://www.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8809-kevin-shields/):

"..in America, Warner Bros. licensed Loveless and Isn't Anything to Plain Records, and they basically just ripped [the audio] off the CD and put it on vinyl [in 2003]. They did an awful, terrible job. It was done without my permission, and the sound quality was 100% wrong. It was a rip off to anyone who bought it."

could someone post the deadwax of the uk creation vinyl?

can anyone comment on any sound quality comparisons that may exist regarding the original and reissue LP of Loveless?

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).

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.

It's been over 12 years since its release, I still remember how it turned my concept of _music_ upside down the day I first listened to it. Never before (nor after) had anyone created a gigantic wall of distorted guitar noises that sounds so ethereal and soothing. Play it as loud as you can and put your head into the speakers, you'll feel like swimming in a whirl of sound (chemical assistance recommended). This is most certainly my favorite album of the '90s. I still listen to it regularly.