Those My Bloody Valentine Singles and EP's

Tremolo. It's really only between the last three.

or four though i pulled out "feed me with your kiss" the other day and it really pales compared to "you made me realise" (my vote). "tremolo" is a very close second.

"You Made Me Realise" for the title track alone.

Glider and Tremolo share tracks on Loveless, right? Are they the same versions?

"You Made Me Realise" for "Slow" alone.

Though I do love "Honey Power"...

"Glider" from the Glider EP should have opened Loveless and preceded "Only Shallow". It sounds like that track, don't it?

I've only heard Tremolo and Glider. My favorite of the two is Tremolo. Three Bilinda songs bitchez! Between "To Here Knows When" and "Shallow" I probably prefer the latter.

No, I'm sorry, I prefer "Swallow" over "To Here Knows When".

i don't have any of these :(

The songs on the just-pre-Loveless singles and songs on Loveless itself all have these almost inchoate and, yes, ethereal titles such that I find it difficult to remember which song goes by what name.

Friggin' Cocteau Twins at least had weirdo titles that made things easier. "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", indeed.

I keep running this and the parody thread above it together in my mind and seeing "My Blobby Valentine". Which is making me giggle stupidly.

the parody thread has more responses, though ;_;

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/believe-it-or-not-my-bloody-valentine-reuniting-for-coachella-2008/

"You Made Me Realise" is the best of these. Every track a stunner.

Yep.

The last four all fit one one cdr. YMMR. Glider a close second.

Tremelo is the best...MBV are far better when you can't decipher their lyrics...(have you listened to the lyrics to "Slow" lately?...you're likely to detach a retina rolling those eyeballs)...

you made me realise...top stuff anyway - tremolo comes close.

YMMR > glider = trem > FMWYK, but all are really sweet

(have you listened to the lyrics to "Slow" lately?...you're likely to detach a retina rolling those eyeballs)...

-- henry s, Monday, August 27, 2007 1:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

so true - that song is like a C+ at best. luckily, "YMMR," "thorn," and "drive it all over me" are A++'s

"Drive It All Over Me" has a bit of a Jackson 5/Osmond vibe...

But thats why its SO GOOD.

someone asked upthread but the single version of "soon" does not have the fade in...

Damnitt, the ex girlfriend ran off with You Made Me Realise, and I haven't tried to obtain it again because supposedly they are going to rerelease all of this shit. All I have to do is get tired of waiting and pay too much for it on Ebay and then it will be reissued with bonus tracks or something.

um, did y'all miss the post up-thread about MBV reuniting?

I strongly disagree with the critiques of "Slow" - the lyrics are *perfect*.

xpost ken ::
hehheh....apparently

I am dishonestly voting for The New Record by..., just cause I enjoy hearing them sound like a meaner Primitives.

You could round up the EP tracks around the last two albums into a rather good album themselves, really -- hell, if someone handed me an album where "Off Your Face" was the single, I certainly wouldn't be thinking of it as B material.

I have absolutely no use for anything where Dave Conway is singing.

It's got to be Glider for me. The main track off each of those last four EPs is great (assuming we consider Soon and To Here Knows When to be the main tracks off the last two), but I think Glider has got the best other stuff on it. Off Your Face is one of my favourite Valentines songs.

...although for some reason it always reminds me of Making Plans For Nigel.

Dave Conway always seemed like he should have been in the Monochrome Set instead!

Glider

from that link upthread:

It would also cap off years of concert industry chatter about Tollett’s burning desire to see the band play at Coachella – and his standing 7-figure offer.

wow! i would definitely go to coachella if MBV played.

could you imagine the encore version of "you made me realise" in the desert heat??

then again i suppose they would play at night.

i like the song YMMR a little more than FMWYK, but FMYWK has better b-sides. i'd pick FMWYK on the strength of 'i believe' alone

what's the longest YMMR "death chord" anybody has been witness to?...I've seen them twice, with a 10-minute version in Trenton, NJ and a 20-minute version in Detroit...(I timed them!)...

Something like 40+ minutes.

http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/mbv/images/mbv_you_made_me_realise.jpg

You Made Me Realise
Slow
Thorn
Cigarette in Your Bed
Drive It All Over Me

I voted for 'Glider' because "Soon" is so important to me - I can still totally recall the moment I heard the first tremeloed chord. The best EP is 'You Made Me Realise' because every song is so amazing. 'Tremelo' is of course gauzy and wonderful in retrospect, but at the time I remember hoping for a "Soon II". 'Feed Me With Your Kiss' was just so heavy and overwhelming - especially the pounding chords on the title track and the gatling gun snares on "Empitness Inside". 'Strawberry Wine' is actually nearly in the same league - "Never Say Goodbye" is one of their prettiest songs. The 'Ecstasy' mini-album is surprisingly consistent as well, full of hooks and beauty. Again, I can't be bothered with the others because I can't deal with the vocals.

Whoops, TremOlo...

The 'You Made Me Realise' EP is the best rock 45 of dem 80s.

I might vote for Sunny Sundae Smile just to make sure it gets a vote!

i voted for you made me realise, partly on the strength of the title song but also b/c it's a bit more singular than their other strong cds/singles (namely, glider and tremolo -- yes, they have songs not on loveless and even those also on the foregoing record are slightly different, but as strong as the songs are they really don't have anything i can't get offa loveless in the end).

i am curious if anyone votes for either geek or even the new record. they aren't particularly outstanding IMHO and, had i heard them back in the day i probably would've not paid them much mind over similar stuff on college radio. still, geek (and, even though it's not mentioned here, this is my bloody valentine) are interesting in retrospect b/c they sound so radically different than either isn't anything or loveless that it's next to impossible to tell that they're the same band (yes, i know that there are key personnel differences, but still kevin shields is the common element here!) off the top of my head, the only other band this situation reminds me of is ministry, namely the difference b/w with sympathy and just about everything else that lot ever did -- although at least one CAN tell (again, perhaps only in retrospect) that the earliest ministry record has al jourgeson's fingerprints all over it (mostly in its sour, slightly subversive lyrics if not so much in the actual music) not to mention that it also stands up pretty well on its own. while the earliest MBV stuff sounds like, well, a lounge act fronted by a goofball trying too hard to sound like nick cave.

i voted for 'the new record by'.. i prefer dave's voice to kevin's.

I think we agree on a number of things, but I just can't imagine someone actually preferring the Conway era, and not just because of the voice. I'm assuming you were into the band while he was still the singer?

"Sunny Sundae Smile" was the first MBV song I ever heard (in about 1987 I think) and I still adore it, but I think I put that earlier era buzzpop MBV in its own category, it feels unfair squaring it off against the later stuff, theyre different beasts.

That said I'm going for You Made me Realise.

I'm assuming you were into the band while he was still the singer?

actually no - my first encounter with MBV was when 'glider' was released.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

and don't the kids love it?

Tremolo

YMMR

"Sunny Sundae Smile"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Makes enough sense.

This is probably exactly how I would rate them.

the world is perfect

yeah that's really fantastic

really? but the song you made me realise is rubbish (i am one of those people who never got sister ray neither but i kind of liked metal machine music). like jesus and mary chain but out of tune. maybe that was the point. the whole ep is crap actually. just listening to it. not one track worth mentioning (the last being esp. useless). could it be that you all voted for it because of some mythic status of the ep? can someone explain the appeal of ymmr to me?

i would have gone for glider. the last two songs on that one are perfect melancholic noisy pop. and the other two aren't bad neither. though soon is too long as always. they should have chopped off the last two minutes of disco idiocy.

i would have voted 'tremelo' i think.

The New Record by My Bloody Valentine 4
Strawberry Wine 2
Sunny Sundae Smile 2

are these people just showing off?

i have always had a soft spot for outsider votes. why should they show off? they probably just liked a band on the way to find its sound. which can be fascinating of course but i think it's more of historic interest.

hey, Strawberry Wine at least is pretty good!

the Strawberry Wine EP is EXCELLENT and fully recognizable as the MBV we all know and love - The New Record by.. and Sunny Sundae Smile are unlistenable by comparison.

Ecstasy is nearly as good (and has it's own unique brand of jangly miasma).

You can of course find them together on the Ecstasy and Wine CD which I very strongly recommend to any fan of the later stuff.

... if you can find one!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006VP1OYO/
coming soon!

Strange that it's listed as one disc though! Maybe this is just the default.

Ummm hasn't that remastered box set been a rumor for, literally, a decade?

yeah, more official than not
http://www.virginmedia.com/music/browse/my-bloody-valentine/albums/350573

cover art could use some work
http://virgin.grapeshot.co.uk/image-resize/sz=190x190;crop=A;h=c4994b63072d4d6401c126ace5a5a007;/www.virginmedia.com/img/entertainment/music/default-album-xl.jpg

on that note, does virgin have a new logo? "to infinity and beyond" ?

think it's a subtle way of saying that the wait for MBV reissues will be infinite.

Strange that it's listed as one disc though! Maybe this is just the default.

If it's You Made Me Realise, Feed Me With Your Kiss, Glider, and Tremelo, then it'll all fit on one disc. roughly 70 minutes of music.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/431280_331667923536289_100000792537138_823216_49381649_n.jpg

NEW album drops tomorrow tho

Honestly, I think they should be arrested for this shit.

how dare they delay rereleasing stuff I already own!

following this has been entertaining

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/smf/index.php?topic=1639.0

yeah i have been dipping in there. i love it when there is a "connected insider" who largely communicates through winking emoticons, it feels like a gold-leaf missing puzzle piece.

gonna not check this thread until may and go wait outside a record store overnight, hope nothing stands in the way of me and my new record.

lol you can spot me in that thread a couple times

one of the members insists "dodle" is an absolutely legit source, but aforementioned member often hopelessly romanticizes MBV and multiple times strikes lightning bolts upon nay-sayers and doubters

that said, i don't doubt the new album. it just feels kinda pathetic to be riding on a singular comment kevin made in an nme interview so many years ago

Honestly, I think they should be arrested for this shit.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly

one of the members insists "dodle" is an absolutely legit source, but aforementioned member often hopelessly romanticizes MBV and multiple times strikes lightning bolts upon nay-sayers and doubters

that said, i don't doubt the new album. it just feels kinda pathetic to be riding on a singular comment kevin made in an nme interview so many years ago

― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i remember when i was a teenager i used an mp3 player called sonique, an aesthetically superior alternative, to my teenage eyes, to winamp; it had some different skins, & an active community making usually-fire-themed variations on the default, round-edged & geometrically interesting player. & i think when i started using it it was sonique 3.0, & after some while they started trailing sonique 4.0, & how it was gonna own, maybe with winamp having become a bigger thing in the meantime, sonique now an underdog, something transparently just an arbitrary variation on the market leader norm. but the hype got bigger and bigger, & the claims pushed by the developers wilder and wilder, enticing the audience to just imagine what the next version was going to contain, making me imagine EQs that made music sound more like music than music ever had done, making me imagine new shades of orange & hyperrealistically rendered, maybe even animated licks of fire, that would encircle the graphic equaliser. & this just went on & on, the product never arriving but the occasional progress updates as enthusiastic as ever. i eventually just started using winamp, or using sonique 3.0, knowing deep down that the function of the thing was pretty much binary - it worked or didn't - & that what i was using it, playing music out of shitty grey wiry computer speakers, for wasn't really likely to be hugely improved by any sort of ease-of-use development or next generation graphics. but i would still sometimes go back there, & find that the community was thriving, that there were still believers, clinging harder to the dream & talking more aggressively about how substandard winamp was, the connoisseurial gulf between it & the imagined-future-incarnation-of-sonique.

& i love my bloody valentine & can imagine future my bloody valentine records coming out but i am really more fascinated by the cultish, fervent belief and optimism of the forum when i check for updates. i already have those eps, so i guess i'm only tentatively psyched about a reissue if there's the extra songs, & i've already heard someone say "I HEARD A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT HOW FOUR SONGS ARE TOTALLY COMPLETED ;)" a zillion times in like 1998, so i'm kinda immune to the infectious excitement of believing that the world will end in may 2012/a my bloody valentine record is totally secretly ready to be released in june 2012, etc. someone on the forum said a while ago that there kind of isn't really any such thing as a reliable source, because the guy involved can be cited as credibly stating that "if i don't have anything released by the end of 1994 then kill me", & that the reissues were coming out a while ago, &c. i don't even totally buy the he's crazy/lazy thing, i am just not holding my breath.

new albums' called "duke nukem forever"

dammit apostrophe

I would’ve voted for “Strawberry Wine”. My favorite MBV song!