Isn't Anything

An all time classic debut. Not the best album by the band either, but it goes hard.

idk i though my bloody valentine is more emo rock and not this chill, in my head MCR vibes, oops

Det er et af de albums som Claus aldrig er lykkedes med at formidle til mig på en måde som fanger mig. Det er isoleret set fedt, men det rammer mig ikke ordentligt.

Et album der ikke er nemt tilgængeligt, men som bare vokser og vokser

i get why people like this but, it just wasn’t for me

arranca muy cool con lo distinto que es y la intro rara, pero se hace medio pesado y demasiada saturación de ruido 7,5/10

Boring

Can play, can't sing!!

Innovative, sure, but not something I would return to.

It’s Deja Hüsker Dü all over again.

Not my music type, but interesting layering and textures

Absolute masterpiece. What a record

Not the intensely satisfying sonic bludgeon that their next album would be, but 'Isn't Anything' definitely hints at candy-coated, sludgetastic majesty. The songs aren’t all there for me, though, and for however good the guitars sound, the drums noticeably sound like shit. File this under 'the album before they figured it out.'

5/10

If possible, I would have given this a 2.5. But it was not Buzzcocks or The Sonics level of poo and pee so I won't. I really wanted to like this album since I feel like I hear so many people rave about My Bloody Valentine, but I felt neutral/disliked more songs than I enjoyed (only really liked No more sorry). I don't understand the hype I fear... For so many of the songs it's like they're singing as far away from the microphone as humanly possible. The instruments are nice, but they don't really carry the songs in any way for me to have an overally positive impression of the album.

Nice one. Didn't know this was from the late 80ies.

Feel like MBV will get a placeholder of a 3 on account of my intention to listen to more of their works in the future to try and understand them.

Really good but very tempted to dock it a point for inaccessibility

dont like the shoe gazing

Some great noises, musical dissonance, wall of noise. Makes me regret not seeing them live

Didn't understand the music or vocals. Seems like alternative rock

I forgot how great this is - more songly than Loveless and MBV, but it doesn't suffer for that by any stretch :)

No está mal, si puede funcionar

TIL that mbv were the pioneers of shoegaze. Still don't know what shoegaze is but I thought they were emo the whole time so... yeah idk it's fine ig, lmao jk

É um bom álbum que valoriza um rock cru, energético e direto. A banda tem uma personalidade interessante que faz com que as músicas soem especiais e não genéricas. TRIxHBB Kai.

Probably their best album besides Loveless

Turns out I rather like My Bloody Valentine

As marginally interesting it was to hear where mbv started, we really don't need such a subpar addition to this list when Loveless (and to a much lesser extent, the "mbv" album) is around. Some ok moments but a lot less to like, here. 1.8/5 -> 2/5

Another tricky one to judge as it feels like one of those albums I could love when I’m in the right mood for it. There’s a hypnotic trance feeling to a lot of its distortion and fuzz, but the slightly floaty vocals were just a bit irritating in some parts. I reckon I could feel different about them at certain times though.

Ahh that was disappointing. Didn't like this, just sounded like a lot of noise 2 ⭐️

Not to sound like an old man, but this was just so much noise for me. No. No, no, no. AND GET OFF MY LAWN!

Skemmtilegt glamr, ekkert of mikið og solid hljóðfæraleikur

Frábær plata sem gleymist of oft. Fellur í skuggann af loveless. Brautryðjendaverk shúgeisins, fullt af gítarpedulum.

It sounds heavy and painful. Even though, I wanted to understand the emotion through the lyrics I just couldn't understand them. Regarding the general sound of the album, I must say that the harmonic vocals mixed with the heavily distorted noisy guitar sounds make a painfully comfortable music. My final word is that I like the innovation but sometimes weird is just painful. I'm still unsure about the rating this album deserves in total honesty.

I don’t mind some MBV, but this album doesn’t really do it for me. The songs seem a bit half-cooked and the production hasn’t quite hit that wall-of-sound that they were so good at on the next couple of albums.

"isn't much" was beter geweest... in beperkte mate is dit goed, maar een hele plaat is te veel, bedankt

3 albums from this "not actually emo" band? How many do we need? This is the same shit as all the other ones. This time I'm giving it 1* out of spite. Stopped after 4 songs, waste of time.

If there are 2 genres I struggle with its ambient and shoe gaze. With the exception being Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine. I’ve heard loveless and it’s incredible but had never heard this. This is a great album. I especially liked the songs with the fuzzy, distorted guitars. The more fuzz the better. Cupid Come, You’re Still In A Dream and Sueisfine are my favourites. Not as good as loveless but still great

Felt a bit half-baked and charmingly amateurish; didn’t like it as much as Psychocandy or a Sonic Youth album. Unfortunately I’ve heard so much about these guys and it didn’t live up to the hype, even after I listened on headphones a second time.

Man, I just couldn't connect with this. It wasn't unlistenable, but nothing stood out, and I found it kind of grating at times.

3 Did tend to blend together a bit, apart from the first couple of tracks which were more unique, I've never been huge on albums where the vocals are so low that you can't make out the lyrics at all. Still, there was definitely enough good stuff here to make me quite curious to hear Loveless

Couldn't listen to it because their stuff isn't on streaming. Big sad, but I remember their last album I tried to find on YouTube was kind of bad too.

Decent enough to have on, definitely had vibes of bands I like

I hated it so much i didnt bother to tull the end

Physically painful

I just can't, as much as a white girl can't even with this Shoegaze Rock sub-genre. Nobody can say I haven't tried to enjoy it, that's for sure, but there is absolutely nothing good about it. It's just noise for the sake of making noise, and it's just a long, humming style of a vibe. I had a difficult time distinguishing between the songs(similar to my album yesterday, but that's a different story). Favorite Track: "I Can See It(But I Can't Feel It)".

My lightly scratched valentine more like. This sounds link it was recorded with the band in a large cardboard box, and the mics placed outside. There's nothing going on over 4KHz. It removes all impact. Disappinting - can't give more than a 2

Dunno why it won't let me see them on yt music, but from what i remember they're a sorta shoegaze rock band

3.5

its fine, and its removed from spotify

I had to find multiple versions of this album online because I thought the first were of bad quality. But that was just how this album was produced evidently. It was not a pleasant listening experience and I was happy when it ended.

The thing about this band is that their sounds are cool and interesting, but none of their records are mixed like it.

Put it on Spotify and I’ll give it a 4. I’m coming around on the shoegaze stuff.

I’m not that fussed on MBV so this was never going to get a great score. Didn’t really hold my attention throughout.

Previously rated Loveless 2.5. This isn't as good and I use good loosely. 2/5.

Nah

Nope

Not on Spotify. Listened to both sides of album on YouTube. Some good stuff. Some stuff I didn’t totally get. Just not for my tastes in the end.

Fine instrumentals at times, but this album screams “Don’t trust this band with your daughter / sister / friend.”

Fuck I hate that I actually like this album. Perhaps shoegaze actually is a real genre and not just a flimsy excuse to buy too many guitar pedals. Instrumentally it is right in the sweetspot of early shoegaze where the sound is unique and atmospheric but still somewhat comprehensible. Lyrically, I can't comment because I don't think I understood a single word.

"Isn't Anything" by My Bloody Valentine is a nice debut album for me. Its a good shoegaze album with innovative guitar performance and experimental "wall of sound" production. The album is very loud and has noise tracks. I like the tracks like, "Lose My Breath", "(When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream", and "Nothing Much to Lose". There is still some tracks I don't like ,"Soft as Snow", "Sueisfine", "Several Girls Galore". I don't know why it feels like a normal album and their weakest album among their discography. It feels inferior to their other albums "Loveless" and "mbv". Even though it is still one of their influencial albums. Overall not so great album but not a bad album either.

Terrible música, sin ritmo, extraña, parece musica emo de la época. Muy malo!

Irritating

The first track was amazing, but the rest was meh.

If someone asked me, “what does experimental pop sound like?”, I’d probably play this album. More focused and less shambolic than the You Made Me Realise EP, but not the fully realized statement of Loveless, Isn’t Anything sounds like a band on the verge of accidental bliss. My Bloody Valentine makes pop songs under the disguise of artsy noise rock. Don’t let them fool you. 4.5

Decent noise rock offset by touches of Shoegaze. Not that I disliked this album in particular, but I really feel like this band is over-represented on this list with three albums when one would have sufficed to illustrate what they’re all about.

Isn’t anything of real substance, but I’ll add half a star because of the self-deprecation.

A little more palatable than their other albums, it sounds more raw and dynamic. Still, it's full of repetitive annoying noises and dissonance and I didn't enjoy it at all. I had to listen to it a few songs per day over a week to get through it.

A good start from the shoegazy boys but the best is to come from them. 3.5

It all kinda blends together which i guess is the point

Really cool album. Fun shoegaze elements. Not much to say about this one I enjoyed it but nothing really HOOKED me in. Was waiting for a banger that never came. Still had fun tho Highlight: All I Need

_3 feet high and rising_ was yesterday's album, and now another gem from 1988. while _loveless_ is their undisputed heavyweight champ, people shouldn't sleep on _isn't anything_ (or the too often underappreciated _glider_ EP) as it is terrific in its own right. if this system had half stars, i'd easily call this a 4.5, but i can't put it quite in the same realm as _loveless_. still, highly recommend this one that i still listen to a few times a year

Thus did not connect with me. It's in-between the sounds of so many bands that I love like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. Maybe its great but poorly executed? There is something there, just not fully realized.

This isn’t my preferred genre of music. It was also difficult to find as there might be a licensing issue in the US.

Quand je me repasse l'histoire du rock indépendant de la fin des années quatre-vingt, je repense toujours à cette période charnière. Cette époque où le post-punk crevait doucement dans son coin et où le rock guitare cherchait désespérément un second souffle. Ce moment où My Bloody Valentine a débarqué. On oublie souvent de rappeler d'où vient la bande à Kevin Shields, car avant cette baffe monumentale de novembre 1988, il y a eu l'album This Is Your Bloody Valentine en 1985. Un disque garage post-punk aux entournures gothiques, assez anecdotique, où le groupe se cherchait encore une identité au milieu des décombres des Sixties et de la cold wave. Un petit disque anecdotique mais non pas sans saveur. Mais trois ans plus tard, le décor a totalement changé, car l'arrivée de Bilinda Butcher à la guitare et au chant, combinée à la signature chez Creation Records auprès du gourou Alan McGee, a tout fait voler en éclats. Bon soyons clairs d'entrée de jeu, ce premier véritable LP de la formation classique n'est pas encore le chef-d'œuvre absolu qui viendra tout ravager sur son passage. Je rappelle que trois ans plus tard, le groupe sortira Loveless, la perfection incarnée, cette cathédrale de bruit divin pour laquelle j'ai posé un gros 5 sur 5 sans hésiter une seule seconde. À côté de cette perfection monolithique, Isn't Anything s'en sort tout de même chez moi avec un très solide 4 sur 5. Pourquoi pas la note maximale ? Parce que c'est un album encore brouillon, un disque de transition furieux qui n'a pas tout à fait la cohérence esthétique ni la puissance émotionnelle foudroyante de son grand frère. Mais putain quel brouillon génial ! Car ce qui frappe dès les premières secondes, c'est cette sensation de glissement permanent. Kevin Shields a découvert un truc tout bête mais complètement révolutionnaire : garder la tige de vibrato de sa Jazzmaster au creux de la main tout en grattant ses accords. Résultat ? Le son ne reste jamais droit. Il se tord, s'étire, se liquéfie. C'est ce qu'on appelle le "glide guitar". Ajoutez à cela une dose massive de réverbe inversée, des couches d'overdrive empilées sans vergogne et vous obtenez une masse sonore mouvante. La guitare ne sert plus à jouer des riffs classiques ; elle devient un fluide toxique qui s'infiltre par tous les pores de la pièce. Et puis il y a ce contraste saisissant entre la violence tellurique des instruments et la douceur maladive des voix. Kevin Shields et Bilinda Butcher ne chantent pas, ils murmurent, ils susurrent des bribes de textes érotiques ou malades directement à votre tympan, noyés sous un typhon d'harmoniques incontrôlables. C'est précisément cette dynamique qui pose les bases de ce que la presse britannique s'empressera de baptiser le "shoegaze". Tout est déjà là : le mur de son destructeur, l'attitude introspective, le refus des solos de guitare démonstratifs et cette façon unique de transformer le larsen en matière mélodique. Contrairement à Loveless qui sera une œuvre totalement immergée dans un océan de réverbérations millimétrées au studio, Isn't Anything garde encore un pied bien ancré dans la terre battue du rock garage et du post-punk rugueux. On sent encore l'urgence organique de la basse de Debbie Googe et le martèlement frénétique de Colm Ó Cíosóig. J'adore l'impression que l'album est constamment sur le point de dérailler ou de s'effondrer sous son propre poids. On oscille sans cesse entre des morceaux d'une agressivité brute, où la guitare se fait tronçonneuse, et des comptines hypnotiques qui semblent flotter dans un état de demi-sommeil narcotique. Le groupe teste ses limites, pousse les potards dans le rouge et voit ce qui reste debout une fois la poussière retombée. L'influence de ce disque sur tout ce qui a suivi est tout simplement incalculable. Sans Isn't Anything, pas de Ride, pas de Slowdive, pas de chapitre américain avec Smashing Pumpkins ou Dinosaur Jr qui ajustent leurs pédales de fuzze. C'est l'acte de naissance officiel d'une nouvelle façon d'envisager la guitare électrique. Avec cet album, le groupe a prouvé qu'on pouvait être d'une lourdeur écrasante sans jamais tomber dans le hard rock balourd, et d'une sensibilité extrême sans sombrer dans la mièvrerie folk. C'est cette dualité sacrée qui fait toute la beauté de la démarche de My Bloody Valentine. Alors oui, le son a vieilli par certains côtés et la production garde les stigmates de son époque et de son budget étriqué. Certains passages manquent un peu de cette fluidité magique qui fera de leur album suivant un monument intemporel. C'est parfois rêche, parfois un peu foutraque, mais c'est précisément ce qui fait son charme vénéneux. C'est l'instantané d'un groupe en pleine mutation génétique. On assiste en direct à la chrysalide qui éclate, aux chenilles punk qui se transforment en monstres soniques psychédéliques. Rien que pour ça, replonger dans cet album reste une expérience rafraîchissante et salvatrice. En réécoutant ces douze titres aujourd'hui, on mesure à quel point la déferlante qui allait s'abattre sur nous trois ans plus tard était déjà contenue dans ce réservoir de larsens et de voix chuchotées. Isn't Anything n'est pas seulement un bon disque : c'est la mèche qui a mis le feu à toute une génération de musiciens.

🔊

Main character energy, if life were produced by A24

loveless is grating but beautiful, this is grating but grating

Shoegaze again. Some of it was okay, some of it included some screeching noises, nearly all of it quickly became background music to a wandering mind

++: Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside), Cupid Come, All I Need, Sueisfine, Nothing Much to Lose, I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It) +: Lose My Breath, Feed Me with Your Kiss, Several Girls Galore +-: (When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream, No More Sorry, You Never Should 7,0/10

I think these guys got better later in the career, but was this album just one long song? I completely lost interest.

Could not find this album. After seeing “shoegazing” in the reviews, I consider myself fortunate.

For the first time in almost 400 albums, a record by a white artist that isn't on Apple Music. And *Loveless* is missing as well! Apple Music get your shit together. As for "Isn't Anything"- Kevin Shields seems obsessed with notes that are halfway between; or maybe he's obsessed with moving between two notes..... I can't tell. Listening to this record made me think of music that has been painted down wet, and then someone came along and spilled water all over it. Now it's just.... swirls and fuzzy shapes. I genuinely enjoy about half of these songs, and really don't care for the other half. The noisier, more dissonant tracks can take a hike. That leaves me with an unfortunately low - TWO STARS

Album not on Spotify. Rating based on another MBV album.

Much better than expected

fiz questão de escutar esse DIRETAMENTE DO CD puta que pariu eu gosto demais desse feed me with your kiss é uma obra de arte eterna no meu coração dá pra ver em algumas que os cara tavam com a vontade do loveless já, mas faltava orçamento deus abençoe o mbv

pior que esse aqui eh maluquice demais, cê tá doido. algumas têm a velocidade e a angústia do dinosaur jr e do husker du, com muita distorção e maluquice, mas ainda tem outras que são mais introspectivas, puxadas prum indiepop barulhento, o que deixa o álbum diverso e bonito demais. adoro a dinâmica dos vocais deles, acho lindo, deixa até meio andrógino!! nem eh a ""obra-prima"" deles, mas eh das maiores pedradas da década de 80. muito bom mesmo e eu sempre me surpreendo. sempre acho que deveria voltar as origens e escutar mais, btw

I had to stop this album at the 4th song. All those weird sounds are distracting from the soft voices and I think nice lyrics. This could have been so much better.

Noise

The main good aspect of this is the guitar sound. It’s varied and carries everything. The drums drift, the vocal is often not high enough in the mix to but when it is, you want it gone again. It feels ahead of its time and is interesting but I don’t think I’d listen again.

Pretty hard to find but a good listening experience

I walked through the basement levels of City Hall, tracing a path for our overnight security guard to check for fires while our alarms are malfunctioning. Later that night, I walked around a Walmart to pick up a handful of Snickerdoodle ingredients. Trying to track down this album was a pain, as it is unavailable on any convenient music streaming platforms. I eventually found a YouTube playlist with Percy's assistance, but listening to this album via a series of reuploaded videos has left me feeling a little unsure of my thoughts. I know most of the muddied, drowning sound of this album is intentional, with it being one of the foundational albums which gave rise to shoegaze as a subgenre, but I can't tell if some of the songs here are overly distorted on account of a lower upload quality. Shoegaze has always been a difficult genre for me to get into at the best of times, and the added veneer of potential technical issues in my listening experience only served to make my experience feel even more challenging. On a first listen, I bounced right off of this album's soundscape, with its watery sound making me feel like I was listening to the album from a few rooms over, muffled by the walls. However, once I started up a second listen where I was accustomed to the sound, I found myself getting a lot more into its vibe. There are a handful of songs which feel completely washed out in psychedelic reverb which still don't grab me, but the parts of the album which push through the shoegaze sheen with heavier rock instrumentation won me over and kept me engaged. Maybe this is the beginning of me developing a better appreciation for shoegaze, and hopefully my next interaction with the sound will be on streaming. Highlights: Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside), Lose My Breath, Cupid Come, Feed Me With Your Kiss, Several Girls Galore, You Never Should, Nothing Much To Lose

opa, ovo mi se jako svidjelo! bio sam već slušao, ali ne s prevelikom pozornošću i potiho u pozadini, njihov najpoznatiji album, »loveless«, koji mi je ostao u sjećanju kao dobar album koji moram pozornije preslušati. inače je ovo najgore ime na svijetu za bend, uopće ne odgovara glazbi. no krenimo na dojmove preslušana prvenca: s instrumentalne strane izvrsno, raznovrsno, nikada ne razvlači istu ideju predugo, jako dinamično i zabavno. zamjerke bi mi prije svega išle k vokalima, koji su načelno solidni, ali mislim da su ipak malo previše prigušeni (znam da je to namjerno, no ipak bih ih volio možda malooo jasnije čuti); usto je ženski uvijek dobar, dočim mi je muški hit or miss, a kad je miss, nije mi bilo pretjerano ugodno... s obzirom na to da album nije predug, ovo je bilo sve u svemu jedno plodno, bogato i ugodno slušanje koje potiče na daljnja... zbog navedenih prigovora i manjka tog nekog posebnog osjećaja nije mi za peticu, ali je svakako za solidnu četvorku

I’ve heard of this band but didn’t know anything about it or the genre. Not familiar with it. It’s fine early on. Kinda catchy lyrically but with that noisy background. It isn’t the type of very distorted noise rock I dislike. It’s fine and you hear its influence on some later indie music to the 2000s. Do not like the song No More Sorry. Wasn’t able to fully listen because not on Spotify but found a lot of it. Think it’ll be a 2, just didn’t connect for me but I listened to enough. Not terrible and maybe could’ve been a 3 if I heard the whole thing

nice music to fall asleep to

I get that this inspired shoegaze, but I don't really like it. And I like some shoegaze. This one though, not for me. It wasn't totally unlistenable, but I probably won't listen again.

This is so dreary, nothing interesting at all.

Nope

Meh, find them kind of boring. Maybe it's something that I just don't understand

I feel like this band, and this record (as well as its somewhat well known successor), are overrated. But then I am awash in dizzy dream pop noise and vertiginous textural swirls and jarring high energy sugar rush and I tell myself, "No. Not overrated."

Pleasant fuzzy pop rock. I hope this isn’t blasphemy, but nothing really stuck out here.

As much as I try, I don't get shoegaze. Other than the drummer, it sounded like they were learning their instruments while they were recording this.

Uneven and mostly pretentious.

Only 4 stars, cuz’ Loveless is a masterpiece!

Woos rock

Only 2 songs in and I can’t wait for it to end! Not for me.

Didnt really get this.

EXCELLENT PULL Lovely voice, britpop vibe sometimes Darkish instrumentals, I see the post punk

well that was unpleasant..

This is like a distorted dream. There are unclear images, snippets of what feel like memories, and a fuzzy sound that's all-encompassing. It feels like it has a frantic yet steady pace. The kind you need to nap afterward to recover.

Just Say Da. That's when I first heard My Bloody Valentine. A straight shot of Soon floating amidst an eclectic array of Sire artists. I mean...you start off with a Personal Jesus remix before heading into the murky waters of Ofra Haza (even if you were there it might not make sense) before landing on some live Ministry (heck yeah) followed by the inimitable This Girl Tried to Kill Me (hell yeah). Proceeding through confusing waters - an incredible but meaningless John Wesley Harding song about a reunited Beatles return to America - but he does name check Wolf Blitzer and makes a compelling case for said reunion when it was still more possible. Then you get a middling Debbie Harry solo track (might have missed that one?) until you finally end up at Soon. Not much can prepare you for the that. But I was ill prepared. Never heard anything quite like it. Seemed like an impossible scenario of clean and dirty. That guitar sound. The ghostly vocal harmonies. F*ck. Will anything ever be the same? On the end - it was. And is. And the world has long since moved on form cool guitar sounds. But that felt like something. I felt some thing. Still do. A couple tracks later you get Loaded. An amazing get you up before coming down if there every was one. My take away from this journey - what the hell is My Bloody Valentine. I knew the subpar (it so was) horror film from the early 80s. I went to to record store and found only the ep for Soon (remember those?). It only added to my curiosity and didn't answer any question. So...a couple weeks later I got this album. On cassette. I didn't understand it. I didn't read it as the same band. I mean - they make crazy sounds with the guitar but the vocal harmonies are limited. It's got beauty and discord but the ratios are off. I have listened to this album for almost 40. I still can't quite catch the wave. There have always been moments. And I find it engaging and off-putting in equal measures. But those measure have shifted over the years. I have no reason to believe that won't continue. So what does this particular moment event matter. Here's the fill track list to Just Say Da. Just a year before Just Say Anything. Which features Seal, throwing Muses, more MBV, Groovy Train by the Farm (you probably had to be there) and The Ocean Blue - it seems so very 90s already - except for the big guitar riffs which will be arriving in a couple months and change everything. Personal Jesus [Kazan Cathedral Mix] - Depeche Mode Drop the Pressure - Merlin Star [The Trafalmadore Mix] - Erasure Wish Me Luck [Karamazov Mix] - Ofra Haza Help Us, Somebody - Chris Thomas Candleland [Second Coming Version] - Ian McCulloch Breathe [Live From the Gulag] - Ministry Girl Tried to Kill Me - Ice-T When the Beatles Hit America - John Wesley Harding Id Parade - Danielle Dax November Spawned a Monster - Morrissey Gang of One - Bradford Maybe for Sure [Tunguska Event 7" Mix] - Debbie Harry Soon - My Bloody Valentine Melting Blue Delicious [St. Petersburg Mix] - Wild Swans Loaded - Primal Scream

As duas faixas finais: "Nothing Much to Lose" e "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" ainda trazem algum apelo melódico, de resto distorções e ruídos desinteressantes.

Could not listen to.

Loveless is indeed an eternal masterpiece like no other, and the EP and non-album material from around the same time is great too. So it is quite surprising how much this one sucks in comparison. Completely aimless, and everything sounds wishy-washy in the worst possible way. Key tracks: Feed Me With Your Kiss

Häftigt! Precis rätt balans mellan dissonans och harmoni.

Har definitivt stundvis något, men tror inte genren som helhet riktigt kan fånga mig nog för toppbetyg.

En del balla idéer och känns sjukt viktigt för shoegaze osv, men lite för rörigt för min smak.

Nice!

Velade mellan 2, 3 och 4 ... svårt. Det är rörig musik vilket ju också gör den intressant men samtidigt inte så lyssningsbar.

Three stars probably decent but didn't really stand out.

Well ive heard worse from this band before. Im sure thier lastest record mbv was an ok review. Like i said it was ok but even going back and relistening to the one song off that I saved was worse than anything here. And I dont even love this. But it has some soul and some energy. Its alright at the end of the day. But alright is about it. Soft as snow and you never should were the only saves i had but the rest of it is alright. I had to listen on YouTube for whatever reason but seeing the comments say things like "how we're they so ahead of thier time" or whatever was a bit baffling. Like its fine enough but I just cant see that side of it. I didnt hate it and kinda almost liked it a bit. Sure I guess its ahead of its time for 88 but its in a direction I dont care to follow anyway. Like even if its the best kind of music in this lane its still in this lane and im not. Its ok and thats what I got

Almost unlistenable isn’t anything (good) Favorite: Feed me with your kiss I guess

This is one of those bands that I like but never really listen to. It's good, but not great.

Like it

It was fine. Ive only heard Loveless before and that was better. Not sure why both need to be on the list, but not annoying to listen to. 2.5 stars, but giving 3 to boost the rating, cause a 2 feels harsh.

I will not believe this is the same band that made Loveless.

I think this album is emblematic of the ethos of the 1001+ album journey. They're albums you have to hear. Not necessarily because they're good, but because they changed something, or created an entirely new way of making music. The soundscape here is overbearing. Like the din of a busy road in the morning peak hour - there's no stops. No breaks. By and large, everything sounds far too squished. Many instruments compressed on top of each other, making most of them indecipherable. Like they've been thrown in an audio blender, if you will. But somehow, despite my mind telling me all these reasons why it's bad, why I shouldn't like it - my heart just won't listen. It's not the best thing ever, but I still quite enjoyed my time listening. I'm awfully confused on the whole, but that's ok. Synthethized Shenanigans is what I expected, and what I got. Rating: A high 3, low 4. I guess I'll put a 3. I've got no more words to justify that. And if I did, you wouldn't be able to hear them through the $2 shop mic and screechy guitars anyway.

The opening song is fun, with the strange whooping sound and drums overwhelming the vocals! I already like this album. And I like the next couple of tracks even more. Well, I am partial to incomprehensible lyrics overwhelmed by noisy guitars and drums, with fragmented symphonic bits thrown in here and there. Which hey, is a description of this record. I particularly like how it isn’t just perversely experimental, but instead manages to be both noisy and tuneful at the same time. Not sure why I say I like shoegaze and MBV but never picked up a copy of this album; am dealing with that oversight now.

After hearing so much about My Bloody Valentine I was kinda excited to finally sit down and listen to them. Loveless is better than this right? Right?!?

It took me 3 tracks to realise I didn’t like this, I think it was the weird time signatures or something, I found it annoying.

Today while I was listening to this album, I was also looking at some of the comments on youtube and it got me to wondering if appreciation was in the ears of the listener just as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, since I just didn't understand why there were so many comments of "great album, best song, helped me to get through a difficult time etc..." as all I heard was noise. Nope, not a fan. The best thing about this album was that most of the songs were around 3 minutes long.

I had never listened to My Bloody Valentine before this project. And so far I have listened to the albums called "m b v" and "Loveless". I liked zero songs on "m b v" (1 star rating) and I liked ALL the songs on "Loveless" (5 star rating) - so needless to say my experience with this band has been very erratic. Wonder where this one will fit on that scale? Unfortunately this was only on YouTube and I tried listening there but it was a pain in the ass because as soon as you switch to another app on the phone it stops playing. I did manage to hear every song at least once and frankly nothing was really grabbing me. Perhaps if I got a chance to listen more it would have grown on me. I gave it a chance - oh well - their loss if they make it so hard to listen to their stuff. Liked songs: 0/12 Rating: 1/5

On paper, I ought to enjoy listening to this. In reality, I don’t. I came of age (18) when it was released and I liked the Cure and other similar bands, but this is awful by comparison, offering absolutely nothing new or worth listening to. It just doesn’t speak to me. And if it doesn’t speak to a teenager on its release, who was it made for? 1.5 stars

I would have liked this much better without all of the discordant background noise masquerading as music. As it is, it settles in at two stars.

Decent

very few parts that were enjoyable. THey will never become my favorite band

This must be on the list since it's a debut of a band that has other entries. What a boring listen. This is fighting around a high 1 or low 2. It's quality is the low 2 but my enjoyment is the high 1.

Third time for My Bloody Valentine. I was okay with the previous two albums, but this debut, not so much. I liked the ingredients, but not the finished product. This is not a must listen album.

Нет на спотике(

It was fine but like all their albums they kind of just blend together into one song I lose track of.

Sure, it's good, I actually prefer it to Loveless sometimes. But, this list doesn't need every mbv album.

I don't know if I have enough internal strife to fully appreciate this.

This is just bad mood sounds. There is this weird droning in the background of a lot of these songs that kind of overpowers everything else. Like a wall of depression that hangs over the whole performance. I'm all for a goth rock or emo or please, a pop punk album thats whiny as all hell but this is just borderline unlistenable.

Didn’t really leave any impact on me. I just don’t think they’re brand of music is for me! Kind of boring and droney

Only one song available on Spotify. Meh.

Tijdens mijn fietstocht naar huis klonk het lawaai van de tegenwind beter dan dit album

Damn, het album voor loveless, ik had niet verwacht dat er meer dan 1 album ging in de lijst staan. Zalig hoe ongemakkelijk dit met momenten klinkt en hoe steen goed op andere momenten. Ik had hier nog nooit naar geluisterd, glad I did

No conocía ésta banda, pero la vibra me encantó, igualmente se me hizo más actual de lo que es lo cual me sorprendió; es mi tipo de música, no voy a mentir, aunque amo de todo esto es lo que usualmente me llama más la atención. Las favoritas: You Never Should, Cupid Come, Feed Me With Your Kiss y Sueisfine.

Not bad shoegaze music but you have to be in the right frame of mind to absorb it imho

Heard before; 2.5; I have to be honest on relistening to this album - I enjoy it and can hear how it is an interesting album in some ways. But at the same time, it is a difficult listen and after listening through, I realize that there's not a lot that really jumped out or stuck with me. I think that has something to do with the production - obviously the swirling sounding and buried vocals is part of the style, but it feels like this album is halfway between a more standard sound and a shoegaze style. Favorite Track: Nothing Much to Lose

Lo ho ascoltato qualche giorno fa, non mi é dispiaciuto. Anche se magari avevo gia sentito qualcosa simile mi é piaciuto come introduzione al genere

After listening to all of the MBV albums on this list I am become quite certain that I am more of a "My Funny Valentine" fan than a My Bloody Valentine fan. Not one of the more enjoyable albums from the 1980s. I respect their place in shoegaze/noise wave/no wave subgenre history, and I agree that the one album inclusion of LOVELESS probably does merit a spot on the list. I also acknowledge that MBV walked so others could run, but I with their ideas, I cannot help but in short order feel an overwhelming sense of boredom, and cannot in good conscience argue for the inclusion of more than 1 MBV album on the list. I feel like albums on this list I need actual songwriting and accessibility, and not just simply effects from guitar pedals. I much prefer what Alan Moulder learned from this and applied to NIN's efforts with THE FRAGILE, a superior double album to this, which should definitely be on this list, but confusingly is not.

They were insanely ahead of their time. Wow, just wow.

The production is so bad. Nothing special about either the instrumentals nor the singing. The only thing of note is that you can barely hear the vocals because of the terrible mixing. And why doesn't this band have anything on YT music?

This is weirdly boring and bad for the most acclaimed shoegaze band. Cocteau Twins are so much better than this. I could listen Heaven or Las Vegas all day.

2.5

This album was extremely interesting with the distortion I had no idea at all what I was getting into. I’ll start off with a 3 but I’d be super open to revisiting it

A classic but doesn’t touch the album that followed.

I know it’s very influential etc. but to listen to it was just OK.

Couldn’t listen on iTunes. Listened to a beat of compilation.

3.25 great study tunes

alright

Awesome

I struggled with this when it came out. Was hoping the passage of time and more mature taste buds would allow me to get into this but i still struggled. There are elements i like (the more punk sides of their music) but the shoe gazing waftiness is a bit lost on me. I also found the production annoying. Sounds like its been recorded in a hall off of one mic. No doubt deliberate but not for me.

Wow, shitty 2006 indie/noise rock crossover in 1988? Fire this into the sun.

yeah man sorry this was immediately grating to me from the rip. One of the rare times where I didn't give a majority of the album a chance.

3.5

I don’t dislike this as much as the other My Bloody Valentine album.

Very much not my jam

I though their second album was pretty decent. Or at least interesting. This one is not. It's just a lot of noise. Also a bit of a slog, doesn't feel like it's only 38 minutes long.

definitely OD'd on loveless in college but i liked the more stripped back feel in this one, would love to listen in one of them record bars with big speakers and coffee. versus at the weights, mixed in with the guy next to me trying to max out the row machine. nice slow big sounds. really lovely songwriting. fave track all i need

I just don’t like My Bloody Valentine

2.9 2x flying to MEX

Horrible Horrible I could have died without listening to this. Best part was when it was over. Favorite Track- All I Need Least Favorite Track - Lose My Breath ⭐️

#383/1001. Shoegaze and noise turn to Brit pop. Perhaps shouldn't be on this list anymore.

least favourite mbv album still goated

Love MBV

There is maybe two good songs on here the rest is just noise.

Гламурная меланхолия Сейчас трудно писать, что либо о музыке, но я постараюсь. Этот альбом был послушан не вдумчиво не с должной усидчивостью, но могу сказать что вокал и подача меня затянули. Чувствуется вдохновения Майклом Джексоном на мой взгляд в некоторых песнях прям чувствуется его настроение. Нельзя не сказать о абсолютно точной экспериментальности и смелости этого альбома учитывая время. Альбом из-за не вдумчиво прослушивания оставил четкое желание переслушать его, а само поверхностное прослушивание было максимально привлекательным. Моя оценка 7/10

RATING: 3.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Feed Me with Your Kiss LOWLIGHT: Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)

heck yeah that rocked, even if I had to go to YouTube to listen to it. I loved the guitars and the dramatic vibes across the record. 7/10

This is the third MBV album I've heard on this list and it might have been my favourite.. I quite like the more ethereal, dream-pop like tracks such as Lose My Breath and All I Need, which provide a nice change of pace vs. the roaring noise. This was intriguing and might make me revisit Loveless given that's generally considered their classic

Love the tones. And I get that it’s supposed to be muddy, but there’s just not enough to grab onto once you’re thru sifting the mud, no matter how divine the sludge is.

Great record, it's no Limp Bizkit, but it'll do.

the last time My Bloody Valentine concerned themselves with the audience comprehending the vocals. also the last time they included a guitar that sounds like a guitar. it took me years to really connect with all of these songs. to my teenaged ears, Loveless was much more immediate and gratifying. over time, I've grown to really love Isn't Anything. there are rare mbv moments of quiet tenderness ("Cupid Come" , "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It))" that are even more arresting being surrounded by the pummeling "Feed Me with Your Kiss" and time-warping "Nothing Much to Lose." nary a guitar solo in sight. the rhythm section absolutely demolishes all walls (and they needed those drum tracks to sample later for Loveless cause homeboy wasn't showing up to the studio). the mixed male/female vocals capture some druggy brilliance that warm up for what's to come on future recordings. Isn't Anything is the sound of a band reaching peaks before blasting into a whole other level.

Brian Eno got it exactly right when he said of "Soon," "It's the vaguest music ever to have been a hit." That adjective, vague, applies to almost all of mbv's music. Like, what the fuck is happening when the guitars and vocals kick in on "Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)"? It's so disconcerting. Your mind maybe tries to grab onto the lyrics, but again, what the hell is he (she?) saying? This album also has a tendency that’s exemplified on "Lose My Breath," where it starts with this tension that makes your hair stand on end, and then just goes into some beautiful release. "Cupid Come" does this too and is one of my favorite mbv songs. The guitar doesn't just rest in that song, it takes a breath. "All I Need" is the track that looks ahead most to 'Loveless' with subaqueous waves of guitars. We get some faster songs on the last half of the album, and then probably my favorite song of the bunch, “I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It).” This song and “New You” from m b v are straight-up beautiful slow jams with chugging bass and ethereal oohs and ahs that make you feel like you’re floating. Also, Mitchell said that ‘Ready To Die’ is probably one of the horniest albums out there; this one’s up there too. The decipherable lyrics in mbv’s songs are so sensual and suggestive. Annnywell, 10/10.

NOt available in Apple Music

#966. The album title is correct. This isn't really anything. 2/5: meh

not my fave mbv album

There was nothing for my interest here. 2.5 but 2 side.

I see where so much of the 90s and 2000s bands got their influence. And they are Irish so that’s an extra. I may have to give it another listen.

Ei tämäkään yltänyt Lovelessin tasolle. Aikanaan ollut varmasti erittäin mullistava soundi. 3/5.

Good to play loud enough that you fugue out

Unfortunately as soon as I said yesterday’s album didn’t sound like white noise I got this one that does. Just now finding out that Shoegaze is basically the white noise genre to me so yea not a fan

I have given VERY few ratings this low, but this particular album checks the two main boxes most likely to draw my ire. First, its musical stylings seem deliberately created to be unpleasant to listen to: noise created for the sake of noise. And second, the 1001 albums I must hear before I die list includes multiple albums by this group (THREE!) that are not really different enough to show some kind of new direction or artist development that provides me with any new insight or pleasure I didn't already get from listening to one of their albums (especially since the list includes ZERO albums by artists like Warren Zevon that are quite musically different from this sound). So we get it. Either the list maker or one of his good buddies was a big My Bloody Valentine fan. Good for him! But why does that mean we have to suffer through THREE of their albums as part of our own musical "education"?

7/10

music so out of tune, it can short circuit a panic attack

When I first really got into the music press MBV were the band, the press fawned over them but I seemed to avoid them. Probably 10 years later I heard this and I didn’t really get it. Sounded like someone playing guitar with an electric toothbrush. Tbf now I’m listening to it again it still does but I actually now think it’s a good idea. Vocals half hidden under the noise and when you do hear lyrics they feel strange and discomforting. I don’t feel I’ve had my life changed but it’s an interesting album

I was only aware of Heartless before hearing this and although I had to dig around on YouTube to find it I was blown away. I've always loved the fuzzy sounds of Shoegaze but this has some very nice melodies in place behind the wall of noise. Putting those together is pretty enjoyable.

I just don't get this genre, sounds all the same to me and I don't like it

These guys have 2 albums in the Top 1001? Same as AC/DC, ZZ Top, The Clash, Run DMC, The Cars, Rush, The Police, Madonna & Taylor Swift. That's one more than Tom Petty, Sinatra, Billy Joel, Aretha, Ozzy, BB King, Devo, Kiss, Duran Duran, and Micheal freakin' Jackson!? That's two more than Chuck Berry (changed/created Rock & Roll), Foreigner, Hank Williams (changed/created Country), Nat King Cole, Etta James, Journey, or Bill Withers? That's only one less than absolute legends like Prince, Black Sabbath, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Hendrix, Yes, Bob Marley, etc. So you're saying MBV is worthy of a second album, let alone a first, on the T1001? Come on, man!?! I strongly disagree. It's from 1988? My heyday of music consumption and I've never heard it. I now understand why. It's so popular it's not even on Spotify. This isn't good, the sound production is garageband quality. "Lose My Breath" wasn't even a song, just mumbling and guitars, utterly boring. The rest all blended together, all I could think of were those bands who opened for the opener before the real show begins in 90 minutes. Pure crap, 1 star. Chuck Berry must be fuckin' pissed off!

daphne opioid soundtrack

Noisy for the sake of it and way off key. It's like nails on a chalkboard.

Feed me with your kisses! Globalement l’Album est plutôt décevant : les chansons commencent par un riff preneur puis baissent en intensité 5/10

Just nope…. 0/10

Ok don't judge the album by the first track. Don't get me wrong the album sucks but that first track is absolute garbage. I think they are one of the bands that thinks they are way too clever and want to reinvent music. So their friends tell them they are good and they think they are good and eventually some recording label believes the hype and we have this. It is an experiment but it feels lifeless. Like even they don't believe their own bullshit.

All about the textures and tones, which can be range from dreamy to punishing, blissful to aggressive, psychedelic to punky, cerebral to primitive. Its rawer than the follow-up Loveless, and not as strong imo (the more straightforward vocals on this one don’t work as well for me) - but it’s still unique, catchy, confusing; and transports you to another land where aliens play effects pedals through their guitars.

Grunge, noise, angst, lo-fi. Pretty cool record, but not typically my cup of tea. This wasn't available on Apple Music, so I had to resort to YouTube, which is not the best representation, but I got the idea. It's okay.

kinda of noisy. not my type

First listen I didn't enjoy. Second listen on headphones I did. Make of that what you will. A more complex sound that needs attention.

The album builds and improves as it goes, as if the band were finding their voice through the recording process. It's not as good as Loveless, obviously, but it's still a cool record.

Guys I actively disliked this one. Not like oh i was neutral to it but I understand how people could like it, not “mmm i dislike it but that’s just down to my music sensibilities i can understand why people enjoy it” I genuinely don’t understand how people can enjoy this. I have never heard both a singer and a guitar, at the same time, sound like a dying cat. I’m genuinely perplexed at how you make a tuned instrument sound like that. Burn the guitar. Honest to god it’s got the soul of a coal mining Victorian child in it. There’s actually not even one redeeming song it’s just the same incessant whining for 37 minutes. I couldn’t even get over the sound of either of their voices to hear what they were saying and the backing was so genuinely terrible that I PREFERRED TO STUDY FOR MY EXAM THAN LISTEN TO THIS CUZ IT WAS LESS PAINFUL. Genuinely they play this at Guantanamo bay as a less humane way of torturing people than waterboarding. This is only getting a 1 because I can’t give it a 0. Now this is my first impression of Mbv but honestly if this is what it all sounds like I have to wonder how their fan base has any braincells left.

Yeah absolutely nothing about this works. This is probably what sleep paralysis sounds like if your demon was inclined was a depressed emo dude who liked rock music

Really impressive debut. Guitars sound so damn cool, vocals sit crazy well on top, revolutionary for the genre, two thumbs up. Closer to a 5 than a 3.

Almost like early, unfocused grunge/alternative. I'm impressed MBV were so far ahead of the curve. It's an interesting time capsule of a band way out in front of popular tastes. They were definitely zeroing in on a sound that would basically dominate later decades. The ones that sounded normal (-ish) like "Cupid Come", "When You Wake..", & "Sueisfine".. helped to pull the album out of the weirdness/pretentiousness of tracks like "Soft As Snow..", "Lose My Breath", & "No More Sorry" among others. I actually respect the effort and see how it may have influenced better groups after them. (3/5). I'm not coming back, but it didn't hurt my feelings.

At what point does distortion, rhythmless drumming and meandering vocal musings just stop being music? This. This is that point. Most of it just sounds like Courtney Love with laryngitis wailing sorrowfully next to a dumpster fire full of broken instruments with intermittent train brakes in the background. The few parts that actually resemble something akin to music are so aggressively meh that I wish they'd actually burned them. Is Morrissey BETTER than this? Well, probably not, but it's still a 0.45/5 for me that I'll round up because I guess I have to.

Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 4 Uniqueness: 5 Emotionality: 3 = 4.2 rounded down to 4 "When you wake you're still in a dream/ Not real though I love you unclean/ I'm telling you you're a very sick mind/ You come back so fine, so fine" I came to this one backwards, having already listened to and fell in love with Loveless. More on that one later, as I guarantee it's on the list. On a first listen I was taken aback at how much this WAS NOT Loveless. There's some mitochondrial DNA in there for sure, but the evolution is so strong and divergent between albums that, to me, it feels like there must have bee several albums between them for the sound to fully develop. Needless to say it bounced off me pretty hard. Resentfulness is maybe too strong a word, but I felt pretty let down that I wasn't just getting more of the exact thing that I already loved. Yeah, I know. In the years since I've mellowed quite a bit on this one and grown to appreciate it on its own terms, and as a building block on the way to greatness. But it has to have been a good 10 years since I've listened, so maybe I've swung back completely in the other direction. I've found my tastes can be more fickle than I would have imagined as I approach a half century of existence. Let's see. THE TRACKS "Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)" - So there's the heavily processed guitar. The New Order-ish vocals are much clearer than they would become, and are more at odds with the instrumentation. The ( what I think are) real drums processed to feel electronic. This one kicks your feet out from under you before you even get running. The pieces are all there, they're just scattered across the table waiting to be assembled. I like this one, but its still only the kind of pleasure you get from worrying a loose tooth. "Lose My Breath" - The guitar line almost sounds like it's being played in reverse ( not a trick they are above if memory serves) but I think it's just another attempt at disorientation. The softer, dreamy mumbled vocals by Bilinda Butcher work much better for me, and add yet another step towards what the sound will develop into. If the first track was them knocking you on your ass, this is them running and hiding in the funhouse mirrors, daring you to come in and find them, as discombobulated and dizzy as you might be. "Cupid Come" - On the third track we've already come a long way. The pretty melodies are now apparent, but still with a hard edge. This sits well with tracks by a half dozen other highly influential late 80s indie bands that all the big 90s monster acts stole liberally from, like Sonic Youth, Pixies, Guided by Voices, etc... whose backlog would become celebrated just a tad too late in the coming decade. Billy Corgan has admitted to being a HUGE fan for example. "(When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream" - I mentioned Sonic Youth before and this plays in a similar area, though much more subdued and much more concerned with hooks. That crunchy, echoey riff along with the harmony between Shields and Butcher sell this one completely for me. "No More Sorry" - Ooh. So close. We the bed of fuzzed out noise, the dream pop vocals, the drawn out but identifiable melody. The only thing missing is the full on wall of noise assault. Slow motion psychedelia as heard through a detuned radio. This is still fine stuff though. "All I Need" - Very much in the same mold as the previous track, but more rambling and with the distortion turned up just ever so much. This one feels like someone pointed like 10 amps at The Cocteau Twins during a warm up and they just kept at it through the somehow pleasant resulting mass of feedback. "Feed Me with Your Kiss" - We're back in Sonic Youth world for this number, which drives forward with an energetic pulse that sounds like it could be a Dinosaur Jr. 9 You're Living All Over Me and Bug are both on the list!) track if you were only half listening. "Sueisfine" - Another back to back pairing, this one feels in the same vein as the previous one, but with that meandering bass line and stuttering drum fills and rising and descending echoed harmonies goes down a bit smoother. More on the Pixies side of the equation than Dinosair Jr. "Several Girls Galore" - The dopplery guitar on this paired with Butcher's light touch on the vocals is gold. Distinct and noisy enough but without losing any propulsiveness. "You Never Should" - The pairing continues as we get yet another companion piece to the song just before. I can hear how Courtney Love might have been a fan of this one. Damn fine stuff. "Nothing Much to Lose" - Within this one there pathways to be found that lead off in various directions towards Pavement, The Breeders, Screaming Trees... This might be as close to anything on this album you could transport to the future of 1995 and not have it sound too off. "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" - Speaking of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus must have had this one on repeat at one point. It's a bit more shambling and unfocused than anything by that band, but add a jammy bridge and a bit more energy to this and voilà! HIGHLIGHTS - "Lose My Breath" - "Cupid Come" - "(When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream" - "Feed Me with Your Kiss" - "Sueisfine" - "Several Girls Galore" - "You Never Should" - "Nothing Much to Lose" - "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" MIDLIGHTS - "Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)" - "No More Sorry" - "All I Need" LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS All in all, I've grown to really, really like this album, but not love it. It's way more of a stepping stone to their sophomore outing than I thought when I first heard it and I can see how even though that later one gets most of the love and nods, this might just be teh one all those big acts in the 90s stole the most ideas from. No one really sounded like them on Loveless but a TON of people sounded like parts of this. And that's not to say that these guys themselves didn't lift a lot - from acts like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., maybe even Meat Puppets and few others. I think their very small discography, couped with the mystique around the production and reception of ( expecially) the first two albums have built up the reputation of this band maybe slightly too much. They are definitely well deserving of the acclaim and respect, but I think people view them too much as some sort of ex nihilo creation, borne of pure genius, when in fact they should be looked at in more of a transitionary, mid-state evolutionary way. This stuff was all floating out there in the aether waiting to be grabbed up and synthesized. These guys did create a touchstone that dozens of acts expounded upon or straight up imitated though, and that's nothing small. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS FURTHER LISTENING - Junkyard by The Birthday Party - Treasure by Cocteau Twins - EVOL by Sonic Youth - Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain - Zen Arcade by Husker Du - You're Living All over Me by Dinosaur Jr. - Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement - Souvlaki by Slowdive - Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins

First thing, the 1988 date really threw me for a loop. Whenever this band was mentioned I placed them as some 2000s emo band that formed in like 1999. I admit I may have conflated them with another band. That one is on me. Every so often I think, "I should give shoegaze a try." Then I do and am cured of my momentary compulsion. As a genre it exists adjacent to music I really like and has overlapping characteristics. It is alternative rock with heavy reliance on guitar effects and distortion. Maybe its the "Wall of Sound" legacy, but something about the shoegaze sound makes me bounce off these acts. I tend toward the more heavier grunge and alternative metal acts. So it was with today's album, My bloody Valentine's "Its Anything." I had an initial aversion to this. What came across first as discordant noise revealed itself further into the album as a youthful disregard for any respectable sound. Once it settled into its own rhythm, though, I was able to appreciate what the band was trying to accomplish. Or not accomplish. These are young kids making rock music after all, to map any productive motives onto that is folly at best and insulting at worst. I give it 3/5. Track Highlights "Feed Me with Your Kiss" "You Never Should"

Boh ok ci sta

It was ok

It was alright in places, grew on me a bit after a few listens.

Clearly not a patch on Loveless but you can tell the building blocks are there. At times it is a tough listen but it gets better as the album goes on and the last 3 tracks are all winners.

Not too much distortion. My favourite was (When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream.

Bit disappointing, as I loved their other album on here. A couple of stand-outs but there were lots of tracks that failed to ignite for me. I do still enjoy the vibe and overall sound.

I guess it was alright, felt like a precursor to grunge. Nothing to be blown away by though.

This album was not available officially on youtube music, but I was able to listen to a not great upload of it also through youtube music. Anyway, I was into this. I would like to hear it with a lot more polish, but I dont think you get Nirvanas sound or weezer without this album.

Love Loveless, this one is a lesser version of that.

9/10

No private session used. I have never understood the sound My Bloody Valentine is going for during production. A lot of their stuff if way to effects heavy, this one seems likes low vocals(not sure we are missing much here) and still lots of effects. Maybe they are going for a dreamy sound for gazing of the shoes, but it just sounds off.

Initially it was fine but then at some point it really started to grind my ears

YES, YES, YES

Some nice noises and whatnot but shoegaze makes me sleepy Highlights: "lose my breath", "Sueisfine", "I Can See It"

shimmering, out of focus, mysteriously layered, woozy, uncertain a step along the road to their later, more expansive noise

This is just noise. 1.5

The audio version of a shitty, annoying nightmare but at least I can turn this off. A lot droning with some songs in there, I guess. An appropriate album title, they just forgot to add "Close to An Enjoyable Experience" (1.5)

Greats songs

I like MBV but the production quality on this makes it almost unlistenable. Maybe it's just the version I found since this seems rare on streaming platforms, but even powering through the production doesn't help. The songs just don't feel right.

Musically I should like shoegaze and what I've heard, I largely do. ButI've always had an issue with the vocals being weak and getting lost in the music and this largely suffered the same fate! I know that's sort of the point but it's just not for me. I 0refered the female vocals as they cut through a little more but there wasn't enough hear overall to hold my interest.

Great. cool, experimental! I was very surprised.

Isn't Anything already had a bit of an uphill battle with me because I really didn’t enjoy m b v, which I gave a 1. That definitely didn’t leave me excited about listening to another My Bloody Valentine album. That said, Isn’t Anything is definitely better than m b v. The second half of the album in particular is much stronger, with tracks like Nothing Much to Lose, Feed Me With Your Kiss and You Never Should standing out as genuinely good songs. Even so, their overall sound still does very little for me. I’ve always found My Bloody Valentine quite monotonous. Everything blends into one big droning wall of noise, and after a while it becomes difficult to stay engaged with. I can appreciate the atmosphere they create and understand why they’re influential within shoegaze, but personally I find it all a bit boring. This album had some decent moments and was a much easier listen than m b v, but I still can’t see myself coming back to it again. Favourite tracks: Nothing Much to Lose, Feed Me With Your Kiss and You Never Should were all good tracks. Least favourite tracks: All I Need did very little for me. Album artwork: Cool album cover.

shoegazing noisemakers!

Schwere Kost. Shoestring.

2026.05.13

A curate’s egg. The kind of music I usually like but all over the shop somehow. 3.5

Not for me

3rd album by them ranging from '88 to 2013 and ain't going to change anything, this just ain't my thing. Ain't a shoegazer. While I can enjoy sonic youths more angular confrontational take MBV more dreamlike hypnotic discourse take leaves me cold. Better than the other 2 but to my ears that's faint praise. More standard music presented, but that almost makes it worse. I really struggle to have the will to justify my opinions after the effort to listen, everything is meant I know but everything meant I don't want to hear. Designed to challenge normal listening expectations, yawn. Yeah it has it's place here but Guess I just neurologically experience it as pure shite. Long 37 minutes 1Star

boring

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this but it was quite surprising. My kind of experimental, it feels kinda ahead of its time. Interesting instrumentals and vocals, not everything got me but it kept me going.

Debe ser este disco o no sé pero esto me pareció horrendo. Al menos no es rockabily. Nota: 2.5

Their other releases here have been more ear-catching but this sounded too primitive. No need for this much My Bloody Valentine around here.

more rock. still sad.

i'd maybe like it more if i were to listen to it in 9th grade

Mid ya

Boy, thought I would like this more. Perhaps it suffered from my needing to listen to the bootleg on YouTube? I consider myself a fan of loveless. But this was… mushy. Still giving them a 3 for influence. Boolean: no, not really. I don’t think I needed to hear it before I die.

Correcto

05/05/2026 Nothing really stands out for me here. An average album, an average listen. Spotify listeners: 816.6k

It's a lot. I like it, but it's not an easy listen. The opener is very discordant, and it's not like it lets up from there.

Meh.

I'm so glad they figured out how to make this catch on the next one because this one isn't it

By far the worst mbv record.

Assuming they intended to make sounds like this and it wasn't accidental, this album is spellbinding. MBV use standard rock forms as a basis. Clear verse/chorus composition, drum/bass/guitar/vocals instrumentation, vocal hooks, and from what I can tell, love songs as a major theme serve to create a framework for dismantling ALL OF THOSE. The instrumentation degrades into dissonance. The vocal hooks disappear as soon as you getr to know them. The compositions start with familiar forms and branch off into territories unknown. Really arty, I enjoyed it a lot even though it's hard to listen to sometimes, it demands attention in a world where that is a scarce commodity. Still trying to figure this one out.

.., to write home about.

The project by the name of "Penis" has been hijacked yet again. I love this album. I'm giving it a 5 to curve its score. People on this site are really just braindead and can't seem to appreciate anything that they don't understand.

Almost classic

my bloody valentine’s weird and wonderful world of noise. Perhaps not as fully realised as loveless but still a great bold statement of a record

Ok - a bit teenage angsty

Not bad, it made for good background music.

These early shoegaze days are so hard to rate, because it's like watching your kid miss a strike down the gut and spin aorund 5 times because they swung so hard. I love the genre, but sometimes this ealry stuff just misses the mark, and shoegaze is something where if you miss the mark, it sounds rough. In short, Loveless really perfects this sound, and it's clear the band isn't perfect yet.

No está mal

I didn't really connect with this. I can admit there is merit to this as part of shoegaze, but that's about it. Not something I'd come back to. Some of the guitar elements work nicely on the more slick rock tracks, but I really struggle to say there's a song here that really grabbed me. Feels somewhat unfinished, not for me. Fav Track: Feed me with your Kiss

Not pleasant. Dirgy punk rock.

Its all noise, i was anticipating when the song was going to stop. Horrible.

Nope!

c mid mais à des moments ya trop de bruits

Wish I could review this but im pretty sure spotify took this album down or smt bc it only has one song. Heard good things abt this band too what a shame.

Didn’t capture my attention.

I want grabbed by anything on this. I guess it's an important and influential album, but I've enjoyed their later stuff more.

Better than Coldplay

Probably the worst of the 3 MBV albums I’ve gotten so far. This author really needs to stop including so many albums from a single artist/band. It’s just bias bragging at this point, and not something you need to hear.

Didn't really do much for me

I mean I added 2 songs its aight but they have way better albums

Soft like my soul

so boring

The first song or two didn’t grab me, but boy does this thing build into something fantastic. It’s noisy and beautiful. I will definitely be checking out more.

hä nomel eis vo ihne?? bi bi song 3 und sie chönd definitiv en mood überebringe. aber s isch scho au afoch viel reverb. hm ich verlür mich gad au chli und dasch glaub bitz d idee. ich glaub die vier sind uuuuuhuere cool. aber bin etz nöd soo fest dricho und s isch easy churz was ich aber schätze

HEAVY ahfang? was machter mite snare (when you wake isch jz de erst song woni okay find, vorher isches sehr ahstrengend gsi bis jz okkkk ich gsehs langsam immerno fucking ahstrengend abeeer scho auchli cool feed me with your kiss hani jz echt na cool gfunde hahaha neii seget sie suicide sueisfine? joo isch reecht ahstrengend gsi aber d atmosphäre isch (im ahsatz) daa gsi? reins enjoyment es 2, für was sie gmacht hend gits es 3!

There is a deliberate search for a specific sound that is achieved solidly and consistently Unfortunately that specific sound put my teeth on edge and I would never listen to this again It's not you, it's me

Actually, better than Loveless

Shoegazing isn]'t anything.

Love these guys. Wish they were on spotify

Probably wont listen again but its fine. 3.2

Crisp. Harsh. Excellent.

Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside) - 3.5/5 Lose My Breath - 4/5 Cupid Come - 4/5 (When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream - 4.5/5 No More Sorry - 3/5 All I Need - 3/5 Feed Me With Your Kiss - 4/5 Sueisfine - 4/5 Several Girls Galore - 3.5/5 You Should Never - 4/5 Nothing Much to Lose - 4/5 I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It) - 4/5 It took me a few tracks but I finally caught on to what shoegaze is. It's a surprising mix of new wave and grunge with maybe a little more noise rock-ish sounds than I'm used to. Whatever. I got the gist of it. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: You're Still in a Dream

This is the second MBV album in a matter of weeks and like the last one this starts with an annoying drone of a vocal and doesn’t improve at any point. It’s all too downbeat, sounding as if it is being played at the wrong speed. It doesn’t matter who is on lead vocals as the only thing that this seems to change is the pitch. No More Sorry is possibly the worst song on the album and it’s title perfectly sums up my considered view on MBV. Although Feed Me With Your Kiss, runs ot close sounding like hearing a shit pub band rehearsing from outside the building. This is not good shoegazer music.

Barely a fortnight has passed since I was last subjected to MBV - quite why this project needs (at least) two MBV albums is beyond me, but alas. The best thing I can say about this is it wasn’t as bad as the last album. It started off fine, and there were periods where it sounded like those late 80s indie bands, which also is more tolerable than their last offering. Then the wheels came off and I couldn’t wait for it to be over.

It was only about 2 weeks ago the Generator gave me m b v by My Bloody Valentine and I gave it 1 star. So I'm not hugely optimistic going into this. [38 Minutes Later...] I didn't completely hate Feed Me With Your Kiss, but a single song does not a 2 star album make. 1/5

Its no Loveless, but still a shoegaze classic

lose my breath

only one song on spotify :( 3

muy emocional, a medida que fue avanzando el album me fue gustando cada vez mas. lo volveria a escuchar.