Isn't Anything

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

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.

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 Curve 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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!

Not for me

boring

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.

Mid ya

Correcto

By far the worst mbv record.

.., to write home about.

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

Didn’t capture my attention.

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

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

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.

lose my breath

Them shoes is GAZED, y'all. Side note, not the album to listen to when you are on the struggle bus trying to stay awake.

Не подобається.

Isn't Anything isn't on Apple Music or Spotify. I found it on YouTube, and it still isn’t anything worth listening to. A lot of people praise this album, but I defy any fan to find anything about this album that is noteworthy. I mean it called “shoe-gazing” music. Please tell me how to spin that well.

wanted to love this, couldn't

disappointing, truly not sure why it's on this list - Loveless is a lost obvious choice, but this?

i think their later release is much more interesting but overall this shoegaze thing is not for me.

This album just felt like masses of noise. I'm not sure what the appeal is.

My Bloody Valentine is a band I’ve heard of forever, and I'm actually glad I get a chance to listen to them. MBV is an Irish rock band that's cast in the shoegaze genre. It’s a genre I’ve heard about for years, but not sure I’ve ever dipped my toe in it. From our good friend, Wikipedia, shoegaze is an indie/alt rock genre “characterized by ethereal soundscapes, obscured vocals, and extensive use of guitar effects and distortion.” Got it…I think. It may be one of those, I’ll know it when I hear it type genres. MBV is also called noise pop, dream pop, and experimental rock. This was MBV’s debut album. And it seems to not be on YouTube Music. That’s weird. But I found it on YouTube. Track 1 is Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)....um, gross? This is weird. It’s like the singer is singing a different song than the music is playing, if you could call it music. I can’t get into this. They make it hard to stick with a groove. If this is a preview of what the rest of the album is like, then I made a good decision on never listening to shoegaze. Track 2 is Lose My Breath. This song is weird. You can hear a song underneath all the noise and out of tuneness. Is it a great song under there? I don’t know. It’s covered by a tarp of nonsense. It’s almost like the band was kind of afraid to play things straight, so just in case they were bad songwriters, they made sure to make their songs sound weird or bad before someone could say they were bad. It’s like the band was saying, “Yeah, we know it’s bad. That’s what we wanted." Track 3 is more of the same with Cupid Come. This again sounds like it could have been a song, but they decided to put in an out-of-tune guitar or something to make the song just this side of unlistenable. I can see why I was never an alt-rock kid growing up and I only liked meat and potatoes rock for the most part. My palette broadened as I aged, but I probably would have fought someone if they tried to make me listen to this as a kid. Track 4 is You’re Still In a Dream, and what’s this? No way. It can’t be….it sounds like a real song. It’s a nice uptempo garage rock song. It sounds like everything’s in tune. I wish the whole album had been like this. And this song isn’t anything special, but they’ve softened me up with garbage, so this song sounds like Stairway to Heaven. I would have thought this would have been a single, but it wasn’t. Only one single was released from this album. Not shocking. I wonder if the single is good? Track 5 is No More Sorry and it sounds like it may be an instrumental? It’s very big and orchestral. I don’t get this. Again, not a great song, there’s a bit of out of tuneness somewhere, but I don’t hate it immediately. You’re going to be amazed, but I can hear some Beatles influence in this song. The song has just a tiny bit of A Day in the Life in it. The most chaotic part of A Day in the Life, of course. Track 6 is All I Need and I hear the Beach Boys in this song. Now, the Beach Boys influence is buried beneath what sounds like a construction crew tearing down a building, but it’s there. I’m slowly starting to kind of get what the band is doing. I don’t understand it, but I get it. I still think it may be mostly self-sabotage, but there might be something there, there. This song is just a lot of distortion, feedback, and echo. It’s not good, actually. Forget what I said earlier. Track 7 is Feed Me with Your Kiss and this was the lone single off the album. Oooh, yeah, this is the stuff I’ve been waiting for. Very heavy alt-rock that sounds very similar to what many would call a song. The vocals are so low in the mix that it’s almost like they’re just another instrument. This could probably be a nice single for an up-and-coming rock band to cover. This, of course, made no dent on the charts, and I’m sure that’s not what they were looking for. This is also supposedly goth rock? Ish? Probably the best song on the album. It gives off hard MTV's 120 Minutes vibes. Track 8 is Sueisfine. This is another nice little song. For MBV anyway. I don’t get this band. So far, 2/3 of the album has some decent songs, but the others are almost unlistenable for one reason or another. It could be that I’m an old square who can’t get with the times, but this was 1988. That was my time. Track 9 is Several Girls Galore and this song is interesting. It has an interesting slide guitar doing interesting slides. This is the best song on the album. It’s weird, but good weird, listenable weird. Wow, that was a good song. Track 10 is You Never Should and I’m starting to wonder why the songs on the second half of the album sound much better than the first 4 songs on the album. This is a nice alt-rock jam. This should have been a single. You put it with a good video ad, I bet MBV would’ve had a hit. Maybe MBV were one of those bands that didn’t want a hit or to be famous…which I never understood. You make art for people to enjoy, and why wouldn’t you want as many people to enjoy your art as they could? But today, I can see a band not wanting more people to hear their music. We live in a world of idiots who seem so unhappy with their lives that they love listening to or watching art they hate just so they can be a-holes and tell those people they hate them. I feel sad for the artists and the people who feel so bad about their lives that the only pleasure they get is trying to tear someone else down. Sometimes I loathe the internet. It’s sad, but I digress. Track 11 is Nothing Much To Lose and it’s another pretty good song. It sounds like any other alt-rock song from the 90s. Were MBV too early for this fad? Maybe they kind of were the originators, but only their clones hit it big? This song reminds me of Smashing Pumpkins, though I haven’t really heard a lot of their stuff. Really good song. I’m coming around on these mopes. Track 12 and the final track is I can See It. This is not as good as the last few songs, but it’s listenable. I’m so confused. At first I thought maybe there were two different songwriters, but Kevin Shields wrote all the music, sang lead vocals, and played guitar. And, what’s this? Shields is said to have invented the “glide guitar” technique. Huh? Okay, so when Shields plays the guitar, his hand is on the tremolo, or whammy, bar and as he strums, he pushes the bar in causing the notes to go out of tune, but lets the bar out finishing with the notes in tune. Supposedly, Shields believes the brain is kind of a step behind, and as long as the note finishes in tune, the brain won’t necessarily think the note is out of tune. Maybe in the beginning, it sounded out of tune because it was, but as the album went on and Shields’s technique continued, maybe subconsciously I realized what was happening, and the songs stopped sounding way out of tune? Maybe? I don’t know. It’s an interesting idea. I may go back and listen to those first songs again and see if they are still as bad as I first thought. As a whole, this album actually wasn’t that bad. Will I listen to it ever again? Probably not. Do I recommend you listen to it before you die? No. In fact, listening to this album before you die may take a few days off your life span. If you like alt-rock or experimental rock, then this is an album for you and the de facto originator of the shoegaze genre. In the end, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it, but it definitely got better as it went on. And Several Girls Galore was a very interesting song and may be a great example of Shields’s glide guitar technique. (I went back and listened to the first two songs again, and on second listen, they don’t sound as bad as the first time around. I think I was so put off to begin with that it took me 4 or 5 songs to get my bearings. Still wouldn’t recommend this to anybody, but at least I can see it’s not just noisy garbage.)

My bloody ears

Didn't love it. Unsettling.

Not for me. Kind of emo.

It’s okay. I liked the other album this list had me listen to better

Nope

Another MBV album. I don't know if I'm getting beaten down by this style or they're improving, but this one wasn't too awful. I definitely won't be coming back. But there was a few long depressing rifts that were a bit enjoyable.

1.5

Really didn’t like what was happening with the production here, made me uneasy and feel like I had to keep turning it down

I'm sure this was some seminal punk rock album or something, but it wasn't very nice to listen to. There were a few parts of a few songs that showed some promise, but that's about it.

Geen fan

het zegt me gewoon heel weinig… kwni ik voel hem niet

yuck!

Quite poor that.

I suppose it sounded new and different in the 80s. Hazy, fuzzy, unclear vocals, shoegaze must be a state of mind, one I don't typically inhabit.

Artistically interesting and unique. Enjoyed listening to this once but can't really imagine wanting to throw it on and listen again. Maybe just not really my jam.

Can hear the progression to Loveless but not a great album. Vocals are pretty weak all around. The standout is the bass.

not on AM

fav song: cupid come detuned, abrasive, blurred 30/100

Really didn't like this one. Nasty production, sounded like there was background noise throughout. Offputting.

Not really for me.

The drones are almost comedically loud over the actual music. On top of that, tons of distortion. And while I love me some industrial, there is a line somehow crossed here.

It's interesting I suppose but this droney music isn't really my jam.

Nah. Not for me.

I remember being young. Being a young lad. A young lad hearing the name My Bloody Valentine. Hearing the name My Bloody Valentine and thinking 'with a name like that these guys must be awesome'. Ahh the naievity of youth. I remember hearing Loveless and thinking 'what the balls is this'. I remember being bemused that such a repetitive, tuneless dirge had been considered suitable for release. I remember being absolutely bewildered that it was considered one of the best albums of all time. A joke, surely. This is my first time listening to Isn't Anything. I don't know if this is worse than Loveless, but it's at least as bad. More of the same dismal vocals, clanging the same note/chord over and over, and droning trickery. The problem with MBV's work is two-fold. First, as undeniably innovative as their sound was, literally any fool can recreate it now with a decent digital amplifier. Play any note, loop and distort it, and sing 'aahhh-iiiii-oooooh'. Congrats, you are now My Bloody Valentine. Secondly, as with all albums which prioritize innovation over everything else, if you strip the studio trickery away, there is nothing left. Play any of these songs acoustic, with any instrument. Go for it. Go on, I'm waiting. You hear what it sounds like? Bad, right? I'm not saying they're totally useless or that Shoegaze is a redundant genre, but this is a a poor attempt at music by anyone's standards. I will say, when they actually try to write a good ol' fashioned song, they're not too bad. But those are few and far between. Take a band heavily influenced by MBV, such as My Vitriol. My Vitriol are vastly superior because they don't forget to add some melody and tone and shade.

Not very pleasant to listen to. Just a wall of discordant sound.

not my style conozco a la banda, escuché un álbum, conocía un tema de este, peroo no es mucho mi estilo igualmente no es malo solo es un genero q no me atrae mucho

Less than 10 seconds before I realized that this album wasn't for me. I'm not a fan of "shoe-gaze" I guess. Found it mostly discordant and didn't love the vocals.

2 stars - high pitched guitar whine just doesn't do anything to help the music in my opinion

This album felt like an escalation, each song becoming louder and angrier. Favourite track: I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)

Only 1 song is available on this album on Spotify and I couldn't find the whole album on my backup platform. The one song I listened to (Feed me with your kiss) was okay. Would like to hear more of the album.

Some of what makes Loveless special is here, but a lot of it isn’t. MBV didn’t come out of the gate fully formed. There’s nothing to distinguish some tracks from their contemporaries, and the end result is just noise.

Aivan tuntematon bändinä ja genrenä hyvin uutukainen itelle. Ei kyllä juuri uponnut joten 2/5.

Vähän turhan raakaa ja eksperimentaalia omaan makuun, keskivaiheilla pari viboiltaan itselle uppoavampaa kappaletta. Ilmeisesti aikansa teos ja aikakauteensa nähden erikoisuus. Näin ummikkona tuntuu vaan valtaosin huonolla tavalla raffilta ja liian sinne päin soitetut rytmit enimmäkseen ärsyttää.

music to get haunted to

Honestly, I found this kind of scary. It was fine as an album and I think I was expecting it to be a softer album that it was. But it was just so much darker and heavier than I thought. I would listen again but I think I’d have to be in a certain headspace.

Fine, but a lot of distortion which I don't love. Doesn't stand out. 2.5

I thought this was gonna be terrible and it wasn’t that bad but also pretty forgettable. While not being unbearable I don’t see why this is worth looking back on.

A little better than a 2 for me. Also not really what I was expecting.

This sounds like experiments for Loveless, not all successful. This lacks the cohesion of that album and a lot of it sounds dated.

Wonky as fuck. It sounded like my MacBook was tilted at an angle as I streamed it. Beyond all the dizziness, there's not a lot going on. Meat 'n' two veg indie songs played on out of tune guitars with reverb. JAMC did it far better.

It was ok, not my favorite band

This certainly sounds like the sort of thing music critics would love, but I just don't quite vibe with the (intentional or otherwise) noisiness

Thankfully this one was really short, and I’m so happy I only have to sit through one more of their albums for this list.

Okay, I'm 48 and have been listening to MBV for about 30 years on and off. I think I can finally say, I don't actually like this album very much. The next album, Loveless, remains phenomenal, but the slight under production of this, and the atonal swamp noises of Soft as Snow as the opening track I just find really off-putting. Feed Me With Your Kiss remains a banger though, so there's that.

4/10 - late 80s transition into indierock from a punk sound, not my thing

Högt och lågt. Men nja.

Not avail but listened to other MBV and think I got the gist. Don’t love

It's not just a phase, mum! Music for emos but came 15 years too soon.

Boring

Was meh

Whatever shoe gazing is evidently i dont like it.

Shame this isn't on streaming. Will need to listen to again.

Wasn't on Apple Music. Wishing I didn't bother seeking it out

If I use my time machine to go back and do away with MBV will I successfully prevent the 2020s shoegaze explosion?

I'm not what shoegaze music is, but if this is what it is then it's not for me.

The first two songs has originality, but after that good ideas are fewer.

This band feels like a 'try hard' sort of sound. They want to be heavy prog metal and end up being what Taylor Swift is to pop....just a stupid shadow.

Noisy and all the songs sounded the same.

top 3: - cupid come - (when you wake) you’re still in a dream - soft as snow (but warm inside) Unfortunately I wanted to like this more than I do. Separately all the elements are good but in some songs it just feels like something is missing

Not my favorite style

Only one track on Spotify. Not really a fan. Assuming the rest of the album is the same

nahh

4/10

Time and time again I'm reminded that progressive music isn't always good. My ears are not tuned for this and this is not a band I am sonically prepared for. Any attempt a melody is drowned out with noise. And sort of song writing evaporates in the mix. I hate this upon listen but do appreciate what shoegaze did for metal and rock. Maybe I'd like their later stuff but I recall every album difficult.

What's the deal with the mixing on this album? The vocals sounds like they are way too low in the mix — I feel like I'm listening to a band performing in a train station, and not in a good way. I can understand why this album is on the 1001 Albums list, but it just isn't for me. I like the ethereal wash of sound to an extent, but after maybe 5 minutes of listening to this album my ears started to fatigue. The constant assault of white-noisy distortion and cymbal wash made me feel like I was in a high school band room at lunchtime — it might just be my own personal experience, but that isn't a positive thing. If Dinosaur Jr. records shit songs that still somehow sound good, My Bloody Valentine filled "Isn't Anything" with shit songs that also still sound like shit. Is this album innovative and creatively inspiring? Sure. Did it inspire me? It inspired me to not listen to it again, if that counts. Song pick: the most bearable tune on this album for me was the last one, "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)".

This was a decent album. Certainly not my favorite

Ehh not my thang, I guess not the worst thing in the world, but I'd plainly just prefer to listen to anything else thats not in this genre. 4.5/10 as some of it was interesting, made me think.

Too one note for me

i'm not melancholy enough for this but give me 20 minutes to turn into that girl smoking in the snow and maybe i'll understand it better

Seriously boring.

*1988. Irish 'shoegaze'. *I learned from the comments: Shoegaze is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by ethereal soundscapes, obscured vocals, and extensive use of guitar effects and distortion, often producing an immersive "wall of sound". *I really didn't like the first MBV album that was this list. This album is much better. *Some good-ish tracks, but also some unlistenable ones that really detracted from the good stuff. RATING - 5.5/10

Already listened to this. Not a major fan of shoegaze. Bit monotonous. Droning vocals hid very low in the mix which isn't to my taste. Little emotional reaction to this

More 80s British nonsense

3/10 Its just plain wrong to call this ethereal or dream pop, its far too atonal and discordant. Shoe gaze is a technique more than a genre and this qualifies at that. That being said, I dislike this and I have shit to do. Not really, but I'd rather find something to do. I know this band and album are important to people, but holy shit guys. 11-20-2025

I liked Cupid Come. The rest felt like they would be part of a concept art piece and they needed more to me. Maybe it is partially because I still can't hear the vocals or what they are saying most of the time.

First time listening. Gave it two listens. While it has it's moments, they ruin it every time. They sound like teenagers trying too hard to be different. I could do without the whiny singing too.

Why do people love this so much?

I don’t get it

A bunch of early indie groaning

This is the debut album from this UK band, and is the second album we’ve had on the list. It definitely has a 1980’s sound. As with the earlier album, many of the lyrics are unintelligible. There are two or three good tracks here but not enough for a good rating.

I got excited reading about this band until I realised it's the same band I got excited about (and then disappointed by) not one week ago! Fooled again! Reviews compare them to Nick Cave or Cocteau Twins, and I guess I can see the elements there if I squint, but this is just so *noisy* I could never enjoy it. I still don't know if that's in part because I listened to this on Youtube and the sound is worse there... but I'm not about to go buy the album and find out. Because it's bad.

Too noisy

a lot of noise, no good music

I had to search this one out via Youtube which means sound quality was not great. First time listening to the album. Props for the feelings of nostalgia - it feels very late 80s (I went through a massive Love and Rockets phase). There were a few bright spots but nothing to write home about. 2/5.

The first 2 tracks I feel like a very old person, "this is just noise". You can hear the shoegazing inspiration of future bands. I don't mind wall of sound music, but I didn't love this.

Not a fan of shoegaze and this album is no different If it were mixed and produced like a regular rock song where the vocals are not washed out this would probably be a good album

This is not a fair assessment as I was unable to find this specific album on Tidal so I listened instead to m b v which was just ok ish for me.

Sin comentarios.

This album isn’t available on Spotify or Apple Music… so I didn’t listen to it. I did listen to some other stuff by MBV… and I didn’t care for it.

Isn’t nothing, but close.

wasn't much

The meh-est of all mehs.

Nothing memorable. Some songs felt very repetitive and drab/annoying and i felt like skipping them. Deleted it

Not bad, but buried by trying to be too loud.

So. much. NOISE. I really disliked this one. The vocals are okay, but everything else is annoying. Somehow, a similar experience I had when listening to Dub Housing by Pere Ubu. Not-the-worst-song award goes to Nothing Much To Lose

Rock, Punk, 1988 -> 2

Thanks for the headache.

One song on spotify.....

A couple songs are ok, but most are less than mediocre

This is appropriately named ...

Not enough harmonic intrigue. Top track: You Never Should

DISTORTION. All of it. Maybe the insulation for some grunge?!?

Making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Not my vibe. Production quality is too inconsistent and I do not really get a sense of what the purpose of this album is. A little too drony for my taste as well.

Noisy. Meh.

I don't really see the purpose of having every MBV album on the list, especially this one, which is just a bit of a slog to get through. I guess it's to make me appreciate that they went on to actually make GOOD music.

Liked parts of it, but overall had a hard time staying engaged. 2/5 Won’t listen again

I know I've heard the name of this band before, but I'm not sure I've ever really heard anything by them, and certainly not from this album. And perhaps with good reason--this is *not* my idea of a fun or entertaining album, however "innovative" their guitar work seems to be. I was constantly reminded of a goth version of The Cocteau Twins, minus any ethereal nonsense lyrics, or at least I think those are actual words being spoken on this album, because it's largely impossible to make out much of anything on nearly the entire album (so maybe more of an ethereal Dinosaur Jr?). Given that we get two more albums by them, I'm hard pressed to believe that this debut album was really worth including; of course, I haven't heard the other two yet....

shoegazeeeee. different for sure but not for me

I prefer their next album. This one focuses more of the noise a bit too much and not enough on the song structure.

What even was this?! Except for an extremely boring noise that you can listen to damage your ears and torture your neighbours maybe.

This probably wasn’t Soft as Snow.

Had to find this album on YouTube, as there was only one song on Spotify. It really didn’t feel like it was worth it to find it-this album was a snooze fest. But kind of interesting, I guess? I wouldn’t revisit it, that’s for sure.

i will say the vibes were off from the start for me unfortunately! the second song of the album was personally much better.

Only one song was available and I didn’t like it. Pretty sure I don’t like these guys anyway.

This really wasn't anything.

There are Zero reasons there are two albums from this band on this list. Zero.

I don't like this but I like that I don't like it. The one thing that this project has taught me is that the certain albums that I avoided listening to in the 90s, my instincts were right. I didn't enjoy this in the 2020s and I'm certain it wouldn't have been enjoyable for me in the '90s. I like my cacophonous indie rock with a little more pop around the edges, like Sonic Youth or The 3D's

The "My Bloody Valentine" reminded me of that 2009 movie that I went to see in the cinema but was very young and interestingly enough didn't really hate it. Overall, quite meh of an album, with some songs being pretty weird, with a lot of background sounds that don't really make a lot of sense.

noise, just noise

I don’t get it.

MBV is great, this is not their best.

It was so-so.

I’m delighted to say that this is better than the other album of theirs that I reviewed, but given that I gave that album 1 star and called it “depressing droney bullshit” it’s hardly a high bar to clear. This is still kind of indistinct and boring, but at least there’s some melodies in there and some interesting soundscapes at times. 2.5 rounded down.

5/10 It interested me, but I didn't enjoy it. Main weakness are the vocals.

Could not find album anywhere and could only find half the tracks on YouTube.

Tolerable but I would never choose to listen to this.

Well, this one is different. It’s both simultaneously odd and uninteresting at the same time. In all honesty, I wasn’t that big on this album. It probably doesn’t help that I’m not into the late 80s noise rock albums, so that already puts this album at a disadvantage. I wasn’t that big on the vocals, they felt like they got drowned out in the mix a lot, and even then they kind of just sounded like they were copying Ian Curtis or Robert Smith with the vocal style. The guitar parts sounded atonal to me, they distorted the sound a lot, but it still felt like it was being restrained, like they needed to crank the amp up a few notches. None of the songs really stuck with me, they kind of just went in one ear and out the other. So, overall, I wasn’t a big fan of this album, but hey, maybe I’ll like Loveless better.

Just came up short for me. Didn't hate it but nothing made me hit repeat.

A bit underwhelming, production is quite noisy with vocals quite far back but that’s flipped in the 2nd half of the album, but the vocals aren’t that strong.

There are times i can tolerate, even enjoy, some MBV. Overall though, this album ain't it.

The album (as an album) isn't available on Apple Music. Some of the songs are available individual or in collection.

Album was okay, frustrating you have to listen on youtube. 4.9/10

I gave it a couple of listens, but not a lot stood out. There are some nice melodies and "in your face" drums and guitar, yet no songs really gripped me. fav tracks: "Feed Me With Your Kiss", "Lose My Breath" I thought the strings on "No More Sorry" and "All I Need" were cool 2/5

I really tried to like this, but it's like it wants to be disliked. I didn't choose the rating, this album did.

This album does not seem to be on a Tidal anymore.

Same thing in all songs: quite monotonous singing with pop/rock guitar sounds

Ça suce vraiment fort, je suis désolé, ça pue la charogne auditive cette daube, les fantômes de la table tournante peuvent bien se morfondre...

Meh.

Verbal meme: it’s the big Lebowski scene, “god I hate shoegaze man”

Sigh. This isn't MBV's best album, just thier first. This isn't the best, most iconic, nor most influential shoegaze album. Just the first. Shoegaze isn't the best, most original, nor particularly influential rock sub-genre. Just - wait, no, just nothing. Shoegaze is an interesting footnote. So why does this abbum get a spot on this list?

MBV is an important band, but this isn't even their best album. This music style isn't my favourite.

not dated well

Didn't like and wasn't on Pandora or Spotify so had to listen on YouTube. Dreary and all sounded the same.

The odd song was decent but overall not really my cup of tea

Is the second My Bloody Valentine album? Still not a fan. Pass.

This isn't great. It was REALLY dark (borderline creepy) and poorly mixed. At times I couldn't figure out what part of the song I was supposed to be listening to *cough* *cough* "feed me with your kiss" *cough* *cough*. This was not great. The guitar and drums were really good tho. I love the drumming here. There were some good songs here which raises it up a little. Good moments for sure. Liked Songs "Cupid Come" , "(when you wake) you're still in a dream" , "sueisfine" , "you never should" , "nothing much to lose"

o.o

I used to enjoy this album. I like the texture of it and many of the guitar tones make me feel like I'm floating on a metallic cloud. But I'm not sure there are many songs here, just ideas that float by a little aimlessly.

Another alternative/indie/rock something

After listening to this, I've come to the conclusion that I am not a fan of shoegaze.

Just the biggest load of nothing I can remember hearing. Fuzzy recordings of what sounds like a garage band, inaudible lyrics, no tunes or sometimes even rhythms to speak of. There's nothing to get a grip on, it's like trying to grab fog. At times maybe it's noise rock, but it mostly sounds like literally nothing is happening, but loudly - typical shoegaze. Would have been one star as this was defying my attention totally, but the last couple of tracks actually had some beat and tune to them, adding an extra star.

Couldn't find it! Listened to other MBV album and it was not my thing.

Another one of those bands I'd heard of before but never actually listened to. And another band I know I won't be coming back to an awful lot.

Meh

bad production i don’t know i don’t KNOW

no

Very raw.

Meh. Not a big fan.

I like my bloody valentine but this really shouldn't be here. considering both loveless and m b v are on the list, i have no clue why this is here too. 2.5

...and this is how I find out my bloody valentine isn't one of the newer indie bands. I don't know if that makes things any better or worse.

Bit of a dirge, lacking depth, slow, some decent tracks but mostly monotonous.

Fairly standard laye 80s alt rock. Did nothing for me

Boring, can't remember anything about it the next day.

shoegaze music is not for me i’ll be honest 2/5

noisy shoegaze with buried vocals - not terrible

Almost 1100 albums and I get this shit band two days in a row. Horrible.

1,5

Sounds a little modern but isn't. Cool soundscape.

Can't get into this

A lot of noise. One song was not though.

Second album de MBV proposé par le générateur après 'Loveless" que j'avais noté 2/5, en particulier à cause de son mixage qui le rendais inécoutable. Le mixage est moins catastrophique sur cet album, mais ... je n'accroche pas vraiment. Certains morceaux sont assez originaux (Lose my breath, son harmonie particulière, et ses guitares non saturées), mais le son reste un problème pour moi sur pas mal de pistes (mur de bruit peu audible). Je n'y reviendrais pas. =>2/5

Very much of it's time, where it should remain.

Rock that leans havily into noise. I had enough after song 2. 2/5

Schwankt zwischen Krach und was, das Potential hätte, nervt dann aber doch auf Dauer.

I think I like this one better than “loveless”, there’s at least somewhat of a coherent song structure but still not a big fan

1.5 I really thought I would like this bad more than I do. Appreciate the guitar work, but I don't really connect with anything else

2.5

Some interesting songs, but mostly not my jam.

Not as bad as I thought it would be

This stinks

So so.

Based on the opening track, I thought this would be my first one-star review, but I did quite like a couple of the other songs. That's kind of disappointing, as I feel like this album was meant to be something you either love or hate, not something you give two stars out of five.

For some reason I thought my bloody valentine was an emo band.

No thanks

First part of the album is ok. The rest isn’t. 2 stars.

Didn’t know this sort of thing existed in 1988! I can see it being very influential at the time but it’s all a little bit of a noise to me…

Very much not my cup of tea. I somewhat thought the instrumentals were interesting but the vocal work was too much for me. This was so tough, I ended up looking at other reviews. It's a wonder this did so well on release. I have to wonder why/how.

Guitar feedback... So original

-I like what I have heard from MBV’s album Loveless. I guess I went into this expecting it to be more like that, which threw me for a loop -idk I don’t really think it’s for me… not a huge shoegaze guy anyway but some of the tracks on here felt especially grating. had some moments I liked but. idk -Favorites are All I Need and Feed Me with Your Kiss

Noise and unbearable lyrics. After the album was over a song from the follow up album came on which sounded similar, but more polished and way better. Why is this album on the list?

Some of the songs are aggressively annoying and for different reasons. Tracks 2-4 are good and I enjoy the lo-fi sound but the rest of the album is all over the place. Pick a lane.

beh

2/5

I never figured out what to do with this album. And I don't know what "shoegaze" is, unless it means they're staring at the floor mumbling?

A long, boring 38 minutes.

I've never really understood the obsession with this band and I still don't after hearing this album but there were a few good songs in here. Lo fi isn't for me, and shoegaze and dream pop can boring enough with high production values that I especially don't understand the decision to do everything lo-fi on top.

Fuck. I mean it’s better than Loveless. But who cares

I was hoping to like it but found half of it unlistenable. 2 for the album, 5 for effort and sounding nothing like much else of the time .

Knew I wouldn't like it from the first note - just don't get it.

So much unnecessary, overbearing NOISE on this album. I feel like if a lot of the obnoxious sounds going on in a lot of the songs were cut out, the album wouldn't be half bad. But alas, some of these songs were borderline unlistenable. I don't think it's one-star worthy because the unnecessary noises started tapering off toward the end, but holy hell, why is this on the list?

I just don't get shoegaze

I tried, I really did, but it was bloody awful. They didn't sound very competent on their instruments at all, and vocally it was like someone mumbling through their sleeve.

eh this one isn't for me.

Meh.

The best song on the album is the first song, “Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)”. The album struggles to recreate the dissonant magic it captures there. It instead devolves into big sound and vocal drones that fail to inspire.

Not great. Not horrible, but there are better shoegazing groups.

Never really been one to gaze at my shoes…

Geht so.

A bit too chaotically noisy for me, and yet not quite noisy enough. This may very well be the kind of album that requires more listenings to really unfold. Unfortunately due to the format of an album per day I don't have time to give it that kind of attention. Standouts - 2/5

Glad I had no goth phase...

Some songs the band is good. But the singer is crying on everything and has little to no energy. I’ll pass.

01) Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside) - 6,5 02) Lose My Breath - 6,0 03) Cupid Come - 5,5 04) (When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream - 6,0 05) No More Sorry - 5,0 06) All I Need - 5,0 07) Feed Me with Your Kiss - 5,5 08) Sueisfine - 5,5 09) Several Girls Galore - 5,0 10) You Never Should - 5,5 11) Nothing Much to Lose - 5,5 12) I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It) - 6,0 TOTAL: 5,58 (56/100) Current ranking: 351/410

Wanted to like this, not good will surely be rated low

boring to be honest. but it's insane how modern this sounds.

Jangle and dissonance, the tools of alt alt rock

I haven't thought positively about the slasher B movie from the early 80s since I caught it on cable as a kid. After hearing this band, the movie seems even better.

I really cannot stand listening to this band. They tease you with some actual musicality in their instruments, but it then quickly devolves into the least trance-like soundscapes you can possibly imagine. All of it paired with overly whiny singing voices.

This reminded me a lot of Radiohead, whose sound I mostly detest.

I must be the only shoegazer who just can't get into MBV at all.

Like ambient music but this is too harsh on the ears

Unmemorable unfortunately.

I think there was one song I genuinely liked and everything else was not my thing. I can't give it one star because it had a good song, but if it wasn't for that song(which, I can't even identify because they're all indistinguishable), it might be a 1. The only thing that's 'bloody' about it is annoying.

I quite liked the previous one by this lot. But this one just didn’t grab me in the same way. Maybe I need to listen to the other one back just in case I was previously in a generous mood. Simpsons: Itchy and Scratchy episode named My Bloody Valentine, but it is also a film as well as a band.

Some albums benefit from a good sound system. You can hear the highs coming through crisp and feel the lows in your bones. This album is not one of those. I first tried listening to this through mi decent headphones and thought they were broken, the noises coming through were less than pleasant. I then gave the album another go word my cheap running headband cum headphones and it was a much more pleasant experience.

This album, overall, didn't really do much for me. I think what really pulled it down was the vocals honestly. The guitar and pedal sounds were kinda cool, but it didn't feel cohesive with everything else going on. I had some high hopes for the shoegazing genre... but alas here we are. I'm aight with not having this in my cd player.

I came into this with a mindset of Bullet for my Valentine. Obviously just because the name is super similar. The album was weird/unique but didn’t really feel groundbreaking in any way except for one song. I actually think “No More Sorry” is sick. It’s hurt a bit by the mixing/production, but the mood and the build up is really nice. If you turned up the vocals and made it feel less mushy it would be more discernible, but I think that’s kinda the point too. The album was short and to me was worth listening to just for that song. Still can’t rate it above a 2.

I actually like some shoegaze but this wasn't among the stuff I like. Low 2.

Boring and forgettable.

Not great

Ei kauhean miellyttävää. Aika noisemaista rokkia. Tuntuu melkein pelleilyltä taas. Muutama ok kappale, muuten aika skeidaa. Parhaat: (When You Wake) Youre Still In A Dream, I Can See It (But I Cant Feel It)

Yea wow this is terrible. Sueisfine is the first song to actually interest me. The back half of the album is like listening to the foo fighters through a busted up CRT TV. God this was BS

Just isn't my kind of music - too "noisy".

I get it's influence, but nothing about this album was appealing. Usually that would slide me in a 2½★ direction but I really disliked the over all sound I couldn't give it any higher than a two. (4.3) ★★

Felt like a lot of screaming

Just too mopey and moody for my liking.

It was horrible.

einfach nur mühsam

Please, no more of this stuff

Meh. Did not really make an impression on me.

I like some shoegaze. I don't really like this.

boring and shitty basically the whole time

Early emo. Can see a lot how it develops. But not for me.

I HATE dissonance, this album made me so anxious Standout tracks: - (When you wake) you're still in a dream (3/5)

Better than I thought it would be!