Isn't Anything

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!

Bleach and Nevermind have the same relationship for Nirvana that Isn’t Anything and Loveless do for MBV. The rawness of the Seattle grunge sound is the center point of Nirvana’s DIY debut, and that rough sound completely paves the way for the energetic, catchy songwriting that appears on the hugely successful Nevermind. The critical success of the bold Loveless was attributed to MBV’s innovative techniques in the studio, which began during the making of their debut, Isn’t Anything. However, while it’s unarguable how important Isn’t Anything was for MBV’s development, it’s no secret that it is vastly inferior to its successor. Yes it paved the way for Loveless to come, but that paving job was very messy and spotty. It did a good enough job to get MBV to the place where they could record an album as bold as Loveless, but where Bleach’s quality very much led into Nevermind’s, I wouldn’t say the same for Isn’t Anything to Loveless. Loveless improves on every single aspect of Isn’t Anything, right down to the last detail. I believe the most important aspect of MBV’s music is the balance in their mix. One thing that’s abundantly clear off the get go is how the album’s more lo-fi sound does it a huge disservice. The vocals on Loveless are one with the instrumentals; a wall of sound that INCLUDES the vocals, almost to the point where it’s hard to differentiate what are voices and what are instruments. Here, the vocals are awkwardly placed ON TOP of the instrumentals, and it makes for an album that comes across very amateurish and just not that pleasant to listen to. Not to mention, the songwriting just isn’t that good either. I will give the band credit tho, they experimented with some very bold styles and that surely contributed to the album’s extremely spotty quality, as well as the fact that, again, without it, we would have never gotten the MBV albums to follow. As it stands tho, Isn’t Anything is…well…isn’t anything special

Meh.

Really boring

Hmm... Ik haalde dit door elkaar met Bullet for my valentine wat een hardrock/metalband is. Had ik achteraf ook op gehoopt, want dit is echt ontzettend saai... Ik weet niet, de lyrics kan ik niet verstaan, het word muzikaal voor mij nogal snel 1 brei aan gitaren. Word hier gewoon niet echt wild van ofzo, dat ik denk dat dit echt een sterk album is. Ben wel weer toe aan een spannend album! FAVO: When you awake you're still in a dream

I just do not hear what other people hear in MBV And I especially do not hear it in this

bad

Low score for me. 2 stars

This is the second album I got from this band... at least this time, it wasn't all incomprehensible noise. There were a couple of passable tracks, but nothing worth noting. I just don't get why'd someone want to torture their ears with this constant background buzzing noise? It's so unpleasant. 2 stars

Shoegaze is not my fave. The lack of real words and lyrics is frustrating along with the distorted instrument play. Glad the album was pretty short.

It seemed a bit odd. I do enjoy some distortion but not as much as this album.

shoegazing?? if this is a good example of it, then I'm not a fan. couldn't understand lyrics, and sounds are just weird. didn't get it at all-too much distortion & reverb

Why is this on here? Very bland

Ok

I swear I was paying attention. But there's not a single piece of the album I remember. I listened to it half an hour ago, and I couldn't hum any of it, or recite a lyric, or anything. This album went right through me.

3.70 rym non il mio

I'm starting to think I'm not a good reviewer. Seeing how some people had so much to say about this album, and wrote lengthy paragraphs. Maybe it's winter where they are? Not sure what shoegazing is, but feel like Al Bundy probably did a lot of it. Very surprised this was released in 1988. Sounded newer for sure. Not a overly optimistic newer, just an observation. It was interesting from that perspective l, but didn't consider it an everyday listen. 2.4 & not worthy of rounding up to three.

Lots of noise, and I normally like noise.... One of those bands that you are supposed to like, but I'm not feeling the love...

Just dissonant fuzz rock that I wasn't really in the mood for. There were maybe 1 or 2 decent enough songs on here, but the rest was barely listen-able.

Boring, common, poorly mixed, and with weak singing.

My Bloody Valentine, finally. They are band I least “get”. I’m shocked Isn’t Anything is even on here. I get that’s it was innovative, just ask Shields, he’ll tell you. It’s not bad, when they play actual songs it’s pretty decent, but walls of distorted toneless guitars doesn’t do it for me. There is nothing dynamic about most of this album. 5.6/10

Love MBV They don’t deserve 3 albums on the list

Sorry, I couldn't even finish the album. The noise and harmonies can be nice, but it was just not hitting me at all. Their next album is one of my all time favorites.

спать под это не вышло + в бодром состоянии тоже быстро надоело, не моё

First pass: unskilled noise. Then caught myself humming the melody once I’d left the room. Lo-fi, pre-grunge/post-punk are all turn-ons, but they never landed with me the way their contemporaries did. Maybe that’s on me. Other albums preferred (thank you Spotify shuffle) Currently a 2. If I listened 10 times over the next month likely turns into a 4...

3/10. Not my thing at all. Bored me and at times annoyed me. It’s palpable though and I could see it being for others.

Another one which feels so much longer than it is in reality. I didn't hate it.

Kuuntelin tämän kahdesti mutten silti ottanut ihan selvää… showgaze sinänsä miellyttää, mutta se muuttuu mun korvissa vain massaksi. Tämä levy harvinaisen paljon, vaikka välillä kivasti goottiriehuttiinkin. Mutta jos kahdella kuuntelukerrallakaan ei löydy koukkuja jotka herättäisivät…?

Sopii niille, jotka kuvittelevat naiivisti, että kaihoisan fiiliksen herääminen on hyvän taiteen merkki. On tällä LP:llä silti pysäyttävät hetkensä, erityisesti No More Sorry - kuuntele se.

Some okayish production somewhat saves this, but overall pretty bad from a well-known group.

Interessant om deze plaat te horen net na hun monumentale sophomore album. Shoegaze kwam niet uit het niets, maar evolueerde langzaam vanuit post-punk, jangle pop en andere alternative rock stijlen. Dat is op dit album goed te horen, terwijl deze elementen al onder een dikke laag gaze en glide gitaren zijn verstopt op ''Loveless''. Een fascinerende luisterbeurt, die meer doet met de muziek-taxonomist in me dan de liefhebber. Een missing link in de evolutie van shoegaze, zo voelt deze plaat. Maar echt aangenaam, zoals de volwassen sound op het opvolgende album dat wel bij tijd en wijle was, zijn de meeste nummers niet. Het is die ongemakkelijke tussenvorm, te midden van een vis en een landdier. Zoek de coelacanth maar eens op, fascinerend wezen, maar verdient geen schoonheidsprijs. Waar deze vis op zoek is naar capabele poten om het land mee te koloniseren, is MBV bij dit album nog op zoek naar het juiste geluid, balancerend tussen lawaai en euforie, waar shoegaze zo in floreert. 6,5/10 Highlights: Lose My Breath You Never Should

I'm so torn on this one! I liked it, but I didn't, but I did...

Rating: 3.5/10 What a noisy mess.

Not interesting

After the first song I RAN to the reviews because wow. Ow my ears. I stuck it out, and there are some songs here that sound like actual music. But this album mostly just makes me feel like I have tinnitus.

Shoegaze never a genre I've managed to find something I really like. Same here just a drone of kids not knowing what to do. Still some ok tracks. - Cupid come - (When you wake) You're still a dream - Feed me with your kiss - Sueisfine

Not for me. Too depressive and sad

5 / 10 Poco escuchado, poco interés y mal sonido

This may have been the most forgettable album I've listened to from the list. I genuinely couldn't remember what I had just heard two minutes after it was done playing. And just to be clear, no drugs were harmed during the filming of this review.

psychodeliczny rock, ciezko ocenic

I have never got MBV or why they are so popular. I assume shoegaze just isn’t for me.

2nd half of the album is an improvement on the 1st, but I cant get around the terrible production unfortunately

Isn’t anything good on here

Better than the other My Bloody Valentine album I got. This one had a few songs that were actually listenable. Most of it was still badly recorded noise though. Stand-out: [When You Wake] You’re Still In A Dream

I don’t know. Maybe you had to be there?

Very forgettable 2/5

I appreciate the originality for sure. Just the thought that 3 albums by my bloody valentine needed to be on this list approaches absurdity. That shouldn't necessarily be a factor in how I feel about this particular album, but I'm not sure all 3 add unique and independently influential creativity to the world. I'd have picked "Loveless" (or maybe this - their debut) and ended it. Even though I really don't like the music all that much. An album that's so goddamn frustratingly (intentionally???) poorly mixed as to almost sound mono for songs that meander - I'm not sure there are many albums I've ever liked with crappy sound like this. I 100% had better sounding infantile demos on my mono Panasonic tape recorder around the same time of this "studio recording." As for the writing itself, I usually found a part in each song where I would start to take interest but too often the songs stay in the same wavering mid-tempo slackerdom that while isn't nearly quite as abrasively-awful as e.g. Pavement it more frustrates me than anything. Like - wake the fk up already and play/sing like you give a shit. For influence and originality I give marks - it's definitely a full album experience for the overall sound/attitude rather than anything belonging on a mix tape. There were certainly some bands that grew something bigger and better out of this in the early 90s, so it's good to hear what could be a genesis of sorts, but on its own....I don't enjoy it and it got worse as it went on. Generous 2 here. 5/10 2 stars.

No, thank you.

*sigh* Not thrilled with this. Didn’t need three MBV albums. I’m getting too old for this.

Alright here and there. Some good guitar sounds which you expect with indie music but overall, not that enjoyable 🤔

Another MBV record. Something new please and back off on the treble.

Washed out, over-mixed, reverbed for the sake of using reverb effects. It sort of sounds like Queens of the Stoneage, but just not as good. “Oh,look, we invented a new genre of music”. Good for you, I guess.

Debut album. Pionnier du shoegazing (psychedelic rock music with indistinct vocals and distorded instrument sounds). C'est pas mal plus relax que ce que je pensais, c'est pas venu me chercher plus qu'il faut.

Realmente o que funciona para mim é a fase dos anos 90.

I want to like it but I... don't. It's like I felt like the sum was worse than the parts perhaps and it's just a lot of noise with the odd catchy riff. I literally couldn't choose a favourite track because I didn't like the lyrics of the ones that were more pleasant to listen to. Listens: 1 Rating: 2

Just not for me. Relistening to Loveless a few months ago didn’t make me enjoy it any more and this predecessor is even less impactful

Favorite Tracks: Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside) Lose My Breath

Quiet album but it’s okay

Ég hélt alltaf að My Bloody Valentine væri ungt og ferskt band. Það kom mér á óvart að þau eru það ekki en ætti þá heldur ekki að koma á óvart að ég þekki þau ekki og hef ekkert verið að hlusta á þau. Það er reyndar bara fínt því mér finnst þau bara leiðinleg.

Nope not my thing. I did not enjoy this one bit, it all sounded very much the same. Bland and boring.

Wall of noise wall of noise with vocals hidden way down in the mix. Still not a style I'm interested in much, but I'm glad others like it.

I don't understand why there's like three albums by this band on this list. It's all the same shoe gaze droning to me.

Enjoyable but nothing special to me!

2024-03-10...

meh

None of the songs really stood out to me. I had the “noise” that was in the background of most of the songs. It was very distracting.

Shoe Gaze pioneers left me expecting more.

Meh. Like bad grunge

Parts of this album reminded me of Harry Parch. This is not a good thing.

Im supposed to like this band but I just dont get the appeal

Not as good as their later years but far from un-listenable. Not sure it belongs on this list but to each their own.

There is some off-noise at times that is similar to a child’s musical toy that is running out of batteries. Dissonant in a bad way.

This album reminds me of when you're on country back roads and listening to the only non-conservative talk radio channel that comes in, which is 60% fuzz. There seems to be a decent band here, but I suppose the only reason it's in this list is because the producer decided to be innovative and cover up the band with the sound of forks in the garbage disposal. 2.

Listenable but not my favorite

Meh.

Paar verschrikkelijke nummers, paar degelijke nummers en veel ondergemiddelde nummers. 2/5.

My second MBV album in my first 90. Still can't get on board. Mumbly vocals, willful lack of cohesion and only reason it gets 2 stars is the passable shoegaze at the end.

Sounds like a really badly mixed demotape…

Noise

Not really my favorite genre of music, but I can get into it at times. The opening couple of tracks were a bit rough for me, but it did get better as it went on...though through that back part a lot of the songs sounded the same to me. 2.5, rounding to 2.

This was an interesting listen. One one hand it is completely unpolished and sounds akin to teenagers figuring it out with their first school band. Most of the tracks were 4-chord songs that were fairly uninteresting melodically. BUT There were a few tracks where you could tell they were really pushing to make a different sound, and those tracks were interesting! Not a huge fan of the mumble-lyrics but the whole album is a bit of a mood.

Not for me. Couldn’t understand the lyrics. Bland rock. Didn’t finish.

Not my thing. Noise with some melody hidden in there. Nirvana but way worse.

They took a food processor, forced as many sounds as they could inside it, and then forced us to listen to the result.

nope I don't like this album at all

Not for me, sounded like a high school garage band!

Really didn't grab me, some of the guitar riffs are cool.

The music was overwhelmed by the noise pollution. At least twice I was well into a song before realizing someone somewhere was actually adding vocals.

It was okay

yp vähän trollausta, aika samoilla genreillä ollaan nyt vähän aikaan pysytty. heh hauskaa vitsiä tosiaan mutta voisi muuttua kuitenkin sointu vaikka huomiseksi heh... nyt yleisesti on ollut britti saaren ympärillä heh indie tyyppistä musiikkia noh eri aikakausilta mutta silti heh voisi heh vaikka pläntiltä siirtyä jonnekkin heh anna vaikka se brasilia/ranska/intia jos ei muita pysäkkejä maailmalla keksitä (heheh niitä maita on monta ja kaikilla artisteja heh hyviä niitä ja albumeja heh) feed me with your kiss

"post-punk", kinda droney vocals with raw/distorted guitar/bass/drum backing

La verdad es que no me llaman la atención. Sí al Shoegaze, que tantas cosas buenas nos ha dejado, pero no es este disco.

Очень на любителя

Listened twice, still find that the music of this group doesn’t engage me. To me, it’s very straight forward rock. 2/5.

Isn't anything.

Bit moody, might grow on me.

This was quite bad actually.

*turns music up because I can't hear the lyrics* *turns music down because the guitar is way too loud* *repeats for 38 minutes*

#52. A whole lot of guitar strum and noise. could not really discern one song from the other

not my thing

This is a new genre for me and a new band. The first song was not something I enjoyed at all. Hopefully things get better. The second song was much better. Things improved after the first song but overall this is kind of a mess. Very uninspired music and singing. More noise than music. Very much a meh album. Not awful but something I would have been fine without hearing before I died. 2.5 out of 5 rounding down though.

Kuinkahan kamoissa tätä on tehty? Ilman sieniä jää kovin sekavaksi kokemukseksi.

En erityisesti tykänny

This album was not particularly good. It feels like it was the beginning of indie music. Unnecessarily loud and the lyrics are garbage. I have no desire to listen to it again. I am rounding up to a 2.

Not very interesting. Faded into the background.

It was meh, I probably would not listen again.

IDK man...some of this I dig, some of this is tough to get through. On net, not my thing, I don't think

som meio conceitual, oitentista, não é dos mais palatáveis

Not really my kind of music, even though it came out right when I was deciding exactly what my kind of music was. It just seems like noise and one of those noises is vocals with impossible-to-discern lyrics, which drives me nuts in ANY medium. That all said, I listened to the whole thing and didn't hate it. So there's that.

I listened to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine around a year ago because I heard it was great, and I found it to be pretty awful. You can imagine the sigh I made when I was generated this today, but here we are. Hopefully this will click a little better, but my hopes aren’t high. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Feed Me With Your Kiss Honestly, I expected this to be worse than it was. I’m still not exactly a fan, but there were a fair few bits in this that had me hooked. It still does little a little too much into noise for my taste, but there was certainly some stuff to enjoy here. I just wish it was a bit more listenable. Is that too much to ask of music?

It's helpful for me to remember the year in which this album was released. Listening to it now, it sounds so much like tons of other music in the past 30 or so years, but when I place it in the context of the late 80s, I get how this must have stood out. It gets a little overly distorted for my ears -- the harmonies get mushed together with that much overdrive or distortion -- but I get that's part of the style they were going for.

2/5. Yup shoegaze, I mean yeah it's got some fun choices for wall of noise but I guess it's not for me? Definitely a game changer in the field of music, I just don't know if that's the direction I want to go right now. Maybe I'll appreciate it later, but I'll respect it from over here for now. Not terrible, so not a 1, does have some choice instrumentation that goes hard.

A third my bloody valentine album. Just what we didn’t need. Well this one isn’t as bad as the most recent one but not as good as their best album. That puts this at still not that good. This is music you listen to when you don’t want to focus on the music and maybe do something else. 4.1/10

Not really my bag

Let's mix some stoner/spacey vocals with some decent rock instrumentals. No? Let's just try some really annoying slower songs with a coalition of clashing sounds. This whole album sounds like the work experience guy did the mixing. This shit isn't just irritating, it's aggravating.

Boring

So it's Loveless, but not as good. Why's it on the list then?

Very drone-y, thought this was “Bullet for my Valentine”, so was disappointed lol

Droning vaguely whiny album with quiet off-key lyrics. Other bands like HUM do it way better.

I was initially confused why this album has a low rating and Loveless has a good rating, but now having listened to both, I kinda get it. They're a bit different, and this one seems less accessible. I don't really get it, but maybe I just wasn't in the right mood. The parts that lean a bit towards rock weren't my favourite, especially that first song, but it was all kinda boring. I guess my favourite song was Several Girls Galore?

I might hypothetically like some shoegaze, but this album is so repetitive and vague. What I like best is the album cover, washed out with intense light. I think it represents the sound well.

Significantly better than the self titled album

Couldn't get along with this at all, I'm afraid. Vocals just too weak and almost in the background, whilst the foreground instrumental wasn't doing enough on its own to sustain it in the most part - it does get more interesting when it gets heavier, but not enough to sustain an album. 2/5.

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Can’t say I vibed with this at all. Not a 1-star but came very close at times.

critics darlings, did the decent thing as a loyal NME reader. Still just sounds like shite noise

I was not into MBV at all when younger though I’ve dipped into their more well known offerings. This hints but ultimately the singing is poor, the sound has not developed and so the songs are exposed.

I get it, but still... I don't get it.

1/12, 8%

I'd like to preface this by stating that I am a HUGE fan of Loveless. It's one of my favourite albums and I consider it to be perfect. However, I've tried to get into Isn't Anything several times over the years and I just can't. Too abrasive, too meandering, too noisy. I understand why it's on the list, and it's interesting to see it as a precursor to Loveless. But I just find it difficult to listen to. Listening to Loveless is like listening to a dream; listening to Isn't Anything is like listening to a nightmare.

Just boring

Not as good as their other more popular album

Ehhh

One of those limp-wristed "every track sounds the same" projects that nevertheless gets held up as a genre standard for some reason. I don't get it. Best track: ?

I expected to mildly dislike this album based off of my experience with loveless and I was entirely right in that expectation. I usually like harsh music in this style (can’t think of an example rn, maybe early Radiohead or sonic youth) but something about shoegaze just doesn’t do it for me.

Meh. This has it’s moments but as soon as it gets going, it gets lame.

I do enjoy shoegaze and also MBV but this is not their best album by a long shot, just feels like some songs are clunky and out of sync. And okay album but Loveless better be on here.

Aptly named, it isn’t really much of anything except utterly and completely boring.

Not really good… the melody is incoherent at best. And I don’t think it gets much better. Was a slog to get through Saved tracks: You Never Should, I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It)

There may be good music under all the noise.

shoegazing indeed... not for me.

Nothing too notable for me

awful

ive tried to listen to this for almost a week now, i think ive heard the first song 18 times and the last song once because i keep losing focus every time its veryu ninteresting but its not bad, if 1st song was better then it would be a 3

3 2

yeah I dont get it either

Surprised a second album from this lot was on the list, this album was better than MBV but still found it boring

you can hear bits of loveless but it wasn't there yet, both production and Writing wise.

Big dislike.

Meh. This BLOODY album was too raw, out of key and dissonant for me. It felt like they were trying to be spooky and I'm all for that, but it came off as contrived and fake. Meh. It was a double meh for me.

Noise. Mercifully short (like this review) although it didn't necessarily feel it with how many "songs" there were. Not a fan.

Not for me

Not really for me. Didn't like the opener at all but there were a few songs that musically I liked but the drowning out the the vocals didn't work for me. I did like 'No More Sorry' though. Standout song I thought

Garage band album with no real melody. This is why I hate a majority of punk. Bands choose to be creative with there sound but forget the goal is to make music. So you used this cool new sounds to make a song, awesome. Just because I can be the first to shit into a microphone doesn’t mean it’s a good song.

Hard to listen to

The only reason it's not 1 star is because it's not jazz

Oh no thanks.

That first song is great. The rest seems promising. 2.5

Nope

Loveless at 60% intensity. As a debut this is interesting but their second album does the same thing better.

Sounds a bit better than the other mbv album I listened to but still find it a bit boring

The overal melancholy is appealing but it's just to noisy

First song was awful, droning and discordant. A theme that carries through the album.

Better than I thought it would be, but it seems pretty generic to me.

Nothing special. Not my cup of tea at all. The style and the sound doesn't do anything for me. It's not bad but I just think that this doesn't belong on the list of 1001 albums.

Onsamenhangende muur van geluid. Niet alles met de versterkers op standje 11 is meteen ook goed

Shoegaze, dream-rock, distortion

Mmeh