Isn't Anything

Struggled to get this rating

Not too much to write home about on this one, can’t say anything stood out but I didn’t hate listening

I wanted to like it, but it dragged on and on and I was quite happy when it was over.

Meh. Guess I just don't like shoegaze.

It's not the MBV album I was expecting to come up, and I'm not sure what I think of it. It sounds like a band still figuring out their sound - the heavy-but-dreamy thing only works sporadically here. Some of the tracks are sonically interesting but actually quite hard to listen to/enjoy. 2.5

I didn't really care for this. Don't really see what the appeal is. Guess I'm glad I heard it and there may be one or two okay songs but will most certainly not return to this project.

I just don't get MBV...so sue me. I do prefer this to the utterly tuneless Loveless. At least there is some semblance of melody somewhere and you can sometimes something other than the bizarre guitar effects. 2.5 stars

Grumpy Old Man review alert! Goodness. I understand they’re meant to be an influential band, but why would I want to listen to this album? One star up from the minimum for occasional moments of interesting sounds or melodies.

Shoegazing? Perfect description. I found the first few tracks dead boring. However when the band got really noisy, particularly on Feed Me With Your Kisses, it took me back to early Jesus & Mary Chain. Sometimes there’s a point to pure noise. These guys were obviously good at it. Will probably never listen to it again.

Everything sounds the same if youre into that

A whole lot of fuzzy noise. Sometimes sounds like you're peering into the gate of hell. Hard to distinguish between tracks. I can appreciate what they're doing but have to be in the right mood for it.

Never knew I could not like a noise album. Felt sort of off in a way listening to this

Meh

Woe is me, gloom and heartbreak.

My favourite bits sounded like a noisier Stereolab, the rest just sounded noisy

Best Song: Lose My Breath. The vocals are really dreamy here, in a way that works for me. Worst Song: Feed My With Your Kiss. The mixing is really frustrating to listen to, with the vocals dialed way too quiet. It feels like you have to strain to hear them, but even then aren't well rewarded for the strain. Overall: Second album of theirs that I've had on this list and my reaction is about the same as the first. Very "one note", wherein after you've heard a song or two you've heard them all. A constant drone with little dynamic change.

Eh

Not particularly memorable.

A few tracks were ok, but this album was a slog to get through. Boring, discordant, and barely musical at some points.

Nog eentje die ik vergeten was te luisteren. En om nou te zeggen dat ik er mijn leven mee verrijkt heb om dat alsnog te doen? Neuh.

Voce e suoni un po' stridenti. Canzoni banali

I thought I would like this album a bit more than I did, it's good music, was just expecting a bit more

Isn't anything is the second album recommended to me from My Bloody Valentine on this list. My Bloody Valentine reminds me a little of Sonic Youth. The music is adjacent to what I might listen to, but I don't want to listen to this music. Isn't Anything waivered in and out of "okay"-ness, almost reaching something that I could like with "All I Need", but the second half of the album was a slog to get through.

Lacked something to make ot distinctive.... Plain mashed potatoes of this genre

Gritty, grungy album. I appreciate the incorporation of noise and effects to create a signature sound, however I struggled to understand the vocals through the entire album due to the production of this noise. Lyrics are also a bit too creepy/overtly sexual for my liking. I understand why this album received the acclaim, but the band's sound does not resonate with me. Fave tracks: I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)

I'm having a hard time with this one. I think I get what they're going for with the dissonance, experimental production and lazy vocals. Sometimes it comes together and works for them, but other times it just sounds really bad. Even when it does come together though, it kind of sounds like your generic 90s/00s alt-rock, but maybe that's a testament to it's influence, idk. I'm kind of surprised it was as acclaimed as it is, but maybe it was just early enough that there was nothing else to compare it to. Either way imo their follow up, Loveless, is much better. Likes: Cupid Come, sueisfine

Meh. Guess I just don't like shoegaze.

The back half contains the noisy melodies that make me love shoegaze, but the songs themselves, while varied, come across as particularly short and half-baked.

Not my scene. Too much ambient noise

This album is as interesting example of lo-fi production and a milestone of the shoegaze genre. It doesn't click for me at all, but i like Bilinda Butcher's vocals in "Lose My Breath".

It "isn't anything" more than noise. While that might be a bit harsh, I definitely felt that way at times working my way through this relatively short listen. I think this band is just a *bit* too weird and abstract for me to fully appreciate, and that's okay. I can see why people would like this and can even hear moments that might have inspired future rock groups (Radiohead is a band I can definitely see pulling from this material on some of their earlier work). It reminded me a lot of how I felt listening to the Sonic Youth album I received earlier on this list: I can definitely see them progressing beyond this album (especially since, in this case, it is their first), but I really don't have a desire to check out their other work after giving this one a go. It just felt pretty messy overall; although, it is hard to deny that the energy and diversity is present throughout. I don't blame anyone for enjoying this, but I didn't get much of it. 2/5.

Wasn't too interested in the sound or what the artists tried to do with this. A lot of the songs sound the same and are very drony, with a purposeful emphasis on things being out of tune (think Nine Inch Nails).

Not my favorite

Niet echt mijn ding, zou het niet nog eens luisteren

Times. Not good. Not bad.

1.5/5 Not nice or interesting to listen to

Instantly don't like this, first track is abrasive 😂😭. 4th track is a bit more palatable, more punky, could imagine it on an Earthed dvd. 7th track is palatable too. At times some tracks seem a bit like The Smashing Pumpkins, but I can't help but feel this doesn't quite deserve a 3 though, so, 2/5

I think I went through a range of emotions listening to this album. At first I said shoegaze just doesn't work for me. Distorted guitars and heavy pedal use combined with almost inaudible vocals. Case in point Butcher's vocals - not bad but often drowned out by the noise. I know that is the sound they're going for, but I don't see the appeal. That was emotion one. Yet, even before the first track Soft as Snow was over I had to admit the guitar sound Shields creates (like a distorted siren) is pretty impressive. Still, it's also annoying as F. After two songs I thought good for them for pioneering a genre (e.g., I like Catherine Wheel and Silversun Pickups that came later), but it's a struggle to listen to. The album got better as I listened to more tracks. I think the distortion wasn't so intense and/or they better blended other elements (both vocals and other instruments) with the effects pedals. Cupid Come and You're Still in a Dream were more on par with Sonic Youth (still noise rock but less annoying). Tracks 5-7 regressed (my blood started to boil) but then tracks 8-12 redeemed. I still think it's a 2 for me, but I got close to a 3 on second listen.

I can appreciate the contribution that this band has made to modern music in how they've influenced multiple artists including some of my favorites but even after several listens this album really doesn't do anything for me.

This is the second MBV album I've heard and both times I had the same thought - I feel like I *should* like this, but I just don't. I tried to listen closer to this one to figure out why. There's a lot going on in these songs and some of the effects and riffs are cool, but the word that keeps coming to mind as I listen is BORING. Another word is LIFELESS. I think a large part of it is the singing - both singers are pretty dull - but there's also no energy to the music despite all the noise. Not to mention the presence of occasional feedback and noise which lately leads me to an automatic 1-point reduction. The last track added the obnoxiousness of being intentionally out of tune. I'd sum up this album as Whiny Suburban Kid Anthems. I'll give it a 2 rather than 1 solely because of the occasional interesting effects (like on the first track).

Just ok. Some good melodies.

Not particularly a fan. It wasn't offensive, but it didn't do anything for me

didn't fully click with me!

Promising start, enjoyable in moments, but overall pretty turgid stuff with an incredibly grating vocal style

Found this a harsh tough listen and it’s far less interesting or cool than it thinks it is . They must sacked their bass player too

2/5

Isn't Anything isn't…good. In the late 80s I was into hard rock, metal, modern and rap. Indie music like MBV didn't register on my radar.

I don’t think I’ve heard this band before. This album started a bit depressing and emo but some of the last tracks were more upbeat. I feel like ash, who I listened to in my youth, was influenced by my bloody valentine. A 90s Irish band influenced by an 80s Irish band sounds right.

No

My bloody Valentine reminds of a past trip to Thailand. I had bigger hands than that girl! I remember dying of pneumonia which was easier to bare than most of this album. Not the worst I’ve listened too though

I guess I just don’t like noise. Maybe because I have kids?

only listened to the first few tracks

Not my thing

Music sounded like they were still a struggling band musical instruments were a little off… Really did not like it

What can I say; a calmer smashing pumpkins. Maybe they should call themselves carving pumpkins. I thought this was bullet for my valentine and I kind of wish it was. Pretty decent but I’d lump it in with yesterday’s album in the mediocre bin. And what’s up with the Album cover? I’m sure they took multiple photos that didn’t have lens flare but if you look closely you can see that little bloody valentine peeking out.

Cool sounds but it came at the compromise of their songwriting. Not my cup of guinness.

Meh.

Did not like

nada

Not my music

upbeat rock mixed with psychedelic cues - kind of tiring as its sometimes not melodic

Skroz bezveze

OG Shoegaze, I like what came out of this, but this is not for me

Probably won't listen to this album ever again.

Kanske nyskapande, men jag kan inte lyssna på det.

The emporer has no clothes. GTFO.

Do not see the appeal here. This was not available on Tidal, Qobuz, or Apple Music. Listened on YouTube, but honestly have no idea if it was actually the album - I've been caught by that before. Nothing about this was enjoyable.

overrated

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!

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.

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)".

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.

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

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.

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

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

Noise

Nope

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

well that was unpleasant..

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

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?!?

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

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.

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.

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.

Very much not my jam

I just don’t like My Bloody Valentine

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.

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

NOt available in Apple Music

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"?

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!

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

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.

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.

2026.05.13

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

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

Not pleasant. Dirgy punk rock.

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

Nope!

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.

Soft like my soul

so boring

Shoegazing isn]'t anything.

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.

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

Meh!

Not really my type

I had to exert the tiniest bit of effort to find this album beyond Spotify, and even the very easy YouTube search was too much. This album did not deserve the effort I put in. I’m sure for fans of the genre it’s great, but I’m not, and it’s terrible.

Not good Favorite song: none

Pretty objectively terrible stuff. Off-time drumming, off-key vocals, poorly mixed. Could have been good if they put in some effort, but it just sounds like a band of 16-year-olds that don’t know what they’re doing.

Finally the last album of this nightmare pop-trilogy! How this awful band has gotten its whole discography on this list remains a mystery to me...

couldnt get through first song

Very noisy

The Good: We are told it isn’t anything!!! The Bad: Having to listen to nothing... The Ugly: Nothing… as it isn’t anything… I do believe this is the last time I have to actively sit down and listen to a MBV album and that makes me happy. Could have been spared this shit though. So thanks for nothing, Mr D 1*

wow a shoegazing genre - what a great way to emo-ify stargazing. So sad you can't even look up? This was truly just noise to me. Also something to be said that I couldn't even find the full album on youtube music (my preferred music channel for these albums) which is not normally an issue. Did I need to listen to this before I die?

While I understand they wanted that kind of mixing, not hearing the singing because of the guitar and drums really irritated me the whole album. I know other bands do it as well and its supposed to be that way but to me its just to much. I don't really know what else to comment since that made me dislike it so much even when I went back over some songs what I just have to go with it being not for me.

Too heavy metal like

What the fuck was happening in 1988 for this to be considered good music?! Instrumentally it’s not bad, but vocally it’s unforgivable.

Discordant

no me gusto, me molestaron las guitarras, me molestaba el ruido.

Hard to get through.

Just so bloody bad

What a load of crap

Yes this was definitely My Bloody Valentine

What the fuck. This is My Bloody Valentine? So painfully bad 80s in the first song so far. Horrendous. Off pitch, off beat, cheap drum tones. Ass. Second song was slightly better. Very clearly meant to be very tense and clashing, this is more palatable. I have a feeling this might be the best song on the album. Ugh. Fuck this I straight up am annoyed and pissed off they decided to make this bullshit. This is trash. This sounds like music made by a group of beginner level tone deaf musicians which is fine, make art but the musicality sucks and I don’t like listening to it. I couldn’t get through it. I listened to the first 30 s or songs 4-7 and I fucking quit. I guess being 88 release, this may have been one of the first real dissonant horribly foul album that probably sparked the whole 90s punk movement. This album really Isn’t Anything.

It is such a shame that MBV decided to practically strip their discography from online streaming platforms, but hey I still wanted to hear this so I found my own way. I always remember not liking this project all that much as it always came off as sounding just ever so slightly out of pitch, which is not a very common complaint I have but here it bothered me a significant amount. The first half of this project feels like some of the most unorganized Noise Pop I have heard in some time and that is really saying something. Then out of nowhere on the second half of this album MBV finally locks it together and serves up some borderline Proto-Shoegaze tracks that actually feel much more fluid and vibey. It almost feels like the band found their sound midway through and I swear these were the exact feelings I had the first time I hear this project. I try my damndest to enjoy this project but it is really wishy washy with myself and I still don't feel any strong feelings towards it. I respect what MBV is trying to do here but once they find their sound they truly start sailing with their overall music quality. Isn't Anything isn't anything worth your time if you aren't already head over heels for this band....

I just really hate these guys. Its like nails on a chalkboard

Not my jam

Ihan kamalaa. Tuntui että levy ei lopu ikinä.

Wow this is pretty bad, the instrumentals were just noise, not music and the vocals were so quiet they just get completely lost. There are parts you do hear just seem very blah anyway, all the songs sound the same, and the album became a tough listen to be honest. Overall, it had quite a dreary and slightly distorted sound which I was not a fan of, at the most this would make alright background music. Standout songs – literally none, the only half decent song was ‘Cupid come’, seriously why is this album on this list. I will give the 'Artists' credit with the album title though, this album really Isn't anything

Not so much.

Me sobreestimuló

I can’t find the full alblum 🤷

I could not listen the whole album Dramaaaat

Absolute baws

It was eargrating.

Horrible listen Trying to hard to be shit, not as good as actual shit bands like the Shaggs I can understand why people liked it in the 80s and 90s, but those people are idiots and losers who have no self expression and just wanted to fit in

I must be a fat fucking chud because this music fucking blew. I wish I liked it, wanted to, in fact. But the fucking obnoxious ass sad boy vocals really just irked me and did not sound good. Like, what the fuck?

Life's too short to be having to sit through this. Gets 1 star for having an accurate title.

i don't know if it is the whole genre of shoegaze or this particular album but i genuinely despised it. it was so tiring and i considered giving up a few times. i can't exemplify a single song which was at least "okay" and didn't make me feel like my ears are bleeding. i understand the importance of weird, unidentified noises in shoegaze style however it was simply too much. well, at least i can say one thing, it was for sure innovative in a way but i don't think i'm ever gonna revisit any of those songs.

Boringly crap dull nonsense.

Noise with barely heard lyrics. Pass.

# Album Name: Isnt Anything # Artist: MBV # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Nah, this lot aint for me. Everything is out of tune and doesnt sound right to me. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No

Not available on Spotify

*An ok album if you prefer screeching and banging instruments

This really sucks. 1 star or F-.

Won't let me listen on Spotify.

i fucking hate this. AND it's not on spotify.

Very uninspiring grunge rock

It is something. It is more shoegaze.

not my vibe

You ever find those songs on YouTube that are “X song but if it was written with minor chords”? This sounds kinda like that. It seems to be intentionally dissonant at times. I like to think I have at least a little tolerance for material that functioned as a blueprint for forming a genre or trend down the road, in this case shoegaze. But this just didn’t click on any level for me. Especially with the knowledge that MBV did this sound justice later on. ‘Isn’t Anything’ sits in an uncomfortable middle ground between being a background-listening, passive sonic atmosphere and a listening experience worth paying any close attention to. 1/5

The music would be good, but it’s undercut by dissonance and noise.

My personal taste is offended by the "wall of sound" concept, with poor mastering being done on purpose, and the instruments being blended into one mess to hide blend bocals. Add primitive percussion track on top and I just hate this album.

~this album was not available on Spotify so this review is for their album m v b~ Didn’t like anything about this myself

Not for me.

I like My Bloody Valentine, but this ain't it.

Gear: 64 Audio Duo Artwork: 🔦⬜🫣 Production: 👂💥😵 Music: 🚫🔈😤 Ratinng: 🫥(🫥)/5

This noise-pop album is murky and fatiguing, its layers of distortion and buried vocals smothering melody and emotion beneath a cluttered haze.

Made it through 2 or 3 songs before turning it off. Really not my jam. Drums, guitar, all of it was just bad.

Never listened to My Bloody Valentine before and after this album I don't think I will again (unless of course they appear again in this challenge cause mama didn't raise a quitter).

This album adds nothing to the greater music scene. I’d barely call it music. I honestly feel that this is terrible.

Couldn’t listen on spotify

I’m 0/3 on MBV albums. Not my jam at all. I actively hate how pretentious Kevin Shields is and I find that if you’re going to be that much of an asshole about your music, then it should at least be something that anyone couldn’t jus throw together in a long weekend.

1 - just nothing to it

I hated this. Sorry. Is this what "noise music" is? Some parts of it weren't awful but overall I felt like there was just too much discordant sound.

Not for me

Literally what were they even saying on this album? The sound mixing is so whacked to the point the already muted vocals just get overwhelmed.

Let me accentuate the only positive: I've come to learn of the subgenre that is "shoegazing" and with the wonderful assistance of My Bloody Valentine, I now know that this and pretty much all shoegazing absolutely fucking sucks. 1/10.

I did not enjoy this one bit. Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? Track 1. From the very start it was a no go for me. I have heard of this band before never listened. In the wiki here says "shoegazing" which I like somethings. Not this one.

Ne mogu ovo slušati. Strašno. Čak ni s tipa 14 mi nije bila jasna ekipa koja ovo sluša. 1/5, 1/10

MBV again - again noise

I always love listening to people strum a bunch of power chords while someone sings tuneless over them, it makes for such interesting and pleasant music to listen to.

This was surprisingly bad. The first track really turned me off of the whole album, I just couldn't get over the strange sounds and layering. One of the few albums that just sounds like noise to me and not really music.

Shoegaze, lo-fi, noise-rock...whatever you call it, I call it disquieting and unnerving. It's loud and hard to hear at the same time?! I guess that kind of makes it interesting, but struggling to hear lyrics over distortion isn't my idea of music (good music, anyway). I never thought a style of music would creep me out and make me feel uneasy.

What a boring depressing album.

Tuneless bollocks. Okay that was a bit harsh, there are a couple of tunes in there, but I wouldn't advise listening too hard to find them. Guitars are just a wall (and a wail) of noise, vocals are everywhere except on the beat. Would have got one star anyway, but I'm knocking a point off for the lower case spelling. So in my mind, zero stars, but officially it's a no from me and one single, solitary star. Edit: it wasn't harsh at all. This Isn't Anything like what I'd want to listen to again on this side of the mortal plane.

Every song has been taken off Spotify except for Feed Me With Your Kiss. I cant really give it a fair rating but from the one song I listened to it wasnt great.

As tuneful as listening to 12 lots of feedback. Hard to know why this is revered. Not much on this is worth listening to if anything

This band and genre has no impact on my life.

I guess you could say there Isn't Anything of note on this album.

This is the third My Bloody Valentine album I’ve needed to listen to on this list. Hopefully the last. This is the most coherent of the three, both in terms of the vocals being audible words and the music being actual music (to an extent), but it’s still not very good.

# Playlist Track - Lose My Breath # Notes - There's something about this that makes me feel incredibly old. I just can't seem to enjoy the droning mix on those tracks. - Everything gets blended in a repetitive, monotone rumble that just isn't for me. Not event a single good track on this one.

DIdn't listen.

Was on a heater of good tunes...now we're on a huge run of garbage

Ik kon het zelfs niet uitluisteren. 12 nummers van deze herrie is toch wel te veel van het goeie. 1.2

Was very confused to see how old this band is and learn they started in Dublin, till I remembered that I had yet again confused them with Bullet for My Valentine... I tried but it's SO not my thing - mumbly, uninteresting tunes, out-of-tune singing, heavy but sleepy at the same time (so an uninteresting middle). Quite liked the 'ooh' bits of Lose My Breath which are sweet with nice chord changes but that was all I liked on the whole album so...not great. Survived to the end of 'Several Girls Galore' but then gave up.

Ts is not a vibe 😭✌️

Did not get far

Not that boring like the previous mbv albums. But somehow they have the ability to turn a song, that contains every facet I love in music, into something annoying. I totally agree with the album title - isn't anything for me! 1,5

Slitsomt å høre på. Måtte ta flere pauser for å komme gjennom dette albumet.

Day501 - never was a fan. this is tedious music

1.5

Couldn’t get this one on my streaming service. I know some of their later stuff, but not this album.

This is so fucking bad, man. Not as bad as their other album on this list that I had to listen to, but it's completely insane that they have at least two albums on here. 1.5 stars

I'm gonna be honest...it's the biggest piece of dogshit

If white noise decided it was time to produce an overly edgy, poorly mixed, shoegaze-if-heard-from-two-houses-down album that was so bad it’s no longer on spotify.

Not that easy to listen to. Found it hard to persevere.

Borderline unlistenable. Even annoying as background music.

If the combination of depression and desperation had an album, it would be this one. And that's not a compliment. I played this for a homeless and he said "here's 5 bucks pal, you need more than me."

I did not enjoy this!

Maybe I'm getting old but I didn't really like this one very much. It just seems noisy and annoying.

this was super boring imo

Not for me, this one.

The noisy style of the band turned out to be unrewarding throughout the album. All tracks sounding more or less the same, it felt more like a mess than a thoroughly crafted record. A one-time listen.

A truly terrible album, with a terrible production.

Holy shit, I think they misspelled ears. My bloody ears. Please make it stop. It's clear this band has talent, but it feels like they're intentionally trying to be contrarian or something. Almost as if they're too cool for hits.

1/5

The vocals are so buried it feels like I’m listening to the music through my noise cancelling headphones and the singer is in the next room whispering. The music is disjointingly annoying too.

Bloody awful.

No. Not my thing. Noise was bad

snythy beats, slightly out of tune sound. kinda of just noise tbh. 1/5

i’ve seen these guys get praised so much and i honestly get why, but this just doesn’t appeal to me. it’s just noise. the guitars piss me off and so do the vocals. like i don’t get what they’re trying to do here. my bloody valentine? buddy, the only thing that’s bloody are my ears

Probably pioneering but today, a bit shit

They got so experimental that they almost made music

I can’t. I think this might have been a mistake.

Too noisy and monotonous, don't like the singers voice

Langsam, kein vibe

Shoegaze.

Worst album I’ve listened to in a long time.

Ear snot

Gave up after a couple of tracks

Garbage.

“We’re edgy! We’re different! Our band name is all lowercase!” Soft As Snow has to be one of the worst songs I’ve ever listened to, possibly ever made. Their ability to plumb new depths of awful music that only the most contemptible twats imaginable could possibly like is the only noteworthy thing about My Bloody Valentine! I think there’s a phenomenon where some people fool themselves into thinking that because something is difficult to listen to, they must be achieving something by doing so, that it must be worth doing, that it must make them a special little bean who is better than all the people who “just don’t get it”, otherwise what was the fucking point? They just can’t accept that it sounds shit because it is shit and they’ve wasted their time/money. Anyway, bands like My Bloody Valentine survive by feeding off morons like that.

You would think that the most amazing thing about this is that people actually bought it. However, even more astonishingly they remastered it. As they say, you can polish a shit, but it is still just shit

Just very generic rock sounds with muffled mumbling to replace singing. I can’t say in good conscience that this is better than some other albums I’ve given 1 star to. Maybe it’s more interesting live.

I'm not sure how this album is great or influential. It just drones on and on. I would much rather listen to MGK's My Bloody Valentine.

Oof, this album has some of the worst singing and drumming I’ve ever heard. Listening to the drummer trying and repeatedly failing to hit the cymbal on beat 2 in the song ‘Cupid Come’ is physically painful. The only coherent musical ideas were the tracks ‘Sueisfine’ and ‘Nothing Much To Lose’. Pretty much everything else is just incomprehensible noise.

Yeah nope, shoegaze is not for me. In fact, I can't stand it. My Bloody Valentine didn't create something that could reliably be called music. The songs meld together into an indistinguishable mess. The lead singer's voice drones on and on. The backing music, if you can call it music, drowned out the vocals, but upon reflection, maybe that was a blessing. An album that was a nightmare to get through.

THIS WAS WORSE THAN THE LAST MY BLOODY VALENTINE ALBUM. Speaking of which, why do we need more than one album from them on this project? This album was an absolute chore to get through. Shoegaze at its worst and noisiest.

Just sound

Tuneless dirge

Couldn't even get through the whole thing. Not my jam.

funny i had liked one of their songs previously i can’t remember but this ain’t really doing it for me at all

Such a stupid, stupid album. Can’t tell what the blithering idiot who’s singing is saying (and I really don’t care after all that anyways), the instruments sound like they’re all being played wrong and out of time, and the whole experience made me feel nothing but frustration and annoyance. Maybe there’s a reason nobody had never made music like this before, it’s cause it sucks, is boring, uninteresting, and vague. Stupid album that never should have been on the list and I never want to hear again.

I feel like I’ve heard My Bloody Valentine being regarded quite highly, but I must admit that I don’t quite understand why, at least not judging from this album. I think ‘(When you wake) You’re still in dream’ is quite a kickass song, but found it really hard to find anything else that could even be considered decent. I enjoy other shoegaze bands like Slowdive, but this didn't even come close to that. They have quite a lot of out of tune things and various noises in their tracks, and it doesn’t work that well in my opinion. The first track on the album is a good example of this, so is ‘No more sorry’ and ‘All I need’. I recognize that there is something there that has something, but I just think this isn’t for me at all. Strong 1.

With risk for sounding old: It's just noise. Didn't like this, tuneless, meandering fuzz.

The speaker was just playing meaningless static and terrible noises, so I checked the connections. Album was still playing, it's just that terrible.

Nope. I couldn't listen to the whole thing.

Wow! This is awful stuff. Unorganized, cluttered, messy. Every song has really weird tempo issues with the singing and the music. The album is mixed terribly so the levels are all over the place. Really just annoying. 1/10

Ei kiinnosta

More shoegaze garbage. Just noise and moaning. Had a hard time getting through this piece of shit. No redeeming qualities, and nothing that I could consider music on it at all. Favourite songs: Nothing Much to Lose Least favourite songs: Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside), No More Sorry.... And the rest of this dumpster fire of an album 1/5

definitely what people who are really cool and disaffected like a lot

Das schräg trotzdem nichtssagend sein kann - erstaunlich!

All noise

Maybe it gets better the more you listen to it. My first listen is just 1⭐️

Gosh I am sick of this group. I don’t find anything good about them and I just keep waiting for it to be over. I blanked out at some point and ignored it because it was just so bad sounding - both music and vocals together were just nails on a chalkboard.

1. znouu - 0 2. breath - 1 3. cupid - 1 4. dream - 1 5. zorry - 0 6. need - 1 7. kizz - 0 8. zue - 0 9. galore - 0 10. zhould - 0 11. loze - 1 12. zee it - 1

Uma merda

Just a bunch of mumbles and thrown together sounds. Very uninspiring and boring.

They are just not for me. Irritating music - I had high hopes with the intro track that maybe they'd be like early MSI or depeche mode but the songs were the wrong kind of noise rock and just incredibly irksome. Not enjoyable for me.

Nah son, this ain't it.

Just noise. What an unpleasant mess.

I really don't like shoegaze music apparently. I didn't like Jesus and the Mary Chain when I had them, and I didn't like this. If this is the pinnacle of the genre, then I am not feeling great about it. I'll try one more time when my bloody valentine's Loveless album comes up, but yeaa, not my jam.

Only gave me two tracks - both were awful.

This is not good. Significantly worse than loveless. If you're going to shoegaze, go the whole way. Favorite Tracks: Feed Me with Your Kiss

Ugh. I’d rather listen to AI music about gluing balls to my asshole.

This is the debut studio album by My Bloody Valentine. Heavy on distortion and reverb, this album is absolutely deafening. The inclusion of this album is a disservice to other musicians.

That started kind of OK before turning into utter bullshit

"Lose my breath" reminds me a lot of Stereolab and that's probably the nicest thing I've ever said about shoegaze, although the fact it feels like a 6 minute song despite only being 3½ is indicating that this might be a trek of an album. It's no secret that I massively dislike this genre of music, and this album is genuinely a chore. It is relentless, cacophonous and almost completely indistinct. At 38 minutes, it's 34 minutes too long. Sure, it was a bit of a new direction for music and clearly went on to influence some artists who did actually good stuff, but lordy it is not for me.

I was shoegazing at the power button on my speaker, contemplating if i should turn it off.

This sucked

Turned it off after too songs. Shite

Nice sound. Didn’t understand a whole lot, but it was good background music

The 2nd song has some background music that sounds like when a toddler is playing the piano and just mashing it.

80s rock, kinda like if the cure tried being more hard rock. 1/5

Absolutely terrible

Mostly noise to me. 1/5

La voix m'est insupportable.

Unerträglicher Lärm! 0 P

Categorically disliked this album. Every song set my teeth on edge. I’ve seen “shoegaze” type bands live and they are not any better that way.

Way too much noise for me

Un auténtico coñazo

Awful. Why do people like this?

Not my style.

Nope.

More noise than music. Just like many "shoegazing" music it would sound so much better if they chilled on the distortion and turned the guitar droning volume down

Struggled to make it through. This is truly bad. Who the fuck likes this?

Might have been OK with less noise overwhelming the vocals.

Lärm

Every track on this record feels unfinished or unmastered. For example, the sound proposed in "You're Still in a Dream" is beautiful, but then the vocals seem not the blended in with the music. I understand this is on purpose. Still, it is a difficult idea to execute properly and this is not achieved in this album. The record starts in a softer tune and afterwards increases in head-bobbability. In neither half of the album could I enjoy a song properly. I will have to give it the lowest rating.

Sounds like your local indie band rehearsing next door

Not what I was expecting. 4 songs in and I want to nope right out but I promised myself I’d actually give every album a fair chance. Why did I do that? If I ever make such a promise again remind me of the painful experience listening to this whole album was. Thankfully only 38 minutes long, even though it feels like 38 hours. 1/5 because 0/5 just isn’t possible.

awful

No thanks

ewwwwww

bad

I can’t remember anything about this except sludgy noise and a lack of melody. I get that it was apparently influential but it’s a no from me

nope