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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" 1991 (Ireland/UK)
- When
this album came out in 1991 (a few months before Nirvana launched the
"alternative rock" revolution), it sounded like nothing that had come
before it. In one sense this album represents the culmination of
the British "shoegazer" movement, although it really stands alone apart
from any musical trend. Legend has it that these songs were
written and recorded very quickly, then the band spent nearly three
years
messing with the tapes to produce the uniquely blurry and out-of-focus
sound of this record (spending half a million dollars and nearly
bankrupting their record label in the process.) Perhaps sensing
they had a career-defining
masterpiece on their hands, MBV has never followed up on this record,
so it stands as their swan song.
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