My Bloody Valentine have brought their full back catalog to streaming services worldwide. What’s more, Kevin Shields says two new albums are on the way: https://t.co/OEwiZ5BGMFpic.twitter.com/zS48ai3R3E
Last week, with a Golden Discs voucher worth twenty five euros on offer, we asked YOU: what song from the woozy, reverb-drenched My Bloody Valentine canon would you like played on February 14?
You answered in your tens.
But there could be only one winner.
In reverse order then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kjbjx2EUw
My Bloody Valentine – You Made Me Realise
Digs writes:
Cause it has the most disarming mix of the following four ingredients; Sonic, Punk, Melody and Harmony. It’s basically like the Beach Boys strung out on love, insecurity and crystal meth. Like a young persons awoken brain!…and it’s kind of catchy!
My Bloody Valentine – Nothing Is
Rich Uncle Skeleton writes:
It may be a few seconds of noise repeated over and over, but if you let yourself get lost in its repetitive glory, it’s always worthy of your time. LIKE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iT5EuTlHOM
My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes
Liam writes:
Such a beautiful melody buried deep under layers and layers of distortion. It was the first song of theirs I heard on the old Fanning radio show and I still remember thinking WTF is this? Perfect lovelorn (if virtually inaudible) lyrics too:
Over there, and I want true love to grow
You can’t hide, oh no, from the way I feel
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
Matt Lucozade writes:
Just play My Bloody Valentine’s Only Shallow on February 14 for the following reason(s): “It’s the perfect shoegaze wall of sound mashup of monstrous guitars, snare-centric drumming and a slathering of digital distortion with a Kate Bush-alluded Bilinda soothing topping”
Winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVuARAzNnKw
My Bloody Valentine – Blown A Wish
Wait For It writes:
it’s their most deliriously romantic song. Even aside from the lyrics that follow the opening line, ‘midnight wish, blow me a kiss/I’ll blow one to you’, there’s the dizzying, off-kilter swooping of the guitar, the warm explosion between verses, and the half-heard gurgling guitars and Bilinda’s soothing, wordless vocal harmonies as the song comes to an end.
Irish guitar wizard and frontman Kevin Shields of legendary band My Bloody Valentine gets mistaken for Jimmy Page at Stone Roses gig [Marlay Park] on Saturday night and just rolls with it…