Quick! When Was The Last Time You Played Loveless!?

:-D

Oh, it's been a while, it's a beautiful May evening and the sun's at the right angle for pure golden glow. Think I'll join you in a play.

I've spent most of this year listening to new releases and old weird stuff that's out there, so this is both like comfort food and a reminder why I love music in the first place.

sometime last decade..

although i have heard it at someone else's house in the last five years

sounds so good...

unfortunately it makes me want to hear my glider and tremelo CDs and they are in boxes and i will never find them :(

I will not stand for that. I can set up some YSIs in a bit if you like.

That album really does hold up. Really intense and original and blissful.

I played this just this afternoon.

Can't join y'all cuz...well, you'll see. But it's on my office computer at school. So I'd say about two weeks ago. It's the fifth, sixth, or seventh greatest album of the 1990s.

Wasn't there supposed to be a 2 disc set of EPs and bonus material?

Yes, it's keyed in with the release date of Chinese Democracy.

Hey, does anyone remember a piece in (I think) Alternative Press by (I'm pretty sure) Simon Reynolds in which Simon gets to hear some post-Loveless MBV tracks Shields had been working on and apparently they sounded like Shields' attempt to adapt to/come to terms/wrestle with jungle and/or drum and bass? Assuming I haven't totally mangled history here, where are these tracks? Is there a booming MBV bootleg industry? I have (or rather, recreated) a boot called While I Was Away which was a bunch of Shields remixes. But where's all the MBV stuff he's recorded while being forever away? At this point, I'd rather sift through miles and miles of fruitless attempts at a Loveless sequel rather than finally hear a proper sequel (which few will be objective enough to actually hear anyway).

Hey, does anyone remember a piece in (I think) Alternative Press by (I'm pretty sure) Simon Reynolds in which Simon gets to hear some post-Loveless MBV tracks Shields had been working on and apparently they sounded like Shields' attempt to adapt to/come to terms/wrestle with jungle and/or drum and bass?

These tracks were talked about in various interviews at the time -- Bob Mould's heard them and he liked them, but Kevin himself was less than enthused in the end. There's more in Mike McGonigal's book.

Today. About 3 hours ago. Mmmmmm, goodness!

2 nights ago. twice in a row.

thanks, ned!

Yer welcome!

seems like a lot of indie folks flirted with jungle back then, but Graham Sutton (in his Boymerang guise) was the only one to make the leap, as far as I know...(and he took on the genre on its own terms, rather then come up with a true hybrid)...Cathal Coughlin (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions) also dabbled in the stuff...

so, anyways, I had looked forward to Shields's take on jungle...boo hoo...

I listened to it three or four times over the weekend I read Mike McGonigal's book, which was a couple of weeks back. Mind was blown, again. Book was great too.

according to my lastfm stats about 10 weeks ago.

i ripped it to hard drive last weekend. didn't actually listen to any of it though. but i did copy Cupid Come (from Isn't Anything) to the mp3 player and it's come up in rotation a couple of times since. does that count?

Listened to it a few times a month ago.

Not for... probably a year.

a couple months ago. i just started walking around in the rain and put it on for whatever reason, and it may have been the best it had ever sounded.

this morning

Sometime in '05, probably.

not too long ago. but every time i relisten to it, it loses some of its charm. it will never again sound like in the winter of 91 when i was playing it on the car stereo and i was driving from trier to luxembourg in the deepest fog at 2 am. it was scaring how it fit with the blurriness of my sight. i was maybe going at 20 km/h. at one point i even had to stop.

I admit it's been an awfully long time since I played Loveless. Must be sometime pre-95, I'd guess. It would be nice to play right now, but I don't actually have it anymore, I'm sorry to say. Scott's idea of having it on vinyl is cool. It's not something I would think of owning on vinyl. I know I kinda spoke badly of it on another thread, but I know it's not really a bad album, it's just not as life-changing/earth-shattering as folks make it out to be.

I am very glad the Kevin Shields Goes Jungle record was never released. There should be a law against people going Jungle, unless they are Junglists.

Haven't listened to Loveless in a while, might do so now. When I was an undergraduate, it was one of my studying records, and now I am studying again!

a year and a half i think,and i don't miss it

probably a couple months ago. the thought of putting it on any time soon kind of turns my stomach, for whatever reason. i've been trying to stick with lots of really upbeat stuff, lately. maybe that's why.

of all the things that turn your stomach!

I'm amazed that one could study while Loveless is playing. I must be a bad multi-tasker.

it's interesting that, for all the ambient amniotic etc etc femcrit written about this album, girls really hate it and find it creepy. in my experience.

Not mine.

I do find it a tiny bit creepy but that's part of its appeal.

Listened to entire first half of Loveless on the 28th of February 2007.

I listened to it last night.

Is that book about it any good?

Very good.

AND BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NED'S CONTRIBUTION TO LOVELESSOLOGY COMING TO A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU THIS JULY.

I just recently realized how much I like Isn't Anything. I like that it has a foot on earth and a foot in outer space, whereas loveless is pretty much all in the heavens. I would think I wouldn't like that foot on earth, y'know, cuz it should be boring or something (I grew up there after all) but I do.

about a month ago after picking up mcgonigal's book. i'm really excited for your essay ned!

I am very glad the Kevin Shields Goes Jungle record was never released.

But Simon Reynolds got to hear it. Why don't us lower mortals get to hear it? C'mon, there has to be bootlegs of this stuff floating around somewhere? No? Yes?

heh. friends of my girlfriend were over at our place today. we talked and drank some and then we asked their daughter (aged two) to pick a cd from the racks to listen to. she went for the one with the nice pink spine. good taste :-)

Last listened to, if memory serves, toe'ards the end of last year.

i'm really excited for your essay ned!

Thank yer. It's important for me because it's the closest that I can come to describing the most profound experience in my life -- and if that sounds ridiculously weighty, that's part of the problem of discussing it, which I tackle in the essay. But you'll see.

Why don't us lower mortals get to hear it?

Simon Reynolds has heard a lot of things I hope never to.

Hey Guys! Would you like to see my severely unusual Loveless format?

i.e. the Minidisc?

(I'll sort out pics and be back here tomorrow)

Listened to it in February. "Blown a Wish" finally clicked!

last summer, i believe. i listened to it a lot more when i didn't have a car and rode the bus everywhere, with my headphones glued to my ears. also, my ipod has of course changed my music listening habits.

Y'all should check out "Cordial Invitation" by Giant Drag off Hearts and Unicorns (Kickball 2006) which could very well be a song about listening to Loveless.

Darn, couldn't find the Minidisc. Never mind, another day.

I haven't listened to it this year. Hunh. Odd. Maybe there should be a MBV poll, because I really have dug out all my Stereolab and Spacemen 3 records again recently to figure out which one really is the best.

2004 perhaps?

It's the fifth, sixth, or seventh greatest album of the 1990s.

ILM in a nutshell.

Can't remember when I last listened to it all the way through but possibly not in the present decade.

The tape I have of their Town & Country Club gig from 14 Dec '91, however, I play regularly.

It was when I was living in Oxford, probably early 2001, don't think I finished it.

Played "Soon" within the last 2 years.

Soundboard, Broadcast or Audience? (xpost)

Probably audience - we picked it up for a fiver on the way out of the gig. Excellent sound quality though.

Like everyone else here - a couple weeks ago when I read the McGonigal book.

For a minute there I had a dazzling vision of William J MacGonagall writing a long sonnet about My Bloody Valentine.

*nb this is a cue for ilxors to provide hilarious macgonagall-style couplets vis a vis mbv plz kthnxbye*

"Twas in the winter of 1991
long before the season of Britpop was nearly begun
when Kevin Shields turned his amps up over a river
and Ned Raggett had cause enough to quiver"

a few weeks ago

A fortnight ago when I got my new amp and speakers. It sounded quite good.

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