Best Song on "Isn't Anything"

I was passively familiar with a bunch of their songs for years -- a few from Loveless and YMMR which I enjoyed the best.

When I finally got around to hearing Isn't Anything tho, "You Never Should" was the song that kind of unlocked their entire catalog, and I suddenly got it in a way I hadn't before. I think it's pretty great gateway song and album, and I don't think it's a coincidence that most people I know IRL who think MBV is boring have never heard this album.

Isn't Anything, which I took years to like, sounds more epochal to my ears now: the distortions and comic book violence of Sonic Youth treated as abrupt stops, punctuative noise, and onomatopoetic distraction. I love how it never resolves itself.

sexiest album ever committed to tape. this was the peak. it's 3D! there's so much motion, depth, perfect juxtaposition of abrasion and comfort. never worn this record out but loveless feels a bit stationary and too safe against this one.

Yeah, it’s a wonderful exercise in maximalism, but Isn’t Anything is the bare weirdness and eros at its heart. Nothing sounds like it or feels like it.

xp "Come In Alone" has been my favorite on Loveless for the past few years.

I always found Loveless a little cloying, but hearing it again after all this time, what really struck me is how British it sounds. Isn't Anything doesn't sound particularly British or American, but Loveless definitely has a whiff of 'Creation Records', or more of an element of 'The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis'.

Otoh there are a couple of tracks that could easily be Smashing Pumpkins songs if you grafted Billy Corgan's vocal on.

There is no Mellotron afaict but i'm happy with "mellotron shit" as a descriptor of what I would like stricken from the mix

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