My Bloody Valentine
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They've reformed, they're touring, they're putting a new record out.
1. Do you care?
2. Were they ever pop?
3. If not why not?
4. What's yr favourite MBV song?
1. Do you care?
2. Were they ever pop?
3. If not why not?
4. What's yr favourite MBV song?
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:17 pm (UTC)2. YES. I think their better tracks are pop. One great noise = one hook: this is a pop idea.
3. N/A
4. "Soon" or "You Made Me Realise". Probably "Soon".
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:18 pm (UTC)2. well kind of, almost like a particular extreme (not quite the right word) of what indie-pop could be with one particular knob* turned up to 11
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4. it's probably actually "soon" as a late doors loveless fan, rather than isn't anything, but seventeen minutes of You Made Me Realise age 17 was pretty mind-blowing (unlike the other blur fans i did not flee!)
*yes, yes insert kevin shields is a knob jokes here ;)
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:19 pm (UTC)Re: ALSO
Date: 2007-11-15 02:20 pm (UTC)Re: ALSO
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:19 pm (UTC)(real answer To Here Knows When)
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:20 pm (UTC)2. yes because my main memory of them is hearing Bruno Brookes introduce 'Swallow' on the top 40 show. And maybe a snippet of 'Soon' on The Chart Show. obv. they are none more nindie at the same time.
3. n/a
4. Weatherall remix of 'Soon' altho i love the original just as much i guess - not so fussed about ANY OTHER MBV
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:21 pm (UTC)i.e. Weatherall invented Big Beat exhibit 17
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:23 pm (UTC)2. Yes, for the seven minutes of Soon at least.
4. Three way tie for You Made Me Realise, Soon and Come In Alone.
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:23 pm (UTC)They are pop in as much as they wrote pop songs, but they weren't pop in the sense of charts and stuff. They are pop in my world.
My favorite MBV song is "Only Shallow," or maybe "Soon."
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-15 02:25 pm (UTC)2. Absolutely and completely.
3. n/a
4. Soon or Only Shallow.
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:30 pm (UTC)2: of course they are pop, here is what i listened to on my walkman while at wire: mbv, gnr, msp, hole, cocteaus, stones, beatles and i THINK THAT'S IT
3: n/a
4: it is all one mystic unending note to me
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:34 pm (UTC)Slightly delirious from flu
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:40 pm (UTC)2. Not sure - they seemed to make music for the joy of *making* it, rather than the joy of *listening* to it. But it was good to listen to as well. I dunno.
4. I don't know what they're CALLED, jebus :) Er I like track 1 off the first album a lot.
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Date: 2007-11-15 02:47 pm (UTC)2. Surely not.
3. Because Steve Wright will never play their singles.
4. Hmm. Actually, these days it's probably their cover of 'We have all the time in the world', and then 'Soon'.
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Date: 2007-11-15 03:17 pm (UTC)You don't seriously believe THAT one, do you?
1. Not really. If Debbie and Bilinda are both in the line up then maybe.
2. Yes of course.
3. -
4. "Feed Me With Your Kiss"! (or "Soon")
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Date: 2007-11-15 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-15 04:12 pm (UTC)2. Yep.
4. No idea. Are they the original "there's always been a dance element to our music (and they were right!)"?
Also, does this mean that they've admitted that they they've shelved the "album" "they"'ve been "working" on for 15 years?
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Date: 2007-11-15 04:37 pm (UTC)2. No, they were real 'pop that is trying to deny and obliterate its popness', so yes maybe. Or no. OH I DON'T KNOW.
3. See 2
4. Come In Alone or Only Shallow
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Date: 2007-11-15 05:10 pm (UTC)2. They seem pretty indie/rock to me, but I lack both the temporal and geographical context to say.
4. Wouldn't really single about a specific song (aside from "Drive It All Over Me," which is the only song not off Loveless that I listen to). I still love Loveless, though.
I like Crocus Behemoth's voice so whatever he wants to sing is fine with me
Date: 2007-11-16 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-15 06:45 pm (UTC)2. As much as Jimi Hendrix was, I think. Avant-pop I guess.
4. "Only Shallow" has super-polite drumming and what sounds like a guitar throwing up. Then it ends with some superplatonic hovering sound that really should be sampled by somebody, if it hasn't (and you don't need to be on any drugs to hear that).
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Date: 2007-11-15 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-11-15 07:19 pm (UTC)2. For a couple of seconds around Soon. On the other hand, there was nothing pop about the horrendous 1991 tour. People really were vomiting – it's no urban myth.
4. Drive It All Over Me/Slow/Thorn/(super-schmindie option: Lovely Sweet Darlene – amazing guitars! unspeakably bad vocals!)
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Date: 2007-11-15 10:11 pm (UTC)2. According to my own personal definition, yes. But probably not proper pop.
3. I don't know!
4. Soon, which is predictable but oh well...
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Date: 2007-11-15 10:53 pm (UTC)mission of burma have proved that reunions can work, and even the stooges were gd live - i can't stand the pixies, but think they've been v. wise not to attempt a studio alb
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Date: 2007-11-15 10:53 pm (UTC)Didn't they chart anyways? The answer to that will in turn give an objectivist ans as to whether its pop or not.
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Date: 2007-11-15 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-16 10:45 pm (UTC)2. What is Pop?
3. I do not care if they were or were not ever Pop.
4. You Made Me Realise
Best band ever
Date: 2007-12-14 09:24 pm (UTC)They are purely beyond pop! They are out there, and SO listenable. The did break the top 40 twice, so they are surely pop for certain!
Blown a Wish, and When You Wake (You're Still in a Dream, and I Only Said) fave songs-they are all brilliant though.