Loveless
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Loveless is a shoegazing record album by the British band My Bloody Valentine, released on November 4, 1991 (see 1991 in music) on the Creation Records record label. It is widely considered to be My Bloody Valentine's magnum opus, and one of the most influential albums of the 1990s.
The album itself cost about £100,000, but the recording process took three years and cost £250,000, resulting in two EPs (Glider and Tremolo, on which "Soon" and "To Here Knows When" made their first appearances) and four music videos, and nearly bankrupting their label.
Loveless, despite its highly enthusiastic reviews, reached #24 on the UK record charts, while never charting in the US.
The album cover is a movie still of a Fender Jazzmaster guitar, focused at the neck joint, from the music video for "To Here Knows When".
Brian Eno said, regarding the song "Soon", "It set a new standard for pop. It's the vaguest music ever to have been a hit." ([1] (http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/))
Track listing
- "Only Shallow" (Belinda Butcher, Kevin Shields) - 4:17
- "Loomer" (Butcher, Shields) - 2:38
- "Touched" (Colm O'Ciosoig) - 0:56
- "To Here Knows When" (Butcher, Shields) - 5:31
- "When You Sleep" (Shields) - 4:11
- "I Only Said" (Shields) - 5:34
- "Come in Alone" (Shields) - 3:58
- "Sometimes" (Shields) 5:19
- "Blown a Wish" (Butcher, Shields) - 3:36
- "What You Want" (Shields) - 5:33
- "Soon" (Shields) - 6:58
Personnel
- Colm O'Ciosoig - drums, sampler, mixer
- Bilinda Butcher - vocals, guitar
- Debbie Googe - bass
- Kevin Shields - guitar, vocals, sampler, producer, mixer, engineer
- Alan Moulder - engineer
- Dick Meaney - engineer
- Anjali Dutt - engineer
- Guy Fixsen - engineer
- Harold Burgon - engineer
- Nick Robbins - engineer
- Ingo Vauk - engineer
- Andy Wilkinson - engineer
- Darren Allison - engineer
- Nick Addison - engineer
- Charles Steel - engineer
- Tony Falter - engineer
- Hugh Price - engineer
- Adrian Bushby - engineer
- Pascale Giovetto - engineer
- Nick Savage - engineer
- My Bloody Valentine - art direction
- Angus Cameron - photography
- Ann Marie Shields - coordination
List positions
- #1 - Pitchfork Media: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/90s%20%5b1999%5d/index10.shtml)
- #2 - Pitchfork Media: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s Redux (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/90s/index10.shtml)
- #219 - Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (Nov 2003) (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=5939357)