Hey, how come nobody raves about "Loveless" any more?

[swag]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfEwbIbBA6g&eurl=http%3

[asthmaticeog]

1. Because everyone lacks vision and sucks.

I hear that the ringer Melinda Doolittle got voted off of "Idol," though.

[swag]

2. Fuckity.

What kind of world is this?

[dolo amber]

3. Uh...have we met?

:shrug:

[swag]

4. We have in my dreams,

below the waist.

[dolo amber]

5. Were we listening to Loveless?

Sexytimes. B-)

[swag]

8. In the immortal words of Jeri Blank,

"I'd wake up with blood on my ass and then we'd get high."

[jpgray]

6. Because it's incredibly monotonous and over-produced

Melodically it's a series of slow-moving nursery rhymes, only layered with eighty guitars and some really tinny, bored-sounding singing. MBV's abysmal cover of Wire's "Map Ref" shows how crap that style can be even with something that doesn't suck melodically to begin with.

It's good, but not worth raving about in my view.

[asthmaticeog]

7. Yeah, definitely a propeller.

x(

[jpgray]

10. Bilinda sings, what, like six notes in total through the whole album?

:D

Some of the guitar noises are neat.

[asthmaticeog]

12. Joey Ramone sang four notes for his whole career.

I don't see what that has to do with anything. :P

[jpgray]

14. Yeah, but not like Elizabeth Fraser on qualudes trapped in a metal box

Well, sort of like that actually.

[XNASA]

17. What the hell....

..is a Cock Toe anyway?

[Blue-Jay]

20. You shut your filthy whore mouth about Joey Ramone!

The man was a god.

[asthmaticeog]

28. WHOA!

I LOVE the Ramones, the Jewish one most of all!

[Blue-Jay]

29. Yeah I knew that.

I just wanted to say "filthy whore mouth" without getting deleted.

:bounce:

[asthmaticeog]

31. Start an Anchorman thread!

You dirty pirate hooker.

[Blue-Jay]

35. Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?

[asthmaticeog]

33. I was just now told it would have been Joey Ramone's birthday today.

Huh.

[XNASA]

34. I never liked him.

He once kicked a hole in the styrofoam beer cooler in our dressing room, spilling it's contents everywhere.

I never forgave him for that.

[jpgray]

36. Aw, styrofoam beer coolers break with the wind, so to speak

Plus it was Joey Ramone--that kick probably had half a joule behind it for fuck's sake. Time to bury the hatchet.

[dolo amber]

39. He spilled my drink at an after-hours, after last call

Big freakishly tall jerk. x(

[swag]

9. Just be about your business, old man.

[jpgray]

11. Thread-shitting is my business

[dolo amber]

13. And business is good

:thumbsup:

[jpgray]

15. I just want attention

:cry:

[tigereye]

22. aw, don't cry jp

slow core, but missing the core.....

[XNASA]

16. And by 'nobody' you must mean....

The Lounge.

Who's got time to discuss MBV when we're trying to decide on china patterns?

[jpgray]

18. I've got time! But yeah, it's true lots of folks still put it up as the best album of the 90s

I think on Rate Your Music (though many of the site's rankings are biased by obsessive fans) it's rated #1 for '91.

[XNASA]

19. They'll get no argument from me.

I love it. I remember spending time in a studio around 92-93 trying to replicate that guitar sound. We were doing things like using a whammy bar to bend up to a chord and then punching in, in the middle of the bend. And then doing that about 10 times in a song, and on 4 or 5 guitar tracks.

Great fun.

[jpgray]

23. It's just such a chore to listen to the same gimmick for 44 minutes

I was convinced it was just an album that grows on you, but after listening to it a few dozen times over several years I'm sure I just don't like it, and won't. Except for the throwaway crappiness of "Touched," you have the same wall-o-guit and anemic, minimal melodies throughout. Laughing Stock from the same year kicks the crap out of it, in my view.

[asthmaticeog]

30. Try fucking to it.

S'all I'm sayin'.

[jpgray]

37. The whole thing? Beyond my means

:P

[tigereye]

21. nice to see those

evidently some hallucinogenic state is helpful for a few of em, though.... ;)

[swag]

24. I think I like that video so much because of her big LSD pupils.

v. attractive.

[tigereye]

26. you need to be on acid to see that first vid....

[wildhorses]

25. no love for the loveless

ain't that how it goes

nobody to cry
bout
my troubles and woes

:P


















:yoiks:

[mark414]

27. two words: American Idol

we're a nation of philistines, dontcha know

[jpgray]

32. All nations are to some extent. Take Pat Boone, or David Hasselhoff's success in Europe

[no name no slogan]

38. Greatest album of the 90s (I was just listening to it)

and I still listen to it at least once a month.

This record was my Fall 1991 soundtrack when I lived in London. I also caught MBV at First Ave, on the Loveless tour in the spring of 1992 when I was back in the states. It was one of the best and loudest shows I've ever seen-- even louder than Sonic Youth.

Never mind the haters, Loveless rocks

/ get off my lawn ya damn kids