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Today's album of the day

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1991.
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Overall rank: 21
Average rating: 86/100 (from 2341 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Only Shallow
2. Loomer
3. Touched
4. To Here Knows When
5. When You Sleep
6. I Only Said
7. Come In Alone
8. Sometimes
9. Blown A Wish
10. What You Want
11. Soon

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.

[HoldenM]

Classic BEA Album of the Day. Just some random album no one's ever heard of and that no one has ever voiced any kind of adoration for. Certainly lives up to its name. /s

Track picks
1. Only Shallow
4. To Here Knows When
5. When You Sleep
8. Sometimes
11. Soon
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[DommeDamian]

95/100

I remember it vividly. A day just like this. I was in the car, having been feeling semi-dizzy for the past 8-9 months and I had no idea when/why it happened and how I should cope with it. I searched on my iPod for an album I haven’t heard and was destined to hear in the summer. Then I saw Loveless [I remembered a YouTube comment - or maybe it was RYM - saying Slint’s Spiderland is a winter album and MBV’s Loveless is a summer album]. Within the first few minutes, I just remembered that it was noisy but I still really liked it. Then it came to around To Here Knows When. Something happened. I felt that my felt wrapped around my brain was melting, and my mind was slowly getting the sun of freedom. It continued that path as the album went on. My head was cleared (even just for a few days). Sometimes () I use an album like this to clear my head. I know I know, that sounds very odd considering it’s a noisy Shoegaze classic. Well, fight noise with noise! The fuzziness could drown out my own head ache. It’s such a good choice for the album to be mixed quietly like this. It’s almost forcing you to turn up the volume, to get in the musical tornado of magical layers all around. Look no further than the opener Only Shallow (a song that I hated at the first five listens, and the main reason why I kept turning the album off there), it’s like a tornado has hit your house but instead of panicking, you’re a child enjoying their favorite ride at an amusement park.
No other genre than shoegaze has 1 album as a crowner. You could say that this disc is pretty loveless for not sharing the genre-topspot with any other record. The exceptionally dreamy Souvlaki, the atmospheric Nowhere and MBVs previous Isn't Anything are all considered second tier, compared to this beast. But before I just mentioned that it took me a long time before I even like the first song enough to listen to the remaining forty-seven minutes. Well, the reason why I went back and listen to Loveless again [in full] was when one of my closest friends (the same guy that showed me The Cure) showed me the Touched interlude, a combination of a distorted guitar/broken scooter, and some old school strings in the background - just one minute of mindbend. And ever since I really found the charm for that little piece of music, I did so with the rest. Then I added it to my iTunes and to a playlist of albums needed to hear in summer 2021, that I added to my iPod. But back to some of the moments here; Loomer is dizzy at the best caliber, that may not sound complimentary but speaking as a dizzy-minded person, I find joyment in that one. Both Soon and I Only Said are marmalade trips that sounds like skating down a city gravel street, 30°, after eaten 2 LSD edibles (specially with those painty melodies on top). I get emotionally attached to whenever I hear Sometimes; it’s eerie, ambitious, lengthy, chill, daring, comforting, warm and starsearching at the same time. Blown A Wish is a bit weak alongside the other tracks, but it’s still features some ear-massaging elements. I ain’t focused that much about the song structure (although hidden beneath all the noise is a solid pop album) as much as just it being a symphony of noise and walls of sound. But the best one at that, just like the best Shoegaze album.
If you give this album lower than an 80/100 (no matter your rating system) I cannot trust your music opinion (unless you are zwiebel) - and the fact that my younger self gave it a 40, should tell anyone why we shouldn’t bring my past musical preferences up that much further. Love loves to love Loveless.
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