Isn't Anything
by My Bloody Valentine

Album
Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Year: 1988
Release date: 1988-11-21
Overall rank: 483rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 709 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1988 (8th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1980s (72nd)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (483rd)

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My Bloody Valentine bestography

Isn't Anything is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by My Bloody Valentine on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by My Bloody Valentine is Loveless which is ranked number 24 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 26,499.

My Bloody Valentine album bestography « Higher ranked (24th)
Loveless This album (483rd)
Isn't Anything Lower ranked (544th) »
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Isn't Anything track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
Average Rating: 85 (165 votes)Comments: View 3
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Lose My Breath
Average Rating: 84 (156 votes)Comments: View 2
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Cupid Come
Average Rating: 82 (127 votes)Comments: View 1
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(When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream
Average Rating: 83 (128 votes)Comments: View 1
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No More Sorry
Average Rating: 79 (126 votes)Comments: View 1
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All I Need
Average Rating: 81 (127 votes)Comments: View 2
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Feed Me With Your Kiss
Average Rating: 81 (122 votes)Comments: View 2
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Sueisfine
Average Rating: 81 (121 votes)Comments: View 1
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Several Girls Galore
Average Rating: 79 (115 votes)Comments: View 1
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You Never Should
Average Rating: 83 (127 votes)Comments: View 1
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Nothing Much To Lose
Average Rating: 84 (129 votes)Comments: View 1
12.
I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)
Average Rating: 83 (118 votes)Comments: View 1

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Isn't Anything rankings

Isn't Anything rankings summary
Overall rank: 483rd | 1980s rank: 72nd | 1988 rank: 8th  Overall chart history
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 !		09/19/2026 17:16 RasmV  Ratings distribution  2,61473/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.6/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.


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Isn't Anything forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5435): By flamingyesdept
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Isn't Anything comments

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90/100
From 05/19/2018 08:51 | #215180 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I have always loved those "I was there " album stories , for example "I was there when Sgt Peppers came out " or " I was there when Joshua Tree was released " .... well I have my very own "I was there " moment , I was there when 'Isn't Anything' was released in 1988 and I'll never forget it . I pretty much picked this album up the week it was released , I don't recall why I decided to pick it up on vinyl LP but I just did (it must have been the musical gods speaking to me ) and TBH it was life changing . So I bring it home and drop the needle and I couldn't believe what I was hearing , it was like nothing that had come before and it literally blew my mind , I'll never forget that moment like the moment I first heard 'Surfer Rosa'

The reviews were Mind-Boggling such as this example from Melody Maker describing the album as - " a raving nymphomania and out of body experience that establishes them as absent minded rulers of this daydream nation"

Every song here is great , every moment means something . The song that really unlocked this album for me was "No More Sorry" a sorrowful longing piece that gets me every time

And you have to remember this was a land mark album / sound in that nothing had been done like it prior , shoe-gaze is now an established musical gene , this album is Ground Zero

Masterpiece

85/100

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95/100
From 03/01/2014 20:26 | #105012 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
There isn't anything wrong with this album.
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From 11/11/2011 03:04 | #30354 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The worst thing that ever happened for this album was MBV making Loveless. However, this is a vastly underrated masterpiece in my opinion. Not the full frontal assault that Loveless is, this album has great song writing. Bmy favorite tracks are No More Sorry and Sueisfine (I like the subtle change in lyrics)
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100/100
From 12/23/2012 20:00 | #58728 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album kicked my ass. Let it kick yours too
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80/100
From 11/22/2013 22:16 | #94133 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I actually think that Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.
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