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Rating: "About time"; "Finally"; "It took you twenty-two years, damn it" and so on. No, this is not yet another review of the new My Bloody Valentine album, rest assured, it's the first review of the collection of EPs they released between 1988 and 1991 (plus the beauty of seven previously unreleased tracks) which is, without mincing words, fundamental, splendid, complete, and even something more: so, if someone asked me "aside from that good drug of 'Loveless', what would you recommend from the band?", I would unhesitatingly reply to rush to get this (double) album; not "Isn't Anything" or "Mbv".
Here you have everything you need to keep floating and swimming in the void when the dose of "Loveless" runs out, with a greater stylistic variety that, by necessity, the compactness of the group's masterpiece did not show: the album, in fact, follows a path that starts with the harsh and noisy "You Made Me Realise" (with obvious Sonic Youth echoes, especially in the instrumental interlude, yet already with that particular "aesthetic/ecstatic mybloodyvalentinian" attitude) and takes you to the pinnacle represented by the over ten-minute version of the instrumental "Glider" (a slow, long, repetitive, exhausting mantra, yet irresistible, hypnotic, like wandering in nothingness without direction, but feeling good). In between, many, many hidden gems: the liquid and magnetic "Cigarette In Your Bed", the floating "Slow", "I Believe", and "Emptiness Inside", the sunny "Thorn" and "Drive It All Over Me", not forgetting the splendid tracks of "Glider" and "Tremolo" that you can find reviewed here.
In this "Ep's 1988-1991" (among other things, the digipak booklet reintroduces the artwork of the four EPs) the ingredients that have made, or will make you love My Bloody Valentine are all there, making the fundamental evolution of the group palpable, which in 1988 took that direction that immediately led it to a sort of parallel dimension, in which ethereal melody takes shape from a mass of metaphysical noise, sweet, spiritual, paradoxically becoming overly relaxing and leading towards a sort of narcoleptic contemplation where the mind can truly wander free: anywhere, nowhere, here, elsewhere, now. Never.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 You Made Me Realise (00:00)
What did (you say you'd) find
Then come, come, come
Get the hell inside
You can close your eyes
Well you might as well commit suicide
Wait for me because I waited for you
No that's not what you should do
Don't hate me 'cause I don't hate you
Insane eyes
You made me realise
Something in you died
Well no, no, no, no fault of mine
Something in you died
Well no, no, no, no fault of mine
Make the (hell) out of what you can see
Maybe then you'll not hang beside me
Don't ask me 'cause I cannot see
Insane eyes
You made me realise
What did (you say you'd) find
Then come, come, come
Get the hell inside
You can close your eyes
Well you might as well commit suicide
Wait for me because I waited for you
No that's not what you should do
Don't hate me 'cause I don't know you
Insane eyes
You made me realise
02 Feed Me With Your Kiss (00:00)
Yeah, (can you get) what you see
But you can't have what you can't
Hey, what's come down over me
It's the way you stood
'Cause things the way they are
I guess you might go real far
So feed me with your kiss
Oh, come lie down close to me
Do what you dare
Oh I don't care
I will get what I can see
I'll crawl over there
(Spread me like a) (appeal to you)
I do what I do I do what I will do
Crave, your kiss will set you free
I'll do what I should
06 You Made Me Realise (03:44)
What did (you say you'd) find
Then come, come, come
Get the hell inside
You can close your eyes
Well you might as well commit suicide
Wait for me because I waited for you
No that's not what you should do
Don't hate me 'cause I don't hate you
Insane eyes
You made me realise
Something in you died
Well no, no, no, no fault of mine
Something in you died
Well no, no, no, no fault of mine
Make the (hell) out of what you can see
Maybe then you'll not hang beside me
Don't ask me 'cause I cannot see
Insane eyes
You made me realise
What did (you say you'd) find
Then come, come, come
Get the hell inside
You can close your eyes
Well you might as well commit suicide
Wait for me because I waited for you
No that's not what you should do
Don't hate me 'cause I don't know you
Insane eyes
You made me realise
07 Soon (06:57)
Wake up
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah (doll of pain)
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
Come back
Don't be
Afraid of me
Soon
That (I'll harm you)
Your eyes are blue
Blue jewels
Yeah yeah
Come back
Have faith
Someone like you
Can find the reason
Of what I did to you
Yeah yeah
Wake up
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah (doll of pain)
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
09 Don't Ask Why (04:02)
See all your sorrow
But be happy tomorrow
From the back of my mind
I was searching (and I...)
From the look
In your face
I believe
It's not too late
See where you are
When did we go that far
From the things that we said
I was wishing us dead
Turn around
To the fool
Who believed
Don't ask why
(Pillow) pretend
That I do not defend
My own love in the back
Need no question to ask
If you need
To see
The (real)
Don't ask me
11 Slow (03:10)
Oh well, you know it's up to you
Sugar think what we could do
Can I have a question
I'll make you smile, smile, smile, smile, smile
Sugar sugar you're up to my lips
Licking over everything I miss
And I got no reason
Just a slow, slow, slow, slow, suck
Feeling bad, feeling good
Feeling like I never could
Lick, lick, lick and suck, suck, suck
I want it slow, slow, slow, slow
Sugar sugar you're up to my lips
Place my head upon your hips
And I got no reason
You make me smile, smile, smile, smile
Well what the hell, we (we're) all the same
You got what I need, so don't play no games
Sugar think what we could do
I'll make you smile, smile, smile, smile through
Got the rush I don't feel no shame
On top of me you (know) while I don't know your name
And we got no reason
Just a slow, slow, slow, slow, suck
12 Thorn (03:35)
Walk all over me
Even though you can't decide
Look out, (jump back)
You'll be on your own
Hillside, slip and slide
Feel the pain, it's no surprise
Look out, look out
Thorn will be your love
I felt your hair across my skin
I didn't know where to begin
A shallow promise in my ear
No thoughts, no dreams, no wishes, and no fear
The rose is dead, your face serene
No memories of things that once did seem
To be to me important too
You give me flowers when it's thorns I give to you
13 Cigarette In Your Bed (03:27)
Falling down
I like to watch you
Crawl around
Arms untied
Scratching your eyes out
With a smile
Strange stare
Strangled by the blade left
In your heart
I glide by
Slip a cigarette
In your bed
14 Drive It All Over Me (03:05)
Cover up your windows Close up all the doors Time has come for me to really shine Pick myself up off the floor Things that'll make yourself cry Can be tied above the well Helplessly withering away But I'll never ever tell Run run away run run away 'Cause there's nothing left to say Got no one to talk to Leave me alone, I'm happy to die today Run run away run run away 'Cause there's nothing left to say Oh, the travel always gets me Get in the car and drive it all over me Cruelty in the winter Happy when you're down Pulling faces running after me And we're sleeping underground I didn't mean to hurt you Didn't mean to make you sad Wandering through all the memories Of the good times that we had Welcome to the fun time We're so happy here We've no minds, we might as well be blind We can lie together here You can come down and join us You're more than welcome to Even though it's painful to the ears But it might not all be true
15 Feed Me With Your Kiss (03:55)
Yeah, (can you get) what you see
But you can't have what you can't
Hey, what's come down over me
It's the way you stood
'Cause things the way they are
I guess you might go real far
So feed me with your kiss
Oh, come lie down close to me
Do what you dare
Oh I don't care
I will get what I can see
I'll crawl over there
(Spread me like a) (appeal to you)
I do what I do I do what I will do
Crave, your kiss will set you free
I'll do what I should
19 To Here Knows When (05:47)
Kiss
Your fear
Your red button
Falls from my mouth
Slip
Your dress
Over your head
It's been so long
Move
On top
Because that way
You touch her too
Turn
Your head
Come back again
To here knows when
22 Swallow (04:52)
Sweetheart
I want
To know
Your (all)
Now I
Swallow, swallow (love)
I close my mouth
Swallow, swallow (love)
Into my mouth
Close
The door
I want
You more
You can
Crawl down
Coming down
23 Honey Power (04:33)
Change my mouth
Here with your tongue
Your body soft
Over there
Where you're laying down
Hold my flower
Here and (you will now)
Fall
Sure you did from appearing smile
Ooh, bloom
I drink to you
Feel you come
High enough
'Till you're sleeping and...
Take my flower
Touch before I die
Over you
Then we'll sleep for another hour
24 Moon Song (03:25)
Hold me close
I hate you the most
When you are the only one
(Never could) forgotten one
I can hear you dear
I wish that I was never born
When you are the only one
You come to me
(Thoughts that) I can't see
You're never real
You're pretend to me
When I'm with you
I don't know what to do
Don't come back soon
I don't want you to
When you are the only one
Hold my hand
But understand
You are the hated one
And you are the only one
You can look
And you can touch
That's why it's never fun
When you are the only one
If they could see
What you have done to me
You will not be the only one
You come back soon
Breaking up the room
And soon you'll be the forgotten one
And (to her) the only one
Only one
(Now you'll be) forgotten one
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