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The year was 1988, the New Wave was gasping towards its end, a band called Jesus and Mary Chain had already brought guitars back to the center of rock with a style that could only be described as a (wonderful) veil of noise and feedback over pop songs, and in Ireland, a group named My Bloody Valentine, after a Smiths-like debut (but already more distorted), was evolving to approach the musical piece with a less Dark and more evocatively mad and psychedelic flair.
That My Bloody Valentine are musically the offspring of the aforementioned Jesus and Mary Chain is indisputable, but they definitely go beyond: the fundamental difference is that while Jesus and Mary Chain drown a song that is nonetheless linear and simple in noise, conversely, My Bloody Valentine emerge the track from the noise itself; this happens in "No More Sorry" and "All I Need," with arrangements incomprehensible except after many listens, noise forefronted, distant rhythms, filtered guitars, and a voice that comes out thin and shy to form a track ethereal and elusive; a diffuse and incomplete perception, making the piece fascinating and inexhaustible to listen to; even faster, punk songs like "Sueisfine," "Feed Me With Your Kiss," and "Nothing Much To Lose," or more narcoleptic like "Several Girls Galore" and "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" do not lack this effect of suspension, of "swimming in the air."
Just as surprising are the three pieces that open the album, seemingly more regular and simple: "Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)," neurotic and fluctuating, "Cupid Love," perhaps the most melodic piece of the album, and the splendid decadent ballad "Lose My Breath," are but another face of this beautiful psychedelic "journey" of the post-modern era; ambiguous, nihilistic, noisy, decadent, yet among the most fascinating recalled in the last 20 years.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Soft as Snow (but Warm Inside) (02:21)
Soft as snow but warm inside
Penetrate you cannot hide
Feeling lost forever
Really need you
Feeling dark and feeling true
This is all I ever knew
Soft as skin in leather
And I whisper 'you'
Harder you come down on me
Sink away you look happily
Secrets keep forever
They're undressing me
Come inside it's warm in here
Better now to have no fear
Carried on a wave
(Where it can lead) you
Touch your head, then your hair
Softer, softer everywhere
Fingertips are burning
Can I touch you there
Soft as velvet eyes can see
Bring me close to ecstacy
High away to heaven
And I'm coming too
Float now coming down on me
Handed you what I cannot see
Feel the big happy, you're exploding me
Soft as snow and warm inside
Penetrate then redivide
Slip away forever
(Do we) need you
03 Cupid Come (04:29)
Cupid come from coffee cup
Sickly heavy heart
Semi-set adrift in your
Lifted sugar eye
Come back down I'm waiting here
And lick me with your fire
Connected silver tounges
Our lips beside
Everytime I look at you
Pins me to the ground
Mirror me your memories please
And let me help you down
Swallow me into your bed
With glimpses of your thighs
Forget your vanity
Come cupid come
05 No More Sorry (02:47)
What happened then
And again
And then again
And again
Loved me black and blue
No more sorry
Flesh and bone
Not alone
You're not alone
Waiting by the telephone
Whatever you do
Don't call daddy
In my head
And everywhere
And everywhere
And everywhere
Fingerprints of you
Filthy daddy
Wash and mend
And wash and mend
Some kind of friend
You septic heart and deadly hand
Loved me black and blue
No more sorry
07 Feed Me With Your Kiss (03:54)
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
08 Sueisfine (02:12)
I will don't leave
Me here alone, oh
Sueisfine/Suicide
Hold hold hold me
Talk a lot don't brood again
Sueisfine/Suicide
Give me (fuck cunt)
Now you'll taste so good
Sueisfine/Suicide
09 Several Girls Galore (02:20)
oh, did i meet me once before?
was it you or just dont you care?
once more,
ignore,
as i wrap me around we..
im never quite there at all.
so, which me should i put on
to go out driving in my car?
feeling
so sore
i took me out dancing,
three of me or more..
insane,
im sure.
..that living inside me.. is several girls galore
once more,
ignore,
as i wrap me around we..
im never quite there at all.
insane,
im sure,
that living in side me..
Several Girls Galore
11 Nothing Much to Lose (03:17)
Your soft hand
But I don't understand
Your big brown eyes
With a small small heart
I'll come down, down, down
Oh, you don't know what you found
Don't, don't walk walk walk away
Take me
I will remember you
Long dark hair
Nothing much to lose
Help you crawl crawl crawl
Oh, I wanna see it all
Eyes asked why why why, too late
12 I Can See It (but I Can't Feel It) (03:11)
Don't know when
I will leave you again
Grab a reason
And I'm dragging you down
Come just to make you happy
Shot in the head I can see
I can see it
But I can't feel it
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