Feed me with your kiss (My Bloody Valentine) (LP 3327 - 3328)

My Bloody Valentine  Isn't Anything (CD, Creation Records, 1988) ****  

My Bloody Valentine  Loveless (CD, Creation Records, 1991) *****  

Genre: Alt-rock, Shoegaze

Places I remember: JB Hi Fi.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Soon (Loveless)

Gear costume: Drive It All Over Me (Isn't Anything) 

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Active compensatory factors: The first of these albums, Isn't Anything, was the band's debut album and as such it signals a way into Loveless.

It is a bit eclectic, as the band moves on from jangly indie-pop towards noise experiments that would culminate in the sound on Loveless. Drive It All Over Me is a good example as the dreamy vocals surf the guitar blitz. As such, it's an important step for Kevin Shields and crew.    

Loveless is the one where the band (drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig, vocalist Bilinda Butcher, bassist Debbie Googe and Kevin Shields on extraordinary guitar) reach their peak, having fused the sum of their talents into a cohesive sound. 

It's hard to single out individual songs on this album because of the flow. You need to listen to the whole thing at one sitting really, to appreciate their artistic vision.

Where do they all belong? The standard bearer for shoe-gaze!