Isn't Anything

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Isn't Anything
Isn't Anything cover
Studio album by My Bloody Valentine
Released November 1988
Recorded Spring/Summer 1988
Genre Shoegazing
Length 37:48
Label Creation Records
Producer(s) My Bloody Valentine
Professional reviews
My Bloody Valentine chronology
You Made Me Realise
(1988)		 Isn't Anything
(1988)		 Feed Me with Your Kiss
(1988)


Isn't Anything is the official debut album by My Bloody Valentine, released in November 1988 after three years of issuing EPs and mini-LPs. It came out on Creation Records in the U.K., and is currently available on Sire Records in the U.S.

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Displaying strong influence from Cocteau Twins, Dinosaur Jr, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, Isn't Anything established My Bloody Valentine as one of the leading forces in the shoegazing movement. The album is comprised of burned-out torch-style songs ("Lose My Breath," "No More Sorry," and "All I Need"), jagged guitar anthems ("(When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream," "Feed Me With Your Kiss") and dream-pop melodies ("Several Girls Galore," "Sueisfine"). The titular word in "Sueisfine" was always sung as "suicide" live, but the pronunciation is ambiguous on the album.

A music video was shot for the song "Feed Me With Your Kiss." This video is mainly noteworthy because neither Shields nor Butcher play their usual Fender Jazzmasters in it, instead opting for a Fender Jaguar and Gibson ES.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)" (Kevin Shields, Colm O'Ciosoig)
  2. "Lose My Breath" (Bilinda Butcher, Shields)
  3. "Cupid Come" (Butcher, Shields)
  4. "(When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream" (O'Ciosoig, Shields)
  5. "No More Sorry" (Butcher, Shields)
  6. "All I Need" (Shields)
  7. "Feed Me With Your Kiss" (Shields)
  8. "Sueisfine" (Shields, O'Ciosoig)
  9. "Several Girls Galore" (Butcher, Shields)
  10. "You Never Should" (Shields)
  11. "Nothing Much to Lose" (Shields)
  12. "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" (Shields)

Initial vinyl LP copies came with a free bonus 7" which was packaged in a plain white sleeve. The songs on it were titled "Instrumental A" (3:19) and "Instrumental B" (4:36). "Instrumental B" featured a Public Enemy drum loop (from "Security Of The First World") which was later used by Madonna in her 1990 hit single, "Justify My Love." Legal action was pursued against her for that, but apparently not against My Bloody Valentine.

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My Bloody Valentine
Kevin Shields | Colm O'Ciosoig | Bilinda Butcher | Debbie Googe
Albums
Isn't Anything | Loveless
EPs
This Is Your Bloody Valentine  | Geek!  | The New Record by My Bloody Valentine  | Sunny Sundae Smile 
Strawberry Wine  | Ecstasy  | You Made Me Realise  | Feed Me with Your Kiss  | Glider  | Tremolo
Compilations
Ecstasy and Wine
Labels
Creation Records | Island Records | Sire Records
Related articles
Shoegazing | List of songs by My Bloody Valentine
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