This Is Your Bloody Valentine
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| Studio album by My Bloody Valentine | |||||
| Released | January 1985 | ||||
| Recorded | Late 1984 at SCS 8TK Studios | ||||
| Genre | Post-punk | ||||
| Length | 25:00 | ||||
| Label | Tycoon Records ST7501 | ||||
| Producer | My Bloody Valentine | ||||
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This Is Your Bloody Valentine is the debut release by the band My Bloody Valentine. The seven-song mini-album, recorded in Berlin, reflects the group's early gothic post-punk tendencies, and generally bears little relation to the shoegazing sound with which they are most commonly associated, with Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling "[their] debut album...an unfocused and derivative collection of post-punk goth rock".[1] The album made little impression at the time of its release.[2]
While The Jesus and Mary Chain have often been suggested as an influence on My Bloody Valentine, guitarist Kevin Shields played this down, pointing to this first release: "They're a great band, and an influence, because when they came along it was all jangly guitar and out-of-tune vocal and they had this great overdrive thing, really exciting. But we've got a mini-LP we made in Berlin in '84, pre-Mary Chain, ... with all our traits there-feedback thrash. . .". [3]
The mini-album was reissued in 1990 by Dossier Records (DLP7501) on vinyl and CD.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Kevin Shields/Dave Conway/Colm Cusack.
- "Forever and Again" – 3:32
- "Homelovin' Guy" – 3:02
- "Don't Cramp My Style" – 2:25
- "Tiger in My Tank" – 3:30
- "The Love Gang" – 3:54
- "Inferno" – 4:40
- "The Last Supper" – 4:30
[edit] Personnel
- Mark Bosak - engineer
- Dave Conway - lead vocals
- Colm Cusack (aka Colm O'Ciosoig) - drums
- Kevin Shields - guitar, backup vocals, bass guitar
- Tina - keyboards
[edit] References
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. This Is Your Bloody Valentine (Review). allmusic.com. Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved on 23 March 2008.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music. Guinness Publishing, 193. ISBN 0-85112-579-4. “A mini-album, This Is Your Bloody Valentine, on the obscure German Tycoon label in 1984, made little impression.”
- ^ Melody Maker feature, 20 January 1988
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