My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3)

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3)
by Mike McGonigal

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Author: Mike McGonigal
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-07
ISBN: 0826415482
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: Continuum

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Book Review: Loveless: Strength from adversity
Summary: 5 Stars

Mike McGonical's contribution in the 33 1/3 series is an essential item for any fans of My Bloody Valentine. I suspect more than a few people came to MBV's music like myself, via the Lost in Translation soundtrack, the purchase of Loveless, and then back tracking through the earlier albums, and scouring websites for downloads of other pieces, live concerts and videos. The book is well researched with much of the narrative from interviews conducted by McGonical with Kevin Shields. Much has been written about the lengthy gestation of this album and the financial implications this had for Creation records. However, what comes across more strongly in the personal accounts from Shields, Bilinda Butcher and Deb Googe is the cost it incurred in terms of Shields' relationships with the other group members and the final demise of one of the most original bands of the 1980s and early 1990s. That Colm O'Ciosoig hardly played on the album was probably well known to MBV fans: that Deb Googe played not a note on the album is a revelation indeed and, one senses the hurt and tension this must have caused. The history of the album seems almost oddessey-like in its progress from studio to studio with a multitude of engineers and the debilitating illness from depression that robbed O'Ciosoig of his playing abilities. Loveless is a testament to Shields abilities to keep things moving despite these adversities. Of course, the release of Loveless did not usher in happy times for the Valentines, who were kept afloat for a few years by Island records, before they too lost patience and pulled the plug on the band as MBV struggled to build their own studio. Besides an account of the epic struggle to make the album, there are some interesting conversations with Shields on the creative process, and on the way feedback, trances, dreams and sleeplessness can intersect to provide inspiration. Mike McGonical and 33 1/3 have done a great job in enhancing the enjoyment of Loveless and Valentine's music.
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Summary of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3)

Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up. In his book, Mike McGonigal talks to all the members of My Bloody Valentine, in an almost certainly futile attempt to get at the essence of this extraordinary record.

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