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Isnt Anything by: My Bloody Valentine List Price: £11.99 CD-Charts Price: £8.98 You Save: £3.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886973120828 Label: SonyBMG Manufacturer: SonyBMG Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: SonyBMG Release Date: January 26, 2009 Studio: SonyBMG Sales Rank: 9512 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Indie Rock MilestoneMy Bloody Valentine's first full length album Isn't Anything was one of the most influential albums of the 1980s. It remains the best showcase of Kevin Shields guitar sound. This sound was achieved by means of continuous manipulation of the whammy bar on Shields' Fender Jazzmaster, combined with unusual guitar tunings (à la Sonic Youth) and a delay based effect known as reverse reverb. Such attention to detail was what created such a unique and often imitated guitar sound. On the other side of the coin, the production on Isn't Anything is very poor. The drums, in particular, sound very muffled and dull, definitely lacking in high frequencies. In fact the album in general suffers from a lack of clarity in the production. Anyone ... Read More: Rating:  - Their Finest HourAlthough the apotheosis of My Bloody Valentine was complete after the release of `Loveless', and the sheer number of reviews that album has attracted compared to this seems to confirm its status as the band's most-celebrated release, I will risk going against the prevailing orthodoxy by stating that `Isn't Anything' has stood the test of time better. `Isn't Anything' retains a sharpness and clarity of songwriting which is sometimes a little absent in `Loveless's' walls of guitar effects. `Feed Me With Your Kiss' pounds with brutal riffs and rhythm and `No More Sorry' is a genuinely disturbing lyric about child abuse. Changes in tempo and rhythm are used to great effect on `Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside). Of course, ... Read More: Rating: - 1988's debut album proper...Following the great single You Made Me Realise, My Bloody Valentine were a new band- nothing to do with the poor-Primitives/Shop Assistants-type band of Strawberry Wine. The late 1980s were becoming exciting in a guitar sense- Spacemen 3, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth ,Husker Du, AR Kane & even Nirvana all heralded an approach to rock music that was a few steps on from the Velvets: though feedback was the key. Though listening to Isn't Anything now, it seems to have plenty in common with the euphoric feeling around the 'second summer of love', it has the same otherworldly, narcotic quality akin to chemical experimentation. Thus you get something like the 'off'-sounding guitars of single Feed Me With Your Kiss... Read More: Rating: - interestingthis album took me three listens until i understood it properly, but now that i do, i absolubtely love it. kevin shields is obviously addicted to his digitech whammy pedal, as it is on every track. a really great individual sound, and you can hear how they have influenced so many artists *my vitriol want to be this band*. on the wall of sound guitars issue, there isn't a wall of sound guitars, but imagine sonic youth a little less grungey and a little more arty and you're there. a very very good album by a very very good band [::charlie::] Rating: - In the shadows there is a classicIt seems this album has been completely overshadowed by the seminal Loveless but it is a shame as this is a real classic album. It is probably more generally accessible than Loveless but this doesn't mean it is of less worth. The sensual combination of the male and female voices off of each other and swooping guitar washes was totally new and still sounds fresh and startling. Melodically Soft as Snow but Warm Inside and No More Sorry are in a place somewhere between John Barry and Lee Hazlewood. A trully beautiful album with an edge. |
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