Thursday, November 04, 2021

Loveless ranked!

On the occasion of the 30th birthday of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, here is a ranking (and grading!) of each song.

"Soon"  - After 40 minutes of post-rockin', this - a more conventional track that's like rising from Plato's cave to hear song anew. And then, at the very end, the album's finest moment. It sounds as if the song is continuing in another version, a demo maybe, or heard from another room, throwing you back over the rest of the album to wonder if every song-sound was but a mere moment mined from some sort of celestial stream playing endless variations of My Bloody Valentine music for eternity.  A+
"To Here Knows When" - The archetypal Loveless track. The one that most exemplifies the hibiscus cover of blurred, massed guitars. It asks, how much can you sandblast a track and still have a song? A+
"Touched"  - A+ Why is this track so slept on?!? Because it's a fragment? In its propensity to induce obsession, Loveless is nothing but fragments. The whalesong moans and the strings ache. And then the whalesong aches! All in 56 seconds!
"What You Want" - Ache so good. A+
"When You Sleep" - Come on, baby, make it ache so good. A+
"Loomer" - Sometimes (whatever emotion) don't feel like it should, you make it ache so good. A+
"Only Shallow" - This will always delight because, as the first track, it means, "holy shit I get to listen to Loveless again!"A+
"Blown a Wish" - A song this good, thousands of bees sharing their plaints all at once, can be this low in the ranking? That's Loveless for ya, baby. A+
"I Only Said"  - The roving hook has a touch too much sharpness. And maybe it's a tad too long. Maybe! It's still an... A
"Sometimes"  - The opposite issue. It could use a tad more acuity. Still, yes, an... A
"Come In Alone"  - Too conventional overall. But still damn good so don't come for me! Most albums sag in the middle anyway. Who cares? Look out all the A-plussery surrounding it! A-minus

P. S. Please buy me this duvet cover kthxbye.

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