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Originally Posted by Davey Moore
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
It's an appropriate cover, the image all overlapped and confused, saturated by reds and looking all messy and bunched up, as if there's a lack of space to be had.
Love it or hate it(and to be honest, most people I've met either love it or at least respect it), nobody had ever quite heard an album like this. Shoegazing at it's worst was a pretentious scene.
This album had a real risk of becoming an unintentional self-parody, and the band feared a critical panning of the first degree. Instead they got rave reviews and rightly so. |
Slowdive had a vague blurry cover a few months earlier with their first album.
Nobody ever heard an album like it? Well that's their choice, doesn't mean there hasn't probably been some experimental music at least slightly similar before. And originality alone isn't really a reason to praise something for me.
They got rave reviews but for some people wrongly so. The critics don't always get things right, and that's an understatement. In fact it often results in people just following the hype and such albums getting far more acclaim than other albums that are at least as good, and the bandwagon just keeps on rolling as the years roll by.
Look at Amazon and you'll see there are people with different opinions. And how can you respect something if you don't love it? Because people tell you you should? According to someone on Amazon:
"Most people I ask seem to think they should like it, after all, but promptly shudder and admit that it doesn't turn them on like it should. These are not top-40 listeners by any measure of the imagination: I'm referring to people who actually own Experimental Audio Research albums, who think the last Neutral Milk Hotel was too commercial."