The band’s key member is guitarist/singer/composer Kevin Shields, a reclusive perfectionist and radically inventive guitarist/engineer. The band’s other original member is drummer/studio maven Colm Ó Cíosóig; during their heyday MBV also included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe. Their band shares its name with a low-budget Canadian slasher film.
MBV influences include The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, late-1970s Wire, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and independent artists such as The Pastels. Kevin Shields has also named The Beach Boys and The Ramones as a personal influence.
After leaving Creation Records in 1992 and signing with Island Records, the band fell into a creative black hole. Rumors spread among their fans of albums being recorded and then shelved. Debbie Googe left the band to form Snowpony; she had not played bass on their recordings since You Made Me Realise. Colm Ó Cíosóig eventually left and formed a band with Hope Sandoval, formerly of Mazzy Star, called Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions. Kevin Shields sporadically collaborated with other artists, most notably Experimental Audio Research, Curve, and Primal Scream. He revealed in a fall 2003 National Public Radio interview that Island Records quit financing his My Bloody Valentine endeavors after he spent half a million pounds of their money.
As of 2006, many rumors mentioned the possible reformation of MBV for a new studio album, but none of these were true. On November 15 2007, My Bloody Valentine announced three upcoming live gigs in the UK for 2008. On June 13 and 14, the band played in public for the first time in thirteen years, offering a pair of "Live Rehearsal" presentations at the ICA in London and officially starting their series of comeback performances. The band went on to play a slew of festivals in Summer and Fall of 2008. Following their appearance at the 2008 All Tomorrow's Parties festival, the New York Times reported that Shields was planning to complete the unfinished album.
On 2 February 2013 they self-released the self-titled album m b v as a download with both vinyl and CD copies shipping on 22nd Feb 2013. The Huffington Post reported that it caused such a public stir that the official MBV website crashed when fans attempted to access the site to purchase a copy.
In Another Way
my bloody valentine Lyrics
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Another way to settle down, I'll live forever another life
Deep inside you and I sit in the another side
Close tonight, we'll inside on the other way, the other side
Close enough to be alive, so it feels lost
Another way to settle down, I'll live forever another life
Deep inside you and I sit in the another side
The lyrics to My Bloody Valentine's song In Another Way are evocative and enigmatic. The repeated line "Close enough to be alive, so it feels lost" suggests a sense of disorientation or confusion, as though the singer is trying to grasp something just out of reach. The phrase "another way to settle down" might suggest the idea of seeking comfort or safety in an alternative reality, while "I'll live forever another life" hints at a desire for escape or transcendence. The reference to sitting "deep inside you and I" suggests a sense of intimacy or close connection between two people, while the mention of "the other way, the other side" reinforces the idea of alternate realities or parallel universes.
Overall, the lyrics to In Another Way are intriguing and open to interpretation. They suggest a sense of yearning for something just out of reach, whether that's a new way of seeing the world or an escape from reality altogether. The repetition of certain phrases and images creates a dreamlike quality to the song, as though the singer is drifting between different states of consciousness in search of meaning.
Line by Line Meaning
Close enough to be alive, so it feels lost
The sense of being almost alive, but feeling disconnected and unsure of oneself.
Another way to settle down, I'll live forever another life
A new option for finding peace, a chance to escape the limitations of mortality.
Deep inside you and I sit in the another side
Together, we occupy a separate reality, distinct from the world around us.
Close tonight, we'll inside on the other way, the other side
As darkness falls, we embrace the unknown and venture into a new realm of experience.
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Lyrics
[Verse]
Close enough to be alive
So it feels lost
Another way to settle down
Another way, another life
[Chorus]
Deep inside, you and I
Sitting on the side
Close tonight we'll be inside
On the other way, on the other side
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse]
Close enough to be alive
So it feels lost
Another way to settle down
Another way, another life
[Chorus]
Deep inside, you and I
Sitting on the side
Close tonight we'll be inside
On the other way, on the other side
busterabcat
Having heard this a few times now, I'm always struck by how odd it sounds - and then it occurred to me, this track actually has no bassline !! How amazing is that??
Jose Rodriguez
Wow I never even noticed until I've read this comment, and I've been listening to this record for like two years now lol. Guess it kinda slips one's mind cuz the drums are so heavy they kind of fill up that harmonic space! There is like some weird sort of ambient bass type thing going on, fading in and out throughout the song, but God only knows what it is. Well Kevin knows too I suppose.
herakleitus
Neither does To Here Knows When
Saturn Jr
@herakleitus it kinda has a bassline, they took an explosion sound effect and slowed it down. if you listen closely you can hear a deep rumbling in the song
MrSmallpoxSatan
You’re not listening closely enough. There’s fuzzed out bass slapping away. Don’t know what you’re listening to.
Sayre
@MrSmallpoxSatanrelax lol
Michael de Gier
Unbelievable. I'm just speechless. Nobody has ever dared to do anything like this in the last 22 years. And rightly so, only MBV can do it and make it so otherworldly sublime!
sirmelancholia
This track immediately blew me away. I think it's one of the few genuinely brilliant, completely ground breaking songs on the album. I listened to it in headphones as I slept and woke up to it; a refreshment I haven't felt in a while. This song alone is well worth the price of admission.
AntelopeDC
Possibly the greatest thing I've ever heard from this band. I never thought I'd get to say that.
devilady4444
This is a melody from another planet