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.
wonder 2
my bloody valentine Lyrics
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And I found you something to hold you alive
Somewhere you stand on worry too unfortunate
Will you sing on to come to use on
I'm moving your eyes slow for you see, see all the way
And I found you something to hold you alive into the head on
Remember you used to, you were always late to see tomorrow
In My Bloody Valentine's song Wonder 2, the lyrics speak to the power of perception and the value of moving slowly and attentively through life. The opening lines, "I'm moving your eyes slow for you see, see all the way," suggest a willingness to guide and assist someone in seeing the world more completely. The notion of finding "something to hold you alive" speaks to the need for support and connection in life, and the recognition that we all require something to keep us going. The lines "Somewhere you stand on worry too unfortunate/Will you sing on to come to use on" imply that the person being addressed is perhaps consumed by negative thoughts or experiences, but that music or song may provide a pathway to move through these challenges.
The repetition of the opening lines in the second verse reinforces the importance of slowing down and taking time to see clearly, while the line "into the head on" suggests that this deeper insight may also require some mental focus and effort. The final lines of the song, "Remember you used to, you were always late to see tomorrow/Everyone knows that you're such too soon," are somewhat enigmatic, but suggest that the person being addressed may have a history of being a bit behind the curve, but is now perhaps moving too quickly through life.
Overall, the lyrics to Wonder 2 encourage us to be present and mindful in our lives, to seek connection and support, and to recognize that sometimes the most valuable insights come from intentionally slowing down and paying attention.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm moving your eyes slow for you see, see all the way
I'm guiding your gaze so you can fully appreciate everything
And I found you something to hold you alive
I've given you something to keep you going
Somewhere you stand on worry too unfortunate
You're stuck in a place of unfortunate distress
Will you sing on to come to use on
Will you sing to overcome it all?
Remember you used to, you were always late to see tomorrow
You used to struggle to see the future clearly
Everyone knows that you're such too soon
People think you rush too much
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@cannedkitty
For me this album is divided into 3 parts. Tracks 1-3 are an unrelenting blissful and driving haze, tracks 4-6 lets you rest in a pretty but murky limbo, tracks 7-9 obliterate reality
@carlosfernandocarrerapolan8659
Tx for this description
@Rosalina102798
My favorite My Bloody Valentine track, period. It's drum and bass, jungle and shoegaze histrionically mashed together with a shredding blender to give us this masterpiece of a song.
@samlawrence1319
I can hear the drum and bass rhythm for the first time now, thanks( was obviously still caught in the melancholy bliss )
@maxway7465
This totally feels like something from their mid/late 90s sessions. Jungle was the big thing to come out of the UK rave scene at that time, being fused with psychedelic rock really puts you in a trance
@NinetiesYouth
are most of the tracks on the album from the mid 90s?
@maxway7465
@EndofMusic afaik it’s a mix of recordings from 95-97, the mid 2000s, and early 10s. Wonder 2 is def a 90s era track. Very much in line with the ragga/break chopping style of the time
@aring-ading-ding6324
I spent a fortune to travel and see MBV live this year, they are my favorite band. This song at the concert was so loud... People were walking out and left and right from me. I think I saw about five people walk out at this song, they played it towards the end of their set. I decided to go no ear plugs whole concert... I wouldn't recommend it in the long term but after the concert I was okay. (I think?) Ubered back to my hotel, put some my bloody valentine on my portable speaker and kept drinking and listening and I could still hear to the best of me abilities. One of the best nights of my life seeing them. I really hope I will see them again soon, it'd be so cool if they toured again in 2019 for their new material that's supposed to be coming out soon.
@jmckenzie962
Sigh, still no new material in November 2021. The latest gossip floating around rn is that Domino gave Kevin a deadline of December 2021 to finish the first of the supposed two new albums MBV are working on, in order to secure their place at the vinyl pressing plant. So best case scenario is that the album is released and the band start touring again next year, 2022. Knowing this band's history with deadlines though, I highly doubt that. Still, I'm pumped to hear the finished versions of New Song 1 and New Song 2
@gavfitzpatrick
I saw them in a small venue in Dublin when I was a teenager and I swear to God I was deaf for 3 days later. It's the part in the middle of "you make me realize" that does the damage. Anyways the only other live band that was nearly as loud were Motorhead