90s Jams #60: My Bloody Valentine "Only Shallow" (1991)

With its opening track, Loveless decisively sweeps the shoegazer table clean, presenting My Bloody Valentine's infinitely textured, obsessively overdubbed sound in a forceful manner that basically screams "Listen to this or we'll bludgeon you senseless." The album's cover art -- a blurred, magenta-filtered shot of a guitar in play, photocopied, double-exposed, and blurred almost into unrecognizability -- is a perfect metaphor for the sound of "Only Shallow." It's a breathtaking start to a near-perfect album. - Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:apfqxxwjldte