Monday, April 18, 2011

90's Jams #14: My Bloody Valentine "Sometimes" (1991)

"Soon," "Only Shallow" & "To Here Knows When" are normally considered the three strongest of Loveless's 11 masterpieces. For those who enjoy choosing a favorite, there's really no wrong answer, although "Sometimes" ended up turning into the least hipster-friendly choice since being tastefully used in a sequence of Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation. This is unfortunate, as it's probably the emotional highpoint of the entire record, one that was surely intended to be emotionally warping. With such an enormous wall of guitars, the high range of the acoustic strumming is nearly drowned out.. Leave it to MBV to record probably the noisiest acoustic ballad of alltime, and possibly the most powerful...

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