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ARTIST..: My Bloody Valentine
ALBUM...: You Made Me Realise
GENRE...: Indie
STYLE...: Shoegaze, Indie Rock
YEAR....: 1990
LABEL...: Creation
COUNTRY.: Ireland
PLACE...: Dublin
ENCODER.: FLAC 1.3.1 -8 -V
BITRATE.: 933 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / 2 channels
SOURCE..: CDEP
TRACKS..: 5
SIZE....: 114.86 MB
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Made_Me_Realise
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org
http://www.facebook.com/mybloodyvalentine
- TRACKLIST
1 You Made Me Realise 3:46
2 Slow 3:12
3 Thorn 3:37
4 Cigarette In Your Bed 3:30
5 Drive It All Over Me 3:05
Total Playtime: 17:10
Originally released on vinyl in 1988. Reissued on CD in 1990.
(See reissue_info.jpg - Jul 88.)
You Made Me Realise is the third extended play by alternative rock band My
Bloody Valentine, released on 8 August 1988 through Creation Records. It was
their first record for Creation.
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You Made Me Realise was the circa-Isn't Anything EP that made critics stand
up and take notice of the brilliant things My Bloody Valentine were up to; it
developed some of the stunning guitar sounds that would become the band's
trademark, and features tracks which (while more pop-oriented than those of
Isn't Anything) are just as innovative. Thankfully, both You Made Me Realise
and Feed Me With Your Kiss (the band's other Isn't Anything single) aren't as
difficult to find as their earlier work - between the two of them, there's
practically an album's worth of work. Each of the five tracks on this EP are
worth hearing - standouts are the incredible title track, "Slow," and
"Thorn."
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Sputnik Music 2007:
My Bloody Valentine is back in the indie music headlines with plans for two
new albums of unreleased material that will be the first new releases from
the band as a whole since 1991's landmark record Loveless. Outside of that
and Isn't Anything, their work is spread out over a string of almost a dozen
EPs, many of them documenting the band's earlier gothic rock style. As the
band moved into shoegazing, a genre My Bloody Valentine could pretty much be
credited with as creating, one of the earliest examples of their later style
is in the EP You Made Me Realise from 1988 and just prior to Isn't Anything.
It is uniquely more instrumentally upbeat than Loveless and more lyrically
clear while still captivating with the "wall of sound" that is the band's
hallmark.
You Made Me Realise begins with the namesake of the EP and one of the
strongest tracks in MBV's catalog "You Made Me Realise," a powerful song
featuring soaring vocals from Kevin Shields and Belinda Butcher and a
simmering guitar riff. As opposed to the use of vocals as sounds more than
anything in Loveless, the lyrics are quite clear even amid distortion and
carry out the frenzied pace of the song. A little past the minute and a half
mark, the song begins to descend into a very thick layer of guitar
distortion, almost seeming to showcase the use of ambiance to deliver the
surrealistic sensations of their music, before the standard guitar riff
reappears to close out the forceful opener.
More relaxed and dreamy is "Slow," which seems to make little effort in
trying to conceal that it is about a blowjob. Shields's groaning vocals
encapsulate the quite explicit nature of the song, which fits under the
intimate themes in much of MBV's music. Evident here is a consistent ambient
melody through the entire song that is indicative of Loveless. More sunny and
pleasant images come to mind in the next song "Thorn," which showcases MBV at
one of their lightest moments. The strongly pop-oriented melody is only
restrained by the distorted ambiance that carries on in the background.
"Cigarette in Your Bed" brings the EP back into a darker, dreamier landscape
that is complemented by cryptic lyrics ("Arms untied / Scratching your eyes
out / With a smile"). Be it some description of S&M or something else, while
the song is perhaps a bit off-putting, the band keeps the song from reaching
any more morose with the familiar fast strumming of an acoustic guitar and
more innocent vocalized melody from Butcher.
The EP's conclusion with "Drive It All Over Me," the only song here given
joint-writing credits between band members (the others written by Shields),
shows that each band member was right on the same page. Back into "Thorn"
territory, "Drive It All Over Me" is another uplifting daydream, spearheaded
by the once-again innocent vocals of Butcher backed by a wall of distortion
and powerful drumming from Colm O'Ciosoig.
Alongside the popularity of Loveless, You Made Me Realise showcases the
band's ability to apply the same shoegazing innovations to a more
down-to-earth release that could even be considered more accessible.
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