Skip to main content

Posts

Featured

My Top 1000 Songs #403: When You Sleep

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the  All My Favorite Songs  tag.] It's hard to imagine anyone who picked up My Bloody Valentine 's Loveless back in 1991 not finding themselves deeply transformed. The music is just so disorienting, so otherworldly, yet captivating, that any time you drop it back on the stereo all those weird and woozy feelings from that first spin come rushing back. Or maybe that's just me? While the single " Soon " was the most immediate track, giving the band's gauzy shoegaze a well-grounded dancefloor beat, "When You Sleep" sounds like the more definitive statement by the band. It's got the phase-shifting, seasick unbalance that made the prior LP, 1988's Isn't Anything , so unique, challenging yet bewitching; but like the rest of Loveless , it's got a beefier drive that helps you find your bearings, something resembling an actual pop

Latest posts

My Top 1000 Songs #402: He's Gone

My Top 1000 Songs #401: The House That Heaven Built

My Top 1000 Songs #400: Atlantis

My Top 1000 Songs #399: See The World

My Top 1000 Songs #398: When You Were Mine

My Top 1000 Songs #397: Achin' To Be

My Top 1000 Songs #396: Don't Stop Now

My Top 1000 Songs #395: To Be Someone

My Top 1000 Songs #394: 23 Minutes In Brussels

New Release Hootenanny!

My Top 1000 Songs #393: 2000 Light Years From Home

My Top 1000 Songs #392: Battle Of Who Could Care Less

My Top 1000 Songs #391: Listening Wind

My Top 1000 Songs #390: Dirty Blvd.