My Bloody Valentine - Soft As Snow - London 89

[Xrick56]

How do you get a guitar sound like that?

[alexjtrigs]

@Xrick56

steroids

[gra750]

I was at this gig, I remember seeing Alan McGee twidleing the mixing knobs up stair ? . Also remember seeing Kevin and Belinda at the Suger gig here in199....4 Bob should tour with MBV sometime.

[mcpoyle45]

1 person isn't warm inside

[mcpoyle45]

1 person isn't warm inside

[beforethree]

how using a Fender? playing MBV.

[MickyBoy1000]

Gets my vote. Good times

[precinkt]

88/89 was the best time to see them live. 'Isn't Anything' is unmatched.

[musiinfsk]

Great sound for a MBV gig !

[cholocharile]

Yeah, there aren't many good quality vids of them live. There's one at the fuji rock festival a couple of years ago playing To Here Knows When.

[phrayzar]

I remember listening to this album in 89. To me it sounded like ecstasy felt at the time. Me being into indie,spacemen3 etc. Really captured the time and all that. Trivial I know!

[cardigansarecool]

I listened to this song about 30 times last night.

[dermapterablog]

@cardigansarecool That's absolutely perfect

[iwyrith]

@cardigansarecool and you think it's much!? only 30? man, this is my bloody valentine.

[cardigansarecool]

@iwyrith

when it's 2 Am and you have to go school in a few hours, and you can't sleep, 30 times is a lot.

[levitaame]

@cardigansarecool I thought I was the only one who had done

[barnibizer]

Love this song, with the vocal melody...ooohhh oohhhh ooooohh oohhhhh

[FoxbaseTiger]

I saw their gig in Denver a few weeks ago. OMFG, so worth the wait. Best show I have seen in over 20 years. No fucking joke. MBV are amazing. If Kevin Shields decides to finally release a new album under the "MBV" moniker, Something tells me it will be worthy of their name. However, how can one improve upon a perfect record? "Loveless" is easily one of the greatest records of the latter 20th century. Bilinda, you are a GODDESS. My left ear is still in pain. Blissful, beautiful pain.

[Circa7]

belinda!!

[gabseconds]

it´s BILINDA not belinda

this song is in my MBV top 3 , i fucking love that guitar sound!!!!

[Circa7]

yea what pedals do they use

anyone know?

what overdrive? etc etc..

[gabseconds]

kevin uses a guvnor distortion (marshall pedals),a lot of reverb (a lot) digitech whammy , big muff, boss digital delay,equalizer, boss tremolo pan , these is only a few pedals he has many more, and of course his talent

[echoplus2020]

I think he actually uses the marshall shredmaster, I could be wrong. Bilinda uses a Rat II and I think I can hear the Rat in a lot of Kevin's parts too. Never used a Big Muff I'm pretty sure. You can actually get that detuned lead part he does just using a quadraverb (100% wet reverb) and an overdriven amp, just pick with the whammy bar in your hand.

[omglolfart]

blender butcher

[rotildo1976]

son los putos velvet underground del cambio de siglo...

[devonsego]

Hah. Y'know, I always figured they got the "ooo ooo" noises out of their guitars. It never once occurred to me that it might be Belinda Butcher doing background vox.

[TheBrazilianFreak]

too bad kevin is a lil off key for the most part - love him tho - MBV absolutely rules

[uberschaller]

it's probably tough to sing in pitch when you're using your whammy bar to strum. maybe we should send him though the t-pain autotune/mellowdyne program? Then we'd have a MBV top 40 hit!

[devtchkajenn]

This is my favorite song of theirs because it is so chaotic, but peaceful at the same time. It's all emotions into one, but not. I have yet to hear a more amazing song then this. Thanks for putting this up!

[GeoAl09]

awesome the guitar sounds just like the studio version, i wonder how he gets that sound live.

[superdrugs]

Funny you are talking about the guitars. Bilinda used a Jazzmaster too. Check out the pink metal guitar she's playing in this, however - it's hilarious. Still sounds awesome though.

[vamtim]

this song's awesome! check out the gated reverb on the snare.

[LifeofXes]

They also use jaguars. They use both the jazzmaster and the jaguar.

[liveoperator]

I chose to play a Jazzmaster because J Mascis plays one, but it is so cool that Kevin Shields played one too!!!

[nauh]

genial!!!

[voskosi]

i fucking love this song so fucking much.

[sakurapaw]

yaa lolzz im 14 and i listen to stuff like this all the time

instead of that worthless crap

of today's music

[scatteredblossom]

Shit I saw them the same year at Leeds Warehouse! Shambolic but nerve tingling as a remember!

[rayolacer]

fucking love mbv, i really do, but this song like kinda annoys me???? sorry dont mean to be offensive,i jst find it a bit disfunctional

[rafael28]

this took place 2 weeks before my birth, lol

[oglockwood]

so good

[refmos00]

the arangement of the song is so simple yet so amazing

[Dragonaut2112]

Great performance

[sonicjay007]

in love with them...........forever..

[eatdogs]

wow, how did you get all these vids???

i haven't seen much live stuff, so i decided to see if anybody put up footage from the reunion shows if they have happened yet, but i find this stuff and it's blowin' my mind!!!

[badhead]

This is the best quality live MBV I have seen on youtube

[funkytumadre]

oh my god, I really love this song...the quality is great..thanks for posting

[loomer4ever]

My pleasure. I heard the CD version of this song at least a hundred times. This is the only song I will never understand, how anybody could wrote it. Everything is weird and original -rhythm, melody of the declaimed singing, and the melody and arrangement of this song at all. I dont know similar piece, It's pure magic.

[thecityfolk]

hell ya

[BEHEDETY]

Yeah!!! Kevin

[MustBeUnearthed]

This song is epic.

[marfue179]

great!