My Bloody Valentine - 14 - Made me Realise Live Amsterdam 89

[xVaultx]

They're not all deaf? HOW?

[MusicalElitist1]

@xVaultx: I think they all have tinnitus though.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@MusicalElitist1 And Belinda Butcher suffers from a burst eardrum.

[DeWaltDisney]

Aha! - now I know why this song is nicknamed "the holocaust"

[xThakmere]

4 people are now deaf.

[GrungeBob1994]

Colm has to be the ideal drummer for any band.

[wangsta25]

kinda hard to have sex to this song

[IRideFixedBeard]

Ah this is so fucking beautiful, Jesus they need to tour again.

[psycobetabuckdown]

wow, this is about twice as fast as the studio version, or anything they did on their 2008 tour for that matter

[yoyoyajeloot]

f uck, the thing that song makes me realise is ..... i want to make noise like that :)

[YunaBonbeurre]

I wonder : they might had at that time the fastest drummer alive

[Bobjb999]

Sonic Youth does better guitar noise than this.

[Juniorfist1985]

@Bobjb999 I don't think this is a competition.

[anaemiabag]

holy fuck i have never seen a drummer go that crazy

[10max30]

look the drumer!!, he's having sex!!!!!!!!

[WarGoatForestWolf666]

this, right here, is why MBV never became popular in the mainstream

[efforttowaste]

@WarGoatForestWolf666 FUCK THE MAINSTREAM!!

[nogomet66]

I saw them at about this time in tiny Moles Club in Bath. 15 of us watching them downstairs and about 50 upstairs hiding!!

[BrPaZo94]

So dissonant. So good. They're still insanely loud on their records, but it has a much sweeter sound

I'd love to be at a live show of theirs and have my ear drums explode in awesomeness

[redcereal12]

ive heard people describe being in the crowd of one of these "sound holocaust" sessions as getting stoned off of sound. i didnt believe them until i saw how ridiculous this was.

thats truly insanity at its most awesome.

[Erey15]

oh my god yessssssss!!! i love that noisy part <3

[WeBackToRun]

LoL shoegazing XD!

[kappser]

Saw them do this live in 2008. During the freak out up until the end it was so loud and explosive it seemed like time was warped. I can't tell anyone how long they made that racket for. Could have been 4 minutes or an hour. A friggin atom bomb of sound.

[sean455]

One of the most deadlist fucking drummers ever!

[qoph29]

wow! what a mind blowin' fuckin' band! thanks for posting this gem.

[deengew]

Lol at the dumb youtube arguments.

[Laubotje]

this is more than just noise

[wilson2810]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!! saw these supporting pixies on thier first uk tour/everyone goes on about the guitars but they would be nothing without deb and colm

[BLOCPARTY49]

Jesus H. Christ

[alexjtrigs]

deb just shredding.

[mswilson90]

I saw them in 91 and they sounded shit live. totally shit, just like this. they were my favourite band as well. dino jr were much better.

[birinbirinbirin]

dino jr sucks mbv destroys them theyre indie gods right behind the cocteau twins

[songandletter]

your mad, I don't care how good MBV is, I'm a huge fan... to say Dinosaur Jr sucks is just a retarded statement - besides Sonic Youth destroys them all

[birinbirinbirin]

sonic youth is a different style their not even shoegaze smart one. so your sounding pretty dumb right now. Mbv created the term shoegaze they came before dino jr. dude look up shit before you tell someone their wrong your just embarissing yourself

[songandletter]

you made the first comparison with MBV and Djr and Djr is NOT shoegaze either. Djr started first in 82 and MBV in 83. all these bands were sister bands anyway: Sonic youth, MBV, DinoJr, Nirvana, Pavement... MBV coined Shoegaze also because they also used noise and the difference is how the noise sounded, but it's still noise just like sonic youth. I'll talk about the bands I want that ARE relevant. The only thing irrelevant is you bitching about SY when you made the same comparison with Djr,

[birinbirinbirin]

i was bitching at someone else for bitching and i know that you nagger i said you should read my other comments

[AwfulVision]

@songandletter MBV didn' "coin" shoegaze either in name or in form. There was a huge, noisy, pseudo-psychedelic movement in the early 80's and MBV was a part of that and gradually refined their sound. Listen to their pre-Belinda Butcher stuff. It sounds nothing like Isn't Anything, let alone Loveless.

As for the term shoegaze/shogazing, it was coined by music journalists who noted that the bands often spent large parts of their set staring at their pedal boards.

[BrPaZo94]

@birinbirinbirin Why are you arguing about Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine? Their both great bands that made the two best records of all time. And Dinosaur Jr. is pretty good also, idunno why anybody who like SY or MBV wouldnt like Dinosaur Jr.

[birinbirinbirin]

@BrPaZo94 i was bitching cus other people wouldnt stop bitching people compared sonic youth to mbv and im like 2 totaly different styles. and i hated dinosaur jr. until i heard the song little fuzzy things and love them now

[lawnmoweracer]

It's impossible for anyone who wasn't at one of their gigs, to fully appreciate the noise they made. My ears were ringing for days after seeing them in Newcastle at around this time. Unbelievably loud but brilliant!

[Procidentia]

i agree. i saw them last weekend at ATP and they looked and sounded exactly the same as 20 years ago.

had tinnitus for days.

[devankdevank]

@lawnmoweracer They still are that loud. When I saw em last year at coachella it was probably the second loudest gig I've ever seen (after A Place to Bury Strangers).

[danccaddy]

fast drumming on his right hand. must be killing him

[zacksfansite]

The crescendo kicked my ass over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. You get the picture.

[jamesdeanlovespunk]

: )))))))

[conmeistergeneral]

fuck me that's loud

[devouringshadow]

@conmeistergeneral if it's too loud, you're too old.

[maxwellcale]

@devouringshadow If you don't think that is too loud, you will probably have hearing impairment one day in the future.

[richardbywater]

Not only is this amazing but it is a great example of how loud/awesome MBV are. Thanks!

[cromlek]

the best!

[soundspacegazers]

go go colm , ha

[kezac]

This is more than a mindblowing rock a roll song, this is a true work of Art.

[midouespeon]

Aw fuck yes.

[bombsquadrecords]

omg, this is horrible! my ears are bleeding....

[WingedDiskRecords]

Jeeeez, what a racket! Niiiice!

[FoxbaseTiger]

April 24, 2009 - Fillmore, Denver. Best concert I have ever seen. My left ear is permanently damaged thanks to this song. It was like standing next to a 747 engine at takeoff - for 20 full minutes. Awesome! Well worth the 18 year wait. This band is STILL ahead of its time. Long live MBV! I actually could FEEL the music - it rattled me to the core. I am ruined for all other live shows in the future. First time I ever hallucinated from sound. Amazing.

[ToyBoxMonster]

This video gets better each time I see it.

[ffwrchamotobeics]

Genius.

[billybones112]

i saw mbv at thebenicassim last june and it was the loudest thing i have ever heard... couldn't really hear the next day, mainly thanks to this song

[Triton76er]

Imagine if someone was out and about in Amsterdam that night and randomly walked in the club at around the 2:00 mark of this song. :)

[H0TDRANK]

All i hear is static...

(i love these dudes, don't get me wrong)

[ToastyFun]

I think this sounds real decent, have you even heard the song before?

[Triton76er]

Try headphones - my sound is good.

[brodieboy87]

i think there's a melody in there somewhere

[akary]

3:55-4:07

glorious. beauty emerges from cacophony.

[bitcrucher]

white noise!! amazing!!!

[TrentCobain]

In my 15 years of living I have never heard anything so loud!!!!!!!!=)

[hgldypgldy]

FIFTEEN WHOLE YEARS!!!!!!

[ReverendJasmine]

hahaha, right!

[espaceman000]

Holy Frack! Amazing....

[Dudley1970]

Effing amazing footage, thanks for posting! It's kind of mind-blowing to compare this to how the song was performed on the tour this year; what was a noise barrage in clubs turned into a total assault on the senses in arenas...

[leadedhypercurve]

You Made Me Realise EP - Best album of 1988 by a long stretch!

The EP CD has pride of place in my collection.

Classic cover too with the paring knife clutched among flower stems by a very lush Bilinda Butcher!!

[reeloopy]

saw this live at ATP then (with hearing loss) the next night at roseland. like being under an avalanche in an earthquake with all the planes in the world taking off and landing on a blackboard runway with chalk wheels.

and the some....

[alleyghost]

A train wreckage in heaven

[086apollo440]

Inaudible tripe from the most overrated, name dropped band in the world! Not music, just noise!

[ToyBoxMonster]

But what beautiful, awe-inspiring noise. =)

[GeoAl09]

this is fucking amazing quality for it being from 1989

[harerooster]

that is some buzzsaw guitar

[wilson2810]

saw them doing this when they toured with the pixies/they blew the pixies away!/possibly the loudest band ive ever seen live

[Jejeeeje]

this is fucking gooood!

[nosferatudasvampir]

Yes they are bombastic. And very influential, but I still have not understood how they can be considered a good band.

[akis723]

who's said they are good? They are brilliant, f*&%^&$^$ amazing

[ToyBoxMonster]

anything that can bring out such intense emotion, and that is so beautiful that one can get lost in it must be doing something right.

[World2008rain]

damn look at that drummer go. O.O

[ILCANILE]

woooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooo

[katienowkate]

Beautiful beautiful music of my youth! I still listen to MBV regularly - they are genius. 21 June at The Roundhouse can't come soon enough!

[bunglebonce]

When this came out in single form I was a mere student and only the cheapest of wines in my local Kwiksave were stopped up with a screw-top lid. Things have moved on since then, many semi-decent wines have a screw top lid and plastic 'corks' have put themselves everywhere.

What a blissful noise!

[Chiromanic]

The noise part in this recording doesn't last long in compare to their later performances where the noise break would sometimes last for 45 minutes!

[bitingenza]

I'd been told MBV were actually quite hardcore - I'm too young to have seen them pre-Loveless - but holy crap!!!

[TallFastLoud]

Oh yeah, in response to the guy who said "Colm and Debbie" rock, good call! Seems like a lot of the focus is on Kevin and since Colm didn't really play all that much on "Loveless," he's a bit underrated, but, as this shows, he can really pound the shit out of the skins.

[TallFastLoud]

speaking as a musician, it's impressive that they're so tight musically with such a loud volume. Oh yeah, if you want a long version of this song live, check for it on soulseek. Some people have boots where the noise section is 4 times as long as the rest of the song

[superchunk321]

I don't think the drums can be anymore perfect sounding.

[rodtorkelson]

the Byrds drank jet fuel and this showed up

[geanomas]

hahaha perfect description!

[wheelygood9]

i saw them at the duchess in leeds around this time also

[wheelygood9]

is this the rollercoaster tour? i went to the gig in manchester.

[boristhebadassblade]

belinda is soooooooooooooo hot

[14domino]

Amazing.

[bojangles0]

best part is, this is a short version. god if somebody had a vid of them when they would do this for a half hour...

[KevorkianDude]

yeah, doing "it" with the amps up was the greatest performance i've ever seen, and mind-numbingly loud

[jjj7477]

check out the show they did in Texas, a good 10 minutes....

[perpitbla5]

Yeah, and there's the best live version of To Here Knows When I've ever heard from the same gig (Texas one of course).

[wheresthebeef2]

Amazing

[crashsite000]

Colm and Debbie rock

[perpitbla5]

Wow, look at 'em go

[freeman1208]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonictrasher]

Holy Distortion.

[deano31]

the last great rock band ever.

[YB206]

This is amazing.

[honduhmatic]

F'ing rock. For such an amazing-sounding studio band, they play so hard and fast...

[ParanoidAce]

Oh dear God.

[eriknybergg]

rock like fuck

[moo664]

shit me

this always sounds amazing live, not that ive ever seen them or nething

[notsomadmartin]

they were awesome live ~ your ears didn't recover for days !

[wheelgauge]

that's true. i saw them in detroit on the loveless tour and it was absolutely the loudest show i've ever seen. and they were probably the only band worth the hearing damage.

[exobyte2000]

Fantastic.

[xxmenaxx]

nice

[badhead]

It dont get much better than this