My Bloody Valentine - 02 - Only Shallow Live London '91

[mattsc13]

I don't think I've ever wanted to be in a video so badly in my life.

[ronhelf]

Always preferred Husker Du to the overrrated Pixies and personally I hear more madchester in MBV and Only Shallow than American pop punk....

[tiller9123]

how can there be a best album of the nineties when there are so many amazing artists and genres? I do love mbv deeply tho

[Ignacio916]

agree with the first two ,siamese dream ,loveless and live through this (Hole)

[LilRedRasta]

the pixies made my bloody valentine possible, though i like mbv more. give it up for the pixies

[echobears]

@LilRedRasta yeah pixies!

[funktwohundered]

smashing pumpkins and my bloody valentine rule

[xwnordique]

Is this the best video of this song being performed live that's available?

[tehhammersofhope]

@xwnordique you must not be very familiar with who you are watching. this is one of the loudest live acts in music history. 90% of live mbv videos sound like some combination of a washing machine and an airplane engine. this is excellent mbv quality

[heppolo]

Whirlpool by Chapterhouse was also great

[UltimateVenom]

how do they hear themselves play?

[unfamous13]

@UltimateVenom Monitors

[americandropout]

I don't know if you all realize how fucking loud they're playing. Mojo placed this tour as the second loudest in history after only the Grateful Dead. Absolutely fantastic music. But I can't imagine the hell it must of been the first few minutes before your ears adjust.

[tully0108]

@americandropout I was there...not hell...more like instant heaven :)

[eq9ugh]

this is such a yummy song. mmmmmmmm!!!!!

[halation777]

FUCKINGINCREDIBLE

[Quepedoporquenoentra]

THEY FUCKING RULES!

SHOEGAZE, SHOEGAZE, SHOEGAZE AND SANDALGAZE TOO!

[BigKatz]

They played in Dallas last year, and there were these three kids who must've heard they were 'cool.' They kept bobbing up and down synchronously and acting cute, looking around and smiling, wet behind the ears, happy to see history, planning tweets and photographing with phones. But then history came alive and reached out to touch them, the battery of Marshalls firing off a wall of sound that shook the chest and violated the ears. They did not make it through the full 20 minutes.

Legit is legit

[beforethree]

this is fucking awesome...

[joanieinthecity]

@songandletter totally agree.

[octoberhsu]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!! TAT/

[joanieinthecity]

if you like this band check out brian jonestown massacre.

[songandletter]

@joanieinthecity only my bloody underground sounds like this though... His Satanic Majesties Second Request and Tepid Peppermint Wonderland are the best

[Walrusaurus]

The first time I heard MBV was when my brother played me this song. I said "That's pretty awesome, those synths are cool." And my brother said, "Those aren't synths. That's all guitar." I was like ಠ_ಠ

[YTDominik]

I've have thought it practically impossible to transfer the sublime sound of Loveless(one of my favourite albums of all time) from the studio to the live stage but MBV do a pretty damn fine job of it. Only complaint though: is it just me or do the fans spoil it a bit? This is art rock at its finest and most transcendental and needs to be treated with respect; I know this is a rock concert and fans get overexcited but you wouldn't want people shouting during Beethoven 5 or Don Giovanni would you?

[numaticity]

@YTDominik i dont think any amount of screaming can overpower MBV's volume. seriously.....they handed out earplugs for this concert .

[theoogabear]

Dear Spaced81: I'm pissed. I opened up this video, and I heard the pretty outro from my favorite MBV song, What You Want. And I CAN'T FIND IT ON YOUR VIDEO LIST AND I'M ABOUT TO CRY RIGHT NOW. :(((((

[Dougolai]

my brother introduced me to them recently, and i'm embarressed that i had never heard of them before...

[candlewhiskey]

loveless changed my life

[18CaStRaDoMiS89]

Fans went in happy and fans left happy, albeit with ruptured eardrums ^_^

[Spr4ynPr4y]

In my opinion, the best albums of the 90s are Siamese Dream, Loveless, and OK Computer

[lagazzettadellotano]

And Mellon Collie, The Bends, In Utero...

[Spr4ynPr4y]

I prefer gish to mellon collie, but mellon collie is great.

Also, in the aeroplane over the sea is genius.

[TheCruddyBug]

and Pinkerton

[theoogabear]

@Spr4ynPr4y I love you. <3

[ponedonkey]

@Spr4ynPr4y I'm almost in complete agreement with you, Siamese Dream is my favorite album of all time.

[Spr4ynPr4y]

@ponedonkey

I'm glad someone agrees! Siamese Dream was the album that got me into good music, and in my opinion, it's completely underrated.

[JosephErnestHarper]

@Spr4ynPr4y In The Aeroplane...?

[songandletter]

@Spr4ynPr4y Don't Forget pretty much any Sonic Youth as well

[poly800rock]

@Spr4ynPr4y ok computer doesn't belong in the same sentence of the other two.

[MrShetty25]

@Spr4ynPr4y

Also The Soft Bulletin And Laughing Stock.

[BruisedEyeSockets]

@MrShetty25 Agree with all 5 :)

[jeffreybiderpdee]

@Spr4ynPr4y Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

[colpetne]

@Spr4ynPr4y nevermind, slanted and enchanted, achtung baby, pinkerton also all deserve to be with them

[slowblood99]

@Spr4ynPr4y Spiderland, Queens of the Stone Age, In Utero, Today's Active Lifestyles, Ten, Superunknown....I could go on for days. The 90's is easily the most amazing period in music history.

[MrShetty25]

@slowblood99 Millions Now Living Will never Die, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Odelay, Spice World.

[Haushinka1000Hours]

@Spr4ynPr4y You my friend have a good taste in music, SP doesn't seem to get much recognition in my opinion for their work and neither do MBV

[BlastFromYesterday]

@Haushinka1000Hours SP did in the 90s

[KINKSTA55]

@Spr4ynPr4y Bee Thousand, Slanted and Enchanted, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

[DanieLatzanich]

@Spr4ynPr4y

just 3 more

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Soft Bulletin

Laughing Stock

[TheVelvetLou]

+Nevermind

[dimarziotonezone23]

@Spr4ynPr4y I agree with the first two, imho, Siamese Dream, Loveless and Blind Melon are the best ones of the 90s...

[surfsolon]

@Spr4ynPr4y and In Utero (nirvana), Odelay (beck) The Fragile (nin), Dirt (alice in chains)

[skam741]

@Spr4ynPr4y don't forget about music has the right to children

[Replay107]

That was just amazing. I can just imagine the intensity of the volume, rushing through you, meanwhile the seemingly effortless vocal goes stright to your head.

[lucpallot]

the great thing about the songs from loveless is they make you think about music in such a different light. The fact the vocals just kinda merge in as if its just some other noise equal to the guitars n stuff. so simple yet so effective. Best stuff ever to come out of the 90's

[billybones112]

the sound mbv got on loveless is amazing seeing as kevin shields said all the noise is just the guitars playing fully driven and with full tremelo, love this song

[inputmodule]

this is truly excellent! i saw them in san francisco in 92 and it was so loud, even plugging the guitars in shook the Warfield.

after so many listens of Loveless with all the production & overdubs it's pretty amazing they could do it live and sound so human. thx spaced

[jefwif]

dude...you know there's like almost zero overdubbing on this cd right? give shields some credit, he was a sound genius. the sounds are derived from amps playing into mics going through some acoustic modifiers (specifically for this song), all the while shields playing with his whammy bar. love that you love mbv, now you will love them even more!! :D

[UberBeaver]

That's actually true. And, there's also the myth that MBV put a lot of time into each song; they didn't. Shields has said most guitar tracks are first or second take. The reason it took so much time is that they needed inspiration to make new songs. Inspiration doesn't come easy.

[maniacafrodisiac]

From all I've read about it, with interviews from Alan Moulder/Kevin/others.. it was pretty clear that the songs were being written over a few years, but it was the recording process that took so long. Kevin and them took all that time trying to get the sounds/mix/tone right for everything. Just because they were recorded first or second take doesn't mean that song writing and 'pre-production' didn't take all that time.. it means Kevin is a good musician. You're right about inspiration though.

[maniacafrodisiac]

I liken it to the way I write music now; I sequence everything in the comp as much as possible to edit/arrange the songs.. then when I have it perfect—to my standards—I record the parts. Kevin just did that without the comp, which is actually much more difficult & time consuming.

I don't mean to burst your bubble or anything. but I don't see how they could be spending years in the studio just lounging around for inspiration. It was songwriting, and designing the sound that was in his head.

[UberBeaver]

Yeah, you're probably right... that's pretty much all I have to say :P

[xLaserLifex]

Wow...that is amazing!

[chleague08]

Wow I'm only listening to this with a bit of the volume up and it's still loud as hell!

Although if I did go deaf and this was the last thing I ever heard it wouldn't be so bad I guess.

[Kebabage]

Noise! Beautiful noise!

[ChrisPC123]

It is a shame they took the original of this down but this is a great live recording of the song.

[genxdude1991]

Why did I have to born in 1990? The 70's at least. I would've killed to see them live!

[ragnatoad]

They're back together.

[allthiseverything]

Stunning.

[SeamusBlonde]

If I could see one song live before I die it would be this

[Circa7]

im with you on this one.. i hope they play this when i see them in august

[ReverendJasmine]

this is great.  the best clip of this live i've found so far. good one :)

[v1scera3yes]

Kevin Shields is a goddamn fucking genius. He was gorgeous back in the day, as was Bilinda.

[einarstraymusic]

my god. what a fantastic song.

[Kagemusha22]

Why has the studio version of Only Shallow been removed from Youtube?

[bhlasterz]

A lot of studio versions/music videos have been removed recently. Someone filed copyright claims or something on a TON of videos.

[IncolorBleach]

One of my favorite songs!

[cellcabine38]

for me, best albums of the 90's:

1. loveless, 2. in utero, 3. ok computer.

[Aracatamus]

SHOEGAZING!

[thepuncturedbicycle]

wow that sounds crazy compared to the record

[Etherialshroud]

Id faint if I saw them live

[pleddy1]

Still the loudest concert I ever seen (and that was back in 91)...christ, I am old.

[agoober579]

loudest concert ever:  25 june at the roundhouse. it was fucked up

[agoober579]

shit i take that back it was the 24th. but it was no less fucked up.

[vuvaladusi]

dude holy shit. i have tix for the reunion here in chicago! 10 years i've been waiting!

i wonder how many kids lost hearing at this show!

[sudajmahi]

damn i wish i could see them on the reunion tour

[fdceline]

You ALL are riDICulous ---> I have recorded shows for 12 years starting in 1996... For 1991 -- this recording is INCREDIBLE and -- there is video TOO so stfu FOR REAL MBV bitches no fucking reunion tour can go there this is all we have and it is a good fucking document GOOD LOOKING OUT WHOEVER RECORDED THIS many thanks

[MetadelicAve]

omg, Oct2 at Santa monica !

[sheepywotsit]

I saw this last night, it was incredible. The only re united band who has come back sounding just as good as they did before they split up.

[garmonbozia318]

You obviously didn't see Portishead at coachella! Can't wait to see MBV in October.

[moyajc]

Wrong...you have overlooked Dinosaur Jr my friend!

[Lugak14]

September in SF.

[MichalZKrowa]

the lights just fucking killed me

[nientesuono]

i can't find the words....a dream!!!!!

[icecubatron]

Holy Shit, that would have been loud!

[timelessmelody123]

june 28th manchester, carnt wait !!

[rayolacer]

arghh im going on the 29th cant wait either!

[cfotoole]

Man, this was only a little over a month after Loveless was released. If I hadn't been 5 years old at the time, I would have killed to be at this show.

[winona73]

They are gonna PISS over everyone when they come back. Kevin Shields is a genius.

[perpitbla5]

June CANNOT come quickly enough.

[kidorl]

i´m really excited of their new album..

(Portishead made a good album after ages as well, so why not My Bloody Valentine?)

[lubinkous]

Oh my Sunday Bloody Valentine!

[brmpbrmp]

kevin sheilds is great but is it just me or does the drummer not keep a steady beat? especially on the fills, he or she seems to speed up then slow down...

[shkyrbty]

the drummer is awesome. he (colm) actually keeps the band together thru their own pushing and pulling of the tempo. i think it sounds really cool. imagine driving a huge locomotive train. that's what he does. and he does it sitting between the roar of two guitar rigs and a bass rig. no, dude, he's awesome.

[lenoise]

i love my blood valentine!!!!!!

[rickardo89]

Definitely the most original and, if I may say so, "touching" album of the 90s, if not the best. It certainly does somehow become your personal soundtrack after a while :]

[drainy0u]

that was amazing

[facundomalagon]

sisi, pero fijate q uno mas abajo mando un descanso a nevermind de nirvana.. como q era algo muy inferior.. t digo porq veo q t llamas drain you asi q supongo q t gusta

[drainy0u]

dont know what that means, but sure... i like nirvana ^^

[Westernprovince]

Fantastic! Think i saw this gig, were the Membranes supporting? Also, MBV stayed at my place in South Wales after a small gig circa1987. Kevin & Billinda were particularly nice and easy-going...Great days!

[wheresthebeef2]

Loveless = best album from the 90's. Aside from Ok Computer.

[malkmusinthemiddle]

Pshh... Thanks, Pitchfork.

[mistermusicpsycho26]

Haha yeah.. their original 90s album list had Loveless at number one... funny how they influence opinions...

[jjj7477]

Best album ever....err including O.K....

[JSBroton]

OK Computer is the best album EVER let alone the 90s.

and if i remember that pitchfork list, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is third, but that should really be put above Loveless. And I have a special place in my heart for Alice in Chains- Unplugged, but Loveless can go at number three

[JSBroton]

oh and Nevermind by Nirvana is a way better album than Loveless (ONLY kidding of course)

[NinetiesYouth]

(ONLY Shallow of course)

[snowpatrol3745]

I like Radiohead, but c'mon, Ok Computer is grossly overrated.

[aidanday]

Agreed. I'm just gonna say that 'Loveless' is a more important album than OK Computer.

[mrcat1990]

i think ok computer is great but loveless in my opinion is one of the most important albums of all time without question

[romeosdistress]

I'm afraid to say I have absolutely no time for Radiohead. They're without a doubt the smuggest band in the world and My Bloody Valentine surpass them on all levels, other than the smug factor, that is.

[TuMira85]

What is smug about radiohead? And why must you make music a competition...

[moyajc]

Well it's a business, so therefore it's a competition. I don't agree Radiohead are smug tho, i think they are quite modest. I think they know they're over-rated...

[TuMira85]

now THAT is smug right there

[moyajc]

Well spotted

[TuMira85]

Music for entertainment and music as art are two completely different things. They are often mistaken for each other, but i can assure you, MBV was never and never will be in it for the money. Neither will radiohead. They happily turned down tens of millions of dollars from Capitol and chose to release their music on their own terms. In short, go fuck yourself to the top 40 guy.

[moyajc]

Well it's easy to turn down millions of dollars when you already have millions of dollars. Funny how it's always the successful groups you hear saying they're not in it for the money. And why exactly do you think MBV (one of my favourite bands btw) are gigging? Couldn't be that gig fees have gone up about 5-fold in the last few years and bands now make all their money from touring?

[TuMira85]

You're hopeless. Really you are. If you seriously think all musicians are money grubbing whores like yourself you need to wake the fuck up. It takes alot of time and discipline to be a musician, something you know nothing about. It's easy to look at it from a distance but think of all the time in the studio he spent running his record company bankrupt to make Loveless. If you really think Kevin Shields ultimate goal was to get rich, he failed miserably at it and he doesn't seem to mind. Fin.

[moyajc]

God, you Radiohead fans are so easy to wind up! What a laff.

[nosferatudasvampir]

Music for entertainment vs music as art is just snobbery. Mozart and Bach wrote music to entertain patrons and their audiences. All music is entertainment. Music that fails to entertainment is crap. MBV are money grubbing whores, just like Beethoven and Wagner were. Musicians need and like money. Money itself does not make music better or worse. Talent, intelligence, hard work and resources do. (Oh well, there is money again...)

[shakeshakedogshake]

I accidentally clicked the thumb down, I agree with your opinion!! sorry

[mrcat1990]

nae bother big man

[shkyrbty]

yes, thanks to the poster. need had the priviledge to see them live, either. my friend said they were the loudest band he ever saw. awesome

video comment: they look great, but their sound needs some work....uh ha...

[swans1997]

Yeah, I wish Belinda played the guitar more because that would have compensated for all the layering that Kevin did on the LP. He just played this and she sang which to me didn't sound that strong. The album has such a layered sound that you really noticed it live. Still a great Seattle gig for me though. Glad they're back and hopefully head to Seattle.

[kidamathias]

she played the rythm guitar behind it??

[uzusukuri]

oh my fucking lord... this is all one gigantic sonic orgasm.

[Stanzmastertron4000]

Fuck yes

[floothe]

thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much for posting this. i absolutely love this band and their music. a total inspiration to me. i never got to see them live. :(

[worldwidepony]

You have a chance now.

They are back.

[luistownmassacre]

Oh my god thank you so much.