My Bloody Valentine - Map Ref. 41N 93W

really cool cover of Wire's song. uses the fabulous lovetone meatball :)

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[enossified]

Love it! Excuse my ignorance, but what's the Meatball treating? The guitars?

[niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick]

@enossified yeah, the vowel-y wobbling sound on one of the guitars is the meatball. you can see his settings for it on those pics of his current live setup, his pedal has the markings on it.

[Howsoonisnow2009]

Epic cover, well done niiiiick

[niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick]

i wish i could take credit for it, but it's not my cover, it's done by the band My Bloody Valentine. it's relatively hard to find song so i just uploaded it here.

[ashbyismorethanrad]

an awesome cover of an awesome song off a brilliant album- could anyone tell me what my bloody valentine album i could find this on?? thanks so much

[niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick]

MBV never released this on an album, it was recorded after Loveless, but you can find the track on "Whore: A Tribute to Wire", which is a compilation of a load of bands covering Wire songs :)

[marr21]

Οh thanks for postong, two of my most favourite bands in one !

[MUNDOALTERNATlVO]

love

[circletyrant]

@TallFastLoud That production tricks thing about mbv is just a myth because when they came out no one knew how the fuck they were getting those sounds. So everyone said "well it must all be tricks in the the studio!" because they couldn't wrap their heads around it.

[marzilyas]

great band, great song, interesting cover, but nowhere near as great as the original. thanks for uploading,...I always wanted to hear this rare track

[pyonpyom0002313]

[up] thank u !!!

[indieclock]

wow. i'm so happy to discover this ! thanks for uploading it ! Wire & MBV are easily two of my top 5 fave bands.

[Ramtinch]

a very good cover. i still prefer wire's version though...

[AsmodelSoljah]

I like this versh better than Wire's. They make Wire sound like Ride! I'm sorry to all the Wire and Ride fans, as I am one of both, and 154 is definitely ace, as is Going Blank Again, but I prefer My Bloody Valentine easily.

[loop66]

Heard this when it came out on KXLU, in Los Angeles. Bought it on the trib comp (which has got some good ones on it.) Big time favorite. Thanks for posting!!!!

[pulykamell]

@Boudosaved Ha! Me, too! First time I heard Loveless (via *cough* Napster *cough*), I thought I had gotten a bad rip from a warbling cassette. Only then I bought the CD, and it was the same. :) Nevertheless, it turned out to become one of my two favorite albums of all time (Pet Sounds being the other). Now, this cover is signature MBV, but I'm not sold on it. It's a bit too emotionally detached and even throughout. I prefer Wire's version which has a bit more character and heart in it.

[TallFastLoud]

The rare cover that improves upon the original. Though Wire has them beat as far as pure inventiveness (MBV is basically a great pop group with a few neat production tricks) but Butcher/Shields have vocals better suited to this than Newman's, shall we say, whine. Of course, that whine pushes a number of Wire songs into the greatness category. Great bands both