MY BLOODY VALENTINE - LOOM (Live in Vancouver, 7/1/1992)

I was too young to know or care about My Bloody Valentine when they were touring ‘Loveless’ in the early 90s.  I also missed all the reunion shows a couple years back, I can’t remember why - I might’ve been in the process of transitioning between jobs.  That said I got really excited to hear ‘Loom’, generally thought of to be the most listenable (highest quality) recording of MBV playing live.  Its not the highest quality live recording ever recorded, but if you’ve listened to Loveless a bajillion times, I imagine you’d be elated to hear what the fuck is actually going on on that record.  A side note, the last track ‘You Made Me Realise’ has 13 minutes of deafening noise in the middle of it, a staple of their tours referred to by many as the ‘holocaust section’.  Apparently Kevin Shields read a bunch of psychology articles and was keen to the fact that when you hear noise that loud for a long enough time, your brain shuts off and begins to make up its own melodies and go into a trance and whatnot.  He would start this section, sometimes going on for more than forty minutes, until he could see that everyone in the audience had ‘gotten it’ and then jump right back in to the ending of the song, shoving everybody back in to reality.  It’s not the same as being there, but I guess I wouldn’t really know that felt like anyways.

1. When You Sleep
2. I Only Said
3. Only Shallow
4. Slow
5. Nothing Much To Lose
6. Noise
7. You Never Should
8. Feed Me With Your Kiss
9. Soon
10. To Here Knows When
11. Honey Power
12. You Made Me Realise

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