My Bloody Valentine - Soon
This song is one of my favorite songs from one of my top 10 all time favorite albums, Loveless. The basis of the group is Kevin Shields (who more recently composed the Lost in Translation soundtrack) as lead guitarist and vocalist. I was inspired to post this song right now because I thought it so strange to hear about the recent slasher film by the same name as the band. Ironically, the band got its name from a B-movie slasher film from 1981 also called My Bloody Valentine. Don’t have time at the moment to cross-check this, but maybe the recent movie was a remake of the ‘81 Valentine? (I steer clear of the horror genre so I have no clue)
In any case, this song, like the rest of the album is classic Shoegazing— a brief sub-genre emerging with My Bloody Valentine and other UK groups in the late 80s and most popular until the mid-90s. Shoegazing utilizes heavy distortion— creating a wall of shimmering guitar sounds, and usually low, muddled vocal tracks. Loveless is also legendary because the album, with a half a million dollar price tag accumulated over the 2 years of production, is reportedly one of the most expensive, slowest recorded albums in history. It had a huge influence on other artists in the 90s including Radiohead, The Cure, and Brian Eno, as it completely dumbfounded, even industry insiders, as to how some of the sounds were created.
Wake up
Don’t fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don’t go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
Come back
Don’t be
Afraid of me
Soon
That (I’ll harm you)
Your eyes are blue
Blue jewels
Yeah yeah
Come back
Have faith
Someone like you
Can find the reason
Of what I did to you
Yeah yeah
Wake up
Don’t fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don’t go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
- ex libris
