Loveless Remastered

I'm a new MBV fan, having just gotten into them upon ordering this release a few weeks ago. I'm not going to waste time rambling about how great the album is, but instead how great the reissue is, since there are a lot of mixed reviews about it on here and Amazon.co.uk especially, and I'd like to help clarify things.First off, this album turned me into a MBV fan instantly. Wow, what an album. It got me to purchase their others right away. It just shows that anyone can be turned on to any band at any time, no matter when their music came out. Now, about the reissue. When I first popped Disc 1 into my CD player, I found the sound to be a bit flat, so since there was the luxury of a second disc with the same material on it, I put that one in to see if it would sound any better. Oh, it did. Way more dynamics and a wall of noisy guitars surrounding the listener even during the quieter tracks.Now a lot of the mixed reviews bring up the fact that the labels on Disc 1 and Disc 2 are actually mislabeled. Disc 1 is stated in the booklet as being digitally remastered from the original tapes, and Disc 2 is supposed to be a new analog master, but from my listening experience, Disc 2 does indeed sound like the digital remaster that Disc 1 is supposed to be. Another issue that people have with this is the supposed "glitch" that you hear in "What You Want" on Disc 1 (the analog master). Personally, I favor Disc 2 whenever I listen to this album so I haven't given Disc 1 a fair listen, but even if there is a glitch, who cares? If Kevin Shields had reissued this album with just the digital remaster, there would be only praise about it, because it sounds really good. I haven't heard the original 1991 CD, but from what I've read on message boards, apparently Disc 2 here is that, but a little louder. That's fine by me. It's not overly loud, and if you listen to it on a good pair of headphones, you'll be submerged in the gorgeous shoegazing soundscape of MBV for 45 minutes, and be proud that you bought this reissue in the end. And I'm sure if I do ever get down to listening to Disc 1, the glitch probably won't bother me that much. It's not that big a deal, guys. Stop giving an excellent reissue such negative reviews.By the way, the reissue of "Isn't Anything" sounds just as good, and their new album "m b v" is just mindblowing.

If you love this album but cringe at the shrill, hashy and brittle sound quality of the 1991 CD, you need the remastered version, and you need it desperately. The content of both discs in this package is identical, but CD1 was remastered from the original digital tape and CD2 was remastered from the original analogue tape. Even CD1 sounds far better than the 1991 disc, but CD2 is where the fine hand of mastering wizard Alan Moulder really shines. The sound is clean and rich, and even has a sense of depth to it, making it easy to hear every layer of this brilliantly dense music. CD1 has slightly better resolution, but CD2 is the overall hands down winner as it is simply more fun to listen to. Perhaps best of all, the analogue version allows you to listen to this glorious album really loud without any discomfort. When I listened to the 1991 CD at a high volume, I'd often find myself listening to just a couple of cuts at a time because the sound quality was so nasty. And let's face it, really loud is only way to listen properly to Loveless.

Correct me if I’m wrong but this 2021 release appears to be in the correct order with the CDs now labeled correctly and no obvious “glitch” as was with the 2012 version. CD 1 is now CD 1 (from DAT) and CD 2 is now CD 2 (from analog).

No need to go on and on repeating what others have already stated. Simply put this is one of the greatest and most influential records ever released. I’m a big fan of many different genres of music (hip-hop, classic rock, metal, alternative, punk, etc) and this is still one of my favorite albums of all time, and I’ve been listening to it for 27 years since the day it was released in 1991. Buy this and it will change your life. It’s a grower and gets better and better with each additional listen.

When I was in high school, Rolling Stone magazine published a guide they called "The Essential 200," a list of albums spanning the '50s to the mid-'90s. On that list, among many other albums I'd one day call favorites, was "Loveless." I bought a CD copy of the album in college, in 1998, though it would be years until I fully appreciated what I was hearing. It's probably the album I've heard -- and thought about, and read about, and talked about -- more than any other. As remastered reissues have become the thing over the years, owning an updated (read: louder) copy of "Loveless" seemed, to borrow a phrase from RS, essential. This 2012 set offers a remastered original version as well as a version of the album mastered from the 12-inch analog tapes, and truth be told, I can't tell much of a difference. The analog disc does seem to have a "wider" sound, where the guitar(s) stretch out over the tracks in places, but beyond that, I'm not sure. They both sound great. Can someone tell me what I'm (not) hearing?

Fantastic CD! For this review I will be describing the CD and the quality of it, as opposed to the (fantastic) music it contains. The first disc is a very mediocre at best cut and is a very poor port. Disc 2 however, is the optimal version of this album (besides maybe the +$100 vinyl maybe). The music sounds FANTASTIC and has a very pleasing range. The second disk allows for new, previously buried sounds, to be heard in the mix and they sound better than ever. Please do yourself a favour and buy this fantastic CD if you are considering it.

The remaster is incredible and of high quality. The bad press must have been from people who don't like Loveless or want it to succeed.The digital remaster on disc one is from the vinyl reissue that has been around for years, which I think is tremendous, but the real chestnut is disc 2's analogue remaster which is the finest sounding version of this album. This is the standard version of this album.

A Classic album no matter what anybody says.It came on time but it had a couple of marks from the mail people not taking care of it. I only wish that it had some extra b sides or something.

Disque à posséder compte tenu de son influenceCe pressage possède une excellente qualité sonore.

ottima spedizione da parte di amazon, prodotto integro.

El segundo disco de My Bloody Valentine definió nuevos derroteros para la música alternativa —algo así como un Nevermind para iniciados— y puso al ruido como medio y fin artístico en su máxima expresión, catapultándolo al primer plano en la escena musical en Reino Unido en 1991. El cuarteto irlandés logró de esta manera —y más o menos sin proponérselo— un magnum opus que resonaría en las décadas por venir y que definiría un legado, ya que la banda no lanzaría un tercer disco por 22 años. Loveless es un disco inmaculado y sumergido en una pared sonora densa e inexpugnable, compuesta lo mismo por voces etéreas que por guitarras y guitarras grabadas una sobre otra para darnos un álbum donde prevalece el sonido sobre las canciones, un mantra que se convertiría en punta de lanza e influencia obligada para sinnúmero de bandas de la década de 1990, y que llega en forma de temas atemporales como "Only Shallow" "When You Sleep" "Come in Alone" "SometImes" y "Soon". El impacto de Loveless, es, pues, incalculable para la música alternativa del último cuarto de siglo, con sus aportaciones para el shoegazing, el noise rock y hasta el dance y el britpop. Sobra decir que Loveless casi lleva a la quiebra al sello discográfico Creation Records, al durar en producción dos años y pasar por decenas de estudios e ingenieros, lo que llevó a que los costos de Loveless sobrepasaran el cuarto de millón de libras, una cifra por demás impensable para un disco en un sello independiente. Esta reedición de 2012 nos presenta dos versiones del disco, en ambas el contenido, track por track, es el mismo, la diferencia es que el primer CD es una remasterización de las cintas originales hecha por Kevin Shields, mientras que el segundo es una masterización que se hizo de la grabación desde las cintas análogas de media pulgada —de donde se extrajo el máster original del primer CD, asumimos— por lo que, desde una perspectiva sonora, las diferencias son mínimas y sólo si eres un audiófilo serías capaz de percibirlas. Esta reedición suena fresca y más viva que la edición original, que siempre sonó enlatada y falta de rango dinámico, por lo que es una bienvenida adición a cualquier colección de discos de rock que se precie, y por partida doble, mejor.

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A great album!