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My Bloody Valentine: the reunion confirmed Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year. In an exclusive interview set to air Monday, Nov. 12 on VBS.tv, Shields speaks at length with Ian Svenonious on Soft Focus about his career and art, including some tantalizing hints about the next phase of My Bloody Valentine. When The Daily Swarm first reported on the upcoming My Bloody Valentine reunion in August, our sources insisted on remaining anonymous, and Kevin Shields’ own statements came only in the form of fans’ personal encounters culled from a variety of message boards. Some accused us of rumormongering (see The My Bloody Valentine ‘Reunion’: Total Bull$h!t Or Complete and Total Bull$h!t?), but we were confident in our work and that after years of false starts and dashed hopes, one of our favorite bands of all time was truly gearing up for a return to action. The reunion is, in fact, happening. In the Soft Focus interview – Shields’ first on-the-record utterances since last year’s sit-down with Magnet magazine, recorded over the summer at a London pub – he speaks, albeit briefly, about the band’s return to the studio and how a new record is due sometime before the end of this year. We were making a record in the 90s, around when the band broke up in 1995…and I continued with Belinda. We kinda made we made most of an album….It’s going to be this ‘96/‘97 record half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993–94, and a little bit of new stuff. I pretty much know what the one that’s going to come out this year is going to sound like because its already pretty much 3/4’s done already…it sounds like what we sounded like – different but not radically different. People will go, “Yeah, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine.” The 30 minute interview is part of the second season of Soft Focus, VBS.tv’s musician interview series hosted by Ian Svenonious. Recorded entirely in London, upcoming broadcasts feature in-depth discussions with Penny Rimbaud of Crass; Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream; Billy Childish; Terry Hall of The Specials; Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays and Graham Coxon out of Blur. The season premiered this week with Svenonious’ interview with The Fall and Von Sudenfed’s Mark E. Smith. While Shields claims a My Bloody Valentine album is due this year, he gives no indication of exactly when or how it will be released. When the group split up in 1995 they had already left Creation Records and signed a legendarily ill-fated deal with Island, but it is unlikely that the contract remains in effect after all this time. The band recently activated mybloodyvalentine.co.uk and Shields’ manager confirmed the the site is being built by Debbie Goodge, the band’s bass player. It is possible that the album will see an independent, Internet-only, Radiohead style release, and a release date could be announced at any time. As for My Bloody Valentine’s return to the stage and possible appearance at Coachella 2008, we have no new news to report (the subject does not come up in the Soft Focus interview). According to sources close to the band and the festival, discussions are ongoing and no final decisions have yet been made. Article: http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/my-bloo...nion-confirmed/ Interview: http://www.thedailyswarm.com/watch/kevin-s...s-now-and-then/ They're back!!! :cheer: PS For those that never heard about MBV, below is one of their best songs: fomiTa3Ryko

Her best song from Drastic Fantastic IMO :wub:

Subhuman 6 #1 Crush 6 Girl Don't Come 6+ Sleep 5 Trip My Wire 5 Butterfly Collector 5 Driving Lesson 4 Alien Sex Fiend 3- Kick My Ass 5 These B-sides are almost good as S/T album tracks B)

1. Leftfield & Lydon - Open Up (20pts) 2. New Order - Regret 3. Radiohead - Creep 4. Depeche Mode - I Feel You 5. Sting - Fields Of Gold 6. REM - Everybody Hurts 7. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way 8. Spin Doctors - Two Princes 9. Beloved - Sweet Harmony 10. Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own 11. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box 12. Duran Duran - Ordinary World 13. Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret 14. 2 Unlimited - No Limit 15. Pet Shop Boys - Go West 16. Bjork - Venus As A Boy 17. Haddaway - What Is Love? 18. M People - Moving On Up 19. Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams 20. Inner Circle - Sweat (A La La La La Long) (1 pt)

My top 20 (1992): 1. U2 - One (20 pts) 2. Michael Jackson - Remember The Time 3. REM - Man On The Moon 4. Annie Lennox - Why 5. Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode 6. Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain 7. KLF ft Tammy Wynette - Justified & Ancient 8. Nirvana - Come As You Are 9. Stereo MCs - Connected 10. Cure - Friday I'm In Love 11. Tori Amos - Silent All These Years 12. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven 13. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters 14. Richard Marx - Hazard 15. Orb - Blue Room 16. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 17. Snap - Rhythm Is a Dancer 18. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite 19. Primal Scream - Movin' On Up 20. Sophie Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover (1 pt) Missing nominations top 5: 1. FSOL - Papua New Guinea (5 pts) 2. KLF - What time is love 3. U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing 4. Suzanne Vega - In Liverpool 5. Shamen - Boss drum (1 pt) PS in fact the first missing nominations from my top are one of the best songs ever made ;P

Pretty good top... I know almost 90% of the songs from this top PS nice to find Garbage (even it's #72) ^_^

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Garbage Era B-sides Boot & Immune Subhuman 5 #1 Crush 5 Girl Don't Come 5 Sleep 5 Trip My Wire 5 Butterfly Collector 5 Driving Lesson 5 Alien Sex Fiend 5 Kick My Ass 5

Same here! :cheer:

The World Is Not Enough

Nice, very nice! I like the way she sings and... she moves :P

Cool song! I must add it was produced by Butch Vig (he produced some famous albums of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, L7 and of course Garbage)

7.5 As Heaven Is Wide

Stupid Girl Shut Your Mouth or Dumb

Only Happy When It Rains 95+ I Think I'm Paranoid 2-

Girl Don't Come 13xForever or Betcha

Only Happy When It Rains 92- I Think I'm Paranoid 5+

8.5 one of their best covers... Dog New Tricks

When I Grow Up Happy Home or Fix Me Now

^ Great choice! "White Shadows" is my fave song from X&Y (the next is "Talk" and then "Speed of Sound")

Don't Let Me Get Me (my fave song of P!nk)

^ 9/10 (really powerful song!) Queer

Only Happy When It Rains 92+ I Think I'm Paranoid 4-

7/10 Dumb @Osiris: realy surprised by the rating of TW... It's really one of the best songs from V2.0 ;)

Only Happy When It Rains 88- I Think I'm Paranoid 8+