Loveless

MY BLOODY VALENTINE And TEENAGE FANCLUB Released An Album Today 35 Years Ago

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4 November 2026

Band: MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Who: The genre-breaking shoegaze explores from
Ireland, led by mastermind Kevin Shields.

Album: LOVELESS
Their 2nd (of only 3).

Released: 4 Nov 1991,
35 years ago today.

Kevin Shields experimentied with glide guitar technique, non-standard tunings,
digital sampling, and meticulous production methods. The band recorded at nineteen
different studios and hired several engineers during the album’s prolonged recording.

Since its release, Loveless has been widely cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time, a landmark work of the shoegaze subgenre, and a significant influence on various subsequent artists.

NME said: “Loveless fires a silver-coated bullet into the future, daring all-comers to try
and recreate its mixture of moods, feelings, emotion, styles and, yes, innovations.”


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Band: TEENAGE FANCLUB
Who: Scottish nightingales with
13 albums, so far, to their credit.

Album: BANDWAGONESQUE
Their second one.

Released: 4 Nov 1991,
today 35 years ago.

The cover was designed by Sharon Fitzgerald. When Kiss member Gene Simmons,
who had trademarked the logo of a moneybag with a dollar symbol, was made
aware of the record, he sent a letter to Geffen Records, who in turn gave in and
sent Simmons a cheque.

AllMusic said: “Although its incandescent harmonies, lazily immediate
songs, and crunching guitars earned it endless comparisons to vintage
Big Star, Bandwagonesque is in every way a product of its own time.”


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THE CURE General ROBERT SMITH About MY BLOODY VALENTINE

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25 August 2026

I wonder which are the two other favourite albums.

“My Bloody Valentine was the first band I heard who clearly pissed all over us. Their album ‘Loveless’ is certainly one of
my all-time three favourite records.”


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Full Robert Smith feature here.

This November it’ll be 35 years since MBV released their seminal LP Loveless.


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Photo on top, by Turn Up The Volume – Rock Werchter, Belgium, July 2026.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Shoegaze Noise Masterpiece ‘LOVELESS’ Released 30 Years Ago Today

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Back in time

4 November 2021

Band: MY BLOODY VALENTINE (Ireland/UK)
Who: Shoegaze noisemakers led by Kevin Shields
Active: Since 1979 / (only) 3 studio LPs with m b v
as their third, already 8 years ago.

Anniversary album: LOVELESS
Released: 4 November 1991 – 30 years ago today

Pitchfork said: “Few pop albums are routinely described in religious terms
but this is one of them. It’s partly because, like any scripture worth its salt, it
leaves itself open to interpretation. Going back to that Eno quote, there’s no
telling what many of these songs “mean,” even after you’ve read the lyrics. They
bypass the language center of the brain and head for other areas, where memory,
tactile sensation, and emotions lie. It’s an album you feel more than one you
understand.” Score: 10/10.

Turn Up The Volume: Loud layers, louder layers, loudest layers.
Outlandish, self-willed, incomparable. Shoegaze guerilla.

Full album…

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