You Made Me Realise

Infobox Album | Name = You Made Me Realise
Type = EP
Artist = My Bloody Valentine


Released = August 8 1988
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Shoegazing
Length = 16:25
Label = Creation Records (CRE055)
Producer = My Bloody Valentine
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:az60tr5qkl4x link]
Last album = "Ecstasy"
(1987)
This album = "You Made Me Realise"
(1988)
Next album = "Isn't Anything"
(1988)|

"You Made Me Realise" is the lead track of an otherwise untitled EP by My Bloody Valentine, released in August 1988. It was their first record for Creation Records, and their first to consistently demonstrate the beginnings of their signature shoegazing sound. Though a fairly short track in its recorded version, during live performances the band would repeat a single chord from the song for as long as they felt bearable, the song descending into cacophony for upwards of twenty minutes. The band referred to this as the "holocaust section". For the 2008 reunion shows, You Made Me Realise has brought each show to an ear-splitting conclusion.

In March 2005, "Q" magazine placed "You Made Me Realise" at number 35 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "You Made Me Realise" at number 50 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

Track listing

All songs written by Kevin Shields except * by Shields/Bilinda Butcher/Colm Ó Cíosóig.

7-inch

# "You Made Me Realise" – 3:46
# "Slow" – 3:11
*Limited to 1,000 copies (CRE055)

Creation 12-inch

# "You Made Me Realise" – 3:46
# "Slow" – 3:11
# "Thorn" – 3:36
# "Cigarette In Your Bed" – 3:29
# "Drive It All Over Me" – 3:04 *
*Cat. no.: CRE055T
*Reissued on CD in April 1990 (CRESCD055)

Mercury 12-inch

# "You Made Me Realise" – 3:46
# "Slow" – 3:11
# "Cigarette In Your Bed" – 3:29
# "Feed Me with Your Kiss" – 3:56
# "Emptiness Inside" – 2:50
# "I Need No Trust" – 3:32
*Mercury Records 12-inch from November 1988 (Mercury 874 343-1), combining tracks from this EP and its successor, "Feed Me with Your Kiss".

Miscellanea

*"You Made Me Realise" was covered by Silver Sun and released on their Too Much, Too Little, Too Late EP in 1998.
*Back in 1991 Midway Still also covered the song, rather unsuccessfully, as they claimed (in Melody Maker) that they couldn't understand the lyrics....so they made some of them up instead.
*"You Made Me Realise" was also covered by Amusement Parks on Fire as a b-side on the 2006 single release of "In Flight".

Personnel

* Kevin Shields — vocals, guitar
* Bilinda Butcher — vocals, guitar
* Colm Ó Cíosóig — drums
* Debbie Googe — bass
* My Bloody Valentine — production