This Is Your Bloody Valentine

Infobox Album | Name = This Is Your Bloody Valentine
Type = studio
Artist = My Bloody Valentine

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Released = January 1985
Recorded = Late 1984 at SCS 8TK Studios
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 25:00
Label = Tycoon Records ST7501
Producer = My Bloody Valentine
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:83420r5ac48z~T10 link]
Last album =
This album = "This Is Your Bloody Valentine"
(1985)
Next album = "Geek!"
(1985) |

"This Is Your Bloody Valentine" is the debut release by the band My Bloody Valentine. The seven-song mini-album, recorded in Berlin, reflects the group's early gothic post-punk tendencies, and generally bears little relation to the shoegazing sound with which they are most commonly associated, with Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling " [their] debut album...an unfocused and derivative collection of post-punk goth rock". [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:83420r5ac48z~T10 |title=This Is Your Bloody Valentine (Review) |accessdaymonth=23 March |accessyear=2008 |author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas |year= |month= |work=allmusic.com |publisher=Macrovision Corporation |quote= ] The album made little impression at the time of its release.cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music |year= 1992 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |isbn=0-85112-579-4 |pages=193 |quote=A mini-album, "This Is Your Bloody Valentine", on the obscure German Tycoon label in 1984, made little impression. ]

While The Jesus and Mary Chain have often been suggested as an influence on My Bloody Valentine, guitarist Kevin Shields played this down, pointing to this first release: "They're a great band, and an influence, because when they came along it was all jangly guitar and out-of-tune vocal and they had this great overdrive thing, really exciting. But we've got a mini-LP we made in Berlin in '84, pre-Mary Chain, ... with all our traits there-feedback thrash. . .". [ [http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/press/mm-30jan88.html Melody Maker feature, 20 January 1988] ]

The mini-album was reissued in 1990 by Dossier Records (DLP7501) on vinyl and CD.

Track listing

All songs written by Kevin Shields/Dave Conway/Colm Cusack.

# "Forever and Again" – 3:32
# "Homelovin' Guy" – 3:02
# "Don't Cramp My Style" – 2:25
# "Tiger in My Tank" – 3:30
# "The Love Gang" – 3:54
# "Inferno" – 4:40
# "The Last Supper" – 4:30

Personnel

* Mark Bosak – engineer
* Dave Conway – lead vocals
* Colm Cusack (aka Colm Ó Cíosóig) – drums
* Kevin Shields – guitar, backup vocals, bass guitar
* Tina – keyboards

References