My Bloody Valentine - This is Your Bloody Valentine (Full Album)

Strange how much they sounded like The Cramps. Released in 1985.

1. "Forever and Again" 0:00
2. "Homelovin' Guy" 3:32
3. "Don't Cramp My Style" 6:34
4. "Tiger in My Tank" 8:59
5. "The Love Gang" 12:29
6. "Inferno" 16:23
7. "The Last Supper" 21:03

Buy the album if you enjoyed it.

[josefk.]

Sounds like Echo and the Bunnymen fronting an Irish “Doors” Cover band. And I like it.

[toptonychick]

I didn't expect this at all. It's like listening to a totally different band.

[alexpaxton]

MBV's early releases are such a mystery to me

[jasonarmstrong]

it kinda sounds like a strange mix between 50's Rockabilly and 60's Surf Rock filtered through the Ramone's style of punk rock

[getrichquicc]

I'm an MBV fan and I only just found out about this album yesterday, its like finding out led zeppelin used to be a punk band.

[Samurai-ssqs]

1. Forever and Again
[Verse 1]
Well they say that no love waits forever
But sometimes I feel like I've been waiting forever and again
Yeah, they say that no love lasts forever
But this yearning seems to last an age like a [?]

[Chorus]
Hey don't you know no man will never love or need you like I do
And nobody has to give a heart of selfish pure and true
Not ever babe
Now or ever babe

[Verse 2]
Well I can read your feeble mind
Your dangerous simplicity
Why just whisper [?] words forever
My position is impregnable
Gazing into those vaccant eyes makes a half man feel complete

[Chorus]
Hey don't you know no man will ever love or need you like I do
And nobody has to give a heart of selfish pure and true
Not ever babe
Now or ever babe

[Verse 3]
Alone I [?]
Stashed my feeble [?]
One laid in a milk like whitewashed world
And don't know damn well no one gives a damn?

[Outro]
Hey don't you know no man will ever love or need you like I do
And nobody has to give a heart of selfish pure and true
No, no man will ever love or need you quite like I do
Oh quite like I do
Yeah, quite like I did
Oh quite like I do

2. Homelovin' Guy
Some say that [?] is a crime and only might is right
They paint [?]
So if you really wanna know what's goin' down
Well just open your eyes and baby look around
I've seen so much and then that I can't take much more I
I'm a home loving guy who likes nothing better than a night beside the fire

A girl dressed in black with a whip in her hand
Will lacerate your back if you're that kind of man
So if you really want to take a look inside
Well baby take off your pants and [?]

I've seen so much and then that I can't take much more
I'm a home loving guy who likes nothing better than a night beside the fire

The four corners of earth and [?] sail the tides
You learn the law of the jungle if you wanna survive
So if you really wanna know what's goin' down
Well just open your eyes and baby look around
I've seen so much and then that I can't take much more I'm
A home loving guy who likes nothing better than a night beside the fire
Beside the fire
Said God, listen [?]

3. Don't Cramp my Style


4. Tiger in my Tank
Well let me be your lover, girl
Let me find out when
There's only one way outta this
And no need to pretend

The taste of blood is warm and sweet
And welcome to his lips
The congregation decimated
By the shrapnel of his rhetoric

I am you and you are me
And god is living in everyone
And Jesus cried a million tears
To save the lives of you and me

Yeah, I could be your lover, girl
Or I could be your friend[?]
Dig the mother, dress the lamb
And long live his suicide

Well, I could be a wise man[?]
Heaven knows how much I've tried
But neither time, nor cataclysm
Will change this tiger's stripes

Didn't my neighbors tell you [?]

5. The Love Gang
I fear the flying ships
My love kept you in the town
Gave up my troubled soul
Oh yeah, they got real soul
There were no strangers abound
Then I faced the betrayal

You got the drug to set my senses alight
You've been stupid, girl, tonight

We cross the narrow divide
The love can show us the way
The burning power of love
And city hall is in flames
Since while our angels are dead
Move through the cornered tree

You got the drug to set my senses alight
You've been stupid, girl, tonight

You come with me through the guards
Yeah, just like your guards
Where the too bold lie
So take a look around, all you see and all you need
All you can get, when you're down on your knees
Oh-oh, on your knees

The floating angels are dead
I hope it's black in the sky
Hold too much beauty to say
You gotta clear your eyes
The rain might mingle with clouds
And people dropping like flies

You got the drug to set my senses alight
You've been stupid, girl, tonight

Come with me through the guards
They're just like your guards
Where the too bold lie
So take a look around, all you see and all you need
All you can get, when you're down on your knees
Oh-oh, down on your knees

We cross the narrow divide
The love can show us the way
The burning power of love
And city hall is in flames
Since while our angels are dead
Move through the cornered tree

You got the drug to set my senses alight
Oh please for me, please, please, please

6. Inferno


7. The Last Supper
They set our tables in the stream
There's light it's screaming from the trees
There's gonna be the real shower
And all the ships fall in line
Look out the storm it's growing here
And here the body sinks or swims
So slip into your new red dress
We're gonna dance until we drown

I held the rose buds in my hands
But I can't feel it now
I saw a girl walked in my dreams
But she's immortal now
Oh was it hope we poured through my hands?
I turn a tear in this fantasy
Another day in the future's past
Just look up: our greatest fear

The fragrant blossoms of the fall
Turn to decay before my eyes
They pay the piper
For what it's worth
I always knew it had to end

I held the rose buds in my hands
But I can't feel it now
I saw a girl walked in my dreams
But she's immortal now
Oh was it hope we poured through my hands?
I turn a tear in this fantasy
Another day in the future's past
Just look up: our greatest fear

I held the rose buds in my hands
But I can't feel it now
I saw a girl walked in my dreams
But she's immortal now
Oh was it hope we poured through my hands?
I turn a tear in this fantasy
Another day in the future's past
Just look up: our greatest fear

The fragrant blossoms of the fall
Turn to decay before my eyes
The night is young and yeah it's late
It's so much later than you think
So slip into your new red dress and
Baby dance until we drown
Slip into your new red dress and
Baby dance until we drown
Oh ho ho ho ho hoo
Oh ho ho ho o wo wooo

[ryankrankowski]

I was expecting complete garbage with the way the band used to speak about their past, but I really like this!

[Maxipandah]

This sounds like the Cramps. Like a lot.... damn this is awesome.

[jameswayne]

I love how varied and expansive MBV’s career is!

[schwarzblatt]

Reminds me a bit of the Birthday Party. Interesting.

[digglyda]

Ha, ha. Loving the comments.
I bought this back in about 1988 when I was 17 years old.
To ME ...THIS IS what My Bloody Valentine do sound like !

[tsartodd]

the singer sounds like he can't make up his mind on whether he's ripping off Lux Interior or Nick Cave.

[RossBayCult]

Definitely influenced by The Birthday Party and The Cramps. The Last Supper 21:13 is pure The Doors worship.

[vnusnfurs]

I heard they were influenced by the birthday party a lot back then and I can definitely hear it

[jeromelove]

I looked up how the singer on this EP looks nowadays and he's one really intimitading gothic guy.

[austinwarlock]

The last supper really is one of the most beautiful songs of all time, far more beautiful then the painting. Early my bloody valentine is a guilty pleasure for sure. #mybloodyvalentine

[xylazinezombie]

Colm Ó Cíosóig said that the studio that they recorded this album at was so cheap that the engineer who was doing the mixing had to do a live gig that night, so he had to leave at 6 pm. "It took an afternoon to mix the record. One of the tracks was mixed in 10 minutes. We just put the faders up. 'Done! Next track.'"

[ledzepplinreuniontour]

you can hear what's yet to come in the last part/bridge of The Last Supper

[austinwarlock]

It's like the Smith's meets the doors, Iggy pop, joy division, the cramps and loveless-mbv.

[davimag]

The second track has such a cool riff! Especially in the tone change hahaha