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** A 2-CD reissue (including a remastered version, plus the original recording) is slated for UK release on March 8, 2010. Mark your calendar in pencil, as that release date has been pushed back endlessly over (at least) the past year. It's finally received a new release date of May 7, 2012.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: So many examples, but just for one, "Once in love/I'll be the death of you" sneaks into the otherwise ethereal "Blown a Wish". To be fair, this is an album of [[The Unintelligible|unintelligibles]] we're talking about, so you really need to know what you're listening for or you need to have listened to it many times to catch it.
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: All of their stuff. For example: ''Realise'' is just a picture of a woman <ref>No, nobody knows who she is, or if she's from the band</ref> [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Youmademerealise.jpg lying in a field with flowers holding a knife to her own throat], ''Feed'' is a [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/My_Bloody_Valentine_-_Feed_Me_with_Your_Kiss.jpg creepy close-up of a woman's face], ''Anything'' has [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/MyBloodyValentineIsntAnything.jpg a blurred picture of Kevin and Bilinda] so as to appear [[The Faceless|faceless]], ''Glider'' is a [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/MyBloodyValentineGlider.jpg photomanipulated image of two people kissing], ''Tremolo'' is [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/My_Bloody_Valentine_-_Tremolo.jpg a less creepy, blurry close-up of a woman's face], and probably the most iconic one of all, ''Loveless'' is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131017174938/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/MyBloodyValentineLoveless.jpg a close-up of Kevin's guitar, manipulated to appear pink].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: At least [http://www.last.fm/music/My+Bloody+Valentine/+images/24089167 one of their publicity photos] nods to their name being swiped from a Canadian slasher movie. (That photo in particular doubles as [[Multiple Reference Pun]] since it has Bilinda holding up a ''butcher'''s axe. Unfortunately, it doesn't have Kevin defending himself with ''shields''.)
* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Debbie. As far as the general recollection goes she didn't play on ''Loveless'' despite being credited (Kevin also took over Bilinda's guitar parts, but she didn't mind because she didn't think she was very good and wanted recording to go faster). Also, doesn't inspire the fans in a certain way like Bilinda. Colm too, who's also saddled with an unpronounceable name and didn't contribute that much to ''Loveless'' either.
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* [[Silly Love Songs]]: Just delivered at an ear-shattering volume with heavy doses of droney psychedelia.
** It's fun to think of MBV as [[The Smiths]] if the latter were tortured in Hell.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Generally, if you see something about MBV, it will use one of two band pictures. One of them's also used on this very page, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130628025923/http://www.last.fm/music/My+Bloody+Valentine/+images/43198175 the other one] being a bit more unsettling, what with the [[Death Glare]]-ish looks and all. Doesn't help that those are the best and most famous images of the band, with others not really measuring up.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: After an album's worth of shoegazing, "Soon" ends ''Loveless'' by tossing a funky Madchester beat under the band's signature guitar walls. And it kicks arse.
* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: With all the [[Mondegreen|Mondegreens]], My Bloody Valentine's lyrics basically embody this trope. Notably, Midway Still attempted to cover "You Made Me Realise", but admitted to Melody Maker that they couldn't understand the lyrics and they made some of them up instead. Understandable, since that song basically boils down to [[Epic Riff]], "something something ''you may as well commit suicide''", the refrain of "something something ''insane eyes, you made me realise''" and the holocaust section.
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