Song · My Bloody Valentine
“Soon” by My Bloody Valentine
From the EP Glider (1990)
“Soon” by My Bloody Valentine appears on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1990 and 2023. It was first released in 1990 on the EP Glider. Its best result is #2 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #73 alternative song of 1990 and #4,472 alternative song of all time.
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"Soon" opens Glider, the My Bloody Valentine EP that Creation put out on 23 April 1990, and it's the sound of noise merchants discovering the dancefloor. Bogged down in a marathon of sessions for their second album that had already dragged them through 19 studios, Kevin Shields and Creation executive Alan McGee agreed to feed the faithful some EPs first, and Shields holed up with engineer Harold Burgon for three weeks at Woodcray in Berkshire to make this one.
Seven minutes long, it rides a loping, sampled groove under a tidal smear of Shields and Bilinda Butcher's guitars, with Debbie Googe's bass and Colm Ó Cíosóig's drums and samples keeping the hips moving. The words, as ever, stay blurred. An alternate mix later closed Loveless in 1991.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 2 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1990 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 90 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1991) | 100 |
| 2000 | 16 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (2000) | 50 |
| 2004 | 504 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2019 | 404 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2022 | 522 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 418 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2023 | 449 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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