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“To Here Knows When” by My Bloody Valentine
From the EP Tremolo (1991)
“To Here Knows When” by My Bloody Valentine appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1991 on the EP Tremolo. Its best result is #37 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #209 alternative song of 1991.
"To Here Knows When" was the lead single from Tremolo, My Bloody Valentine's sixth EP, which Creation released in February 1991, and it's the sound of a band buying time. Loveless had been swallowing the Irish group since early 1989, dragging them through months that went nowhere and through 19 different studios, so Kevin Shields and Creation's Alan McGee agreed to put out two EPs in the meantime, Glider in 1990 and then Tremolo.
Shields wrote the music and shares the words with Bilinda Butcher, and the band produced it themselves. It's shoegaze gone fully underwater, drenched in effects and built on Shields's signature glide guitar, a warped, woozy tide that seems to melt as you listen. A different mix, with another ending, surfaced later that year on Loveless.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 37 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
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