“You Made Me Realise” by My Bloody Valentine

"You Made Me Realise" leads off My Bloody Valentine's 1988 EP of the same name, and Creation sent it out as the lead single. Kevin Shields wrote it, the band produced it themselves, and they recorded it in Walthamstow, in East London. Shields and Bilinda Butcher share the vocals and guitars, Debbie Googe is on bass and Colm Ó Cíosóig on drums.

It welds shoegaze haze to noise-rock violence: a battering riff that keeps slamming to a halt, voices drifting along half-asleep on top, and in the middle the beat drops out entirely for a 40-second squall of noise that's often called the "holocaust" section. The single reached number five on the UK indie chart and 107 on the national singles chart, the Irish band's best showing on either up to then, and it's regarded as one of their essential works.

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