#122 (of 365) "Sometimes" My Bloody Valentine

Loveless is generally considered the greatest / first / most perfect shoe gaze record, ushering in a truly unique sound and entire new era of music. From a contemporary review, back in 1991, Andrew Perry writes: "An album without parallel. Its creative inspiration defies belief. Though 'To Here Knows When' is pretty well the weirdest track of the eleven, that glorious distortion gives a fair signal of what to expect – the unexpected. Everything you hear confounds your idea of how a pop song should be played, arranged and produced."

Loveless has been a consistent critical favourite. It came in at number 14 in the 1991 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[85] In 1999, Pitchfork named Loveless the best album of the 1990s. The album was ranked at number 22 on Spin's list of "100 Greatest Albums 1985–2005," with Chuck Klosterman writing that "whenever anyone uses the phrase swirling guitars, this record is why. A testament to studio production and single-minded perfectionism, Loveless has a layered, inverted thickness that makes harsh sounds soft and fragile moments vast."

This is the only MBV song on this list, although several others from this album could have certainly made it.
It is, oddly, no longer on Apple Music or Spotify, but hopefully will return soon.

"Sometimes" - My Bloody Valentine // Loveless (1991)