Strawberry Wine (My Bloody Valentine song)

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Strawberry Wine (My Bloody Valentine song) - Wikipedia

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"Strawberry Wine"

Single by My Bloody Valentine

B-side

"Never Say Goodbye"/"Can I Touch You"

Released

9 November 1987

Recorded

July 1987

Genre

Length

2:33

Lazy

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine singles chronology

"Sunny Sundae Smile"
(1987)

"Strawberry Wine"
(1987)

"You Made Me Realise"
(1988)

"Strawberry Wine" is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. It was released as a non-album single on 9 November 1987 on Lazy Records. It was the band's second release for Lazy and the first to feature vocalist and guitarist Bilinda Butcher, who had joined the band in April 1987 following the departure of original vocalist David Conway.

"Strawberry Wine" was released as a 12-inch single in a limited pressing of 2,500 copies. The contents of the single were later combined with My Bloody Valentine's following release, the mini album Ecstasy (1987), and reissued on the compilation album Ecstasy and Wine (1989). The compilation album was released without the band's consent and due to an error, an alternate mix of "Strawberry Wine" was used.^[1]

Upon its release, "Strawberry Wine" received moderate critical acclaim and peaked at number 13 on the United Kingdom Independent Singles Chart.^[2] Critics, who compared and contrasted it to Ecstasy, referred to the single as "certainly the better of the two releases" and described the title track as "still sounding in parts like the old Valentines with a strong Mamas & Papas type vocal line". The single's B-sides were referred to as "throwaways, except for the curiously different guitar style being heard for the first time."^[1] In Loveless, a book from the 33⅓ series about the My Bloody Valentine album of the same name, Mike McGonial referred to "Strawberry Wine" as a "rarified, effete and poppy approach to Byrdsian rock".^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kevin Shields unless otherwise noted

UK 12-inch single (Lazy Records, LAZY07T)
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Strawberry Wine"			2:33
2.	"Never Say Goodbye"	Shields, Googe	Shields, Ó Cíosóig	2:32
3.	"Can I Touch You"			3:15

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from "Strawberry Wine"'s liner notes.^[4]

My Bloody Valentine

Kevin Shields – vocals, guitar
Bilinda Butcher – vocals, guitar
Debbie Googe – bass
Colm Ó Cíosóig – drums

Technical personnel

My Bloody Valentine – production
Steve Nunn – engineering

Chart positions

Chart (1987)	Peak position
UK Independent Singles Chart^[2]	13

References

^ ^a ^b Brown, Nick (1991). "My Bloody Valentine". Spiral Scratch (February 1991).
^ ^a ^b Lazell 1997, p. 155.
^ McGonial 2007, p. 24.
^ "Strawberry Wine" (12-inch). My Bloody Valentine. Lazy Records. 1987. LAZY07T.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

Bibliography

Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits: 1980–1989: The Complete Guide to UK Independent Charts (Singles & Albums). London: Cherry Red. ISBN 978-0-951720-69-1.
McGonial, Mike (2007). Loveless. 33⅓. New York: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-826415-48-6.

External links

"Strawberry Wine" at Discogs (list of releases)
"Strawberry Wine" at MusicBrainz (information and list of recordings)

v t e My Bloody Valentine
Kevin Shields Colm Ó Cíosóig Debbie Googe Bilinda Butcher David Conway
Studio albums	Isn't Anything Loveless m b v
Mini albums	This Is Your Bloody Valentine Ecstasy
Live albums	Man You Love to Hate – Live
Compilations	Ecstasy and Wine EP's 1988–1991
Extended plays	Geek! The New Record by My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise Glider Tremolo
Singles	"No Place to Go" "Sunny Sundae Smile" "Strawberry Wine" "You Made Me Realise" "Feed Me with Your Kiss" "Instrumental" "Sugar" "When You Sleep" "Only Shallow"
Related	Discography Songs Kevin Shields discography The Complex Glide guitar Rollercoaster Tour Yellow Loveless Beautiful Noise Warm Inventions

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