Feed Me with Your Kiss

"Feed Me with Your Kiss" is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine, and was released as a single and also the lead track to the EP of the same name through Creation Records. It is the seventh track and lead single from the band's debut studio album Isn't Anything. It was released on 31 October 1988.[1]

Feed Me with Your Kiss
EP by
Released31 October 1988 (1988-10-31)
Recorded1988
Genre
Length13:26
LabelCreation
ProducerMy Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine chronology
You Made Me Realise
(1988)
Feed Me with Your Kiss
(1988)
Isn't Anything
(1988)

Critical reception edit

EP rating
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]

On the EP, AllMusic critic Nitsuh Abebe wrote: "They don't feel like songs that weren't quite good enough for Isn't Anything; they might display some of the stylistic tendencies of the Ecstasy and Wine period, but they're just as worthwhile as the album tracks."[2]

In another review, Stewart Mason of Allmusic thought that the track "more in keeping with the moody, gothy rock of My Bloody Valentine's much-inferior earliest records." Mason also stated that the track "has a peculiar feel, pitched somewhere between the bombastic self-importance of mid-'80s Nick Cave and the ethereality of prime Cocteau Twins, mixed with the same sort of slightly dopey S&M-tinged lyrics as the roughly contemporaneous "Cigarette in Your Bed," proving that it was in the long run a very smart idea for Kevin Shields to completely bury the lyrics on My Bloody Valentine's later work."[3] Digital Spy commended the "ear-splitting garage rock scuzz of the title track.[4]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Kevin Shields

7-inch (CRE 061)
No.TitleLength
1."Feed Me with Your Kiss"3:56
2."I Believe"3:01
  • Limited to 1,000 copies, many of which showed side B misprinted as "Emptiness Inside"
Creation 12-inch EP (CRE 061T)
No.TitleLength
1."Feed Me with Your Kiss"3:56
2."I Believe"3:01
3."Emptiness Inside"2:50
4."I Need No Trust"3:32
  • Reissued on CD in April 1990 (CRESCD061)
Mercury 12-inch EP (Mercury 874 343-1)
No.TitleLength
1."You Made Me Realise"3:45
2."Slow"3:11
3."Cigarette in Your Bed"3:29
4."Feed Me with Your Kiss"3:56
5."Emptiness Inside"2:50
6."I Need No Trust"3:32

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ "My Bloody Valentine, Feed Me with Your Kiss". Melody Maker. 28 October 1988.
  2. ^ a b Abebe, Nitsuh. "My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss [CD single]". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  3. ^ Mason, Stewart. "My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me with Your Kiss". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  4. ^ Nissim, Mayer (17 May 2012). "My Bloody Valentine: 'Isn't Anything', 'Loveless' & 'EPs 1988-1991'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 19 September 2015.