Jesus and Mary Chain Mania!

what i've heard sounds more like oasis

I haven't seen it yet.

It's more JAMC filtered through Love and Rockets' attempts on same -- which I adore, but BRMC proceed to take that formula and then, well, make it suck. One Spacemen 3 ripoff aside, they're a fairly boring and joyless crew.

I saw the Raveonettes described as JAMC meets Buddy Holly. Intriguing, but I don't know if it's worth finding their album.

I'm going to see BRMC tonight. I'm going in with an open mind. But I agree the new album is underwhelming.

That's a surprise? Even the bands who (generally) swear they are "fun-loving" (ie. in a press kit) take their craft seriously.

Otherwise, I really don't much like the post-post-JAMC bands. BRMC can suck my big hairy moose's cock, as can the Warlocks.

He didn't say they took their craft seriously. He said they took THEMSELVES seriously. There's a difference.

I saw 'em play a coupla months back, Jim Reid now looks like a slightly portly accountant - which is fine

...and perhaps equally pertinently, Jim'n'William's sister is currently peddling her wares in a band called Sister Vanilla, with contributions from both brothers on her album.

Looks like we Londoners missed (t)he(i)r last gig tho, cos it was this Tuesday just gone. Was anyone there?

Upside Down
Never Understand
You Trip Me Up
Just Like Honey
The Living End
Taste of Cindy
Some Candy Talking
Psychocandy
The Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful OST vers.)
April Skies
Kill Surf City
Happy When It Rains
Everything is Alright When You're Down
Darklands
Deep One Perfect Morning
Nine Million Rainy Days
Cherry Came Too
On the Wall
Sidewalking
Don't Ever Change
Blues From a Gun
My Girl
Head On
Sometimes Always

(ok, this one is very personal and ignores their later stuff. they're one of my three favorite bands and this collection represents some of my most treasured music, but the last 3 albums just didn't do it for me. "Reverence" is the glaring omission here because I like the idea and lyrics, but the song itself is kind of a tuneless dud. I'd also like to have had "Far Gone and Out" or "Almost Gold" but they're just not as good as the tracks that fit 80 minutes on this one.

I'd love to have someone recommend a CD80 for the last three albums/b-sides.

The list is chronological for official releases per song appearance - 81:21 overburn!)

the planet's more fucked up than I'll ever be

Right on! Honey's Dead was like a coming of age for me, I can't be objective about it.

Did Hope Sandoval break it off with her Reid bro then?

??????????????????????????????????????????

It's got a tune, a tune you can whistle!

Hope and Colm live up the hill from you in K-ton.

did you meet the hstencil? msp?

I'm listening to Munki today. Time has been kind to it. At the time, I remember having an "OMG, WTF?" reaction to it because it was almost like the JAMC recording a satire of a JAMC album.

But with some time and distance, that's what's so great about it.

I mean, honestly. My tape has just disintergrated in ... certain sections. I need a nice, clear, DVD, frame by frame-playable version.

But anyway, yeah. Munki. I mean, maybe it sounds so great because I've heard so much crap lately. I wonder how charitable I would feel if I put on Blues From A Gun or something.

didn't like munki when i hear it recently (apart from Moe Tucker) but Honey's Dead was GREAT on another listen.

(i have the video in digital format (vcd or divx) if that's any use to you kate.)

I mean, sure, they're not known for their lyrical prowess, but it's a long way from "I'll be your plastic toy" or even "I wanna die on a sunny day" for chrissake.

> Psychoanalysis" J&MC Compilation

sounds a lot like the video here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R699/ref%3Dnosim/iq451-21/026-6561500-4698820

which is what i have. i just used my tv capture card to make a digital copy for backup purposes. and because i could.

amazon review for 'sound of speed':
"Reviewer: kat791 from england
not what i was expecting, but good nonetheless. the leonrad cohen cover 'the tower of song' is way cool, as is the cover of 'my girl'. cool acoustic guitar and the singer's got a nice voice. pretty good. similar to the beta band."

8)

Something I made myself, out of vids and snippets off TV. If amazon are selling it, I shal go paranoid !

I love Automatic too. However, the production has dated a little more than Darklands as it has fewer distinguishable electronics. However, Darklands is mostly drum machine too! (some people disagree with me on this point. unfortunately, they are wrong).

Please describe what the difference is between this and the "Psychocandy" version, someone!

>> Please describe what the difference is between this and the
>> "Psychocandy" version, someone!

I believe it has a longer introduction, like a fade-in or something.

Where's the bastard rarities box set?

Yeah, where?

*drums fingers, whistles idly*

Please describe what the difference is between this and the "Psychocandy" version, someone!

It's a completely different recording produced by Stephen Hague. Less abrasive than the album version, the sound is similar to "Some Candy Talking".

That whole soundtrack is amazing, btw.

nabisco otm

[ hi spencer! (\:-[0> ]

Stephen OTM regarding Texas shows.

date	country	city @ venue	other bands	notes

26/04

	USA

	Pomona, California @ the Glass House

	the Icarus Line, more TBA

	a (not so) secret gig

27/04

	USA

	Indio, California @ Coachella Festival

	Björk, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth and a lot of others

	The line-up will be: Jim Reid, William Reid, Phil King, Mark Crozer, Loz Colbert.

04/07

	Portugal

	Lisbon @ Super Bock Super Rock Festival

	

	 

13/07

	Spain

	Madrid @ Summercase Festival

	

	 

14/07

	Spain

	Barcelona @ Summercase Festival

	

	 

12/08

	Germany

	Hildesheim @ M'era Luna Festival

	

	 

31/08

	UK

	Argyll, Scotland @ Connect Festival

	

	 

01/09

	Ireland

	Stradbally, Laois @ Electric Picnic

	

	 

anyone go to meltdown last night?

it's tonight:

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown/jesusmarychain.html

(that's in about two and a half hours, if my time zone guess is right)

and that's only the support band (The Pastels) - if you're anywhere near London, you can still get there (if it isn't sold out)

ITV really ought to stage a Saturday night special named Jesus And Mary Chain Mania, compered by Zoe Ball.

FYI, London people who could still get there: on stage time according to a fan site:
Pastels 7:30-8:10
JAMC 8:30 (3 hours and a half to go)

LOLZ! Thanks v much Stan, I am now going tonight :D

I had to - the Pastels are supporting!

(oh no, if they suck it'll be my fault now)

I will hold you personally responsible.

*hides*

It is well sold out, BTW.

It is well not sold out.

what happened to the 1990s support slot?

that said, pastels + mary chain = my dream bill albeit 15 years too late (and £20 too expensive)

also, main act on at 8:30?

(d'oh on the date)

1990s are playing AFTER the JAMC according to the discussion on this fan forum:

http://sct.amniisia.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3041&start=52

OK, there were no tickets available via the RFH website last week and tickets going for big(ger) money on eBay, so I assumed it was sold out. My apologies.

Anyway, who will Report Back?

Only 15 years, Koogs?

i saw two of the encores- 'vegetable man' and 'you trip me up'. sounded great. band looked miserable.

http://www.optimo.co.uk/jamc.jpg

Did they play "April Skies"???

No April Skies, I'm afraid. Setlist was something like this:

Never Understand
Head On
Far Gone and Out
Sidewalking
Snakedriver
Catchfire
Happy When It Rains
Dead End Kids* (old Freeheat/Jim solo song)
Some Candy Talking
Between Planets
Blues From a Gun
Cracking Up
All Things Must Pass
Teenage Lust
Just Like Honey
-----------------
Reverence
Vegetable Man
You Trip Me Up

*Not sure when this was played in the set - am fairly sure it was around this point

Mystery lady (definitely not Scarlett Johanson) on Just Like Honey. I was right up in the balcony so I had no idea who.

it was Nina Persson from the Cardigans - more here:
http://sct.amniisia.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3078

OK, there were no tickets available via the RFH website last week and tickets going for big(ger) money on eBay, so I assumed it was sold out. My apologies.

Pastels sound was a little muddy at first, but they played Nothing To Be Done so I was happy. JAMC did look a bit miserable, but well that's to be expected! No storming offstage like last time I saw them.

Catchfire

omfg this is probably one of my all-time favorite songs

Nina gets around (isn't she on the new manics single?)

> Pastels sound was a little muddy at first

no change there then 8)

> Only 15 years, Koogs?

that'd be 1992, the almost gold lp, so yes. although anytime before then would also be fine, obv. after that it's touch and go. actually, '92 is a bit late for the pastels, is their jad fair period, when stephen seemed to stop singing. did see them a couple of times then and a couple more after (both supporting b&s, new york and camber sands) and kinda enjoyed them both times. but, yes, again, earlier would be better better.

::jealous::

but you can't get around in an aeroplane!!!

I'm now being told it was the girl from the Duke Spirit, which makes more sense of what I saw and heard onstage.

They're playing Brixton Academy on September 7th.

Who, the Duke Spirit or the JAMC?

JAMC. Must start posting more coherently.

To make up for it, here's a link (that will inevitably not work..)

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?query=search®ion=xxx&category=misc&search=jesus

£25! Plus £5 service charge! Ouch!

But I suppose I'm a grownup now. I better suck up.

LOL oh well I'd rather have seen them at Brixton Academy than at silly seated festival hall, although it was good. Maybe I can take Mrs Poo to this and see them again. She wasn't in the mood to go out on Friday.

I thought about buying seated upstairs tickets. But then I snapped out of it!

The best thing is, this is like 10 minutes from my house! Hurrah!

We went to see the Ramones, at Brixton Academy, back in.

Upstairs seated was all that was left. Better than nothing, obv, for that one. Their last UK gig ever.

But no. Apart from bands who are going to split up and/or die, never do that.

I had seated tickets for the Stooges, that was weird. But they were complimentary so I can't complain. Seated behind Kevin Sheilds, even weirder.

think the last twice i've seen them were both brixton academy gigs - rollercoaster tour and acoustic(!) support for cocteau twins.

"All Things Must Pass" is classic JAMC. This is one of those bands who'll crank out passable-to-good-to-great shit as long as they feel like it.

who else is going to see them at Brixton Academy this Friday? do shows there usually end before the closing of the tube?

they probably will, yes (kicking out time = 11ish, tube = 12 ish)

am still in two minds. ticket prices high. nobody to go with.

I'm going! I am meeting Dream Machine people beforehand in a pub.

i was wrong about tube, forgot the victoria line closes early these days:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/5508.aspx

From Brixton
22:11 northbound all stations to Walthamstow Central
22:21 northbound all stations to Seven Sisters

plenty of slow buses though. take one to stockwell and get northern line from there is quickest. overground trains available to victoria too, every 20 minutes.

(i also thought it was saturday. oh um)

the prices are high, but i figured i'm in london for the weekend, might as well catch some shows (and they were pretty good at the summercase festival, fwiw). anything good going on saturday night?

if you see a lonesome vietnamese dude, come say hi!

x-post: thanks koogs!

May I just add that Richard Hawley's version of "Some Candy Talking" is very lovely indeed?

The Victoria line will be closing early Mondays to Thursdays from 23 July to 22 November to allow line upgrade works.

It should* be running until late on Friday night.

*Who knows what state the network will be in when the strike finishes.

I was thinking of going to this, although I did see them at Meltdown a couple of months ago. But I'm going to be in Birmingham (at a Python Conference, no less) so I can't.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN on tour:
10/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
10/22 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
10/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre #
10/26 – San Francisco, CA @ the Fillmore #
10/27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore #

*All dates with Evan Dando (solo acoustic)
# Soulsavers (featuring Mark Lanegan)

::bounce bounce bounce::

tommorrow for the Reidy goodness! Oh my!

Will this be the first time?

Give us a proper UK tour ya lazy bams!

From The Times review of the RFH gig in June:

Jim screwed up the beginning of Snakedriver, and they had to start Just Like Honey three times before he located the correct key and entry point for the vocal at the same time.

It's like they've never been away :)

It's like they never been to rehearsal, more like!

Free tickets (*$7/each service charge) through goldstarevents.com for tomorrow at the Wiltern in LA.

Can I just say how much better JAMC sound with Loz on drums... He's reined in his natural freneticism into the fills and breaks, but man those few seconds where he cuts loose...

Set list tonight:
Never Understand
Head On
Far Gone And Out
Catchfire
Sidewalking
Snakedriver
Dead End Kids
Happy When It Rains
Some Candy Talking
Between Planets
Blues From A Gun
Cracking Up
All Things Must Pass
Teenage Lust
Sometimes Always
Just Like Honey
Vegetable Man
You Trip Me Up
Darklands
Nine Million Rainy Days
Reverence

Mystery lady tonight was Miranda Lee Richards

ah but is it "Vegetable Fucking Maaaaaaan" or just the more restrained version thesedays?

http://i14.tinypic.com/4uag2rm.gif

Total "Vegetable Man"!

and I totally called Miranda Lee Richards to my friends even though I was up in the rafters. I totally chatted her up in Amoeba once but was too chicken to ask for digits.

I got to take 4 friends for free* because of your link, thanks Spencer! What an awesome show it was! After surprising me with "Vegetable Man", I was hoping they'd do "Surfin USA"!

The box set again (turns out to be quite pricey):

The Jesus & Mary Chain - 'The Power of Negative...

New Price - £39.99 - (old 'pre-orders' will be charged at the new, lower price) 'The Power Of Negative Thinking' (B-Sides & Rarities) is the new name for the J and MC's rarities collections. Things have changed a bit since the last report - it's now set to be a 4 CD box set and now due on March 17th. for £39.99

This is from Spin CDs.

Wow, hadn't heard about that at all! Tracklist? I hope it includes "Don't You Want Somebody to Love".

I think Amazon had it for less than that.

When I saw this thread had been bumped I was hoping the tracklist had leaked :(

Asda online has it as £33.97 free delivery.

US release date?

http://www.myspace.com/jesusandmarychainband got 3 new tracks

Nice, I'll want that set...

I like the 3 new tracks!

Still nothing on rhino.com about that box set... is it stil on?

Still on apparently, but only three weeks from the release date it's astonishing that no track listing can be found.

17 March is about one month from now. Still nothing on the Rhino site, still no tracklists anywhere. Not happening or delayed?

Oh, and Spin CDs upped their expected price to £49.99

Customers who bought The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities (4CD) also bought

Various - Can You Jack? Chicago Acid And Experimental House 1985-95 (2CD)
John Cooper Clarke - Ou Est La Maison Du Fromage?
S'Express - Ultimate
John Cooper Clarke - Zip Style Method (Expanded Edition)

HMV Japan (I know..) has it :

Availability: Out Soon - current release date is 29 Sep 2008

I don't get the Amazon.com entry at all - did they have it in stock last year but not anymore?

no.

Oddly enough, I have bought three of four of those CDs, and from Amazon no less, but hadn't heard of this. EERIE.

just wait until there's a solid confirmation before you place an Amazon preorder, dummies.

*sigh*

didn't the two roundhouse dates get squashed into one last month? ticket sales?

Tonight. Palace. Melbourne.

fuck yeah.

SOMEONE POST THE TRACKLISTING FOR THE BOX SET HERE!

roundhouse: yep, but on the plus side the one date was pretty well attended. and they were a lot better than on previous sightings (rollercoaster and munki tours)

They encored with Darklands followed by Reverence.

Genius.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51551-jesus-and-mary-chain-rarities-collected-on-box-set

it took a little longer than expected, but the four-CD, 81-track box set is all ready to go for a September 30 release:

The Power of Negative Thinking:

Disc one:

01 Up Too High (previously unreleased)
02 Upside Down
03 Vegetable Man
04 Suck
05 Ambition
06 Just out of Reach
07 Boyfriend's Dead
08 Head
09 Just Like Honey (demo Oct. '84)
10 Cracked
11 Taste of Cindy (acoustic version)
12 The Hardest Walk
13 Never Understand (alternate, previously unreleased)
14 My Little Underground (demo, previously unreleased)
15 The Living End (demo, previously unreleased)
16 Some Candy Talking
17 Psychocandy
18 Hit
19 Cut Dead (acoustic)
20 You Trip Me Up (acoustic)
21 Walk and Crawl (previously unreleased)

Disc two:

01 Kill Surf City
02 Bo Diddley Is Jesus
03 Who Do You Love
04 Everything's Alright When You're Down
05 Shake
06 Happy When It Rains (demo)
07 Happy Place
08 F.Hole
09 Rider
10 On the Wall (Porta Studio demo)
11 Surfin' USA (April outtake)
12 Here It Comes Again
13 Don't Ever Change
14 Swing
15 Sidewalking
16 Surfin' USA (summer mix)
17 Shimmer
18 Penetration
19 Break Me Down
20 Subway
21 My Girl

Disc three:

01 In the Black
02 Terminal Beach
03 Deviant Slice
04 I'm Glad I Never
05 Drop (acoustic remix)
06 Rollercoaster
07 Silverblade
08 Lowlife
09 Tower of Song
10 Heat
11 Guitarman
12 Why'd You Want Me
13 Sometimes
14 Teenage Lust (acoustic version)
15 Reverberation (Doubt)
16 Don't Come Down
17 Snakedriver
18 Something I Can't Have
19 Write Record Release Blues
20 Little Red Rooster

Disc four:

01 The Perfect Crime
02 Little Stars
03 Drop (re-recorded)
04 I'm in With the Out Crowd
05 New York City
06 Taking It Away
07 Ghost of a Smile
08 Alphabet Street
09 Coast to Coast (alternate take, William Reid vocals, previously unreleased)
10 Dirty Water (demo, William Reid vocals, previously unreleased)
11 Till I Found You (previously unreleased)
12 Bleed Me
13 33 1/3
14 Lost Star
15 Hide Myself
16 Rocket
17 Easylife, Easylove
18 40,000K
19 Nineteen666

been listening to them a lot recently...fantastic stuff, obv.

veg man on disc, sweet

I assume "Up too high" is "Send me away" from the early demos cassette.

Oh, but what about "Upside Down" from the original 12"? (sort of demo version)

Yeah I was looking for that one - the Upside Down demo, that is. At least this is actually coming out, I was thinking it'd been scrapped.

A fantastic collection. A case could be made for the Mary Chain's castoffs one-upping much of their album material, especially during their later years. So this pretty much mega-compiles tbe tracks already compiled on Barbed Wire Kisses, The Sound of Speed, and I Hate Rock n Roll, right?

Oh yeah, just thought: "Jesus Suck" still remains unreleased.

Yeah I'm slightly disappointed with this, seeing as I already own Barbed Wire Kisses, Sound Of Speed & I Hate Rock'n'Roll, there's not really much point in me buying it. It's good that some of the early B-sides have finally been reissued (Vegetable Man, Ambition etc) but I have those on vinyl anyway.

I have most of these in one form or another but I'll maybe buy this anyway just to have them all together.

They should have included that song at the end of the "legendary" Ambulance Station gig where Jim's just shouting "Fuck You Fuck You" over noise.

I have most of these in one form or another but I'll maybe buy this anyway just to have them all together.

me too ^^

who cares? all great songs.

xpost what the "You're all a bunch of fucking pish" song?

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/7486045.jpg

A generous friend has just given me his advance of this beautiful package. I love everything about it except perhaps the typeface for the band name which is a bit Vespertine-ish.

Haven't gone through it all yet except to say that the tracks that I have previously on CD sound much better here and much more like the vinyl (although maybe the vocals are a little too clear).

Right away the first track, the achingly lovely "Up Too High (demo '83)" is a revelation. I had always assumed that the "On The Wall (porta studio demo)" was made just before Darklands was recorded but I'm now of the opinion that it too was recorded with "Up Too High" in the very early days. The delicate arrangement is very much at odds with the brutally shambolic bootlegs I have from the same period and really both spotlights their seemingly innate melodic gifts and also amplifies the perversity of drowning such lovely songs in feedback.

There are so many things I'm excited about finally having on CD like "Vegetable Man", "Ambition", "Happy When It Rains (demo)" etc.

The included poster/family tree is lovely and I'm definitely going to frame the singles covers to remind me of how much this band defined rock and roll for me.

Only thing I still really want to hear is that early cover of "Somebody to Love".

I'd also like a CD quality version of the "Some Candy Talking" version from the NME 7".

I saw this thread title and for a split second thought it was an ITV1 Saturday night show where Zoe Ball pays tribute to the East Kilbride reprobates with a star-studded cast including Tony Hadley ("Never Understand"), Jamelia ("Sidewalking") and Vernon Out Of Corrie ("Reverence").

If girls aloud are doing "Happy when it rains" wearing macs and umbrellas....

"Step back, an watch the sweet thing.."

We might get Gabriela Climi tackling "Upside Down": "Owowowoo tha shaaaaan cammmes up anaddah diyyy bege-heee-aaaans &c."

but oh noe, here comes him out of G4 to over-sing "Hiiiigh want to trip youuu uuuhpppp"...

Is The Hardest Walk the version off that soundtrack?

ooh, i love the on the wall demo, i've never heard them do anything else like it. i always meant to buy the happy when it rains 10" to see what the demo of that was like.

i agree about the typeface, it's a little twenty-first century makeover.

On The Wall demo is on the Darklands 7", unless it's on Happy When It Rains 10" as well for some reason.

Oh wait you meant the demo of Happy When It Rains n/m

The Jesus & Mary Chain are set to headline a one-off show in commemoration of musician & railwayman Nick Sanderson who sadly passed away on June 8th of this year.

The show, to take place at The Forum in London on October 27th 2008, will also feature sets from Black Box Recorder, British Sea Power and a DJ set from Jim Fry & Gordon King of Sanderson’s final group, Earl Brutus.

Tickets for the show are priced at £20 and are available via www.kentishtownforum.com. All proceeds from the show will go to Nick’s immediate family.

For further information contact:

Steve Phillips Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
st✧✧✧@coalitiongr✧✧✧.c✧.u✧

That would be a decent gig if it wasn't for the Jesus and Mary Chain.

Now now...

Word is that Bobby Gillespie's replacing Bannatyne in the next series of Dragons Den. He'll make short shrift of any future would-be Hamfatters...

Is The Hardest Walk the version off that soundtrack?

Yes.

ooh, i love the on the wall demo, i've never heard them do anything else like it. i always meant to buy the happy when it rains 10" to see what the demo of that was like.

The "Happy When It Rains" demo is lovely but is drum-less. "Up Too High" has the same reverbed drum machine as the "On The Wall" demo.

I wasn't going to get the b-sides collection, but then I did and wow I'm surprised by how many songs from it I remember well *and* by how good it still sounds. I haven't heard a lot of these in 10 or so years.

Still can't decide if I prefer the debut to Barbed Wire Kisses, and I miss Mushroom which is oddly missing in action. I'd stopped following them by Honey's Dead (did get Munki though) and thus never heard Rollercoaster, which turns out to be great. Can't emphasize enough how much I didn't expect them to sound good in 2008, and how wrong I was.

Finally got round to listening to disc 1 of this. Vegetable Man sounds quite different to the vinyl version, it's obviously the same version but it's been remixed or something. For the better, maybe, there's a lot more separation, you can hear the vocals/guitar noise/etc a lot better whereas my old 7" sounds like a big pile of murk.

Maybe it's from the 12", I'll have to check...

I don't think it's that - listening to Suck & Ambition and I get the same impression, and I have that 12".

It says "Never Understand" Alt version.. Can you tell the difference?

Haven't got that far yet. Head definitely sounds remixed compared to the Barbed Wire Kisses version, not sure it's for the better this time.

I'd forgotten how great "Suck" was...

Never Understand is a bit different. The drums are louder. The feedback sounds different.

vegetable man sounds the same to me, or very close.

the echo effect on suck seems new, yes.

ambition, not so different afaict. although i don't remember as much swearing.

funny how the swirls of feedback on never understand, which are random by their very nature, how obvious it is when they are different (worse) from what you're used to.

(heard a busker doing it acoustically once, it's a nice little song under all that noise)

the power of negative thinking box set is on sale on rhino's online store for $36 buck right now!

http://www.rhino.com/shop/product/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-the-power-of-negative-thinking-b-sides-and-rarities?eml=rn/012811/jamctop

:D

Thats a great box, well worth it.

Funny this thread was revived this morning. I listened to Munki on my commute home last night and got to wondering, again, why it seems to be so dismissed. I mean, no, it's not a top-tier album of theirs, but its pretty enjoyable throughout.

damn good price on a damn good box set (too bad i already paid $55 or so back in the day)

munki isn't bad by any means, but it's almost a pointless listen b/c i prefer all of the five other records + the b-sides comps over it -- not where i immediately turn when i need my mary chain fix

I dug it out recently, and it's all right, actually pretty good.

It suffers though, because it came out well after they'd made it (was going to be the 'next' album for Warners, but they rejected it).

But, as you say, the other albums have their particular identities, whereas this was 'all encompassing' and too long.

Still, UK buyers beware: The customs and excise will take this, charge you £3 VAT and then £12 handling charge, or something similar.

I listened to Munki on my commute home last night and got to wondering, again, why it seems to be so dismissed.

'birthday' & 'commercial' are jams.

crackin'up is one of the best jamc songs

Still, UK buyers beware: The customs and excise will take this, charge you £3 VAT and then £12 handling charge, or something similar.

Probably cheaper to pay the £32.99 from Rhino UK.

I like the odd J&MC track but they've never fully clicked for me. I may take the plunge on the first two albums in what looks like an outstanding reissue series:
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/07/05/jesus-mary-chain-reissues-psychocandy-darklands-tracklists/

I have the albums from the last time they were reissued, plus that four-CD Rhino box that came out a few years ago; that's all I need. As far as the TV appearances and live stuff is concerned, I thought the long-established consensus was that they sucked live. Hell, I thought that was half the point.

Yeah, this is cool but since I have the albums & the box set, this doesn't look worth it to me.

they were terrible on the Automatic tour, that's for sure

I saw them twice and I think they were a great live band in small venues/clubs and a poor live band in theatres/big venues. In the club the volume was more impressive and enveloping and it was fun to be a few feet away from them. On a big stage they just looked like they were standing around waiting for a bus and the venue ate up all the oppresiveness of the sound.

OTM I saw them in a small club in Reading and they were great. Until Jim Reid stormed offstage in the middle of a song for some reason, but they'd played a full set by then anyway.

Some tracks on these reissues that weren't on the box set, like Jesus Fuck for the first time ever.

I saw JAMC twice after the comeback and they were very very weak live

I was leaning towards rebuying Psychocandy in this reissue, but they've sullied it by clagging six b-side tracks at the end of the actual album.

And anyway, Jesus Fuck is more or less like ten other clangy-shouty-feedbacky b-sides that they put out.

I was leaning towards rebuying Psychocandy in this reissue, but they've sullied it by clagging six b-side tracks at the end of the actual album.

― Officer Pupp, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:43 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

don't understand this. CDs are a disposable delivery device for files, right?

I saw the mary chain five or six times & the only time they didn't absolutely RAWK was on the Munki tour after William had bailed. They even outstaged most of the acts on the 92 Lollapalooza roster in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon!

wait I spent lots of money to buy the rhino reissues - what's the diff this time around?? I could go visit the link but I prefer to be indignant.

The only one of the Rhino reissues I didn't get was Munki, not sure I want to spend the money on these seeing as I have the box set too.

I know another ilxor (Sick Mouthy maybe?) has railed against them sticking bonus tracks at the end of CDs, but I don't get why thats such a deal breaker for some people. Just stop your CD or don't rip 'em if they bug you that much. As long as they are at the end of the disc and not cluttering up the original tracklisting, I have no issue with this. I'd rather have them cram four extra tracks on that disc than struggling to fill up a second disc worth of crap so they can charge a "deluxe" price.

saw them when they were touring for honey's dead and again on their reunion tour a few years ago and they were way better on their reunion tour

The lyrics to JMC's "About You" got me a girlfriend back on the old college vaxmail system singles b-board back circa fall of '88. No big deal, but I thought it should be recorded for both record and computer nurd posterity.

I'll get Psychocandy for sure as the Rhino reissue has an annoying audio hiccup on "Just Like Honey" at the 8 second mark that drives me nuts. Also, finally having "Jesus F*ck" is important. Also, to this day I find all the very early video totally exhilarating - it makes me want to button the top button of my shirt and turn my back to everyone.

The only one of the Rhino reissues I didn't get was Munki,

munki wasn't reissued by rhino.

I see that Darklands will have the NME version of "Some Candy Talking" which makes it a must have for me. Also, can't wait to hear "Darklands" with strings!

I wonder if they'll be newly remastered? Does anyone know if Upside Down contained the 2006 remasters?

These are truly completist gems. Will likely get Automatic too as I passed on the Rhino version.

You wanna talk completeist?

"Vegetable Man" and "Upside Down (12" demo version)" plz.

Also, "Taste of Cindy" when it originally came out on the "Hit" magazine e.p. had a split second intake of breath which was excised on the album.

IT WAS AS IMPORTANT A MOMENT AS THE SPLIT SECOND PAUSE BEFORE THE SECOND GUITAR SOLO ON "I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME"

OK, that track listing for CD2 isn't revealing what those tracks actually are, in most cases.

I never got the Dualdisc issues, the extras looked fairly lean pickings, and weren't available in the UK for some reason.

OK, I've decided, those 2CD+1DVD sets are going to have to live at my house...

"Vegetable Man" and "Upside Down (12" demo version)" infos plz

Also, still want to hear their cover of Jefferson Airplane...

Well, as I say, the 12" version of "Upside Down" had those two tracks on it. It never got issued, but I did have a white-label copy of it which I sold for a tidy sum a while back.

The "Vegetable Man" was as per the 7" version, it's not been reissued before, apart from the box set.

Actually, come to think of it, they had a song called "Send me away" on their original demo cassette which I've never seen since, unless it has a different title

munki wasn't reissued by rhino.

Explains why I don't have it and never came across a copy then.

i heard (and not via ILM !) that upon the release of Munki on Creation, it sold less than 3000 copies.
would love to know how many of the reissue sells !

It was so long after-the-fact, it doesn't surprise me.

It seemed so odd that WBros turned the album down and released the bits-and-bobs collection "The J&MC hate RockandRoll"

everytime i see this thread, i'm freshly repissed that it doesn't say "chainia"

do over

what? no

"SMC to JAMC and BRMC but maybe GHMC is better or possibiliy IFJDOMC, MCCMMCCM, or HFRUEIIMC"

Bar two and three, were any of these actual bands?

I went to the RFH gig and nearly got into a fight with Bobby Gillespie in the toilets after I politely asked him why he wasn't playing drums.

It was good in a nostalgia fest kind of way, Snakedriver was particularly robust but William was pretty fucking awful and every time Jim went to say anything between songs he just did a massive power chord so you couldn't hear what he was saying. And they murdered the slower stuff like Nine Million Rainy Days. Pretty sad really.

They were better at the Brutus benefit but I guess that was a more emotionally charged night or what have you.

they were great at the roundhouse a few years ago. much better than circa munki

surprised munki was so unpopular, if it indeed was, it's probably in my top 3 JAMC

Munki was totally decent, though I only gave it a chance last year for the first time since its rep was so bad.

interested in the Darklands reissue

i once had the Upside Down/Vegetable Man 7" but i think i lost it

;-(

it's not hard to find

yeah, it's probably in my box of records

> OK, that track listing for CD2 isn't revealing what those tracks actually are, in most cases.

ok, disk2
1-2 are from CRE012
3-6 are Peel session 23 Oct 84
7-9 are Peel session 03 Feb 85
10-13 are Peel session 29 Oct 85
14-22 are demos from 83-85.
14, 21, 22 (Up Too High / Living End / My Little Underground) were on Negative Thinking
20 (Just Like Honey) was on NEG13
the others (Upside Down / Never Understand / Taste The Floor / In A Hole / Something's Wrong) were previously unreleased. doesn't say if Upside Down (Demo) is from the 12"
23 Never Understand Alternate Version was on Negative Thinking
24 Jesus Fuck previously unreleased

dvd has

Never Understand, You Trip Me Up, Just Like Honey videos
In A Hole from whistle Test (12 March '85) (but not the others)
North London Poly Riot (15 March '85)
Interview / Never Understand from VRT Belgium (17 March '85)
Just Like Honey / Inside Me from the Tube (11 October '85)

Lovely.

You say "not the others", but they only broadcast one song at the time, so maybe that was all they did.

really? it's been more than that in my head all these years. i remember the buzz (and distinct lack of, was really divisive) in the VI form common room the next day. all that from 3ish minutes? (haven't watched the dvd yet)

Looking at the HMV page for this, it seems they've found Murray Dalglish.

Was he missing? His wee brother still lives in Bishopbriggs as far as I know.

Nickname: "Dalgy" of course.

24 Jesus Fuck previously unreleased

Is this the title for the upcoming Creation Records movie?

i would see that

love the way they all sit down at the end of In A Hole. andy kershaw looks about 12 when introducing them.

bobby g looks cool and is funny throughout, especially at end of the riot video.

and have just seen Teenage Lust video for the first time. was banned in uk and i always wondered how bad it could be. the answer is 'pretty bad'. there is a teenage stripper wandering around naked for half of it.

(dvds are all ntsc btw, which is less of a problem than it used to be - i only realised because it said so on the disc, dvd / tv played them fine)

Out Tomorrow.

One of those bands that I love so much that I totally played them out.

There is that, yes. But this is 2011 and I'm ready to revisit "Darklands" ....

Also, still want to hear their cover of Jefferson Airplane...

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:45 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Waht.

xp - On the Wall has been my heavy-rotation mary chain jam of late

xpost:

Apparently played live a number of times but no recording that I can track down.

GREAT Jim Reid DJ mix:
http://www.mixcloud.com/DemonMusicGroup/jamc-inspirations-influences-jim-reid-1985-mix/

Huh, wow. I'd love to hear that too.

A bunch you'd expect, and a bunch you wouldn't.

Pretty surprised Jim liked Trixie's Big Red Motorbike tbh, didn't they used to slag off all the twee indie bands (apart from the Pastels, obviously)?

i am surprised at the pastels mention actually. not heard him mention them before. makes sense musically, chronologically and geographically but sometimes that stuff creates a rivalry.

Also, US ilxors who want the reissues should order through Amazon.co.uk - much cheaper and actually in stock. I ended up paying just under £10/$16 each delivered.

1st time I saw The Pastels they were opening for the JAMC. First time I saw the JAMC too actually.

Reissues are great as expected. The mastering on 'Psychocandy' is very different than the Rhino, but I haven't had a chance to listen to my old Blanco y Negro disc to see if it's the same.

Also, in the interviews there's a great line from Jim about an aborted 'Darklands' session that involved Curt Smith of Tears for Fears being brought in to try the intro to the title track and doing a bunch of slap bass.

it is kinda hilarious how much the pre-psychocandy demos sound like the dr mix and the remix record, which either douglas hart or bobby g openly admit to in the liner notes.

For me it's striking how much 'arrangement' is within "Up too high" off that disc. Basically, it's all there!

http://www.jesusmc.com/

This is supposed to have an 'online book' according to the deluxe 3disc things.

I emailed the photographer named, and he said there'd been a delay for copyright reasons, but it's all sorted now so it'll soon be there.

That was about 2 weeks ago I think...

The other day I was reading that John Moore is rejoining the Mary Chain.

Well, most of the old band have other jobs / countries to live in, and so on...

I dunno,. I'm ploughing through the DVDs in the deluxe sets (all of them!)

It's comfort food, really...

I ordered all the deluxe sets too! have received three so far (they have to cross the pond...) I haven't watched much of the DVDs yet, just a bit of the live sets on Psychocandy & it's hilarious how loud they are. I guess I knew that! But it's just a mess.

Many of the extras are things I already had on the Rhino box, but it's nice to have the BBC sessions with the albums themselves.

Mr. Moore is indeed in -- we ended up becoming Facebook friends by chance a couple of years back, passionate fellow but also a good sense of humor. He posted this photo the other week, before starting to talk about getting out all the guitars again...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405896_10150598902148923_683243922_10819115_1928656479_n.jpg

Aww..

You see, over there on that TV screen is Jim looking all young and that.

And on the laptop is this pic. Actually, Jim isn't looking too bad for the years, so..

Oh, I had never seen the promo for Sometimes Always before!

http://www.jesusmc.com/

Ooh, the 'online book' is, um, online!

I like how JAMC have settled into the "Cal Jam 2" phase of their career while still maintaining some sense of odd weirdness. The Reids are still obstinate but with a coating of the mannered gracefulness that comes from being a professional entertainer - those Bad Vibes could really be a Martin & Lewis act. I'm not Especially when William looks identical to King Buzzo.

On the plus side, now that they seem like they're giving a partial shit, they sound fantastic. I never would have expected them of all bands to be around in 2012, but it felt appropriate for an almost-summer Friday night at a horse race track in Inglewood. Lots of people dancing and singing along. Good times.

I think they played last night in LA. Anyone go?

I did! (hence the thread revive)

Haha they played at that track? Wow. They only seem to advertise shows there if they're good-time white reggae bands.

Kind of a good series there this year... Devo, JAMC, X

Ah that's what happens when you skim posts - sorry! Totally jealous.

Show in Madison just announced, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BOSTON SHOW ANNOUNCED. :DDD

I am only a casual listener, but I feel like the fact they're playing at First Avenue means I have to go. A classic band playing at a classic venue? And I feel like they could play somewhere bigger in town. 25 bucks...

They were complete shit last Thursday at the Fillmore. Big waste of money.

did somebody say something i can't hear it over the sound of my YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Tonight! Excited.

Still debating whether I should see them on Saturday. It's not that I don't want to, but I just haven't been feeling that great.

you should

seeing them made me feel better

I probably should.

:)

last reunion show i saw them do was ace

wait TONIGHT?????? WHERE???? ARE THERE STILL TICKETS??????

I missed them at Hopscotch and was SUPER BUMMED

on the plus side you have retained your ability to hear

Dan - yes, tonight! There seem to be tickets still available too :). My friend Kevin adn I are going. There's also a show tomorrow night too.

def can't do tomorrow but could MAAAAAAYBE do tonight? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Do it!

psychic paramount are opening for them aren't they? even more reason to go.

Missed the DC show. Heard they played for 70 minutes, which for them ain't bad I think.

x-post - Are they good? I was planning on pulling my usual turn up just before the headliner so I don't have to sit through awful opening acts thing. Also, I wanted to go home and nap first. Yes, I am old.

Dan let me know if you decide to come! :)

yeah PP rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ptLahNL8Bs
haven't seen em live but I imagine they would kill it.

btw Dan totally forgot but I have an extra ticket already.

PP love their fog machine too it seems (not sure if this is this good or bad)

oh man

really want to go, but I am dead tired

also haven't been home lately

argh

you know, I always thought it was weird (& pretty lame tbh, tho the shows were usually amazing regardless) that I saw them prob eight or nine times b/w 1992-98 & they never once played a single goddam track from Psychocandy - the only thing from that era that made their setlists was 'Some Candy Talking.'

otoh I bet they played the shit out of "Reverence"

really want to go, but I am dead tired

Just drink go go juice.

Set list from show two nights ago: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-jesus-and-mary-chain/2012/union-transfer-philadelphia-pa-13ddb9c1.html

That settles it, I'm going.

oh shi

right?!

I'm not even an early era JAMC person and that looks amazing

that encore is near enough the perfect jamc 123

snakedriver is such a great opening song

um . . . awesome

the encore basically is my life age 16-18

this show was great by the way, was surprised that not everyone there was 40+, is this because of "lost in translation" or.....?

They seem to be one of the 80s bands that have trickled down to millenials in a reverent way as opposed to an omglol80s way.

Jesus & Mary Chain vinyl collection: http://www.myplaydirect.com/jesus-and-mary-chain/

11xLP box set of the studio albums, plus BBC sessions, plus live album, plus fan-selected rarities. £130. Due start of December.

Looks like a nice thing.

Well, I uploaded a nice pic, and voted for "Suck" (b-side of "Never Understand"), would appreciate if you did the same.

Of course, I shall be most agrieved if they use my pic and I have to pay £130 to get the crummy poster!

http://i.imgur.com/ZgWJxbR.jpg

awww

And Jim took the picture, clearly!

Picked up a bundle of the deluxe expanded editions. Listening to an interview conducted by a disinterested Tommy Vance who sounds incredibly like Alan Partridge.

Janice Long used to get fairly decent interviews out of them.

I mentioned uploading a pic for the poster in the box set, never heard owt from them so I assume it wasn't used

the story in psychocandy about young douglas hart is hilarious. "Hey Jim, that wee toddler's looking for you"

Touring Psychocandy over here in May:

Tickets on sale Fri. Jan. 30th at 10am PST

TOUR DATES:

05/01 Toronto, ON - Canadian Music Week
05/03 Detroit, MI - St Andrew's Hall
05/05 Chicago, IL - Riviera
05/07 Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory
05/09 Austin, TX - Levitation / Austin Psych Fest
05/11 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
05/13 Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
05/14 Seattle, WA - Showbox
05/16 San Francisco, CA - Warfield

East coast can suck it, apparently... :(

and the Electric Ballroom

This has been noted in other threads: if you're a JAMC fan, you'll probably like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gRyyGZN9A

I wish it were a little more whimsical.

This kind of looks like the 120 Minutes set, but I don't remember this happening during a JAMC interview...

https://31.media.tumblr.com/326c33329673080666c30bdcb1111ae8/tumblr_ml6or6qnNB1s6nf2ko1_500.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4ZXpsoOUg

Ahhh, thank you!

Haha, I just read the part in the Zoe Howe book about that interview.

new album in march http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-releasing-first-album-since-the-90s-in-march-2017/

really, wow! i recently signed up to their artist poll, so a new album before that poll is great news.

I'm hopeful for it. saw them a while back where they were doing a little greatest hits bit then all of psychocandy and it was actually a bonafide great show which i generally don't expect from not particularly active baby boomer bands.

Wow, finally the The Jefferson Airplane cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y31y6ikFN8

http://www.stereogum.com/1915257/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-amputation/music/

god that cover is bad

The drop shadow...

haha

Song is also bad. Drums are really terrible. Lyrics, chords etc all sound like a JAMC-bot created them. If someone said it was Primal Scream I'd have laughed at it. Mind you there's a certain kind of Jesus and Mary Chain badness which the fans seem to want so what do I know?

a bit like a parody of a jamc song that you could imagine in a 90s channel 4 comedy show

just heard a snippet on the radio - same line repeated 4 times.

'just like honey ...."

It was all downhill from that point.

So... Damage and Joy. It's not bad but kinda unnecessary imo, but anyway - they're back.

oh, and "The Jesus and Mary Chain Announce North American Tour"

Next (this) month, the Jesus and Mary Chain will release Damage and Joy, their first album in 18 years. In addition to their upcoming European dates behind the record, the band have now announced a North American spring tour. This May, they will perform in Brooklyn, Chicago, Toronto, and more. Find their upcoming shows below.

Damage and Joy is out March 24 via ADA/Warner Music. It follows the band’s 1998 LP Munki. The new album was recorded with producer Youth. It features contributions from the band’s touring drummer Brian Young, ex-Lush bassist Phil King, and Youth on bass. They’ve so far put out “Always Sad” and “Amputation” from the album.

The Jesus and Mary Chain
03-23 Newcastle upon Tyne, England - Northumbria University
03-25 Manchester, England - Academy
03-27 Leeds, England - Church
03-28 Leicester, England - O2 Academy
03-29 Bristol, England - O2 Academy
03-31 Birmingham, England - O2 Institute
04-01 Bournemouth, England - O2 Academy
04-02 Oxford, England - O2 Academy
04-03 Cambridge, England - Junction 1
04-05 London, England - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
04-06 Bexhill-on-Sea, England - De La Warr Pavilion
04-07 Dublin, Ireland - Academy
05-09 St. Paul, MN - The Palace
05-10 Chicago, IL - Riviera
05-12 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
05-14 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
05-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
05-20 Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater
05-22 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
05-23 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
05-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Vogue Theatre

enjoying this (even though JAMC-bot is also OTM)

out tomorrow.

the singles have grown on me.

they also play about 10 minutes away in a couple of weeks' time. i didn't bother with the various reunion tours. do i go?

their first album in 18 years

*vertiginous existential crisis*

xp. i enjoyed the show i saw on their last north american tour, like it was a legitimately solid rock show from a gang of olds and I'm glad i went.

having said that i don't think ill be going this time

It's about 10 years since I saw JAMC reunion now, they are playing in Bexhill which is like 15 mins on the train, am tempted.

I enjoyed listening to it last night but I'm not sure how I feel about it in daylight.

This album is. . . not good.

yeah of all of the recent reunion albums, this is one that just doesn't appeal

Its OK. Which other reunes? Pixies? Blur?

always disappointed that this thread isn't actually called Jesus and Mary Chainia

It's pretty disappointing either way.

I don't think so. This album is pretty good for them. They have always been a pretty average mediocre band and this album just continues in that vein. Absolutely ok to listen to just for nostalgia. There have been so many bad reunion albums, this one isn't.

stfu

they are an amazing band, this album is terrible

I don't think it's terrible, but it is pretty mediocre and definitely inessential. I was tempted to see them live the other week but I'd've had to rearrange work to do it and after listening to the new album decided not to bother.

I saw them a few times in their psychocandy days, I'm not going now, no need.

The Wiltern, Hollywood, CA 5/19/2017:

Amputation
April Skies
Head On
Far Gone and Out
Between Planets
Blues From a Gun
Always Sad
Mood Rider
Teenage Lust
Cherry Came Too
The Hardest Walk
All Things Pass
Some Candy Talking
Halfway to Crazy
Nine Million Rainy Days
Reverence

Encore:
Black and Blues
The Two of Us
Just Like Honey
You Trip Me Up
The Living End
War on Peace

Encore 2:
Taste of Cindy
I Hate Rock 'n' Roll

"Reverence" was probably the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klcl25voBwc

I was also at this show and they fucking ruled, just look at that playlist. The opening band, Warlocks, were also a pleasant surprise.

pleasantly surprised at the new lp (whereas the slowdive one bought at the same time hasn't grabbed me yet). lots of dumb lyrics in the later songs, but hey...

they are playing the forum (town and country / o2) kentish town on sept 20th, 27 years to the month since i saw them there with the telescopes and the fury things. (31 + 4.5 + 2.5 quid though)

i know this should go into the Nine Inch Nails thread:
http://cdn.nin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NIN-Facebook-DATES-1200x628_BoxOffice.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qsRateq.jpg

all four Los Angeles dates already sold out, F***

they sold most tickets in person last weekend and only released what was left over online today. I'm sure shit is sold out everywhere. really looking forward to the SF show. I haven't seen NIN since the Bowie/outside tour, and haven't seen JAMC since the Rollercoaster tour with Spiritualized!

heh, I saw NIN open for the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1990!

Xpost makes it sound like Jim and William were manning the tills there..

two more shows added tickets on sale in the AM. i just bought Spiritualized today but i think i need to make this show.

Hi, genuinely shocked here..

Was just looking at the discogs entry for "21 singles", seems its coming out on double-lp for the first time.

The writing credits has Jim writing only four. 'Upside Down', 'Never Understand', 'Come On' and "I love rock and roll'

So, the first two that put the J&MC on the map, and not much after? Amazed...

are those credits correct? on most of their records the songs are credited to both brothers.

I know, that's what threw me.

I feel like if I wrote "Never Understand" I could just kind of kick back and be like "I've done what I came here to do, you guys write the rest of them"

it's a confusing mess - if you look up all of those tracks on other releases they're all "Written By: Reid/Reid"

(so, what visiting said then)

« Lyrics: Reid / Music: Reid »

Well, that explains everything...

Are going to record the next album after this NIN tour that runs until September:

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/new-album-jesus-mary-chain/

... maybe after this thing I guess https://www.abconcerts.be/en/agenda/events/the-jesus-and-mary-chain/21503/

Just get on FB friend rec for Jim Reid.

got

You're psychic: I ordered a Psychocandy T-shirt about 12 hours ago.

Ha! A friend messaged me last week to say "I've had a Facebook friend recommendation for Jim Reid!"

I had the same recommendation two days later.

Has William been recommended to anyone, though??

ILX fave Annie covers "Just Like Honey"

https://www.stereogum.com/2153678/annie-just-like-honey-the-jesus-and-mary-chain-cover/music/

they announced a warm up gig in Brighton because they're playing a festival in Spain next month. I got tickets, first time I've seen them since 2009.

That week is going to be a bit crazy, it's all 90s indie rock all the time, I'm seeing Sultans of Ping on Saturday, Superchunk on Monday, JAMC on Thursday and Stereolab on Friday

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/28/jesus-and-mary-chain-glasgow-eyes-album-art.jpeg

Glasgow Eyes

1. Venal Joy
2. American Born
3. Mediterranean X Film
4. jamcod
5. Discotheque
6. Pure Poor
7. The Eagles and The Beatles
8. Silver Strings
9. Chemical Animal
10. Second of June
11. Girl 71
12. Hey Lou Reid

Out on March 8, 2024 via Fuzz Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_NOCiRbII

lol "hey lou reid"

Genuinely surprised they hadn’t made that pun before

Fingers crossed it's a Liz Phair cover

https://www.stereogum.com/2243247/the-alternative-number-ones-the-jesus-and-mary-chains-blues-from-a-gun/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/?1701268180

recently discovered their version of Alphabet Street. my gosh.

Ha yeah.

This is not them....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWEpHonhVQ

that album track sounds good (although the video looks like 5 minutes of jim sat on a chair was all they had to work with). it also clears up that it's jamc-od and not, as i thought, jam-cod.

Song is way better than it has any right of being. Sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain.

album is out on March 8 everywhere, except on Bandcamp, that's February 8? or did someone mess up?

Is it another case of digital release being ahead of physical release?

Think I like the second teaser even better. Exciting

xpost: the 24bit/high res digital version on qobuz is March 8 as well

All this JAMC talk made me dust off "Honey's Dead," and man, that album is so loud!

this is unexpectedly blowing me way rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdtTjEXqFw

Away even

Never Understand: starts at the 10 minute mark and is the best thing since the last best thing

Incredible, but docked a point for failing to showcase that gong left hanging on the wall.

haha, yes!

Even do a note perfect "Jesus Suck"

if you check out the rest of their channel, they cover a lot of different bands

Second song is good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yMXY59ZfQ

looking up the new LP release date, annoyed that the font is wrong on the website, then noticing for the first time that the typeface pretty much changes with every release and the good, cool typeface i thought was everywhere is only really on Darklands era stuff.

* Please note that due to a delay in vinyl production, the release date has been pushed back to March 22nd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0HwKM-Wwo

New album is out today, can't listen to it at the moment.

it sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain

I like it! Just enough variations on the JAMC sound to keep it interesting. Another solid addition (but not essential like the 85-92 stuff, those days are long gone)

It doesn't even sound like a JAMC album to me. Half the time, it sounds like extremely poor imitation Suicide, with a lyricist about 1/1000 as brilliant as Alan Vega. Also, the last line of this review is hilarious. "As they advance into middle age"? The Reid brothers are 62 and 65.

The cheap-ass synths on almost every track are proof that they were only ever the sum of their guitar pedals. They should have broken up the day after Psychocandy came out. A brilliant one-off gesture > an increasingly tedious "career."

Their best album is their singles collection

Yeah, honestly, I could hang onto 21 Singles and Barbed Wire Kisses.

"Head On" >>>>>> Psychocandy

I am of the moderate centrist position that they should have stopped after Automatic

Which is not to say I begrudge them their continued existence, we all must make rent as best we are able in this cursed world

The world is a poorer place without "Almost Gold" and "Far Gone and Out."

Perhaps marginally poorer but I am okay with it. I dunno, I lived thru all those 90s JAMC records and saw them at the tail end of their OG incarnation, and it was all good enough. But I think those first three records and Sidewalking are where it is most at.

it was playing in hmv this morning when i went to buy a copy, always slightly embarrassing

(just ask them to turn down that racket while you're paying)

Honeys Dead is a cracking album

I saw them play at Electric Picnic in '07 and they were probably the dreariest act I watched that weekend.