Jesus and Mary Chain Mania!

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?

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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.

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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)