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
― Bee OK, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
been listening to them a lot recently...fantastic stuff, obv.
― Tape Store, Friday, 27 June 2008 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
veg man on disc, sweet
― electricsound, Friday, 27 June 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Mark G, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Pillbox, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, just thought: "Jesus Suck" still remains unreleased.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I have most of these in one form or another but I'll maybe buy this anyway just to have them all together.
― onimo, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
me too ^^
who cares? all great songs.
― stephen, Saturday, 28 June 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost what the "You're all a bunch of fucking pish" song?
― Mark G, Saturday, 28 June 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/7486045.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 September 2008 07:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Only thing I still really want to hear is that early cover of "Somebody to Love".
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 September 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd also like a CD quality version of the "Some Candy Talking" version from the NME 7".
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 September 2008 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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").
― LBC's Steve Allen good morning I'm afraid (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
If girls aloud are doing "Happy when it rains" wearing macs and umbrellas....
"Step back, an watch the sweet thing.."
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
We might get Gabriela Climi tackling "Upside Down": "Owowowoo tha shaaaaan cammmes up anaddah diyyy bege-heee-aaaans &c."
― LBC's Steve Allen good morning I'm afraid (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
but oh noe, here comes him out of G4 to over-sing "Hiiiigh want to trip youuu uuuhpppp"...
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Is The Hardest Walk the version off that soundtrack?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Thursday, 25 September 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
On The Wall demo is on the Darklands 7", unless it's on Happy When It Rains 10" as well for some reason.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 25 September 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh wait you meant the demo of Happy When It Rains n/m
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 25 September 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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:
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― Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
That would be a decent gig if it wasn't for the Jesus and Mary Chain.
― LBC's Steve Allen good morning I'm afraid (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Now now...
― Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― LBC's Steve Allen good morning I'm afraid (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 November 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it's from the 12", I'll have to check...
― Mark G, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think it's that - listening to Suck & Ambition and I get the same impression, and I have that 12".
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 November 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
It says "Never Understand" Alt version.. Can you tell the difference?
― Mark G, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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 KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 November 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten how great "Suck" was...
― Mark G, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Never Understand is a bit different. The drums are louder. The feedback sounds different.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 November 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Saturday, 8 November 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― smang a goon (get it on) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
damn good price on a damn good box set (too bad i already paid $55 or so back in the day)
― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Friday, 28 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
crackin'up is one of the best jamc songs
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably cheaper to pay the £32.99 from Rhino UK.
― onimo, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link