Jesus and Mary Chain Mania!

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...