Top singles from the past…
11 September 2020
Band: The Jesus And Mary Chain (Scotland)
Active: 1983–1999, 2007–present
Single: Just Like Honey
Released: 11 September 1985 – 35 years ago
Score: #45 in the UK
Album: Psychocandy
“I’ll be your plastic toy
I’ll be your plastic toy
For you
Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do”
Let’s go…
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16 May 2020
Young Irish rockers FONTAINES D.C. who hit the music scene sensationally with their blistering debut album Dogrel joined the countless artists making and sharing music
from their homes.
They picked the musing title track of The Jesus And Mary Chain‘s 1987 Darklands
album. Their version is sensitive, intimate, and dreamy with frontman Grian Chatten
really singing instead of sneering with his characteristic parlando vocals and, wow,
he has a truly affecting voice. Wistful top cover. A great tribute to a great band.
The cover…
The original version…
Top singles from the past…
6 May 2020
Band: The Jesus And Mary Chain
From East Kilbride, Scotland
Active: 1983–1999, 2007–present
Single: You Trip Me Up
Written by brothers William and Jim Reid
B-side: Just A Reach
Label: Blanco y Negro Records
Released: May 1985 – 35 years ago
Album: Psychocandy
The band’s groundbreaking debut LP
Here’s the original clip
Early thrashing feedback version – live in Belgium
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Memorable live moments…
Watch THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN smashing it up, with Bobby Gillespie (later becoming frontman of Primal Scream ) starting by trashing his drum, in a Belgian studio in 1985 while performing ‘NEVER UNDERSTAND’ from their brilliant debut LP ‘Psychocandy‘.
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‘Top singles from the past…
11 February 2020
Band: The Jesus And Mary Chain
(with Primal Scream’s frontman Bobby Gillespie on drums)
Single: Never Understand
B-side: Suck
Released: 11 February 1985
Album: Psychocandy – debut album
Score: The single peaked at #47 in the UK
and was NME’s single of the year
Here’s the original video clip…
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THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
5 July 1986
NME
10 January 2020
Band: The Jesus And The Mary Chain
Song: Reverence
B-side: Heat
Released: February 1992
Album: Honey’s Dead
Score: The single peaked at #10 in the UK
I wanna die just like Jesus Christ
I wanna die on a bed of spikes
I wanna die come see paradise
I wanna die just like Jesus Christ
I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die on a sunny day
I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die in the USA…
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9 October 2019
30 years ago, on 9 October 1989, Scottish fuzzy feedback legends THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN released their third longplayer ‘AUTOMATIC‘. The band was reduced to brothers William and Jim Reid assisted by a drum machine and a synthesizer replacing the bass guitar. The only other credited musician was Richard Thomas who joined the band as a drummer on tour. Although the critics had mixed feelings about the record’s production, in the long term ‘Automatic‘ became a fan’s favourite. With single ‘Head On‘ (later covered by Pixies) the duo even scored their most successful single in America so far back then. Overall it was one of their rockiest album ever.
Los Angeles Times wrote: “They might have hit it with their third album. The Jesus and Mary Chain still works the same few rock archetypes–blues, Velvet Underground two-chord rise and fall, Stooges grunge riffs, Ramones bubble-gum punk–and this time, the Reids really make it sing and surge and soar.“Automatic’s” power is its faith in simplicity and its inspiration is in the way it sabotages the structures it celebrates. William Reid approaches the guitar as a flamethrower, and by the end of the album he’s trashed the terrain in just about every track,” like the climactic shoot-out in an over-the-top apocalyptic battle movie. Full review here. Score: 4/5
The two singles…
– HEAD ON –
– BLUES FROM A GUN –
Album in full…
(original tracklist: #1 – #10)
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Back sleeve
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
1 June 2018
Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: MUNKI
Released: 2 June 1998 – 20 years ago
ALL MUSIC wrote: “As befits an album bookended by tracks titled “I Love Rock’n’Roll” and “I Hate Rock’n’Roll,” the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Sub Pop label debut, Munki, is schizophrenic and impassioned, a record that both summarizes the band’s career to date and cleans the slate for their future. Virtually each of the 17 tracks here echoes a prior moment in the Chain’s existence, moving at breakneck pace from the volcanic noise of their earliest material to the bleak grace of Darklands, through to the sleek, supercharged pop of Automatic.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Munki sounds like a career-spanning jukebox. An avalanche
of barbed wire pop crackers.
THREE TOP TRACKS: I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll / Perfume / Stardust Remedy
* I LOVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
* PERFUME
* STARDUST REMEDY
Album in full…
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