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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. I Love Rock'n'Roll | |||
| 2. Birthday | |||
| 3. Stardust Remedy | |||
| 4. Fizzy | |||
| 5. Mo Tucker | |||
| 6. Perfume | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. 45 RPM | |||
| 2. Bleed Me | |||
| 3. 33 1/3 | |||
| 4. Lost Star | |||
| 5. Hide Myself | |||
| 6. Rocket | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. I Hate Rock'n'Roll | |||
| 2. Cracking Up | |||
| 3. I Love Rock'n'Roll | |||
| 4. I Love Rock'n'Roll Later with Jools Holland | |||
| 5. Cracking Up Later with Jools Holland | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Three chords were all that The Jesus & Mary Chain ever needed, but Munki finds the Reid brothers' formula--like their hairlines--beginning to wear a little thin. With Munki bookended by the superb singles "I Love Rock & Roll" and "I Hate Rock & Roll", it was widely suggested that this would be a return to form, but the seventy minutes of humdrum, minimalist punk rock that they frame seldom deviates from one tedious dimension. Admittedly, "Fizzy" provides the diverting sneer of "Elvis lives but Bob Dylan's dead / and OJ's wife's come back from the dead", but "Virtually Unreal" and "Commercial"-- ostensibly, a track about watching TV, and a track about fast-food--prove that the Reid Brothers really needed to get out a little more. The Reid Brothers split while touring Munki. It's hardly a fitting swan-song, so try out their back catalogue instead. --Louis Pattison
Product Description
DELUXE EDITION : 2CD + DVD. Digitally remastered in 2011! Swansong 1998 album, reissued with 22 BONUS tracks of B-sides, live recordings and rarities plus 5-song DVD of film clips and live performances. Includes "Cracking Up".
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Hailed by some as the saviours of rock'n'roll on the release of their debut LP 'Pychocandy' in 1985, it was perhaps inevitable that the Jesus and Mary Chain's career path would be downhill from thereon in. This, their last record, originally appeared in 1999 to widespread disinterest and the band split up soon after, bitter and disillusioned. It's a good record though, sometimes a fantastic record one, though at other times it is admittedly a little hard on the ears. The tension between Jim and William Reid, the brothers from East Kilbride who basically were the band, is nowhere more evident than it is here. Jim's songs are upbeat and melodic, celebrating his life and what he has made of it with music, as on the opening blast of 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' and the heartfelt 'Stardust Remedy'. One wonders to what extent Jim's optimism is an attempt to annoy his famously surly brother Wiliam, whose bitterness, misanthropy and self hatred manifest themselves in a number of uncompromising songs. On some, like 'Birthday' and 'Cracking Up', the result is bracing, dynamic, a perfect demonstration of the group's mastery of indie-rock dynamics; elsewhere, as in 'Commercial' and 'Degenerate', it's a (no doubt intentionally) bruising grind. The album is by no means unremittingly grim, however. Guest appearances by the brothers' sister on 'Mo Tucker' and Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandovaal on 'Honey' provide light relief and musical variety, while several more delicate songs towards the end, William's 'Never Understood' and 'I Can't Find the Time for Times' and Jim's 'Man in the Moon' and 'Dream Lover' prove that both could write impeccably melodic, sensitive, even moving pop music when they so chose. The album ends, however, with 'I Hate Rock'n'Roll', William's bitter tirade against the music industry by which he felt so wronged, and one can't help but think that if they felt like that about it, it's probably just as well they gave it up. While they lasted, though, they were unique, and this is a great lost album.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
...Truth is it's not been of my car CD player for three weeks! Driving to work these days has taken on a whole new meaning.
I was a J&MC fan throughout the eighties having caught them early on during one of the chaotic Glasgow shows back in 84. I must admit that come the early 90's I thought they had become the 'Ramones' of feedback.
This album changes everything and I just wished I had picked it up four years ago! Not a duff track in sight with, to these ears, the best set of songs on any J&MC album, great trashy lyrics courtesy of the ever cynical Ried brothers, you can sense history in the making as the two songwriters clash between the hate/love rock 'n' roll central theme.
I mean who can not sit back and enjoy a song with the immediate lyrical onslaught of 'I was just a teenage Jesus freak'? Production is huge and the noise guitars and bathtub drums work brilliantly with the tunes and melodies underpinning the chaos.
William sounds so p****d off on some of the tracks that you can almost sense the inevitability of the soon to happen split.
Leaving the very best to last this is a suitable swansong for a group who wouldn't compromise. Totally overlooked upon release this perhaps makes this an even more important masterpiece in the J&MC anti fashion. For Creation & no doubt McGee to take responsibility for the release is a fitting end from where it all started.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
..if you are a fan of the later work of the Chain, beginning with Honey's Dead, you'll love this album. If you are more into the tinny, over-feedback sound of the 80s, don't bother. A couple of the tracks on Munki are so-so, but the rest more than make up for minor lapses in Chain coolness. Especially good are Perfume, Commercial and Cracking Up. Make up you're own mind. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
The Best Mary Chain album
While I've always loved The music these guys kicked out this was purely amazing. From the first second it hit my ears I was gripped. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ramone
Critics be damned!
Never mind the NME 6th form 'experts' or the record buying public - this album is a corker containing some sooper dooper tracks and deserves far more respect.
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by Mr. Parker
Second best JMC album
After Stoned and Dethroned, my favourite JMC album. It has a great mix oflaid back and fast, again with great lyrics. Read more
Published on 28 April 2004
Disappointing
The opening track, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is scorching and one of the Reid Brothers' finest moments, but it is downhill from there. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2001
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