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Track Listings
| 1. Just Like Honey |
| 2. The Living End |
| 3. Taste The Floor |
| 4. The Hardest Walk |
| 5. Cut Dead |
| 6. In A Hole |
| 7. Taste Of Cindy |
| 8. Never Understand |
| 9. Inside Me |
| 10. Sowing Seeds |
| 11. My Little Underground |
| 12. You Trip Me Up |
| 13. Something's Wrong |
| 14. It's So Hard |
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By Lenny
Format:Audio CD
Well it did, prior to this I was listening to Queen's 'Greatest Hits', 'Genesis' by Genesis, Rush's '2112' and Scorpions 'World Wide Live'. Dear God, what was I thinking. Basically I hadn't heard 'my' music yet, only my friends taste in it, hence the appalling selection above. This all changed when my best friend Lee bought this album and I listened to it in his bedroom. Quite simply it blew me away. This is the moment, a moment all music lovers have, which I can point to and say 'there, it all started there'. I could bore you with a long list of namechecked bands but I won't, suffice to say that this album and this band led me to exciting new places.
The music itself? Well, I understand that it has just been re-issued and re-mastered which says a lot in itself. It still sounds great, perfect pop underneath a torrent of guitar and drums, fresh as ever, youth captured and held. It deserves its standing as one of the finest debut albums of recent times. What else is there to say but buy it!
The music itself? Well, I understand that it has just been re-issued and re-mastered which says a lot in itself. It still sounds great, perfect pop underneath a torrent of guitar and drums, fresh as ever, youth captured and held. It deserves its standing as one of the finest debut albums of recent times. What else is there to say but buy it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's 1985 and me, a callow youth, vaguely into The Smiths and my elder brother's Jam records, reads about the next big thing in the NME, the Jesus and Mary Chain. Great name, thought I, but will they be any good? Heralded as the second coming of the Sex Pistols (testimony, surely, to how poor the music press are at describing music) and billed as noise merchants and instigators of riots at gigs, I finally got to hear them on Radio One. Paul Weller, of the aforementioned Jam, describing them as "a storm in a teacup." Beneath the coruscating feedback was a definite melody though - and some rather horizontal lyrics about having a hangover. Later that year, the Mary Chain released one of the greatest albums of all time, which stills sounds fresh today and still sounds like nothing on earth. It's decadent music, really - they take the classic bubblegum pop and drumbeat of Phil Spectre and decay it with Stooges style guitars or just noise. My memories of playing this record are of my mum rushing upstairs to ask me what was wrong. "Is that record faulty? Is my washing machine interfering with it?" Personal highlights: Taste of Cindy, It's So Hard and Something's Wrong (with a melody adapted from Wondrous Stories by Yes.)
One regrettable off shoot of the album was the formation of the Mary Chain's very own real tribute band, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. At the time though, fans of the band could explore not only Spectre and the Shangri-Las but music from the late 60s, early 70s era that punk had put out of fashion.
One regrettable off shoot of the album was the formation of the Mary Chain's very own real tribute band, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. At the time though, fans of the band could explore not only Spectre and the Shangri-Las but music from the late 60s, early 70s era that punk had put out of fashion.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Jesus and Mary Chain offered the only significant respite to the terminal state of popular music in the 1980s and almost single handedly brought a resurgence to the whole dire scene. While the Smiths were wailing on the moor tops, people who liked the JAMC wanted to hear the sound of breaking glass to the revving of motorcycle engines . For a variety of reasons including an increasingly self absorbed music press it never really happened for them (whatever "it" is) and all the glorious melody, gleeful abandon, anarchy, threat and reworking of those rich primal seams of rock n' roll were only to be enjoyed by a relative few at the time. Hugely undervalued and underrated all albums are superb - the worst of the Mary Chain was always miles better than the best of everyone else. What was the Orson Welles quote about starting at the top and working his way down after Citizen Kane? This 3 disc set bristles with an excitement that the corporate music industry cannot manufacture and with career spanning appearances on The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top Of The Pops to Jools Holland they really looked looked like they meant it. If this album put some fire into your adolescence - buy it for your children before they start pestering you for the Smiths box set.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Hutters
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Memories came flooding back - the music and the experience of the early gigs. If you're a fan, you've probably got most of this in different places, but it's great to have decent copies of it all. I thoroughly recommend this, the J&MC's finest hours.
Format:Audio CD
Better sound with this release, louder, maybe compressed?
I would have preferred the lp on its own on disc one, with the b-sides on the bonus disc instead of the demos which I don't really care for
At least Some Candy Talking has been rightfully removed
Glorious
I would have preferred the lp on its own on disc one, with the b-sides on the bonus disc instead of the demos which I don't really care for
At least Some Candy Talking has been rightfully removed
Glorious
By Ndouglas
Format:Audio CD
As a 14 year old at school seeing the Mary Chain do 'In a Hole' on BBC2's Whistle Test in early 1985 was the starting point for a journey into alternative culture for me, a journey that continues to this day.
It's hard to describe how crap music was in 1985, even the independent scene was living on the fag ends of punk, then came this...quite simply one of the most original records ever recorded.
I'll always remember playing my school mates-who at the time were big fans of Phil Collins, Tears for Fears and Frankie Goes to Hollywood- 'You Trip Me Up', and trying to convince them the feedback soaked melodies sounded like a top ten hit!
Thank you Jim, William, Douglas and Bobby you saved my life!
BUY THIS RECORD!
It's hard to describe how crap music was in 1985, even the independent scene was living on the fag ends of punk, then came this...quite simply one of the most original records ever recorded.
I'll always remember playing my school mates-who at the time were big fans of Phil Collins, Tears for Fears and Frankie Goes to Hollywood- 'You Trip Me Up', and trying to convince them the feedback soaked melodies sounded like a top ten hit!
Thank you Jim, William, Douglas and Bobby you saved my life!
BUY THIS RECORD!
By Ø. Hjartnes
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Influenced by the guitar sound of The Stooges and The Velvet Undeground-like vocals the Reid brothers made this stunning record and so they set the bar for Noise pop and indie-rock to come. I have yet to come over anything more original and stunning than this from it's genre.
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Jesus and Mary Chain were pioneers in what became known as corporate indie: bands apparently signed to an indie label which was in fact a subsidiary of a major label. Read more
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skanking Joe
utter classic. file next to velvet underground and nico,Raw power,never mind the bollocks,etc. For some its hard to get into at first but worth perciverance. Read more
Published 19 months ago by skanking Joe
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life changing album number 1
1985 and i just bought upside down(which sadly doesnt feature on this album,maybe because murray dalglish is on drums)i thought this is incredible so when this finally came out... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2007 by Paul Wilson
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Published on 22 July 2007 by Pieter Uys
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Reissue of classic debut album
The Jesus & Mary Chain's debut album, now re-released in re-mastered form with former bonus track `Some Candy Talking' removed, remains their definitive album and their greatest... Read more
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