― My Name is William Reid, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
He didn't say they took their craft seriously. He said they took THEMSELVES seriously. There's a difference.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:06 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
I saw 'em play a coupla months back, Jim Reid now looks like a slightly portly accountant - which is fine
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
...and perhaps equally pertinently, Jim'n'William's sister is currently peddling her wares in a band called Sister Vanilla, with contributions from both brothers on her album.
Looks like we Londoners missed (t)he(i)r last gig tho, cos it was this Tuesday just gone. Was anyone there?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― fffv (fffv), Thursday, 25 September 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
Upside DownNever UnderstandYou Trip Me UpJust Like HoneyThe Living EndTaste of CindySome Candy TalkingPsychocandyThe Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful OST vers.)April SkiesKill Surf CityHappy When It RainsEverything is Alright When You're DownDarklandsDeep One Perfect MorningNine Million Rainy DaysCherry Came TooOn the WallSidewalkingDon't Ever ChangeBlues From a GunMy GirlHead OnSometimes Always
(ok, this one is very personal and ignores their later stuff. they're one of my three favorite bands and this collection represents some of my most treasured music, but the last 3 albums just didn't do it for me. "Reverence" is the glaring omission here because I like the idea and lyrics, but the song itself is kind of a tuneless dud. I'd also like to have had "Far Gone and Out" or "Almost Gold" but they're just not as good as the tracks that fit 80 minutes on this one.
I'd love to have someone recommend a CD80 for the last three albums/b-sides.
The list is chronological for official releases per song appearance - 81:21 overburn!)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
the planet's more fucked up than I'll ever be
Right on! Honey's Dead was like a coming of age for me, I can't be objective about it.
Did Hope Sandoval break it off with her Reid bro then?
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:17 (twenty years ago) link
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It's got a tune, a tune you can whistle!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
Hope and Colm live up the hill from you in K-ton.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:31 (twenty years ago) link
did you meet the hstencil? msp?
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link
I'm listening to Munki today. Time has been kind to it. At the time, I remember having an "OMG, WTF?" reaction to it because it was almost like the JAMC recording a satire of a JAMC album.
But with some time and distance, that's what's so great about it.
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, honestly. My tape has just disintergrated in ... certain sections. I need a nice, clear, DVD, frame by frame-playable version.
But anyway, yeah. Munki. I mean, maybe it sounds so great because I've heard so much crap lately. I wonder how charitable I would feel if I put on Blues From A Gun or something.
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
didn't like munki when i hear it recently (apart from Moe Tucker) but Honey's Dead was GREAT on another listen.
(i have the video in digital format (vcd or divx) if that's any use to you kate.)
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 11 October 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 11 October 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, sure, they're not known for their lyrical prowess, but it's a long way from "I'll be your plastic toy" or even "I wanna die on a sunny day" for chrissake.
― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
> Psychoanalysis" J&MC Compilation
sounds a lot like the video here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R699/ref%3Dnosim/iq451-21/026-6561500-4698820
which is what i have. i just used my tv capture card to make a digital copy for backup purposes. and because i could.
amazon review for 'sound of speed':"Reviewer: kat791 from englandnot what i was expecting, but good nonetheless. the leonrad cohen cover 'the tower of song' is way cool, as is the cover of 'my girl'. cool acoustic guitar and the singer's got a nice voice. pretty good. similar to the beta band."
8)
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
haha, yes!
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:56 (two months ago) link
Even do a note perfect "Jesus Suck"
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2024 09:10 (two months ago) link
if you check out the rest of their channel, they cover a lot of different bands
― StanM, Thursday, 25 January 2024 09:14 (two months ago) link
Second song is good too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yMXY59ZfQ
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:37 (two months ago) link
looking up the new LP release date, annoyed that the font is wrong on the website, then noticing for the first time that the typeface pretty much changes with every release and the good, cool typeface i thought was everywhere is only really on Darklands era stuff.
― koogs, Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:50 (two weeks ago) link
* Please note that due to a delay in vinyl production, the release date has been pushed back to March 22nd.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 10 March 2024 03:10 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0HwKM-Wwo
― Bee OK, Sunday, 10 March 2024 03:11 (two weeks ago) link
New album is out today, can't listen to it at the moment.
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:20 (one week ago) link
it sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain
― fetter, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:27 (one week ago) link
I like it! Just enough variations on the JAMC sound to keep it interesting. Another solid addition (but not essential like the 85-92 stuff, those days are long gone)
― StanM, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:31 (one week ago) link
It doesn't even sound like a JAMC album to me. Half the time, it sounds like extremely poor imitation Suicide, with a lyricist about 1/1000 as brilliant as Alan Vega. Also, the last line of this review is hilarious. "As they advance into middle age"? The Reid brothers are 62 and 65.
The cheap-ass synths on almost every track are proof that they were only ever the sum of their guitar pedals. They should have broken up the day after Psychocandy came out. A brilliant one-off gesture > an increasingly tedious "career."
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:46 (one week ago) link
Their best album is their singles collection
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:03 (one week ago) link
Yeah, honestly, I could hang onto 21 Singles and Barbed Wire Kisses.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:09 (one week ago) link
"Head On" >>>>>> Psychocandy
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:51 (one week ago) link
I am of the moderate centrist position that they should have stopped after Automatic
Which is not to say I begrudge them their continued existence, we all must make rent as best we are able in this cursed world
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:17 (one week ago) link
The world is a poorer place without "Almost Gold" and "Far Gone and Out."
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:19 (one week ago) link
Perhaps marginally poorer but I am okay with it. I dunno, I lived thru all those 90s JAMC records and saw them at the tail end of their OG incarnation, and it was all good enough. But I think those first three records and Sidewalking are where it is most at.
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:26 (one week ago) link
it was playing in hmv this morning when i went to buy a copy, always slightly embarrassing
― koogs, Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:15 (six days ago) link
(just ask them to turn down that racket while you're paying)
― StanM, Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:27 (six days ago) link
Honeys Dead is a cracking album
I saw them play at Electric Picnic in '07 and they were probably the dreariest act I watched that weekend.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 24 March 2024 12:03 (five days ago) link
I like post-Psychocandy JAMC okay, but I can totally understand how they could seem ridiculous, naff, unintentionally comedic/parodic, it’s part of the package I guess
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:32 (five days ago) link
Story I have recounted before: the fights that used to go on for control of the turntable when I worked at a record store in the mid-'80s. I honestly thought Psychocandy was perfect for a busy Saturday afternoon, a much better choice than Robert Palmer or Whitney Houston or Bruce Hornsby or whatever.
I still love the album whenever I revisit something on YouTube, but, from a customer standpoint, I really don't know what I was thinking.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:44 (five days ago) link
(I know you're talking about the new album, which I haven't heard and probably never will.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:45 (five days ago) link
have been buying their stuff since Never Understand and haven't had a reason to stop yet. can't think of another band where that's true.
― koogs, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:56 (five days ago) link
@Kraal: the moderate centrist position is definitely defensible, but I think Honey's Dead and the slightly leftfield Stoned and Dethroned are more than worthy. Finding the new one kind of a bummer on the first pass though.
Saw em in Philly on the tour where William bailed (Munki?). Only time I did; wish I'd gotten it together to go sooner.
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:09 (five days ago) link
Loved Honey's Dead upon release (probably the first album I got from them) and saw them on the US Rollercoaster tour. Worked my way back after that but tuned out by the time Stoned came out (it's nice though and Sometimes Always is a minor classic). Since then, I've filed them in the category of dependable bands who I don't really need anymore new/extra music from. Might pick up the new one since I'm hearing a a bit of extra synth in their sound.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 March 2024 08:26 (four days ago) link
I was going to get the cassette edition, but all places had it sold-out/unavailable three days ago.
I suspect it got cancelled. Unless any of youse got it ordered?
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2024 18:21 (four days ago) link