― 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
Something I made myself, out of vids and snippets off TV. If amazon are selling it, I shal go paranoid !
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I love Automatic too. However, the production has dated a little more than Darklands as it has fewer distinguishable electronics. However, Darklands is mostly drum machine too! (some people disagree with me on this point. unfortunately, they are wrong).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:46 (nineteen years 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 (six months 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 (six months 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 (five months ago) link
(just ask them to turn down that racket while you're paying)
― StanM, Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:27 (five months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 (five months 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 (five months ago) link
New one has some cool bits (the advance tracks mostly) but also some really abysmal career nadirs (The Eagles and the Beatles? Wtf)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 30 March 2024 13:11 (five months ago) link
"don't come down" is exactly like the songs me and my friend strove to make in high school. i love it so much
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 12:50 (five months ago) link
they sound mostly like late-90s Primal Scream to me now
― fetter, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:11 (five months ago) link
Yeah, this is... not great, it's a pretty mixed bag. Which would be fine for a late career album like this, but the lows are really low.
Fully agree, that one is embarrassing.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:14 (five months ago) link
Some of the best shows I have ever seen (JAMC), on sale tomorrow:https://www.brooklynvegan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/18/pfursjamc-tour.jpg
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 17:32 (three months ago) link
A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, June 20th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code CHORD) via Ticketmaster, with a public on-sale following on Friday, June 21st at 10:00 a.m. local time.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 17:51 (three months ago) link
Got tickets for the YouTube theater, never been there before.
― RIP Say Hey Kid (Bee OK), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:52 (three months ago) link
do they play unskippable ads during shows there?
― StanM, Thursday, 20 June 2024 20:12 (three months ago) link
yes, Jesus and Mary Chain have to work Pepsi and Coke into the lyrics of at least one song
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 June 2024 20:41 (three months ago) link
"New one has some cool bits (the advance tracks mostly)"
I've only heard advance tracks. Will give the album a swerve.
― djh, Thursday, 20 June 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
Found myself strangely irritated by the Guardian headline "If the Gallaghers were Scottish" above a review of the book.
― djh, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 07:23 (two weeks ago) link
ugh, yes, that's terrible
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 12:06 (two weeks ago) link
"Pop Seeds"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POoAKARXSbE
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 September 2024 13:30 (two weeks ago) link