That's more pineapple than carrot.
(But that said, Daniel Ash was the one and only Pineapple God and there will never be another. But his was special because it was a pineapple mullet)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YSqKnJvl0Eo/R_I3i4BduJI/AAAAAAAAArU/AwqfYDQg1V0/s400/jesus-mary-chain.jpg
who you callin a fuckin carrot top?
xp good point Steve (fucking loved that song kicking in in Lost in Translation in the cinema)
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I honestly cannot choose. what a mighty album, great from start to finish.
― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread could really do with some more pictures, TBH
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hg-IOKPUrlY/S603k-YuomI/AAAAAAAAASI/JESX_FFMihk/s1600/The%2BJesus%2Band%2BMary%2BChain.jpg
aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww
I cannot believe they actually got them to pose so sweetly for long enough to take a picture before they went back to pulling each others' hair out.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Hardest Walk" for me, but there's not really a bad song in the bunch.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually don't like this album much. I lose interest after Taste the Floor, which is really good & what I'm voting for.
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
After listening to Never Understand just now, I like how it kind of reminds me of Surfer Rosa, so that's cool.
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Bobby Gillespie's haircut in the Never Understand vid is the single best thing he has ever been involved with in more than 25 years in music.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
True.
No, actually, it's only the second best thing, after his trousers in the Just Like Honey video.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Never Understand" or "My Little Underground." I went completely around the bend for this 1986. Inspired one of my most pretentious reviews ever, over some solid competition.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
voted u trip me upp
― swagula (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i prefer the songs that have a more reckless, unhinged sound to them than the slower ones.
went with "my little underground"
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"Never Understand" or "My Little Underground," which are kind of the same song to me.
In the late 1980s when I listened to this daily, "Hardest Walk" or "Taste of Cindy."
Wait, maybe still "Hardest Walk."
OK, not voting.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta go with "You Trip Me Up" as the old sentimental favourite here.
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the hardest poll ever. I guess Never Understand if I have to choose.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening again now, for the first time in a long while. "Never Understand" for me, but I still <3 this record.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a most cruel poll.
"Hardest Walk" always struck something in me and that is what I voted for, but it was really painful to decide.
Perhaps more pictures will make it easier. Yes, more pictures...
― kaliflwr, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Just Like Honey
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i've probably told this story on another jamc thread, but my freshman-year college roommate refused to believe that the album was supposed to sound like that. it was outside his acceptable frame of reference that noise like that could be intentional. like, i mean, i was showing him that it was on a major label and asking him, really, do you really think a whole record company is distributing this internationally by accident? but he honestly didn't believe it was by design. he thought there had to be some other explanation.
anyway, for that reason and others, "never understand."
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
never understand, w/ strong competition from you trip me up, the living end, just like honey, etc.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M_jjIJQmP64/S9cGhs6orMI/AAAAAAAACOs/EBcJAw42WaM/s1600/jesus_and_mary_chain_record_new_song_tour_400x297.jpg
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
just like honey
― should i watch robocop y/y (cozen), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
What was that you said, Kaliflwr? More pictures?
Well, OK.... I guess... I could find some for you, since you *insist*...
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/20365803/The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain+jimandwill.jpg
Ooh, you'll like this one...
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/27397863/The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain+5.png
^^^^^fairly sure we've had acid trips where that was lying on the kitchen floor
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/eju53k.jpg
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
BOOOOOOAAABBBBBBYYYYYYYYYY...
::whimpers::
No, Karen D, think of what he *turned into*.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hardest Walk.
Got my first and only speeding ticket while playing this album.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Either "The Hardest Walk" or "The Living End" or "Taste of Cindy" or maybe "Never Understand" or
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Aww shit or "Cut Dead" or
Also "Some Candy Talking" does not belong here thank you
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
as good a time as any to post this again. "Because we're so good". "It's .. adequate". "My guitar's for kicking". "My favourite colour is gold". etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclcrEpui64
― zappi, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Awwww! ...Wait, what were we deciding again?
Oh right! Well, "Some Candy Talking," while one of my favorites (if not THE favorite, as it's been on occasion), doesn't belong on this list because it wasn't there when I had this on constant rotation on my turntable in my mid-teens. My mid-teens, which were relatively innocent until I saw one, "Just Like Honey" video.
It will always seem wrong to pick just one, but I'm sticking with, "The Hardest Walk." If not for the pop perfection under all that sexy noise, then for lyrics, which seem to me to be about a relationship-gone-dead. While far from unique in subject matter for the Brothers Reid, this time it swims in blood. It. Swims. In. Blood.
Still think more visuals are needed, though. Umm hmm.
― kaliflwr, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://aprilskies.amniisia.com/jamc/images/early.jpg
Can't find a better quality version of this :(
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
voted 'never understand'.
saw jamc at the ambulance station supported by the june brides - first time i was ever offered druks at a gig, oh happy days
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Back then, The Hardest Walk. Now, The Living End.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
oh . . . honey
― master of retardment (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Typical Kate, always thinking of Boaby..
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not my fault. Those images were burned into my retina by those very same videos that Kaliflwr watched. Over. And over. And over again. Though, actually, not the *very* same one, because we actually managed to watch a hole in the tape, so she made me go down to Tower and buy a new copy.
But, basically, erm, a generation of women would really like to thank the Jesus and Mary Chain, and their leather trousers for our sexual awakenings, and for, erm, bringing *that* to our attention, thanks.
― out of ash i rise w/my red hair and eat vegetables like air (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
So who had your favourite boaby in JAMC then?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Boaby Gillespie's Boaby, natch. ;-)
― out of ash i rise w/my red hair and eat vegetables like air (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
You did "wear" a hole in the tape, or was that an acid experience?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i dread to think what she did to that tape
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
We watched it so many times that it went fuzzy and staticky and a bit funny at certain moments we really loved and watched over and over. Ha ha, Kaliflwr is going to keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell me for this.
― out of ash i rise w/my red hair and eat vegetables like air (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
staticky or sticky?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I put a one-hour J&MC 'experience' onto VHS back in the day just after "Sidewalking", called "Psychotherapy"
Various promo vids, snips from interviews, a few hand-made extras.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Full of static. Like a worn-out tape. Stop being gross, Kerr.
― out of ash i rise w/my red hair and eat vegetables like air (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha Ha.... it's true. Rewind, pause, rewind, pause, rewind, pause. It'll do bad things to your videotapes after several hundred viewings.
Also, I'm pretty pissed the combo DVD/CD re-release totally crapped out on me. I never trust those two sided CDs to begin with. Well, the CD portion crapped out. The DVD portion still works, thank the lust-gods.
― kaliflwr, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ugghh the static in this album is unbearable. i'm a huge, huge mbv fan but i really can't listen for more than a song at a time without my ears just telling me to turn the shit off.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
^^quality
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
this is b/w "Sowing Seeds" & "Never Understand" for me.
― Paul McCartney to be Fetid at White House (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
picture me not caring
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/2621394218_4c42aec1e3_o.jpg
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just going to ask if anyone had seen them on the current tour. I saw one of 2007 reunion shows and was pretty disappointed, but I'd give them another chance if the reports are good.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Gonna see them on Friday.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Seeing them this evening!
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
I will Never Understand, what the appeal of this song is.
It is a good song, but 2nd on the list?
Please enlighten me...
― BriefCandles, Saturday, 17 February 2024 21:52 (two months ago) link
great revive
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:27 (two months ago) link
I like it but I find it almost indistinguishable from "My Little Underground" and I'm not sure why one has so much more canonical shine than the other.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:34 (two months ago) link
Oh wait I've said this like twice in this thread already
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:35 (two months ago) link
Some eephus talking
Not gonna lie. Some eephus talking make me laugh!!
― BriefCandles, Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:53 (two months ago) link