... maybe after this thing I guess https://www.abconcerts.be/en/agenda/events/the-jesus-and-mary-chain/21503/
― StanM, Sunday, 3 November 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
Just get on FB friend rec for Jim Reid.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
got
You're psychic: I ordered a Psychocandy T-shirt about 12 hours ago.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Ha! A friend messaged me last week to say "I've had a Facebook friend recommendation for Jim Reid!"
I had the same recommendation two days later.
Has William been recommended to anyone, though??
― djh, Monday, 12 April 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
ILX fave Annie covers "Just Like Honey"
https://www.stereogum.com/2153678/annie-just-like-honey-the-jesus-and-mary-chain-cover/music/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
they announced a warm up gig in Brighton because they're playing a festival in Spain next month. I got tickets, first time I've seen them since 2009.
That week is going to be a bit crazy, it's all 90s indie rock all the time, I'm seeing Sultans of Ping on Saturday, Superchunk on Monday, JAMC on Thursday and Stereolab on Friday
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 7 October 2023 02:58 (six months ago) link
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/28/jesus-and-mary-chain-glasgow-eyes-album-art.jpeg
Glasgow Eyes
1. Venal Joy2. American Born3. Mediterranean X Film4. jamcod5. Discotheque6. Pure Poor7. The Eagles and The Beatles8. Silver Strings9. Chemical Animal10. Second of June11. Girl 7112. Hey Lou Reid
Out on March 8, 2024 via Fuzz Club
― Bee OK, Friday, 1 December 2023 06:42 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_NOCiRbII
lol "hey lou reid"
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 1 December 2023 08:41 (four months ago) link
Genuinely surprised they hadn’t made that pun before
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 December 2023 09:35 (four months ago) link
Fingers crossed it's a Liz Phair cover
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 December 2023 10:24 (four months ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2243247/the-alternative-number-ones-the-jesus-and-mary-chains-blues-from-a-gun/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/?1701268180
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 December 2023 11:19 (four months ago) link
recently discovered their version of Alphabet Street. my gosh.
― fetter, Friday, 1 December 2023 11:27 (four months ago) link
Ha yeah.
This is not them....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWEpHonhVQ
― Mark G, Friday, 1 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
that album track sounds good (although the video looks like 5 minutes of jim sat on a chair was all they had to work with). it also clears up that it's jamc-od and not, as i thought, jam-cod.
― koogs, Friday, 1 December 2023 16:27 (four months ago) link
Song is way better than it has any right of being. Sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:05 (four months ago) link
album is out on March 8 everywhere, except on Bandcamp, that's February 8? or did someone mess up?
― StanM, Monday, 22 January 2024 01:13 (two months ago) link
Is it another case of digital release being ahead of physical release?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:24 (two months ago) link
Think I like the second teaser even better. Exciting
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:31 (two months ago) link
xpost: the 24bit/high res digital version on qobuz is March 8 as well
― StanM, Monday, 22 January 2024 21:14 (two months ago) link
All this JAMC talk made me dust off "Honey's Dead," and man, that album is so loud!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 23:40 (two months ago) link
this is unexpectedly blowing me way rn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdtTjEXqFw
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:51 (two months ago) link
Away even
Never Understand: starts at the 10 minute mark and is the best thing since the last best thing
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
Incredible, but docked a point for failing to showcase that gong left hanging on the wall.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:26 (two months 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0HwKM-Wwo
― Bee OK, Sunday, 10 March 2024 03:11 (one month ago) link
New album is out today, can't listen to it at the moment.
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:20 (four weeks ago) link
it sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain
― fetter, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:27 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
Their best album is their singles collection
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:03 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
"Head On" >>>>>> Psychocandy
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:51 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
(just ask them to turn down that racket while you're paying)
― StanM, Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:27 (four weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link