Deep Album Cuts Vol. 346: The Jesus And Mary Chain

 






The Scottish band The Jesus And Mary Chain are releasing their 8th album Glasgow Eyes in March, so I thought I'd dig into their catalog a bit. 

The Jesus And Mary Chain deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. Taste The Floor
2. The Living End
3. The Hardest Walk
4. Taste Of Cindy
5. Down On Me
6. About You
7. Cherry Came Too
8. Deep One Perfect Morning
9. Psychocandy
10. Kill Surf City
11. Between Planets
12. Here Comes Alice
13. Coast To Coast
14. Half Way To Crazy
15. Teenage Lust
16. Rollercoaster
17. Good For My Soul
18. Dirty Water
19. Everybody I Know
20. Hole
21. Perfume
22. Degenerate
23. War On Peace
24. All Things Pass

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Psychocandy (1985)
Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8 from Darklands (1987)
Tracks 9 and 10 from Barbed Wire Kiss (1988)
Tracks 11, 12, 13 and 14 from Automatic (1989)
Tracks 15, 16 and 17 from Honey's Dead (1992)
Tracks 18, 19 and 20 from Stoned & Dethroned (1994)
Tracks 21 and 22 from Munki (1998)
Tracks 23 and 24 from Damage And Joy (2017)

The Jesus And Mary Chain kind of peaked before I started paying attention to music, so I feel like they've always been a blind spot to me compared to a lot of their contemporaries or bands they influenced. My first memory of them is the late period hit "Sometimes Always" with Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, and eventually I got a passing familiarity with their bigger singles like "Just Like Honey" and "Head On." Not a huge fan but I enjoy their very loud, blown out bubblegum sound, it's a good signature. And some of the later records sound completely different in interesting ways, they also reunited with Sandoval on the extremely weird 1998 album track "Perfume." 

"About You" and "Taste of Cindy" are on the band's top 10 on Spotify. Most of the big UK alternative bands of the '80s (The Smiths, New Order, The Cure, etc.) have a compilation of b-sides and non-album tracks that's one of their most popular records. The Jesus And Mary Chain's is Barbed Wire Kisses, which was their second-highest charting album in the UK and one of their three gold-selling albums over there, and it featured the would-be title track for Pyschocandy, which appeared on the Some Candy Talking EP. In fact, The Jesus And Mary Chain released a total of three b-sides comps, later collected together as a box set. Superchunk's four b-sides comps are the only instance I can recall of a band releasing even more of them than JAMC. I know Automatic isn't the band's most revered album, but I think the sound of that one appeals to me the most, and some of the deep cuts like "Between Planets" and "Half Way To Crazy" sound like they really could've been hits. 
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