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The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Jesus And Mary Chain
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4095
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 5.8 x 0.7
MPN: 202684
UPC: 081227997977
EAN: 0081227997977
ASIN: B000TXNBDQ
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Up Too High(Demo '83) | | • | Upside Down | | • | Vegetable Man | | • | Suck | | • | Ambition | | • | Just Out Of Reach | | • | Boyfriend's Dead | | • | Head | | • | Just Like Honey(Demo Oct. '84) | | • | Cracked | | • | Taste Of Cindy(Acoustic) | | • | The Hardest Walk | | • | Never Understand(Alternate) | | • | The Living End(Demo) | | • | Some Candy Talking | | • | Psychocandy | | • | Hit | | • | Cut Dead(Acoustic) | | • | You Trip Me Up(Acoustic) | | • | Walk And Crawl |
Disc 2
| • | Kill Surf City | | • | Bo Diddley Is Jesus | | • | Who Do You Love | | • | Everything's Alright When You're Down | | • | Shake | | • | Happy When It Rains(Demo) | | • | Happy Place | | • | F.Hole | | • | Rider | | • | On The Wall(Porta Studio Demo) | | • | Surfin' USA(April Out-Take) | | • | Here It Comes Again | | • | Don't Ever Change | | • | Swing | | • | Sidewalking | | • | Surfin' USA(Summer Mix) | | • | Shimmer | | • | Penetration | | • | Break Me Down | | • | Subway | | • | My Girl |
Disc 3
| • | In The Black | | • | Terminal Beach | | • | Deviant Slice | | • | I'm Glad I Never | | • | Drop(Acoustic Re-Mix) | | • | Rollercoaster | | • | Silverblade | | • | Lowlife | | • | Tower Of Song | | • | Heat | | • | Guitarman | | • | Why'd You Want Me | | • | Sometimes | | • | Teenage Lust(Acoustic Version) | | • | Reverberation(Doubt) | | • | Don't Come Down | | • | Snakedriver | | • | Something I Can't Have | | • | Write Record Release Blues | | • | Little Red Rooster |
Disc 4
| • | The Perfect Crime | | • | Little Stars | | • | Drop-Re-Recorded | | • | I'm In With The Out Crowd | | • | New York City | | • | Taking It Away | | • | Ghost Of A Smile | | • | Alphabet Street | | • | Coast To Coast(Alternate-William VOX) | | • | Dirty Water(Demo-William VOX) | | • | Till I Found You | | • | Bleed Me | | • | 33 1/3 | | • | Lost Star | | • | Hide Myself | | • | Rocket | | • | Easylife, Easylove | | • | 40,000k | | • | Nineteen666 |
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Product Description
Founded and led by brothers William and Jim Reid - guitarists and vocalists both - these Glasgow-based post-punk icons changed the course of alt-rock with their bold Velvet Underground-meets-Brian Wilson sound.
Album Description
One of the most important U.K. bands of the last 25 years, Jesus And Mary Chain formed in East Kilbride, Scotland in 1983. They created a new intersection of noise and pop, draping curtains of guitar distortion over melodies worthy of The Ronettes or The Beach Boys. Rolling Stone called their 1985 debut LP Psychocandy (#268 on their list of 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time) a "decadent alt-rock masterpiece of bubblegum pop.drowned in feedback." With the famously contentious Reid brothers as the band's sole constant, JAMC went on to become just as famously prolific-along with five classic Blanco y Negro albums, they issued a wealth of compelling non-LP material. For the first time, it's collected in one place on Rhino's 4-CD box THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING: B-SIDES & RARITIES. After disbanding in 1998, JAMC reunited in 2007 and are currently recording their first album in a decade, making this the ideal time for Rhino's exploration into their storied past. Album Facts " 4-CD boxed set presents 81 rarities, including 8 previously unreleased tracks. " Spanning 1983-1998, selections are arranged chronologically. " Opens with the previously unreleased "Up Too High," a Darklands-esque rarity recorded on cassette in 1983, and closes with "Nineteen666" from their late '90s Sub Pop era. " Other previously unissued gems include an alternate version of "Never Understand," demos of "My Little " Underground" and "The Living End" and the unheard song "Walk And Crawl" (all from the Psychocandy era) as well as three Stoned And Dethroned-era discoveries including the lost song "Till I Found You." " Highlights also include their 1984 debut Creation single ("Upside Down" b/w "Vegetable Man"), an acoustic version of "Teenage Lust," "Bo Diddley Is Jesus," and much more. " Deluxe box packaged in a 6" x 10" gatefold shell. " Booklet features new interviews with Jim and William Reid, rare photos, and an 18" x 24" double-sided poster featuring a hand-drawn JAMC "family tree."
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Great product...shame about the import duty January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great product, that is very well packaged from one of the best bands of the 1980's. Especially welcome is the demo material from the Psychocandy era and the number of unreleased tracks from circa 1984. The comprehensive notes and JAMC family tree are also excellent additions. one point of complaint though. Because this item was continually not in stock on any of the amazon EU sites I had to order from the US sites. As a result of this I had to pay a 10 Euro import duty to get it through customs in Belgium. This was surprising and most unwelcome.
J&MC rarities and b-sides box November 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are a real fan of the Reid Bros, buy it; if you don't know the band, buy it too. The best band in the 80's, ahead of their time mixing chaos with melodies and Can with Beach Boys. What else can i say?
This is a gem October 31, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I fell in love with the Jesus and Mary Chain as an eighteen year old away from home for the first time at the dorms in Santa Barbara in 1985. Much to my delight they were playing at the UCSD dining hall when I returned home for Xmas. They were an immediate impact on my way of viewing the world and the connection between sound and art and songwriting and the idea that this world is ours. There are people like me. The B-sides to I Hate Rock and Roll, I Love Rock and Roll and Cracked were a genius album in their own right. This is a box set I've long wanted to compile. Thank You, Reid Brothers. Sister Vanilla had me still believing.
Do Not Adjust Your Controls October 23, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
When The Jesus & Mary Chain released their debut album "Psychocandy," they touched down for a club gig at Traxx, on Gratiot near 8 Mile (one of Detroit's worst neighborhoods), to promote it, if you can call a 15-minute set - 20 minutes, tops - promotion.
It was a monotonous roar of mammoth unarticulated reverberations, like a beast that had been tossed into a sawdust pit to fight for its life then amplified through a fast-food restaurant drive-through speaker in a wind tunnel, with an occasional hook or melody coming through the din - sandpaper on top of cotton candy - the brothers Reid not bothering to turn and face the audience much except for an occasional turn at the mic. If not for their sheer audacity and the inner-ear disorienting sonic maelstrom swirling around them, it may have turned very ugly. In hindsight, Traxx's policy of serving drinks in plastic cups was eerily prescient because - let's face it - plastic does a hell of a lot less damage to the human skull than glass.
There's a lot of ear-bleeding psychedelic noise here, Disc 1 in particular a dense helix of sound, corrosive love songs drenched in adrenaline backwashes of sludge and slow-motion fuzz rubbing elbows and knees with shimmering pop delights like "The Hardest Walk," "Some Candy Talking" and "Psychocandy," the Reids obviously smitten with sweets, the...um...pudendum, and any and all analogies and metaphors for both. At times, Jim Reid's crystalline, near-fragile whisper almost begs to be nailed to the deck to keep it from floating away yet there are moments - like the monaurally-titled "Suck," "Ambition," "Head," and "Cracked" - that sound like some terrible accident in a tool and die works, as troubling as they are magnificent. You know you'll recover, but you're not sure when.
Whether by design, accident, or necessity, things get a little more orthodox - but no less refreshing - beginning with Disc 2, the howling workshop of distortion and white noise vacated in favor of digs far more uncluttered and easier to penetrate, a change mirrored by the radical differences between "Psychocandy" and sophomore album "Darklands." Along the way, we're treated to scary, perverse, unsettling, apocalyptic-exploded covers and tributes to Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, and The Beach Boys that are filled with echo, the sound of amp tubes going up in smoke, and carnivorous moans grisly enough to curdle milk. Conversely, their take on The Temptations "My Girl" is much more...er...pleasant, even drowsy, than their customary killer bee buzz.
"Terminal Beach," "Silverblade" "Easylife, Easylove," and "The Perfect Crime" - the latter over much too soon in about a minute - may be J&MC-by-numbers, but they are vital, classic blasts of bubble gum pop from surly, brazen young men who skirt the fringe of punk without descending into incompetence, tipping their hats more than once to the Velvet Underground, the kids you couldn't catch while playing tag as a kid on the playground. These guys should be someone's heroes by now. Too bad they couldn't play nice...
Don't Ever Change October 12, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Jesus and Mary Chain are slowly becoming my favorite band. In the recently released box set "The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities" JAMC prove themselves as a band that has variety and have a deep understanding of the rock and roll format. I'm a sucker for that format especially when the blues are more of an influence than the folk. i.e. T. Rex (not Tyrannosaurus Rex), The Doors, 13th Floor Elevators. However, the Jesus and Mary Chain don't sound like any of these bands, in the slightest.
This compilation includes some great covers of really really old, like oldie old songs I've always loved like: 'My Girl', 'Surfin' USA', 'Who Do You Love' all with their trademark spice.
So don't think The Jesus and Mary Chain are just the Kings of Leon of the 80's, oh no. They are much more...
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