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The Mary Chain combined crazed white noise and bubblegum pop to create the best and most influential rock music ever to come out of Scotland. They were formed in East Kilbride in '84 by the brothers Bill and Jim Reid, who shared singing and guitar duties. Their first forays into public saw them scaring people with their revolutionary noise and causing riots. Undeterred they kept going, gradually evolving their sound until '98's Munki.
Man On The Moon has Jim singing in a typical quiet, almost delicate Mary Chain fashion and for the first minute or so, the song runs along with this in an understated fashion. Near the minute and a half mark, the noise kicks in with a combination of distorted and wah-wah'd guitar that makes for one of the most brillant guitar sounds in their whole career. However, it's just a lovely, brief flirt with the sound, before things calm down again. Another verse in the early understated style happens and then The Noise comes back. This time it brings some brass with it. Utterly joyous.
The lyrics just add to the overall goodness. They start out painting a picture of loneliness where it "sure gets lonely living here on the moon". However, by the end there is an acceptance of the solitude because "I guess it's got to be this way". It feels like redemption.
Go and listen to it and then buy every damn thing of theirs you can find. Right now. Go.
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