LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT goody three shoes
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Back again so soon! It was here too.
Showing posts with label The Jesus And Mary Chain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Jesus And Mary Chain. Show all posts
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Man On The Moon (again)
ORIGINATION Munki
LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT goody three shoes
RATING
Back again so soon! It was here too.
LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT goody three shoes
RATING
Back again so soon! It was here too.
Friday, July 07, 2006
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Man On The Moon
ORIGINATION Munki
LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT good 'n' high
RATING
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.
LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT good 'n' high
RATING
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.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
ORIGINATION Psychocandy
LAST LISTENED TO last week
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT fair
RATING
It starts with roughest drums you'll ever hear in rock (played by Bobby Gillespie, in pre-Primal Scream days). They're kinda lo-fi but with a mountain of reverb, as if it has been recorded in a dark, damp tunnel somewhere. The rest of the tune, well it's just lovely. The lyrics, the singing, the battered guitars, the female backing vocals. It's a crazy mixture of pop and avant garde noise that can have come as nothing less than a revelation in '84. Bloody brillant. Everyone who likes music made with guitars should have this.
LAST LISTENED TO last week
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT fair
RATING
It starts with roughest drums you'll ever hear in rock (played by Bobby Gillespie, in pre-Primal Scream days). They're kinda lo-fi but with a mountain of reverb, as if it has been recorded in a dark, damp tunnel somewhere. The rest of the tune, well it's just lovely. The lyrics, the singing, the battered guitars, the female backing vocals. It's a crazy mixture of pop and avant garde noise that can have come as nothing less than a revelation in '84. Bloody brillant. Everyone who likes music made with guitars should have this.
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