The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage And Joy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Live archive . In November 2014, The Jesus and Mary Chain celebrated three decades of their incendiary cult-classic debut album, Psychocandy, with a run of tour dates in which the infamous Scottish group played the album in full for the very first time in the band's history. As part of the Psychocandy tour, the Mary Chain descended on Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom - a legendary venue down the road from where the Reid brothers grew up in neighboring East Kilbride - and tore through the songs that would propel them to worldwide acclaim upon Psychocandy's in 1985. The Barrowland performance - an equal-parts deafening and blinding assault on the senses - was cut to vinyl by engineer Noel Summerville and originally released in 2015. Fast forward to 2022 and the Live at Barrowland album is now being reissued by Fuzz Club Records. Album Tracks 1. Just Like Honey - Live 2. The Living End - Live 3. Taste the Floor - Live 4. The Hardest Walk - Live 5. Cut Dead - Live 6. In a Hole - Live 7. Taste of Cindy - Live 8. Never Understand - Live 9. Inside Me - Live 10. Sowing Seeds - Live 11. My Little Underground - Live 12. You Trip Me Up - Live 13. Something's Wrong - Live 14. It's So Hard - Live 15. April Skies - Live 16. Head on - Live 17. Some Candy Talking - Live 18. Psychocandy - Live 19. Up Too High - Live 20. Reverence - Live 21. Upside Down - Live

Marking 40 years of The Jesus And Mary Chain, 'Glasgow Eyes' was recorded at Mogwai's Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow, where Jim and William continued the creative process that resulted in their previous album, 2017's 'Damage and Joy', becoming their highest charting album in over twenty years. What emerged is a record that finds one of the UK's most influential groups embracing a productive second chapter, their maelstrom of melody, feedback and controlled chaos now informed more audibly by their love for Suicide and Kraftwerk and a fresh appreciation of the less disciplined attitudes found in jazz.Jim Reid says, 'But don't expect 'the Mary Chain goes jazz.' People should expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that's certainly what 'Glasgow Eyes' is. Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take it's course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes. And there's a telepathy there - we are those weird not-quite twins that finish each other's sentences. Glasgow Eyes' not only extends The Jesus and Mary Chain's story, but feels simultaneously like a return to roots. From the incendiary 'Psychocandy' debut and it's classic 'Just Like Honey' onwards, the Reid brothers steadily became the misfits who made good without compromise. Album Tracks 1. Venal Joy 2. American Born 3. Mediterranean X Film 4. Jamcod 5. Discotheque 6. Pure Poor 7. The Eagles and the Beatles 8. Silver Strings 9. Chemical Animal 10. Second of June 11. Girl 71 12. Hey Lou Reid

To celebrate the album's 25-year anniversary, The Jesus And Mary Chain are reissuing their long-sold-out sixth studio album 'Munki'. Released on Fuzz Club, the reissue arrives on CD and gatefold double LP. The vinyl has been remastered by Pete Maher (The Rolling Stones, Jack White, Liam Gallagher). Originally released June 2nd 1998 on Sub Pop / Creation Records, 'Munki' was - up until the Mary Chain's reformation in 2007 - an experimental rock'n'roll masterclass turned swan song for the Reid brothers, whose fractious in-fighting culminated in the band's break-up less than a year after it's . It is perhaps fitting that 'Munki' is argued by some as the definitive Mary Chain record in the way it seemed to chart the full array of musical directions the band had ploughed over the five records that came before.The decision to bookend the album with Jim's rousing sing-along 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll' and William's caustic white-noise anthem 'I Hate Rock 'N' Roll' perfectly captures the two-fold tension at the heart of the Mary Chain at that time - a tension between noise and melody, and warring brothers. Across the album's 17 tracks and 70-minute running time, there are the expected abrasive noise-rock epics 'Cracking Up' and 'Degenerate' by way of fuzzed-out pop hits like 'Fizzy' and the tender acoustic slow-burner 'Never Understood'. Between the Reid's Glaswegian snarls and unapologetically insolent lyrics - InchI'm a mean motherfcker now, but I once was cool', 'McDonald's is sht!', 'Children are fools!' being just a few lyrical highlights - 'Munki' also features two great guest appearances. Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval returns for another Mary Chain duet on 'Perfume', which has a swagger that's equal parts menacing and bittersweet, and the Reid's younger sister Linda (Sister Vanilla) sings beautifully on top of 'Moe Tucker's motorik proto-punk scuzz. Album Tracks 1. I Lo