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The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Complete John Peel Sessions Audio CD

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The Jesus and Mary Chain Band: The Jesus and Mary Chain
Title: The Complete John Peel Sessions
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Release Date: 2000-02-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: In A Hole 2: You Trip Me Up 3: Never Understand 4: Taste The Floor 5: The Living End 6: Inside Me 7: Just Like Honey 8: Some Candy Talking 9: Psycho Candy 10: You Trip Me Up 11: Cut Dead 12: Fall 13: In The Rain 14: Happy Place 15: Sidewalking 16: Coast To Coast 17: Take It 18: My Girl 19: Far Gone And Out 20: Silverblade 21: Here Comes Alice

AWESOME
I believe it clearly captures the magic of the band. I am a JAMC fan and think this album is absolutely great. And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.


Reasonably exciting live tracks, absolutely no surprises
However, the actual songs were released on the 'Psychocandy' and 'Darklands' CDs. All of these 21 live tunes are unreleased. If you're looking for new songs, you'll find mostly covers here. (The JAMC were never good at acoustic covers, so even kangaroos can guess what 'My Girl' sounds like). Most of the tunes have the same straight-to-tape sound of the original CDs, except sloppier. Some intense tracks really do terrify (In a Hole, Taste The Floor, Some Candy Talking), I found the rest to be nothing we haven't heard already. OK, but hardly great.


Brings ya back
The first several track are very early, pre-Psychocandy noise hysteria, but the real revelation is hearing stripped-down acoustic versions of the songs on that album. A good reminder for all who've forgotten what a genius band the JAMC was. They're almost more wonderful without all the feedback--pristine, melodic songs whose delicate music runs against their nihilistic lyrics. Things get a bit lame later in the disc with some of the JAMC's less distinguished later tracks, but the acoustic version of "My Girl" is killer.


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