Track Listing

1. Here Comes Alice
2. Coast to Coast
3. Blues from a Gun
4. Between Planets
5. Uv Ray
6. Her Way of Praying
7. Head On
8. Take It
9. Halfway to Crazy
10. Gimme Hell
11. Drop
12. Sunray

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218259 in Music
• Released on: 1995-07-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Original recording reissued

Album Description
The fourth full length release from Scottish brothers Jim &William Reid's post-modern group. No longer available in theU.S., the 1989 album was their most commercially ambitiouseffort in which they buffed their trademark feedback to aglossy sonic sheen that sounded much like their backing bandwas actually ZZ Top (during that band's high octane years of1983-1985). 12 tracks, including the singles 'Blues From AGun' & their original version of 'Head On' (later coverd bythe Pixies), plus gems like 'Coast To Coast', 'BetweenPlanets' and 'UV Ray'. A Blanco Y Negro Records release.

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Companion To The Pixies' Doolittle
Well, I know Jesus & Mary Chain purists might prefer Psychocandy...and it is an awesome album, too.

But to those who say this is "overproduced"--just remember, without George Martin, there would've been no Beatles' Rubber Soul and without Butch Vig, no Nirvana's Nevermind. Sometimes helping a band organize its musical genius is a good thing....

This album stands as an incredible achievement. The songs are terrific and the playing is sooooo tight. This might be the UK's finest late-'80s album. In my mind, this and Doolittle are the two great "alternative" records of the late '80s. If you don't have this one, you're in for a treat!

My Way of Praying
This turned out to be the first JAMC album I would buy, though it was certainly not the last. My older brother wore out LP copies of 'Barbed Wire Kisses', 'Darklands' and 'Psychocandy' claiming each album was better than the one before it.

So I picked up where he left off, just a whimsical purchase if there ever was one.

The crisp production did little harm to the album; 'How the Gods Kill', 'Raw Power', 'Never Mind the Bollocks' all sound like they should be blaring out of a convertible cruising somewhere down route 66. So does 'Automatic.' Although the drum machine detracts a little bit from the overall impact of the songs (for evidence, check out the "Sidewalking" cousin: "Gimme Hell", which utilizes live drums), they're still the most rockin' A-sides the brothers Reid would ever put out.

"Coast To Coast", "Blues From a Gun", "Between Planets", "Head On" and "Here Comes Alice" represent the true nature of the Chain, and are probably their most underrated tunes in a reasonably vast catalogue of fuzztone pop.

Pick it up and be amazed at your own discretion.....

As good as alterna rock gets
It is pretty funny to see this selling on Amazon for almost 20 bones. I vividly remember picking this and Disintegration by The Cure up used for about $5.50 each in probably 1991.

For me, JAMC have always been a singles / album tracks band. I have never loved any of their releases from start to finish but this recording has incredible tracks in spades:

Blues from a Gun, Between Planets, Head On, Halfway to Crazy. These are all perfectly constructed, riff-heavy, kickin' rockers that I cannot listen to without reaching for the volume knob. Fantastic