Product Description

Founded and led by brothers William and Jim Reid - guitarists and vocalists both - these Glasgow-based post-punk icons changed the course of alt-rock with their bold Velvet Underground-meets-Brian Wilson sound.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Up Too High(Demo '83)
2. Upside Down
3. Vegetable Man
4. Suck
5. Ambition
6. Just Out Of Reach
7. Boyfriend's Dead
8. Head
9. Just Like Honey(Demo Oct. '84)
10. Cracked
11. Taste Of Cindy(Acoustic)
12. The Hardest Walk
13. Never Understand(Alternate)
14. The Living End(Demo)
15. Some Candy Talking
16. Psychocandy
17. Hit
18. Cut Dead(Acoustic)
19. You Trip Me Up(Acoustic)
20. Walk And Crawl

Disc 2:

1. Kill Surf City
2. Bo Diddley Is Jesus
3. Who Do You Love
4. Everything's Alright When You're Down
5. Shake
6. Happy When It Rains(Demo)
7. Happy Place
8. F.Hole
9. Rider
10. On The Wall(Porta Studio Demo)
11. Surfin' USA(April Out-Take)
12. Here It Comes Again
13. Don't Ever Change
14. Swing
15. Sidewalking
16. Surfin' USA(Summer Mix)
17. Shimmer
18. Penetration
19. Break Me Down
20. Subway
21. My Girl

Disc 3:

1. In The Black
2. Terminal Beach
3. Deviant Slice
4. I'm Glad I Never
5. Drop(Acoustic Re-Mix)
6. Rollercoaster
7. Silverblade
8. Lowlife
9. Tower Of Song
10. Heat
11. Guitarman
12. Why'd You Want Me
13. Sometimes
14. Teenage Lust(Acoustic Version)
15. Reverberation(Doubt)
16. Don't Come Down
17. Snakedriver
18. Something I Can't Have
19. Write Record Release Blues
20. Little Red Rooster

Disc 4:

1. The Perfect Crime
2. Little Stars
3. Drop-Re-Recorded
4. I'm In With The Out Crowd
5. New York City
6. Taking It Away
7. Ghost Of A Smile
8. Alphabet Street
9. Coast To Coast(Alternate-William VOX)
10. Dirty Water(Demo-William VOX)
11. Till I Found You
12. Bleed Me
13. 33 1/3
14. Lost Star
15. Hide Myself
16. Rocket
17. Easylife, Easylove
18. 40,000k
19. Nineteen666

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48619 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-30
• Number of discs: 4

Customer Reviews

Here's a quick rundown of what's not on this great boxed set
Thank you Rhino, I love this. Thank you Reids, as well. This list is only intended for those completist fans wondering what didn't make the box, and are almost all from UK-only vinyl releases:

1) "Upside Down" (demo) - from the extremely rare w/l testpressing of the unreleased 12" version of said single.

2) The live Can cover, "Mushroom (Head)" - previously on the "Barbed Wire Kisses" compilation, and culled from the b-side of "April Skies."

3) "Psychocandy" & "Some Candy Talking" (both acoustic) - from the acoustic 2nd 7" single of the "Some Candy Talking" double 7" set.

4) "Some Candy Talking" (NME version) - kickin' noisier version from the NME freebie 7" EP from 1986, called "NME's Big Four."

5) "Nine Million Rainy Days" (Live) - from the 1988 Sounds - Waves 2 freebie 7" EP.

6) "Taste of Cindy" & "April Skies" (both Recorded Live in Detroit) - b-sides to "Sidewalking."

7) "Happy When It Rains" (Long Version); various mixes of "Sidewalking," "Reverence," "Far Gone and Out" & "Teenage Lust."

8) A live Cramps cover, "New Kind Of Kick," from the "Come On" CD #2 (recorded live at UC San Diego CA 11th November 1992); also appears on the "Alternative NRG" live compilation to benefit Greenpeace.

9) The 3 live b-sides from the limited-edition 10" of "Almost Gold."

Thanks for reading, and please enjoy the wonders of the box.

JAMC is as JAMC does
The Jesus and Mary Chain is my all time favorite band, so of course, I loved this 4 CD set. The demo versions, alternate versions, and unreleased tracks are great. My only complaint is that half the set is taken up by pretty much all the tracks from the CDs "Barbed Wire Kisses" and "Hate Rock'n'Roll". I already own those two CDs and anybody who is a big enough JAMC fan to want to buy this set probably already has them too. It might have been better as a 2 disc set instead of a 4 disc, and just let "Barbed Wire Kisses" and "Hate Rock'n'Roll" stand on their own. Or I would've loved to have seen more demos or some live tracks instead.
That all being said, If you love the Jesus and Mary Chain, you will love "The Power of Negative Thinking".

JAMC BOX-Wow!
I have most if not all of these songs on vinyl but having them in one place and
the sheer quality of this influential band's songs make this box a must have item.