The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities

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艺人: The Jesus and Mary Chain
语种: 英语
厂牌: Rhino Records
发行时间: 2008年09月30日
专辑类别: 精选集

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收录历年畅销歌曲、未曾曝光之8首demo、罕见歌曲与稀有录音歌曲，共计81首歌曲！

尽管The Jesus And Mary Chain (以下简称为JAMC)未能成功跨越千禧年，在1999年发表“Munki”专辑后便宣布解散，但他们的影响力却已毫无疑问地留名摇滚史页。传承着Velvet Underground实验精神与低调氛围的他们，几乎是后来整个英式摇滚乐队(从Shoegazer到Brit-Pop)对吉他音墙使用的启蒙先趋之一，并与同侪的爱尔兰乐队My Bloody Valentine、纽泽西的Yo La Tengo，开发了当代听众对噪音吉他摇滚的观感。时至今日，仍然可以在新团如Black Rebel Motorcycle Club身上听到JAMC的风骨遗韵。

回到1984年，这帮从苏格兰的格拉斯哥发迹，以William & Jim Reid兄弟档为首的家伙，果真以首度发表的单曲「Upside Down」，成功翻转了他们自己的命运。JAMC一夕成名，反馈扭曲的吉他声响，在漫天压境中窜留着强烈旋律化的渴望，却也总在早期的演唱会中造成混乱暴动，这时他们的阵容中还包括了后来另组Primal Scream声名大噪的Bobby Gillespie。同年，乐团被创办indie大厂Rough Trade的老板Geoff Travis签下至其新成立的Blanco y Negro厂牌，发行了乐团首张专辑“Psychocandy”，到至今依旧被公认是影响摇滚界甚深的专辑，而「You Trip Me Up」、「Just Like Honey」、「Never Understand」等都是流传至今的经典名曲。在1986年发行了传言是服用毒品而产下之迷幻、超现实的「Some Candy Talking」单曲后，Gillespie也离开了JAMC；而1987年拱出的“Darklands”也让JAMC从鼓躁不安的Noise-pop转化为较柔顺的摇滚乐，纵然整张专辑几乎是只有Reid两兄弟包办一切，依然是得到各界的赞赏，是JAMC所有专辑中成绩最好的一张。从这之后，乐团的成员编制便不停更换，Reid两兄弟就这样将JAMC扶持下去，1988年推出首张b-side专辑“Barbed Wire Kisses”、1989年的录音室专辑“Automatic”、然后是1992年的“Honey’s Dead”和1994年在Blanco y Negro旗下的最后一张专辑“Stoned & Dethroned”，最后就是Reid两兄弟阋翻的1998年遗作“Munki”(Sub Pop厂牌发行)，JAMC从此解散。

2007年，JAMC在Coachella音乐祭与女星Scarlett Johansson一起献出首场的复出秀，拆伙近九年的JAMC正式宣布重组，令所有歌迷喜出望外！特此，Rhino推出此四片装珍藏版的JAMC精选，收录乐团历年畅销歌曲、未曾曝光之8首demo、罕见歌曲与稀有录音歌曲，共计81首歌曲，并内附64页精美全彩附册＋双面印刷海报！

The Jesus and Mary Chain's 2008 Rhino four-disc box set The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities, collects all of the influential Scottish noise-pop band's various B-side singles, cover songs, and sundry demos in one terrific package. Fans of JAMC who already own the band's albums should be pleased to see that none of the original album tracks are included here. For those who don't own them, Rhino's 2006 bonus disc reissues of Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic, Honey's Dead, and Stoned & Dethroned is the place to start. However, in many ways The Power of Negative Thinking is a more honest portrait of JAMC than even the studio albums reveal. Often mischaracterized as gloomy, goth rock misanthropes -- only partly true -- JAMC were in truth huge fans of '60s sunshine pop, surf rock, and even hip-hop and aspired to a kind of D.I.Y. Phil Spector Wall of Sound aesthetic that found them substituting Spector's strings and horns with walls of feedbacking guitar. These are rough demos meant to capture the Reid brothers' raw creative vision of rock music that -- as guitarist Jim Reid says in the liner notes -- had, "the pop sensibilities of the Shangri-Las, but with the production values of the Birthday Party." In that sense, we get JAMC from their dreamy lo-fi punk roots with the 1983 drum machine-driven demo for "Up Too High" and 1984's sludgy feedback-laden "Upside Down," to their time as '90s alt rock icons on such pristinely polished efforts like shimmering 1992 ballad "Why Do You Want Me?" and the catchy folk-rock of 1994's "Something I Can't Have." We even get one of the few non-Reid entries in bassist Ben Lurie's pop nugget "Rocket." Also enlightening are such giddy cover songs as JAMC's version of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love," Prince's "Alphabet Street," and the Temptations' "My Girl" which purportedly JAMC were so drunk during the recording of they could barely hold their instruments. It's also true that the Reid brothers were big fans of Bob Dylan and that many of these songs were written on acoustic guitar. Not surprisingly, here we get blissfully melodic acoustic versions of "Just Like Honey" and "Taste of Cindy," which actually come fairly close to fulfilling JAMC's Spector-ish aspirations. Ultimately, The Power of Negative Thinking isn't the whole JAMC story, but it's the whole story behind the scenes and A-side singles, and sometimes the B-sides. Even better.

The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities

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