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The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
Box set by
ReleasedSeptember 2008
GenreAlternative rock, noise pop, post-punk
LabelBlanco Y Negro
Rhino
ProducerMason Williams, Phil Ward-Large, John Loder, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bill Inglot, Stephen Hague, Joe Foster
The Jesus and Mary Chain chronology
Live in Concert
(2003)
The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
(2008)
Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
ChartAttack[2]
The Guardian[3]
Mojo[4]
Paste8.7/10[5]
Pitchfork Media7.5/10[6]
PopMatters[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Uncut[9]
The Village Voicefavorable[10]

The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities is a box set compilation album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released on November 19, 2007.[11]

It consists of material from the Barbed Wire Kisses, The Sound of Speed and The Jesus And Mary Chain Hate Rock 'n' Roll compilations, alongside unreleased tracks and rarities from throughout their career; including early performances, unheard demos, re-mixes, alternate versions of some songs and bootleg recordings.

Reception

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Matt Collar of Allmusic felt that the collection represented the band in a "more honest portrait"... "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." and concluded "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."[12]

Aaron Brophy of Chart Attack observed, "When you look at it carefully, what the Chain attempted to do was nothing short of redefining the parameters and reigniting the spirit of rock 'n' roll. That's a lot to put on the shoulders of a couple angry brothers from Glasgow who dressed in too much black, but few others since them have done as much to advance the sound of old school rock 'n' roll."[13]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Jim Reid and William Reid; except where indicated

Disc one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Up Too High" (demo '83)William Reid3:44
2."Upside Down" 3:00
3."Vegetable Man"Syd Barrett3:35
4."Suck" 2:08
5."Ambition"Vic Goddard3:29
6."Just Out of Reach" 2:08
7."Boyfriend's Dead" 1:43
8."Head" 3:50
9."Just Like Honey" (demo Oct. '84) 2:59
10."Cracked" 3:47
11."Taste of Cindy" (acoustic version) 2:00
12."The Hardest Walk" 3:13
13."Never Understand" (alternate take) 3:26
14."My Little Underground" (demo) 2:33
15."The Living End" (demo) 2:17
16."Some Candy Talking" 3:18
17."Psychocandy" 2:54
18."Hit" 3:28
19."Cut Dead" (acoustic) 2:47
20."You Trip Me Up" (acoustic) 2:42
21."Walk and Crawl" 2:24
Disc two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Kill Surf City" 3:11
2."Bo Diddley Is Jesus" 3:18
3."Who Do You Love"Ellas McDaniel4:05
4."Everything's Alright When You're Down" 2:39
5."Shake" 2:01
6."Happy When It Rains" (demo) 3:47
7."Happy Place" 2:24
8."F. Hole" 1:09
9."Rider" 2:12
10."On the Wall" (Porta Studio demo) 3:42
11."Surfin' U.S.A." (April outtake)Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson2:58
12."Here It Comes Again" 2:33
13."Don't Ever Change" 3:33
14."Swing" 2:26
15."Sidewalking" 3:35
16."Surfin' U.S.A." (Summer mix)Berry, Wilson2:58
17."Shimmer" 2:47
18."Penetration" 2:48
19."Break Me Down" 2:31
20."Subway" 2:06
21."My Girl"Smokey Robinson, Ronald White3:05
Disc three
No.TitleMusicLength
1."In the Black" 2:55
2."Terminal Beach" 2:25
3."Deviant Slice" 3:03
4."I'm Glad I Never"Lee Hazlewood1:31
5."Drop" (acoustic remix) 1:54
6."Rollercoaster" 3:52
7."Silverblade" 2:58
8."Lowlife" 3:28
9."Tower of Song"Leonard Cohen4:50
10."Heat" 3:01
11."Guitarman"Jerry Reed3:43
12."Why'd You Want Me" 3:14
13."Sometimes" 2:52
14."Teenage Lust" (acoustic version) 2:25
15."Reverberation (Doubt)"Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland3:47
16."Don't Come Down" 2:41
17."Snakedriver" 3:41
18."Something I Can't Have" 3:03
19."Write Record Release Blues" 2:57
20."Little Red Rooster"Chester Arthur Burnett, Willie Dixon3:27
Disc four
No.TitleMusicLength
1."The Perfect Crime"J. Reid1:35
2."Little Stars"W. Reid3:33
3."Drop" (Re-recorded)W. Reid1:53
4."I'm In With the Out Crowd"J. Reid2:37
5."New York City"W. Reid1:59
6."Taking It Away"Ben Lurie2:12
7."Ghost of a Smile"Shane MacGowan2:55
8."Alphabet Street"Prince2:17
9."Coast to Coast" (alternate - William Vox) 2:17
10."Dirty Water" (demo - William Vox)W. Reid3:15
11."Till I Found You" 2:05
12."Bleed Me"J. Reid3:38
13."33⅓"J. Reid3:19
14."Lost Star"W. Reid2:05
15."Hide Myself"J. Reid3:31
16."Rocket"Lurie3:02
17."Easylife, Easylove"J. Reid4:08
18."40.000k"J. Reid2:51
19."Nineteen666"Dick Meaney, W. Reid3:31
20."Some Candy Talking" (acoustic version; iTunes US bonus track) 3:12

Personnel

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  • Vanessa Atkins – Editorial Supervision
  • Glenn A. Baker – Photography
  • Paul Barber – Project Assistant
  • Barry Blacker – Drums
  • P.G. Brunelli – Photography
  • Andrew Catlin – Photography
  • Murray Dalglish – Drums
  • Brad Davidson – Bass
  • Donna DeChristopher – Project Assistant
  • Geoff Donkin – Drums
  • Steve Double – Photography
  • Terry Edwards – Trumpet
  • Casey Estevez – Package Supervision
  • Dave Evans – Rhythm guitar
  • Dele Fadele – Liner Notes
  • Sheryl Farber – Project Assistant
  • Lyn Fey – Project Assistant
  • Lincoln Fong – Bass
  • Joe Foster – Producer
  • Bobby Gillespie – Drums
  • Steven P. Gorman – Photo Research
  • Dick Green – Bass
  • Stephen Hague – Producer
  • Douglas Hart – Bass
  • Dan Hersch – Remastering
  • Martin Hewes – Drums
  • Robin Hurley – Project Assistant
  • Wendy Idele – Photography
  • Bill Inglot – Compilation Producer, Remastering
  • Ivan Ivan – Remixing
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Producer
  • Philip King – Bass
  • Gie Knaeps – Photography
  • Masaki Koike – Art Direction, Design
  • John Loder – Producer, Engineer
  • Ben Lurie – Bass, Rhythm guitar, background vocals
  • Shane MacGowan – Vocals
  • Ross Marino – Photography, Cover Photo
  • Patrick Milligan – Discographical Annotation
  • Steve Monti – Drums
  • John J. Moore – Drums, Rhythm guitar
  • Kenny Nemes – Product Manager
  • Karen Parker – background vocals
  • Matthew Parkin – Bass
  • Steve Peck – Engineer
  • Joshua Petker – Art Supervisor
  • James Pinker – Drums
  • David Ponak – Project Assistant
  • Alessandra Quaranta – Photo Research
  • Jim Reid – Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Instrumentation
  • Julie Reid – Project Assistant
  • Linda Reid – Vocals
  • William Reid – Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Instrumentation
  • Paul Rider – Photography
  • Ebet Roberts – Photography
  • Nick Sanderson – Drums
  • Hope Sandoval – Vocals
  • Tom Sheehan – Photography
  • Nina Talikka – Research Assistant
  • Richard Thomas – Drums
  • Phil Ward-Large – Producer
  • Scott Webber – Project Assistant
  • Kevin Westenberg – Photography
  • Mason Williams – Compilation Producer
  • Steve Woolard – Project Assistant

References

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  1. ^ "The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities - The Jesus and Mary Chain". Allmusic.
  2. ^ "Jesus And Mary Chain — The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities". ChartAttack. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Petridis, Alexis (19 February 2009). "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  4. ^ Mojo magazine. December 2008, p.120
  5. ^ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities". Paste.
  6. ^ Berman, Stuart (1 October 2008). "The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  7. ^ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking". PopMatters.
  8. ^ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008.
  9. ^ Uncut magazine. December 2008, p.100
  10. ^ "The Jesus and Mary Chain Gleefully Confound Both their Fans and Themselves". Village Voice.
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  12. ^ The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rari... | AllMusic, retrieved 10 July 2024
  13. ^ "Jesus And Mary Chain — The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities | CHARTattack". 7 June 2011. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2024.