Mazzy Star – Among My Swan (1996)

Mazzy Star – Among My Swan (1996)
Released October 29, 1996
Genre alternative rock
Length 54:00
Label Capitol
Producer David Roback
Hope Sandoval
MP3 192 kbps/ 74 MB

Among My Swan was the third album from the magnificent Mazzy Star!

We’ve already posted lots more Mazzy HERE!

Another wonderful work! This one also features contributions from William Reid of the mighty Jesus And Mary Chain!

Although Among My Swan did not contain any US Billboard Hot 100 hits like its predecessor, So Tonight That I Might See, this album did garner the band its highest-ranking single on the UK Singles Chart, when “Flowers In December” reached #40 in November 1996. However, the album’s second single, “I’ve Been Let Down”, did not chart in either the United States or the UK.

Among My Swan relied less on the echo effect that was ubiquitous across the previous two albums. Hope Sandoval’s voice is paired with simple acoustic instrumentation that marks most of the tracks. The guitar and harmonica accompaniment on “I’ve Been Let Down” is a prime example of this. These tracks are not markedly different in sound or feel from the preceding two albums.

Among My Swan is considered Mazzy Star’s final album. Although the band has not officially broken up, they have released no new material since the release of “I’ve Been Let Down” as a single in 1996, and lead singer Hope Sandoval has gone on to form Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, which released an album in 2001.

Wonderful music, magic songs and sultry Hope Sandoval’s sultry voice! What more could you want?!

Awwww …. Hope Sandoval …. the sexiest female to ever stroke a guitar!

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Tracklisting

1. “Disappear” – 4:04
2. “Flowers in December” – 4:57
3. “Rhymes of an Hour” – 4:12
4. “Cry, Cry” – 3:58
5. “Take Everything” – 4:53 * **
6. “Still Cold” – 4:48 *
7. “All Your Sisters” – 5:16
8. “I’ve Been Let Down” – 3:17
9. “Roseblood” – 4:51
10. “Happy” – 3:58
11. “Umbilical” – 4:59
12. “Look On Down from the Bridge” – 4:47

* Drums: Aaron Sherer
** Guitar: William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain

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The Jesus and Mary Chain – The Power of Negative Thinking:

The Jesus and Mary Chain – The Power of Negative Thinking:

B-Sides & Rarities (2008 BOX)

From a group that blew our little mind back, and who we obsessed about back in the eighties with their wonderful raucous cacophonous sound which seemed to come from nowhere, the marvellous JAMC.

They opened new music worlds to us that led us to explore the influences on their sound, most prominently The Velvets, but also various punk bands – Stooges, Ramones, Television etc – and the avant-garde scene – John Cage etc. Not forgetting pure pop such as the Beachboys etc.

They in turn would go onto inspire wonderful groups such as the Pixies, Nirvana, Mazzy Star and countless more.

Here we get a trmendous collection of 80 chronologically ordered tracks!

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In addition to being one of the U.K.’s most influential alternative rock bands, The Jesus And Mary Chain were also among the most prolific. Along with their five landmark Blanco y Negro albums (all recently remastered and reissued by Rhino), the band produced a steady stream of inspired non-LP material, now compiled in one sonically walloping 4-CD boxed set, Rhino/Warner’s THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING: B-SIDES & RARITIES.

Presenting 80 chronologically ordered tracks, the box writes a parallel history of The Jesus And Mary Chain, covering every phase of the group’s history from their 1984 debut single for Creation Records (“Upside Down” b/w “Vegetable Man”) to their final Sub Pop releases in 1998.

The project was produced in cooperation with JAMC founders Jim and William Reid. Packaged in a 63 x 103 gatefold shell, the new four-disc set includes fresh interviews with the Reid brothers, rare photos and an 183 x 243 double-sided poster featuring a hand-drawn “family tree” tracing JAMC’s evolving lineups on one side and artwork from many of the band’s singles on the other.

B-SIDES & RARITIES builds on the 1988 compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, which was comprised of 20 obscure tracks; all but one of those recordings is included on the new box, which also features hard-to-find cuts from their post 1988 output and eight never-before-heard sides. This massive noise-pop bounty blends non-album tracks revealing some of the band’s most fascinating work, including demo and acoustic versions of well-known favorites, oddball covers, revelatory Reid originals and more.

The box opens with the discovery “Up Too High,” a Darklands-esque song Jim and William committed to cassette in 1983. Other previously unreleased recordings include an alternate version of “Never Understand,” demos of “My Little Underground” and “The Living End” and the unheard song “Walk And Crawl” (all circa Psychocandy), as well as a trio of Stoned And Dethroned-era recordings: an alternate take of “Coast To Coast,” a demo of “Dirty Water” and the lost song “Till I Found You.”

The Jesus And Mary Chain remain one of the most important U.K. bands of the last quarter century. Formed in East Kilbride, Scotland in 1983, the group created a new intersection of noise and pop, draping curtains of guitar feedback over melodies worthy of The Ronettes or The Beach Boys.

In listing JAMC’s 1985 debut Psychocandy among its “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time,” Rolling Stone called the work, “a decadent alt-rock masterpiece of bubblegum pop…drowned in feedback.”

With brothers Jim and William Reid as its, JAMC went on to influence countless alt-rockers to come.

After disbanding in 1998, JAMC re-emerged at 2007′s Coachella Music & Arts Festival. They subsequently embarked on a world tour, and a new album is in the works.

Tracklisting

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. My Little Underground (Demo)
15. The Living End(Demo)
16. Some Candy Talking
17. Psychocandy
18. Hit
19. Cut Dead(Acoustic)
20. You Trip Me Up(Acoustic)
21. 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

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The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

Just a few years into their official recording career, the Jesus and Mary Chain had enough B-sides, outtakes, and other things sitting around to warrant a collection of nearly all of them, thus Barbed Wire Kisses.

A welcome inclusion is the original debut single on Creation, “Upside Down,” which in terms of the mix alone makes Psychocandy sound like Boston. Unfortunately the flip side cover of the Pink Floyd rarity “Vegetable Man” doesn’t make it, but obvious inspirations the Beach Boys get saluted twice, once through a heavily thrashed-up cover of “Surfin’ USA” that’s pure Psychocandy in fidelity and impact, then again through a hilarious parody.

“Kill Surf City” is pure Brian Wilson circa 1963 in melody, but the lyrics are something else again — death, doom, destruction, and a bit of love here and there — and the end result is a truly nutty combination.

Another double tribute is given to Bo Diddley; his “Who Do You Love” becomes a low, menacing lope, echo cranked up high, while “Bo Diddley Is Jesus” just about says it all in the title, while of all bands, Can gets a nod via a cool live cover of “Mushroom.”

A single came with the whole thing as well, “Sidewalking,” one of the band’s best yet. Taking a T. Rex-styled glam strut and running it through their trademark clang’n'scrape feedback wringer, it’s a monstrous track, the best song from the group since their Psychocandy days.

A large number of tracks essentially continue the Psychocandy aesthetic without adding much to it, though those not entirely taken with Darklands will find much to love with the likes of “Head” and “Cracked.” Meanwhile, two alternate versions of album cuts — an acoustic take on “Taste of Cindy” and a neat demo take of “On the Wall” — add to the fun.

Tracklisting

1. Kill Surf City
2. Head
3. Rider
4. Hit
5. Don’t Ever Change
6. Just Out of Reach
7. Happy Place
8. Psycho Candy
9. Sidewalking
10. Who Do You Love
11. Surfin’ USA
12. Everything’s Alright When You’re Down
13. Upside Down
14. Taste of Cindy [Acoustic Version]
15. Swing
16. On the Wall [Demo Version]
17. Cracked
18. Here It Comes Again
19. Mushroom [Live]
20. Bo Diddley Is Jesus

Here be the chain!!

Part 1
Part 2

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Thanks to yankindallas

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

Just a few years into their official recording career, the Jesus and Mary Chain had enough B-sides, outtakes, and other things sitting around to warrant a collection of nearly all of them, thus Barbed Wire Kisses.

A welcome inclusion is the original debut single on Creation, “Upside Down,” which in terms of the mix alone makes Psychocandy sound like Boston. Unfortunately the flip side cover of the Pink Floyd rarity “Vegetable Man” doesn’t make it, but obvious inspirations the Beach Boys get saluted twice, once through a heavily thrashed-up cover of “Surfin’ USA” that’s pure Psychocandy in fidelity and impact, then again through a hilarious parody.

“Kill Surf City” is pure Brian Wilson circa 1963 in melody, but the lyrics are something else again — death, doom, destruction, and a bit of love here and there — and the end result is a truly nutty combination.

Another double tribute is given to Bo Diddley; his “Who Do You Love” becomes a low, menacing lope, echo cranked up high, while “Bo Diddley Is Jesus” just about says it all in the title, while of all bands, Can gets a nod via a cool live cover of “Mushroom.”

A single came with the whole thing as well, “Sidewalking,” one of the band’s best yet. Taking a T. Rex-styled glam strut and running it through their trademark clang’n'scrape feedback wringer, it’s a monstrous track, the best song from the group since their Psychocandy days.

A large number of tracks essentially continue the Psychocandy aesthetic without adding much to it, though those not entirely taken with Darklands will find much to love with the likes of “Head” and “Cracked.” Meanwhile, two alternate versions of album cuts — an acoustic take on “Taste of Cindy” and a neat demo take of “On the Wall” — add to the fun.

Tracklisting

1. Kill Surf City
2. Head
3. Rider
4. Hit
5. Don’t Ever Change
6. Just Out of Reach
7. Happy Place
8. Psycho Candy
9. Sidewalking
10. Who Do You Love
11. Surfin’ USA
12. Everything’s Alright When You’re Down
13. Upside Down
14. Taste of Cindy [Acoustic Version]
15. Swing
16. On the Wall [Demo Version]
17. Cracked
18. Here It Comes Again
19. Mushroom [Live]
20. Bo Diddley Is Jesus

Here be the chain!!

Part 1
Part 2

pass = skafunkrastapunk

Thanks to yankindallas

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (1988) @VBR

Just a few years into their official recording career, the Jesus and Mary Chain had enough B-sides, outtakes, and other things sitting around to warrant a collection of nearly all of them, thus Barbed Wire Kisses.

A welcome inclusion is the original debut single on Creation, “Upside Down,” which in terms of the mix alone makes Psychocandy sound like Boston. Unfortunately the flip side cover of the Pink Floyd rarity “Vegetable Man” doesn’t make it, but obvious inspirations the Beach Boys get saluted twice, once through a heavily thrashed-up cover of “Surfin’ USA” that’s pure Psychocandy in fidelity and impact, then again through a hilarious parody.

“Kill Surf City” is pure Brian Wilson circa 1963 in melody, but the lyrics are something else again — death, doom, destruction, and a bit of love here and there — and the end result is a truly nutty combination.

Another double tribute is given to Bo Diddley; his “Who Do You Love” becomes a low, menacing lope, echo cranked up high, while “Bo Diddley Is Jesus” just about says it all in the title, while of all bands, Can gets a nod via a cool live cover of “Mushroom.”

A single came with the whole thing as well, “Sidewalking,” one of the band’s best yet. Taking a T. Rex-styled glam strut and running it through their trademark clang’n'scrape feedback wringer, it’s a monstrous track, the best song from the group since their Psychocandy days.

A large number of tracks essentially continue the Psychocandy aesthetic without adding much to it, though those not entirely taken with Darklands will find much to love with the likes of “Head” and “Cracked.” Meanwhile, two alternate versions of album cuts — an acoustic take on “Taste of Cindy” and a neat demo take of “On the Wall” — add to the fun.

Tracklisting

1. Kill Surf City
2. Head
3. Rider
4. Hit
5. Don’t Ever Change
6. Just Out of Reach
7. Happy Place
8. Psycho Candy
9. Sidewalking
10. Who Do You Love
11. Surfin’ USA
12. Everything’s Alright When You’re Down
13. Upside Down
14. Taste of Cindy [Acoustic Version]
15. Swing
16. On the Wall [Demo Version]
17. Cracked
18. Here It Comes Again
19. Mushroom [Live]
20. Bo Diddley Is Jesus

Here be the chain!!

Part 1
Part 2

pass = skafunkrastapunk

Thanks to yankindallas