Thursday, May 1, 2014

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Upside Down/Vegetable Man" (7" Single, Creation - 1984)

Fuck shoegaze this is pure rock & roll! And when I say rock & roll, I mean ROCK &
ROLL! As pure, dirty, sexy and violent as it meant to be originally. I know there's this old cliche about Mary Chain's sound, you know Beach Boys meet Velvets or the Ronettes fronting the Suicide or Neubauten nailing the Shangri-Las, but this is totally true. William Reid's chaotic, manic industrial noises are probably the closest thing ever to Ron Asheton, period. I really don't get all this art-fag nonsense about them... If the Cramps were from the Highlands they will sound and look just like the Reid brothers.
This single kick-started Creation's dignity and re-established Britain's proud on producing genuine rock & roll acts/records. And it's no exaggeration saying this single's one of the most important ever in rock & roll.
Don't know how many re-prints officially came out, the first one was surely dressed in black with red fonts but there's more as you can see in here changing main image's black color with pink, red and yellow. This copy as far as I know though, has to be the formal second UK pressing but I'm quite lost and no expert in this... Who cares anyway?  A guy called Neil Taylor who used to write for the NME said to Primal Scream leader, and Mary Chain's drummer during 'Psychocandy' era Bobby Gillespie, that they were the best band since the Pistols... And still remains I should add... 'Upside Down' stands still as a landmark JAMC song and Syd Barrett's 'Vegetable Man' is incredible as well. Dig!


5 comments:

  1. Hi-res (24bit/96kHz) FLAC: http://www.filefactory.com/file/aw9frlh0mxp/JAMCud.zip

    320kbps mp3: http://www.filefactory.com/file/1yg8w5gp80jr/JAMCudmp3.zip

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  2. Thanks for this. Been listening to it all week.

    This definitely sounds better than the version of Vegetable Man on the 2011 Deluxe Psychocandy!

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  3. Great fucking band. Check out their YouTube videos. It's a sin they weren't huge. Great post. Thanks!

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  4. beautiful hard and harsh...a barrage, an overloading of the senses...I'm so excited...thanks pal...

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