Jesus and Mary Chain - Godlike Genius Band Innit

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Totally random, but heard JAMC on the radio for the first time in yonks and looked up Youtube to see what was there. Ladeez & Gennelmen, THPP Productions presents possibly one of the GREATEST TUNES from one of the DAMN COOLEST BANDS of all time

'Never Understand' - Play LOUD!

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[Cheeky Monkey]

1. You're too old to be using words like 'Innit'
2. JAMC had their day - 1987 and they were darn depressing then under April Skies.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

1. You're too old to be using words like 'Innit'
2. JAMC had their day - 1987 and they were darn depressing then under April Skies.

But apart from that, fine?

Personally I'm loving (probably too old to use that turn of phrase also - oh well) the way they used to turn up, launch into a twenty minute killer feedbacked set then just walk off and cause refund-demanding riots wherever they went. Guess you had to be there, eh?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I was there Tom, had the haircut to boot and it was quality, although not the sort of thing you slap on at home in a hurry when you've got a double disc Neil Diamond Greatest Hits knocking around "Captain Sunshine...."

 

[dougdeep]

Sort of a Nothing band then?

 

[NMH]

All image and no talent.

 

[NMH]

and that vid sounds like a cave filled with bats over a syndrum doing the same beat all the way through, with someone mumbling unconcernedly throughout.

Didn't you hear Echo and The Bunnymen or Tones On Tail back then?

Howbout these chaps;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OicBHKQxLAg&mode=related&search=

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

All image and no talent.

You never played the youtube thing then?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I was there Tom, had the haircut to boot and it was quality, although not the sort of thing you slap on at home in a hurry when you've got a double disc Neil Diamond Greatest Hits knocking around "Captain Sunshine...."

Never understood tho eh?

 

[NMH]

Anyway TH, if you wanted your hear swept back by heavy heavy monster sound, you had to go and see THESE guys;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nry5hpHGizI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8W6X8X_ApM

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Howbout these chaps;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OicBHKQxLAg&mode=related&search=

Remember them well. Interviewed Gang of Four for me fanzine at the Lyceum Ballroom in 1978. Same gig as The Slits and The Buzzcocks. Interviewed them also.

Innit.

 

[dougdeep]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mjN32G1iI&mode=related&search=

Best this century?

 

[Buzzer]

they were okay. Preferred Echo and the Bunnymen though.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mjN32G1iI&mode=related&search=

Best this century?

Certainly Green Day's best this century...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

they were okay. Preferred Echo and the Bunnymen though.

Always found Echo and the Bunnymen a bit fake, have to admit. a bit KNOWING and unconvincing. Scousers on the make and darlings of NME. My fault I'm sure.

 

[Buzzer]

Always found Echo and the Bunnymen a bit fake, have to admit. a bit KNOWING and unconvincing. Scousers on the make and darlings of NME. My fault I'm sure.

definitely darlings of NME, you're right. Of the Scottish bands though, I guess that JAMC were a band that if you liked, you loved 'em. For me, Primal Scream had better stage presence, Alex Harvey had better tunes and the Proclaimers sound more scottish.

And I never, ever, ever liked Big Country or Simple Minds.

Aztec Camera and Altered Images were the perfect pop songsters. Oblivious is still one of my favouritest songs. And Clare Grogan

 

[Grunty]

I saw The JAMC at brighton's Pav Theatre in 1985 -[ yep im that old!].
Bobby Gillespie flailing away on drums
They were bottled off stage after 20 mins.

got it on an old casstee somewhere......

 

[Dandyman]

All image and no talent.

Utter bollocks. Saw them several times back in the 80's. The 30 minute acoustic set they did in Hammersmith in 1985ish is still one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

 

[NMH]

Utter bollocks. Saw them several times back in the 80's. The 30 minute acoustic set they did in Hammersmith in 1985ish is still one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

An ACOUSTIC SET!

Well that makes them talented then. I'll buy some of their records for my gran.

 

[bristolseagull]

I saw The JAMC at brighton's Pav Theatre in 1985 -[ yep im that old!].
Bobby Gillespie flailing away on drums
They were bottled off stage after 20 mins.

got it on an old casstee somewhere......

a casstee? pasty?