MARY CHAIN SINGLES POLL

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back-comb yer hair and get yer black leather box jacket on. Die like JESUS CHRIST on a BED OF SPIKES:

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Poll Results

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"Upside Down" (1984) 16
"Head On" (1990) 11
"Never Understand" (1985) 10
"Just Like Honey" (1985) 9
"You Trip Me Up" (1985) 7
"Reverence" (1992) 7
"April Skies" (1987) 6
"Sidewalking" (1988) 5
"Happy When It Rains" (1987) 3
"Some Candy Talking" (1986) 3
"Far Gone and Out" (1992) 3
"Darklands" (1987) 2
"Blues From a Gun" (1989) 2
"I Hate Rock 'n' Roll" (1995) 2
"Sometimes Always" (1994) 2
"Cracking Up" (1998) 1
"Sound of Speed" EP (1993) 1
"Almost Gold" (1992) 1
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" (1998)1
"Sugar Ray" (1992) 0
"Come On" (1994) 0
"The Peel Sessions" EP (1991) 0
"Rollercoaster" (1990) 0


Pashmina, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

I wanna die on a bed of spikes...

Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Fixed! Thx.

this prompted by me getting out my CD single of "I Hate Rock & Roll", which may be the BEST RECORD EVER MADE and finding that the bastard thing had delaminated! Bastards. Anyone have a spare?

Pashmina, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

Everything they did was a pale shadow of their first 45, sooo....

harveyw, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

(er...except for that first 45...)

harveyw, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

"Never Understand"

Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

I had heard it once on KROQ and still remember the sheer joy of finding the 12" at Tempo Records and taking it home to play again and again - that's why I'm voting for "April Skies".

Spencer Chow, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

Yeh, "Upside Down" gets my vote-eh. (Tho I'm quite a bit partial to "Sidewalking" too)

t**t, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

All four of the Honey's Dead singles are outstanding.

HI DERE, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

"Never Understand."

Lostandfound, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

I'D LIKE TO TRIP YOU UP

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

JLH (followed by far gone and out)

electricsound, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

"upside down". hearing it for the first time bursting out of the airwaves on the john peel show was a revelation. a genuine wtf, in shock moment. that it took three weeks to locate a copy to hear it again was akin to water torture which is also pretty much how my dad described being forced to listen to it on rotation for the next few weeks.

stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)

the psychocandy singles are really definitive, but "april skies" was such an unexpected thing.

tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 06:10 (seventeen years ago)

Upside Down handily for me.

circa1916, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:30 (seventeen years ago)

Much as I love their early stuff, 'Cracking Up' is the best thing they've ever done.

stroker ace, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 09:16 (seventeen years ago)

UD passed me by completely at the time, only heard it years later (my copy has a glued colour cover, not the usual pink / yellow / whatever wraparound thing in a plastic bag). NU had me hooked from the first listen though.

all of those first 9 or so singles are fantastic. dropped off after that, i think.

koogs, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

'Never Understand'

zeus, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:44 (seventeen years ago)

I listened to 21 Singles only the other day. I think I'll refuse to choose from this shortlist:

"Upside Down" (1984)
"Never Understand" (1985)
"You Trip Me Up" (1985)
"Just Like Honey" (1985)
"Some Candy Talking" (1986)
"Sidewalking" (1988)
"Reverence" (1992)
"Almost Gold" (1992)
"Snakedriver"/"Sound of Speed" EP (1993)

onimo, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

Sugar Ray was a single? Overseas maybe?

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

"Reverence" and "Far Gone And Out" come close, but really it has to be "Upside Down".

I was never all that fussed about "Never Understand", though. It didn't seem to me to do anything which "Upside Down" had already done, and better.

mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 12:54 (seventeen years ago)

I am sure Sugar Ray was a single here because my mate had it and I was disappointed by it. Could have been an import I guess.

Too hard for me to decide - Upside Down vs Never Understand vs Sidewalking.

Mark C, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

Upside Down

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

Can't find Sugar Ray on any discographies, maybe it was a promo thing or something. Apparently it was used on Budweiser ad in the US, perhaps it was released for that.

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

"Almost Gold" because it's so not like the Mary Chain, yet so good it could only be the Mary Chain.

stephen, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

"Almost Gold" is the Mary Chain trying Madchester/shoegaze and doing a damn fine job of it.

I voted for "Happy When It Rains" cuz I love the fadeout.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

You Trip Me Up, solely because it was the first one I actually heard - living in NZ existing on 3 month old NMEs for music news (no air freighted copies in those days), I'd read about them but never heard them. Finally one day I saw the 12" of YTMU in the record stiore, grabbed it, took it home & was blown away - it was quite unlike anything I'd heard.

Bill E, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

"Reverence" was the point where JAMC really clicked for me; I didn't like any of their stuff until this song came out, at which point I started liking all of it.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Stirmonster ^^^^ absolutely otfm

At the time , on a big backtracking Ramones trip and just getting into shit like the Du, this baby hit me out of the blue.Thanks John. At the time it was a TUNE but with that lovely feedback dripping all over

You had to be there.

Fer Ark, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

I like all these songs, and love most of them, but I went with "April Skies" today. Too bad "Between Planets" wasn't a single: it still sounds like a pop smash to me, and is my favorite JAMC song.

Euler, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

upside down uh huh huh

tricky, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

tho i love about 75% of these

tricky, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

Never Understand, prob for being the first one I heard.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

oh, "Sidewalking" in a walk, guys

wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

"Never Understand" is a better single than "Upside Down", and was the first JAMC track I remember hearing regularly on KUSF. It got a big audience response, with lots of requests.

Dan S, Thursday, 10 April 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

Torn between "Never Understand" and "Happy When It Rains," but NU seems to be getting wotsa wub here so I'll go with "Happy," which was the thing that first brought me to JAMC. "Things vaporize and rise to the sky" = the moment at which I understood internal rhyme for the first time.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 10 April 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

"Never Understand" was the great one, but for reasons sentimental I'm voting for "Upside Down."

I would probably have liked "Sidewalking" better if it hadn't taken its tune from naff daytime ITV eighties Jeremy Beadle gameshow Chain Letters.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

Upside Down >>>>>>>>>> Never Understand!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

I had the 12" version you know.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:56 (seventeen years ago)

I got the 12" of Never Understand for the Subway Sect cover. I only have the 7" of Upside Down. But it is still best.

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 April 2008 09:58 (seventeen years ago)

Every single goddamn one of them.

Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

Hi kate! hray!

Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

given a list of pure gold.....i have agree on "upside down" for the sheer elation its shock provoked in a wee me so long ago.

that said, someone has to hype the stoned and dethroned era...easily lost in the shuffle, but still damned fine

bb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

"Come On" is a really great one, it's just saddled with a nothing title.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

i've never heard the subway sect cover, do they do ambition?

cw, Thursday, 10 April 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Probably 'Far Gone and Out' and if I could give a special jury award, it'd go to 'Sometimes Always', cuz it seems no-one else will mention it

baaderonixx, Thursday, 10 April 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

They do do Ambition. xpost

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

i can't believe i've never heard that.

a b sides poll would be easier and consequently much more fun, i love the way mary chain b sides are either brilliant or total shit.

i bet sometimes always gets a load of votes.

cw, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

I felt like they were basically done after Automatic, "Far Gone and Out" was ok, but they'd lost the magic (and "Reverence" almost seemed like self parody). "Sometimes Always" though proved they still it (though I haven't really loved anything since).

Spencer Chow, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

Glad to see the love for 'Sidewalking' - I always thought band was great from the get-go - but dang did I perk up when that was released.

BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

I think we've had this conversation before, Spencer, but I think you are so so so so so so so so very wrong.

HI DERE, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

Dan, we've had this conversation *in general* before about how we love the same bands but different tracks! I know that many people love "Reverence" but there's just no tune there. I loved them from very early on and that track sounds like a weaker version of some of their other apocalyptic tracks with a groove thrown in (it is a great groove).

Spencer Chow, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

more votes for Almost Gold plz

stephen, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

nine years pass...

But they DID care about the state of their hair!

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 02:18 (seven years ago)

if you could distinguish William from Bill Reid,

Uh... .?

Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 07:36 (seven years ago)


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