Best Song on JAMC's "Power of Negative Thinking Compilation" Disc One

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Personally, I'm having a really hard time with this! For a band that I tend to think of as monochromatic, there's a surprising amount of variety here. Decided to start with the first Disc, as there's just too many choices otherwise.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Hardest Walk	3
Upside Down	3
Some Candy Talking	3
Never Understand(Alternate)	2
Up Too High(Demo '83)	2
You Trip Me Up(Acoustic)	1
Suck	1
Vegetable Man	1
Cut Dead(Acoustic)	0
Psychocandy	0
The Living End(Demo)	0
Hit	0
Taste Of Cindy(Acoustic)	0
Cracked	0
Just Like Honey(Demo Oct. '84)	0
Head	0
Boyfriend's Dead	0
Just Out Of Reach	0
Ambition	0
Walk And Crawl	0

― dlp9001, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:12 (seventeen years ago)

At the moment, I lean towards Vegetable Man, though The Hardest Walk was always my favorite back in the day. Oh wait, but Hit is so damn creepy. Aargh.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

this isn't even out yet.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

Taste Of Cindy now and forever.

― sleeve, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)

It's out.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:29 (seventeen years ago)

sorry it is, i thought the date was in November. cool i have something to buy.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

This whole set is so awesome, I've been listening to it all week.

I feel like it would be cheating to vote for "Some Candy Talking", so I think I'm going to vote for the acoustic version of "You Trip Me Up". I know "acoustic" kinda defeats the purpose of the early JAMC, but damn I love that song.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 9 October 2008 03:35 (seventeen years ago)

Among so many gems, my favorite here is "Some Candy Talking", but the most important track in this entire set is "Up Too High (demo '83)" as it has really re-written the whole biography of the band for me.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 9 October 2008 05:20 (seventeen years ago)

It's also really very good.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 9 October 2008 05:21 (seventeen years ago)

A revelation for me, too.

― Millsner, Thursday, 9 October 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

I am torn between "Some Candy Talking" and "Never Understand." I am not sure if this conflict is resolvable.

― Pillbox, Thursday, 9 October 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 13 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

i just bought this!

"Some Candy Talking" is getting my vote, can't wait for the latter stuff.

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

Ok, I've got it down to The Hardest Walk vs. Vegetable Man...

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

Outside of the first disc, I am assuming that if one currently owns Barbed Wire Kisses, The Sound of Speed, and Hate Rock n' Roll, there's no reason to buy this thing other than better sound quality and super-awesome Munki-era b-sides and such, right?

― Pillbox, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 02:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

― System, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

See, now I have actually heard this CD, I now remember what I loved:

The B-sides of "Never Understand"!!!

"Suck" sounds so much like Public Image, it's to love!

"Ambition" was ever a song so obscured? Classic.

Can somebody work out what's so 'alternative' about the version of "Never Understand" here? Cause it sounds like the original 12" to me. Was it remixed (mildly) for the album?

Oh, and track 1 is a revelation: They could have started making "Automatic" like, immediately on being signed up! Thank god they didn't!

― Mark G, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

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