and the way i feel tonight i could die and i wouldnt mind

It was back in my first year of college that I discovered one of the best things that ever happened to me, and as such things go for me I was not even looking for it. My classmates and I happily highjacked one of those computer rooms one day inbetween lessons, and I grabbed the console usually reserved for the teacher. Propping my feet up on the table I logged on to the net, tuned into accuradio, and left it on the Brit Rock channel.

A peculiar song came on that at once reminded me very much of New Order, ( another brit post-punk band I was starting to put into heavy rotation then) a pumping and snarling celebration of dissonance in sound that seemed both joyously lightbeat yet somehow laced with a bit of visceral melancholy at the same time. It was not until after I looked the Jesus And Mary Chain up on Amazon and a visit to HMV that I found out that they specialized in two kinds of sound, one all revved up and charging like in the one I just heard and the other fuzzy droning guitar distortion.

It is this ability to meld both together, in an atmospheric and darkly poppy (?) way, that make them high on my list of favourite bands.

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Head On

an unofficial site, but is a good place to start..

Jamc's best of, " 21 Singles", does not wear out upon repeated listens but instead, like good things in life ( mm grape juice) turn out something new and interesting you never noticed before the more you listen to them.