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June 30, 1998

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June 17, 1998

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The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities

Listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain often feels like watching a sleek train careen off the tracks and crash into a power plant. As their shiny Beach Boys melodies collided with reverb-drenched feedback, the band's early albums laid the groundwork for the noisy but delicate dream pop of acts from...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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With pretty pop melodies buried deep in feedback and grindingly distorted guitars, the Jesus and Mary Chain became darlings of the mid-'80s British press and a college-radio cult hit in the United States. Their melancholy noise made them one of the most distinctive of the Velvet Underground's many musical progeny and paved the way for critically acclaimed early-'90s noise-guitar bands such as My B...

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