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Munki (CD)

By: Jesus & Mary Chain (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Munki (CD) Album By Jesus & Mary Chain (Artist)
1   I Love Rock N Roll
2   Birthday
3   Stardust Remedy
4   Fizzy
5   Mo Tucker
6   Perfume
7   Virtually Unreal
8   Degenerate
9   Cracking Up
10   Commercial
11   Supertramp
12   Never Understood
13   I Can't Find The Time For Times
14   Man On The Moon
15   Black
16   Dream Lover
17   I Hate Rock N Roll
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (6/11/98, pp.121-122) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...great tunes full of sexy, sarcastic deadpan shtick....the Reids quote lots of pop-culture icons, rev up their slick guitar hooks and make mock-prophetic proclamations..."
Spin (9/98, p.195) - 7 (out of 10) - "...MUNKI...is by no means a breakthrough, but it's certainly a sensible regression--the sound of confirmed adolescents fending off middle age the only way they know....MUNKI mostly crackles with the rude, restless energy that the brothers misplaced circa 1989's AUTOMATIC..."
Entertainment Weekly (6/12/98, pp.78-79) - "...it's rock minimalism as usual--less glacial, maybe, but still able to sink ships." - Rating: B+

Title Note

Jesus And Mary Chain: Jim Reid, Ben Lurie, William Reid (various instruments); Terry Edwards (horn); Nick Sanderson (drums).

Additional personnel: Hope Sandoval, Sister Vanilla (vocals).

Jesus & Mary Chain's gift for a well-turned melody only seems more implausible when contrasted with the thick, feedback-laden guitars in which they drown their work. This harmony of opposites has provided the fuel for the Scottish brothers' stylistic progression from shoe-gazing doom and gloom to straight-ahead euphoric rock swagger. MUNKI finds them further exploiting the myriad contradictions that mark their distinct, enigmatic (and very dark) corner of the music world.

Among the album's 17 tracks (the Reid brothers are as prolific as they are noisy), aggressive rock numbers are the order of the day. A calm appears in the storm as Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval lends dreamlike vocals to "Perfume," which creates a dub-like atmosphere wherein the normal guitar tempest does a slow burn amid synth pads and a club beat. There's no shortage of rock politics on MUNKI: The albums kicks off with "iloverocknroll" and closes with the confessional "ihaterocknroll," a caustic, gargantuan song which sounds loud at any volume. On "Fizzy," Jim intones, "Elvis lives and Bob Dylan's dead" atop sweet chord changes and heartbreaking lead lines that are the stuff of pop dreams, couched in the ragged guitars of pop's worst nightmare.

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