The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities

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The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
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ReleasedSeptember 2008
Genre Alternative rock, noise pop, post-punk
Label Blanco Y Negro
Rhino
Producer Mason Williams, Phil Ward-Large, John Loder, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bill Inglot, Stephen Hague, Joe Foster
The Jesus and Mary Chain chronology
Live in Concert
(2003)
The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
(2008)
Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain
(2010)
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The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities is a box set compilation album by the noise pop band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 2008. It consists of material from the Barbed Wire Kisses , The Sound of Speed and The Jesus And Mary Chain Hate Rock 'n' Roll compilations, alongside unreleased tracks and rarities from throughout their career; including early performances, unheard demos, re-mixes, alternate versions of some songs and bootleg recordings.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim Reid and William Reid; except where indicated

Disc one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Up Too High" (demo '83) William Reid 3:44
2."Upside Down" 3:00
3."Vegetable Man" Syd Barrett 3:35
4."Suck" 2:08
5."Ambition" Vic Goddard 3:29
6."Just Out of Reach" 2:08
7."Boyfriend's Dead" 1:43
8."Head" 3:50
9."Just Like Honey" (demo Oct. '84) 2:59
10."Cracked" 3:47
11."Taste of Cindy" (acoustic version) 2:00
12."The Hardest Walk" 3:13
13."Never Understand" (alternate take) 3:26
14."My Little Underground" (demo) 2:33
15."The Living End" (demo) 2:17
16."Some Candy Talking" 3:18
17."Psychocandy" 2:54
18."Hit" 3:28
19."Cut Dead" (acoustic) 2:47
20."You Trip Me Up" (acoustic) 2:42
21."Walk and Crawl" 2:24
Disc two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Kill Surf City" 3:11
2."Bo Diddley Is Jesus" 3:18
3."Who Do You Love" Ellas McDaniel 4:05
4."Everything's Alright When You're Down" 2:39
5."Shake" 2:01
6."Happy When It Rains" (demo) 3:47
7."Happy Place" 2:24
8."F. Hole" 1:09
9."Rider" 2:12
10."On the Wall" (Porta Studio demo) 3:42
11."Surfin' U.S.A." (April outtake) Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson 2:58
12."Here It Comes Again" 2:33
13."Don't Ever Change" 3:33
14."Swing" 2:26
15."Sidewalking" 3:35
16."Surfin' U.S.A." (Summer mix)Berry, Wilson2:58
17."Shimmer" 2:47
18."Penetration" 2:48
19."Break Me Down" 2:31
20."Subway" 2:06
21."My Girl" Smokey Robinson, Ronald White 3:05
Disc three
No.TitleMusicLength
1."In the Black" 2:55
2."Terminal Beach" 2:25
3."Deviant Slice" 3:03
4."I'm Glad I Never" Lee Hazlewood 1:31
5."Drop" (acoustic remix) 1:54
6."Rollercoaster" 3:52
7."Silverblade" 2:58
8."Lowlife" 3:28
9."Tower of Song" Leonard Cohen 4:50
10."Heat" 3:01
11."Guitarman" Jerry Reed 3:43
12."Why'd You Want Me" 3:14
13."Sometimes" 2:52
14."Teenage Lust" (acoustic version) 2:25
15."Reverberation (Doubt)" Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland 3:47
16."Don't Come Down" 2:41
17."Snakedriver" 3:41
18."Something I Can't Have" 3:03
19."Write Record Release Blues" 2:57
20."Little Red Rooster" Chester Arthur Burnett, Willie Dixon 3:27
Disc four
No.TitleMusicLength
1."The Perfect Crime"J. Reid1:35
2."Little Stars"W. Reid3:33
3."Drop" (Re-recorded)W. Reid1:53
4."I'm In With the Out Crowd"J. Reid2:37
5."New York City"W. Reid1:59
6."Taking It Away" Ben Lurie 2:12
7."Ghost of a Smile" Shane MacGowan 2:55
8."Alphabet Street" Prince 2:17
9."Coast to Coast" (alternate - William Vox) 2:17
10."Dirty Water" (demo - William Vox)W. Reid3:15
11."Till I Found You" 2:05
12."Bleed Me"J. Reid3:38
13."33⅓"J. Reid3:19
14."Lost Star"W. Reid2:05
15."Hide Myself"J. Reid3:31
16."Rocket"Lurie3:02
17."Easylife, Easylove"J. Reid4:08
18."40.000k"J. Reid2:51
19."Nineteen666" Dick Meaney, W. Reid3:31
20."Some Candy Talking" (acoustic version; iTunes US bonus track) 3:12

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