It took me a while with Jesus & Mary Chain. I was suspicious of hype and there was a definite element of hype to them. Alan McGee was involved. They played a notorious gig at the campus of my university in my furst year. I didn't go. I confess partly due to the notoriety of their name. OK, I had a fairly religious upbringing and felt somehow my mother might disapprove. Things like this still had an impact until you were some way into your twenties.
But I regret not going.Though I'm not one for regrets on the whole. By all accounts it was something else. And the quality of their songs became stringer and stronger. In many ways the Reid brothers songs had something of the Brill Buikding about them. That's the ones that were noy directly inspired by The Stooges and The Ramones. This one was pure gold. A needle and a blackened spoon. True dark romance. Things I didn't and still no little about . I'm lucky.
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