The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities

The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
Box set by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Released September 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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
ChartAttack [2]
Paste (87/100)[3]
Pitchfork Media (7.5/10)[4]
PopMatters [5]
Rolling Stone
Village Voice (favorable)[6]

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. As the title proclaims, it contains b-sides and rarities from the group's career.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jim Reid and William Reid; except where indicated. 

Disc one
No. TitleMusic Length
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. TitleMusic Length
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, Wilson 2:58
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. TitleMusic Length
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"  Hubbard, 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. TitleMusic Length
1. "The Perfect Crime"  J. Reid 1:35
2. "Little Stars"  W. Reid 3:33
3. "Drop" (Re-recorded)W. Reid 1:53
4. "I'm In With the Out Crowd"  J. Reid 2:37
5. "New York City"  W. Reid 1:59
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. Reid 3:15
11. "Till I Found You"    2:05
12. "Bleed Me"  J. Reid 3:38
13. "33⅓"  J. Reid 3:19
14. "Lost Star"  W. Reid 2:05
15. "Hide Myself"  J. Reid 3:31
16. "Rocket"  Lurie 3:02
17. "Easylife, Easylove"  J. Reid 4:08
18. "40.000k"  J. Reid 2:51
19. "Nineteen666"  Dick Meaney, W. Reid 3:31
20. "Some Candy Talking" (acoustic version; iTunes US bonus track)  3:12

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities - The Jesus and Mary Chain". Allmusic.
  2. ↑ "Jesus And Mary Chain — The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities". ChartAttack.
  3. ↑ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities". Paste.
  4. ↑ Berman, Stuart (1 October 2008). "The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking". PopMatters.
  6. ↑ "The Jesus and Mary Chain Gleefully Confound Both their Fans and Themselves". Village Voice.