Come On
Andrew Mueller / Melody Maker
08.10.1994
08.10.1994
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
COME ON (blanco y negro)
There are two packages avaliable of "Come On", a less-than-compelling cut from the Reids' largely underwhelming "Stoned And Dethroned" opus. Admirably, they are separate entities - none of your risible box-set scamming here. On one, you get three cover versions - a pleasant enough trundle through MacGowan's "Ghost of A Smile" (what would you have paid to hear William and Hope doing "Fairytale Of New York", though?), a brilliant, blistering demolition of Prince's "Alphabet Street" and a damp slap at The Cramps' "New Kind Of Kick."
On the other, you get three new songs that didn't make the album and are of sufficient quality to leave you baffled as to why. "New York City" is an acoustic thunderstorm. "Taking It Away" at least has a tune.
Best of all, "I'm In With The Out Crowd" is a fabulous slab of mock-moronic boogie, a tangle of feedback that recalls such past mangled glories as "Reverence"
COME ON (blanco y negro)
There are two packages avaliable of "Come On", a less-than-compelling cut from the Reids' largely underwhelming "Stoned And Dethroned" opus. Admirably, they are separate entities - none of your risible box-set scamming here. On one, you get three cover versions - a pleasant enough trundle through MacGowan's "Ghost of A Smile" (what would you have paid to hear William and Hope doing "Fairytale Of New York", though?), a brilliant, blistering demolition of Prince's "Alphabet Street" and a damp slap at The Cramps' "New Kind Of Kick."
On the other, you get three new songs that didn't make the album and are of sufficient quality to leave you baffled as to why. "New York City" is an acoustic thunderstorm. "Taking It Away" at least has a tune.
Best of all, "I'm In With The Out Crowd" is a fabulous slab of mock-moronic boogie, a tangle of feedback that recalls such past mangled glories as "Reverence"
