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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Munki
Release Date: 1998 06 09
Label: Sub Pop Records
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As befits an album bookended by tracks titled "I Love Rock'n'Roll" and "I Hate Rock'n'Roll," the Jesus and Mary Chain's Sub Pop label debut, Munki, is schizophrenic and impassioned, a record that both summarizes the band's career to date and cleans the slate for their future. Virtually each of the 17 tracks here echoes a prior moment in the Chain's existence, moving at breakneck pace from the volcanic noise of their earliest material to the bleak grace of Darklands, through to the sleek, supercharged pop of Automatic -- even Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval makes a cameo, as she did on Stoned & Dethroned. In a sense, it's an ideal primer to the Reid brothers' mercurial world, flirting with both brilliance and mediocrity; even after well over a decade, the Jesus and Mary Chain continue to thrill, irritate, and confound -- they're a true love/hate obsession. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	I Love Rock'n'Roll	Reid	2:37
2	Birthday	Reid	3:57
3	Stardust Remedy	Reid	2:26
4	Fizzy	Reid	3:39
5	Mo Tucker	Reid	3:19
6	Perfume	Reid	4:39
7	Virtually Unreal	Reid	3:38
8	Degenerate	Reid	5:29
9	Crackin' Up	Reid	4:41
10	Commercial	Reid	7:02
11	Supertramp	Reid	3:37
12	Never Understood	Reid	4:14
13	I Can't Find the Time for Times	Reid, Reid	4:17
14	Man on the Moon	Reid	3:41
15	Black	Reid	5:18
16	Dream Lover	Reid	3:05
17	I Hate Rock'n'Roll	Reid	3:44

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