The Power of Negative Thinking: B‐Sides & Rarities

Compilation by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Released 30 September 2008

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Up Too High
    3:44
  • 2
    Upside Down
    3:00
  • 3
    Vegetable Man
    3:35
  • 4
    Suck
    2:08
  • 5
    Ambition
    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)
    3:26
  • 14
    My Little Underground (demo)
    2:33
  • 15
    The Living End (demo)
    2:17
  • 16
    Some Candy Talking
    3:18
    5.0 ★
  • 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
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Kill Surf City
    3:11
  • 2
    Bo Diddley Is Jesus
    3:18
  • 3
    Who Do You Love
    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’ USA (April outtake)
    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’ USA (Summer mix)
    3:32
  • 17
    Shimmer
    2:47
  • 18
    Penetration
    2:48
  • 19
    Break Me Down
    2:31
  • 20
    Subway
    2:06
  • 21
    My Girl
    3:05
    4.0 ★
  • CD 3
  • 1
    In the Black
    2:55
  • 2
    Terminal Beach
    2:25
  • 3
    Deviant Slice
    3:03
    5.0 ★
  • 4
    I’m Glad I Never
    1:31
  • 5
    Drop (acoustic remix)
    1:54
  • 6
    Rollercoaster
    3:52
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Silverblade
    2:58
  • 8
    Lowlife
    3:28
  • 9
    Tower of Song
    4:50
  • 10
    Heat
    3:01
  • 11
    Guitar Man
    3:43
  • 12
    Why’d You Want Me?
    3:14
  • 13
    Sometimes
    2:52
  • 14
    Teenage Lust (acoustic version)
    2:25
  • 15
    Reverberation (Doubt)
    3:47
    4.0 ★
  • 16
    Don’t Come Down
    2:41
  • 17
    Snakedriver
    3:41
    3.6 ★
  • 18
    Something I Can’t Have
    3:03
  • 19
    Write Record Release Blues
    2:57
  • 20
    Little Red Rooster
    3:27
  • CD 4
  • 1
    The Perfect Crime
    1:35
  • 2
    Little Stars
    3:33
  • 3
    Drop (re‐recorded)
    1:53
  • 4
    (I’m in With) The Out Crowd
    2:37
  • 5
    New York City
    1:59
  • 6
    Taking It Away
    2:12
  • 7
    Ghost of a Smile
    2:55
  • 8
    Alphabet Street
    2:17
    5.0 ★
  • 9
    Coast to Coast (alternate – William vox)
    3:23
  • 10
    Dirty Water (demo – William vox)
    3:15
  • 11
    Till I Found You
    2:05
  • 12
    Bleed Me
    3:38
  • 13
    33⅓
    3:19
  • 14
    Lost Star
    2:05
  • 15
    Hide Myself
    3:31
  • 16
    Rocket
    3:02
  • 17
    Easylife, Easylove
    4:08
  • 18
    40,000k
    2:51
  • 19
    Nineteen666
    3:31

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Release credits

  • assistant [16], engineer [11]
  • bass guitar [3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14], guitar [4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14, 3.17-18]
  • drums (drum set) [16]
  • engineer [3.10, 3.12, 3.17-20, 4.1-2, 4.12, 4.14]
  • bass [16]
  • engineer [3.6, 3.8, 1.16]
  • engineer [14]
  • guitar [3.17-18, 1.16, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14], producer [3.15, 3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14], vocal [3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14, 1.16]
  • engineer [16]
  • engineer [4-6]
  • drums (drum set) [4.12, 4.14, 3.17-18]
  • drums (drum set) [2, 4, 6]
  • producer [16]
  • engineer [3.3, 3.9, 3.15, 2.21], guitar [1.16, 3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14], producer [3.15, 3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14], vocal [3.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4-6, 4.12, 4.14, 1.16]

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