Sound of Speed [Import]

Mary Mary, Jesus & Mary Chain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 16, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B00000AORX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,748 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Snakedriver

2. Reverence (Radio Mix)

3. Heat

4. Teenage Lust (Acoustic Ve

5. Why'd You Want Me

6. Don't Come Down

7. Guitarman

8. Something I Can't Have

9. Sometimes

10. Write Record Release Blue

11. Shimmer

12. Penetration

13. My Girl

14. Tower Of Song

15. Little Red Rooster

16. Break Me Down

17. Lowlife

18. Deviant Slice

19. Reverberation

20. Side Walking (Extended Ve

Editorial Reviews

20 track 1993 comp of singles & rarities by the brothersReid up to that point. Includes the extended version of'Sidewalking', their unique covers of Elvis Presley's'Guitar Man' & the Temptations' 'My Girl', plus the radiomix of their alternative hit 'Reverence', an acousticversion of 'Teenage Lust' and much more! A Blanco Y Negrorelease. Though it overlaps on 13 tracks with the Japaneseedition, it contains three more than it! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's no Barbed Wire Kisses, but a serviceable B-sides collection nonetheless, July 22, 2005

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Bes Pantheos - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound of Speed (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of the Mary Chain, and still sitting on the fence about buying this record, let me assure you- the extended remix of 'Sidewalking' is not only worth the price of the disc, it may be the finest piece of music (or noise) ever recorded by JAMC. The rest of the album is hit or miss by Mary Chain standards, and certainly not the tour de force of Barbed Wire Kisses (the only B-sides collection, aside from the new Nick Cave compilation, to actually equal or surpass many of the band's regular LPs). That being said, a hit or miss record by the Mary Chain is head and shoulders better than most platinum selling pop records of the past 15 years. Whereas the witty cynicism of a song like 'Write, Record, Release Blues' is not lost on me, that doesn't make up for the fact that it is still a basically boring tune, but then you run into unabashed genius in the likes of 'Penetration,' 'Snakedriver,' or the ever-creepy, yet always appealing 'Teenage Lust.' Right about then, you remember why great bands like the Pixies were looking up to the Reid brothers back in the late 80's, and you walk away smiling because you still dig Leonard Cohen, so the arthritic humor of 'Tower of Song' suddenly seems alot funnier than it did when you were sixteen. After all of that, you probably owe it to yourself to buy the record, but you certainly owe it to the brothers Reid, for all they did to save your teenage soul.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Here's your second bookend..., September 5, 2000

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Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound of Speed (Audio CD)

The first one being, of course, Barbed Wire Kisses; their first collection of b-sides and covers. While that one was brilliant but inconsistent, this one is consistently good throughout. "Guitarman" (formerly found on 'The Last Temptation of Elvis' tribute album), "My Girl", and Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song" (excellent version) represent the latest batch of covers, but even the originals this time around are fairly solid.

"Something I Can't Have" picks up where "Rollercoaster" left off. "Don't Come Down" sounds like a forgotten A-side of 'Honey's Dead', and the remix of "Sidewalking" is more fun than Nick Cave's last four albums combined.

If nothing else, it's worth picking up just to avoid blowing your cash on the inordinate amount it would require to collect all the individual singles.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first and favourite JAMC cd, April 18, 2000

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Zoltan Geffert (Hungary) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound of Speed (Audio CD)

This was the best music I had ever heard and I still love to listen to all these songs day by day through years and decades. Well, I'm glad to say I have turned to be JAMC fan with many other albums they scored.