Stoned & Dethroned [Import]

Jesus & Mary Chain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00000I2UG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,991 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dirty Water

2. Bullet Lovers

3. Sometimes Always

4. Come On

5. Between Us

6. Hole

7. Never Saw

8. She

9. Wish I Could

10. These Days

11. Feeling Lucky

12. Save Me

13. Till It Shines

14. God Help Me

15. Girlfriend

16. Everybody I Know

17. You've Been A Friend

Editorial Reviews

1994's STONED & DETHRONED, their last for Blanco y Negro, boasts highlights including God Help Me
featuring guest vocalist Shane MacGowan and Sometimes Always, spotlighting ambient vocals from Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, as well as Come On, and Never Saw It Coming. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best album nobody ever listened to, October 29, 2004

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Jonathan Dixon (San Fran) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stoned & Dethroned (Audio CD)

Since no more than a smattering of people will ever buy this album, much less arrive at the Amazon reviews page and actually read the reviews, why am I bothering to write this? Passion I guess. This is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I get inspired when listening to it. I have to make my testimonial to the JAMC, and in particular to their later work.

The whole album is fantastic, all the way through, and I am particular to tracks 16 & 17. The music has it's own identity, but it is perhaps most derivative of the earlier, but not earliest, rolling stones. Early 70's stones, where they had settled into an identity and played stripped down rock and roll. But this record has a more soulful and spiritual bent which shows a melancholy maturity and reflects a life-experience that transcends anything the stones ever did. God Help Me and You've Been a Friend are prime examples.

A plug for Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star on track 3. She steals the show, and is an appropriate addition to the album, as she stands, in this writers opinion, as another grossly underheard artist. And the guitar playing on this album...listen to the end of Till it Shines, or Feeling Lucky...and it should speak for itself.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Mellow Masterpiece, April 14, 2004

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Christian E. Stilp (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stoned & Dethroned (Audio CD)

(Being from the northern US, this analogy won't apply for everyone, but many can sympathize): Can you describe how great you feel on a surprisingly warm winter afternoon, where snow is melting everywhere and the sun brightly reflects off the wet city streets?
For me, this album captures that feeling - a pervasive warmth donned in a kind of contendedness that simply cannot be extinguished. The perfectly intertwined male and female vocals, the gentle instrumentation, and the sense of upbeat that carries throughout, even in the sadder songs. No other album that I have found does it so well.
J&MC use several themes in these songs - love, companionship, and hope, but also shades of shame and fear. The songs are unbelievably human to persist such an engaging tone while avoiding being all cutesy and flaky. I can listen to "Dirty Water" endlessly, even in its "I've been swimming where the fish won't go... kick me down and I will kick you too / Isn't that what we're supposed to do?" confusion. After the first track, it's hard to pull any others out because they all work so well together. This is not an album of singles, but an incredibly well-woven album. After coasting along, hearing tales of longing and mistakes make, the outro of You've Been a Friend / These Days / Feeling Lucky end on such a high note, the album will feel like it ended too soon.
There aren't many albums I can listen to at Repeat All and not tire of them, but this is easily the top of that list. It never fails to produce that sense of warmth, that glow that consumes you and won't die down, no matter what happens.
A disc that can do that? Priceless.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars William's mellow album, August 31, 2005

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trainreader (Montclair, N.J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stoned & Dethroned (Audio CD)

What a surprise after JMC's powerful "Honey's Dead"! It's almost as if the Reid's realized they probably couldn't match that album, so, with the help of a terrific rhythm section (Ben Lurie on bass, Steve Monti on drums), they mellowed out their sound to give us the fine "Stoned and Dethroned."

What's interesting here is that, for the first time, we know which Reid brother wrote which song. Since "S&D" contains virtually wall-to-wall softer, more melodic songs, one can expect William to be the greater influence, and, indeed, he wrote more than twice as many songs on the album as did brother Jim. We can also look back and guess which brother wrote which songs on the previous albums. For instance, the grungy "Teenage Lust," ("Hole" on "S&D" sounds basically the same) and the propulsive "Sugar Ray" are classic Jim, whereas the melodic "Catchfire" and "Almost Gold," surely belong to William.

"S&D" really consists of no weak songs, which is pretty amazing since there are seventeen of them. But if I had to name my favorites, they would be the Sonny and Cher like "Sometimes Always" (with the lovely Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star), "Between Us," "She," "These Days," and the effervescent "Girlfriend."

"Stoned and Dethroned" may be a departure from the typical JMC sound (more William than Jim), but it's certainly a welcome and successful one.