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	The Jesus and Mary Chain Automatic Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Track Listings (12) - Disc #1 Here Comes Alice Coast to Coast Blues from a Gun Between Planets Uv Ray Her Way of Praying Head On Take It Halfway to Crazy Gimme Hell Drop Sunray 1989's AUTOMATIC fired off the smash modern rock singles Blues From A Gun and Head On plus the favorites Halfway To Crazy, and Gimme Hell.
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CD Details

All Artists: The Jesus and Mary Chain
Title: Automatic
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 3/25/2008
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Hardcore & Punk, New Wave & Post-Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 081227993740

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Product Description

1989's AUTOMATIC fired off the smash modern rock singles Blues From A Gun and Head On plus the
favorites Halfway To Crazy, and Gimme Hell.

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CD Reviews

Unjustly neglected

Leaman G. Crews | 12/08/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"AUTOMATIC has been unfairly dissed over the years as a "sellout," a "disaster" or, as the Spin Alternative Record Guide said in 1995, an "ordinary hard rock record."

If only your "ordinary hard rock" record sounded like this.

Yes, there are drum machines. But guess what, DARKLANDS had them, as did a bunch of JAMC albums in the future. On the one track here with live drums, "Gimme Hell," the drums sound exactly the same as on the other tracks. The brothers Reid were going for a specific sound, and they got it either through live drummers or not.

Lack of feedback? I invite you to listen to "Coast to Coast," "Blues From a Gun," "Between Planets," "Her Way of Praying," "Head On" or "Gimme Hell" at full blast and defend this opinion. No, it's not the proto-shoegazing feedback of PSYCHOCANDY, but even proper shoegaze bands dropped those tricks after their first record or two.

As always, the Reid brothers are amazing songwriters. It doesn't matter if they drape their songs with PSYCHOCANDY style feedback, DARKLANDS type gothness, or the grace and beauty of the mellow STONED AND DETHRONED. The genius of their songwriting shines through, and any true fan will tell you that AUTOMATIC is just as awesome as anything else the band did."