THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – BARBED WIRE KISSES – An Album Review

I first fell in love with the music of The Jesus And Mary Chain when I bought the Honey's Dead album released in 1992. Later I discovered their other remarkable albums previously published by The Jesus And Mary Chain like barbed wire kisses released in 1988. First off I would like to mention the remake of Taste of Cindy... Jim Reid and William Reid rocked out an amazing acoustic remake of the song Taste of Cindy first featured on the album Psycho Candy circa 1985. If you have not heard the first version of Taste Of Cindy, please treat yourself to a copy of Psycho Candy soon.

The album Barbed Wire Kisses , starts out with a slower number entitled Just Like Honey, and commence into the sweet, over fuzzed out, distortion happy cut The Living End. Bo Diddley Is Jesus is another number that will turn heads for years to come. If I worked for Marshal or distortion pedal manufactures, I would give these guys free equipment all day long just as a product enforcement. Yeah...... they rock it like that, even after 17 years.