The Jesus and Mary Chain — Just Like Honey
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Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive
Beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good
So good
Walking back to you
Is the hardest thing that
I can do
That I can do for you
For you
I'll be your plastic toy
I'll be your plastic toy
For you
Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
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Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive
Beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good
So good
Walking back to you
Is the hardest thing that
I can do
That I can do for you
For you
I'll be your plastic toy
I'll be your plastic toy
For you
Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
Just like honey
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Another one of those groups of which I was only peripherally aware, and which, thanks to RP, I realise I really like!
My flatmates accused me of doing 'something weird' with a hairdryer when I first played this back in the mid 80s
I'll be a plastic toilet for you?
I bought this when it came out, including the single EP version. Definitely brings back very specific memories of a very specific time of my life... attending University of Alberta in Edmonton, I had just started a band with my best friend, doing our own flavour of "alternative" goth-tinged music, being part of the then-thriving local underground music scene.. lots of great memories...
Lazarus wrote:
With luck someday I'll be at one of these camps. : )
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of homeless camps loves this song...
With luck someday I'll be at one of these camps. : )
Jörg_Asmussen wrote:
Barbed Wire Kisses was a fantastic collection of b-sides and covers. Didn't get enough attention.
OMG I played their "Barbed Wire Kisses" on repeat in the dorm. I was hated. I loved it !
I love it now.
Barbed Wire Kisses was a fantastic collection of b-sides and covers. Didn't get enough attention.
Mugro wrote:
You obviously are unaware of the impact this album had in the music industry. When this dropped it dropped like a bomb exploding with fuzz, feedback and drive. No one was doing anything like it at the time. Also listening to the full album helps to understand but it has to be taken in context with the music of the time (and prior decades).
Never understood why this band was popular...... 
You obviously are unaware of the impact this album had in the music industry. When this dropped it dropped like a bomb exploding with fuzz, feedback and drive. No one was doing anything like it at the time. Also listening to the full album helps to understand but it has to be taken in context with the music of the time (and prior decades).
Auch "The Jesus an Mary Chain" haben viel Velvet Underground gehört.
Jörg_Asmussen wrote:
Me too, sincerely!
OMG I played their "Barbed Wire Kisses" on repeat in the dorm. I was hated. I loved it !
I love it now.
Me too, sincerely!
Mugro wrote:
A dark room full of candles and gasps would help - or a memory of one
Easy 8 from yo boy
Never understood why this band was popular......
A dark room full of candles and gasps would help - or a memory of one
Easy 8 from yo boy
helgigermany wrote:
You are too generous.
2 at best.
This music is paper thin.
this movie was so boring! And the song?? I give no more than 5!
You are too generous.
2 at best.
This music is paper thin.
melzabutch wrote:
For a lot of Americans, movies were the only way they heard these songs as commercial radio would not play it. College radio was not available everywhere and did not have the best reception. Singers like Paul Weller, who are huge in the UK, Europe and was big in Australia was unheard of in NY where I grew up and I was a music junky. Thank goodness for RP and its like spreading the word and playing DIFFERENT music and not what corporate radio wants us to digest.
Sofia Coppola picked the song because the JAMC are awesome and it fit perfectly with her vibe for the movie. Movie soundtracks are a good way to expose others to obscure (to the masses) bands.
For a lot of Americans, movies were the only way they heard these songs as commercial radio would not play it. College radio was not available everywhere and did not have the best reception. Singers like Paul Weller, who are huge in the UK, Europe and was big in Australia was unheard of in NY where I grew up and I was a music junky. Thank goodness for RP and its like spreading the word and playing DIFFERENT music and not what corporate radio wants us to digest.
Sofia Coppola picked the song because the JAMC are awesome and it fit perfectly with her vibe for the movie. Movie soundtracks are a good way to expose others to obscure (to the masses) bands.
Jörg_Asmussen wrote:
For a lot of Americans, movies were the only way they heard these songs as commercial radio would not play it. College radio was not available everywhere and did not have the best reception. Singers like Paul Weller, who are huge in the UK, Europe and was big in Australia was unheard of in NY where I grew up and I was a music junky. Thank goodness for RP and its like spreading the word and playing DIFFERENT music and not what corporate radio wants us to digest.
Is this a particular American thing, to relate this piece of music to a movie?
I wonder how much good European music that is undiscovered by Americans, because it hasn't been starred in a descent American movie?
I have seen several European acts with a great back catalog, but in America they might only be known for one specific song, that has been featured in an American movie. Very strange indeed.
I wonder how much good European music that is undiscovered by Americans, because it hasn't been starred in a descent American movie?
I have seen several European acts with a great back catalog, but in America they might only be known for one specific song, that has been featured in an American movie. Very strange indeed.
For a lot of Americans, movies were the only way they heard these songs as commercial radio would not play it. College radio was not available everywhere and did not have the best reception. Singers like Paul Weller, who are huge in the UK, Europe and was big in Australia was unheard of in NY where I grew up and I was a music junky. Thank goodness for RP and its like spreading the word and playing DIFFERENT music and not what corporate radio wants us to digest.
Is this a particular American thing, to relate this piece of music to a movie?
I wonder how much good European music that is undiscovered by Americans, because it hasn't been starred in a descent American movie?
I have seen several European acts with a great back catalog, but in America they might only be known for one specific song, that has been featured in an American movie. Very strange indeed.
I wonder how much good European music that is undiscovered by Americans, because it hasn't been starred in a descent American movie?
I have seen several European acts with a great back catalog, but in America they might only be known for one specific song, that has been featured in an American movie. Very strange indeed.
Most annoying reverb.
aspicer wrote:
You can never have too much. This song as finale made "Lost in Translation" soundtrack.
YESSSSS! As I have encouraged before - More J&MC on RP.....please?!
You can never have too much. This song as finale made "Lost in Translation" soundtrack.
thewiseking wrote:
still sounds great. this was my 80s.
Frist Everyday is Like Sunday and now this. One ten followed by another ten!
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of homeless camps loves this song...
Is there a reason RP doesn't share the TRUE album cover?! There I feel better now...
Just HAVE TO push this to a "9" - so classic and powerful. (BTW - VERY well implemented in the movie)
Looking at my shoes is fun!
for one of my top two favorite bands i never got into psychocandy, i fell in love with the follow up darklands,
and from there i was hooked happily for life. stoned and dethroned, honeys dead, automatic,the crazy munki
and the re releases are sweet too especially the sound of speed. and as great as the studio is,
holy hell are they fantastic live when william is on on his guitar work and jim is enjoying himself,
there may be nothing better on this earth.
ps check out 21 singles and the john peal sessions cds, well worth the investment for the ear candy.
and from there i was hooked happily for life. stoned and dethroned, honeys dead, automatic,the crazy munki
and the re releases are sweet too especially the sound of speed. and as great as the studio is,
holy hell are they fantastic live when william is on on his guitar work and jim is enjoying himself,
there may be nothing better on this earth.
ps check out 21 singles and the john peal sessions cds, well worth the investment for the ear candy.
OMG I played their "Barbed Wire Kisses" on repeat in the dorm. I was hated. I loved it !
I love it now.
I love it now.
YESSSSS! As I have encouraged before - More J&MC on RP.....please?!
Two 10s in a row...
still sounds great. this was my 80s.
Everybody in my church loves this song...
Off of their first album, Psychocandy. I when I saw this movie, I loved the soundtrack, and was hoping for some JAMC, the whole way through...then the end...perfect.
Love this sound. Just saw BRMC in SF the other night, which is the closest band with that sound today. Wailing guitars, hand-clapping and tambourines.
kingart wrote:
It was obviously copied on purpose and that opening drumbeat has been used in scores of songs, but the opening chord sequence in this song is entirely different from that of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby". That may not stop Phil Spector from trying to sue though - this band was seemingly going for the "wall of sound" production in this number.
Phil Spector, if the pathetic f*** wasn't in jail, would be demanding royalties for those opening bars!
It was obviously copied on purpose and that opening drumbeat has been used in scores of songs, but the opening chord sequence in this song is entirely different from that of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby". That may not stop Phil Spector from trying to sue though - this band was seemingly going for the "wall of sound" production in this number.
I just love those guitars.
kingart wrote:
I thought this also as it is exactly the same beat. And I was really disappointed when the Ronnettes didn't chime in! However, it gets a 7 in my book.
Opening bars of the song sound like a close pass, or sampling, or almost a rip off, from an early '60s song Be My Baby, by The Ronnettes. The song, a Phil Spector wall-of-sound classic, played over the opening scene of Scorcese's Mean Streets.
I thought this also as it is exactly the same beat. And I was really disappointed when the Ronnettes didn't chime in! However, it gets a 7 in my book.
aspicer wrote:
Oh yes. Every single track from their 1987 album "Darklands" would sparkle so wonderful into the famous RP flow.
Need to offer a bit of encouragement to Bill - PLEASE - more J&MC would be much welcomed I believe!
Oh yes. Every single track from their 1987 album "Darklands" would sparkle so wonderful into the famous RP flow.
Need to offer a bit of encouragement to Bill - PLEASE - more J&MC would be much welcomed I believe!
TJS wrote:
I was thinking the Raveonettes, but that may have been down to being in the kitchen with the water running. Nice effect, though.
I thought this was "Joey" by Concrete Blonde when that opening drumbeat started.
I was thinking the Raveonettes, but that may have been down to being in the kitchen with the water running. Nice effect, though.
I thought this was "Joey" by Concrete Blonde when that opening drumbeat started.
kingart wrote:
Why yes, it does.
Opening bars of the song sound like a close pass, or sampling, or almost a rip off, from an early '60s song Be My Baby, by The Ronnettes. The song, a Phil Spector wall-of-sound classic, played over the opening scene of Scorcese's Mean Streets.
Why yes, it does.
Timeless
I suddenly feel MUCH BETTER now! Love Jesus & Mary Chain!!! Let's be clear - the album is Psychocandy
Biscobret wrote:
The album being Psychocandy — NOT Lost In Translation Soundtrack, BTW
Great song from a HUGE album. Pushing limits, ahead of it's time, and retro all at once.
(And, yes, The Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo!)
(And, yes, The Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo!)
The album being Psychocandy — NOT Lost In Translation Soundtrack, BTW
Great song from a HUGE album. Pushing limits, ahead of it's time, and retro all at once.
(And, yes, The Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo!)
(And, yes, The Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo!)
Phil Spector, if the pathetic f*** wasn't in jail, would be demanding royalties for those opening bars!
Opening bars of the song sound like a close pass, or sampling, or almost a rip off, from an early '60s song Be My Baby, by The Ronnettes. The song, a Phil Spector wall-of-sound classic, played over the opening scene of Scorcese's Mean Streets.
Love my RP! Best $10 a month I ever spent. 
Zep wrote:
This was on your "Sorriest" CD.
Yeah I uploaded it and it got sorried. Then the movie came out and someone else must have uploaded it again...
Better late than never I guess.
It was upload # 4150 by the way. They're in the 45000 area now...
This was on your "Sorriest" CD.
Yeah I uploaded it and it got sorried. Then the movie came out and someone else must have uploaded it again...
Better late than never I guess.
It was upload # 4150 by the way. They're in the 45000 area now...
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
This was on your "Sorriest" CD.
Yeah, okay, I did it. Bumped from a 9 to a 10. Because it's early Mary Chain, I now listen to RP with headphones so I can rawk it, and because it's Monday farickin' morning and boy does this deserve a 10 right now.
This was on your "Sorriest" CD.
Did it take this over-rated bore (OK, Bill Murray is a genious, but still...) for people to wake up to the early brilliance of The Jesus & Mary Chain?? Are we SO behind of the times??!!!?
I agree: the film is boring. But the song I absolutely marvelous!
"Dawwwwwwwn!!! Go away I'm no good for youuuuuuuu."
And George Harrison got sued? Puh-leeeeeese.
And George Harrison got sued? Puh-leeeeeese.
annie_fannie wrote:
Uphill both ways, let me tell you. Then we had to work in the factory 25 hours a day, 8 days a week.
But tell that to kids now-a-days and they just won't believe you.
Did you also walk uphill to school everyday....
Uphill both ways, let me tell you. Then we had to work in the factory 25 hours a day, 8 days a week.
But tell that to kids now-a-days and they just won't believe you.
iscoot4peace wrote:
Did you also walk uphill to school everyday....in a snowstorm...with an onion on your belt...and like it? :) j/k. I enjoyed the movie and soudtrack as well (Air is an awesome band). And I'm a fellow fan of classic/black & white movies. And I just turned 30 last week...so there?
Loved the movie...love the song! Everthing doesn't have to be exteme or exciting to be worthwhile and reflective of life around us. Every time I tavel to Europe...the resulting jet lag leaves me in a weird dreamlike state for at least three days. Going as far as Japan must be even worse...for me...that was what the movie depicted so well. You kinda just go with the flow and end up doing things (Like the Kareoke scene) you would never do at home.
Sometimes movies and music..all art really....require you to engage with them...interact with them. People are getting too lazy to even put a little something of themselves into experiences like a movie. Hence all the stories that rely on huge special effects and forget to write a good storyline. I know people under thirty who refuse to watch anything filmed in black and white for chrissakes...one third of the greatest films of all time were B & W! Many didn't even have sound. That's like saying the Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo! Give it a chance!
OK...I'll get off the soapbox. Thanks for the rant-time. I'll get back to my rat catching. Now where did I leave that aluminum softball bat?
Sometimes movies and music..all art really....require you to engage with them...interact with them. People are getting too lazy to even put a little something of themselves into experiences like a movie. Hence all the stories that rely on huge special effects and forget to write a good storyline. I know people under thirty who refuse to watch anything filmed in black and white for chrissakes...one third of the greatest films of all time were B & W! Many didn't even have sound. That's like saying the Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo! Give it a chance!
OK...I'll get off the soapbox. Thanks for the rant-time. I'll get back to my rat catching. Now where did I leave that aluminum softball bat?
Did you also walk uphill to school everyday....in a snowstorm...with an onion on your belt...and like it? :) j/k. I enjoyed the movie and soudtrack as well (Air is an awesome band). And I'm a fellow fan of classic/black & white movies. And I just turned 30 last week...so there?
Summery late 80's wispy high-feedback memories...
J & M Chain were huge in Japan, if I am not mistaken, which makes inclusion in the Lost soundtrack appropriate
J & M Chain were huge in Japan, if I am not mistaken, which makes inclusion in the Lost soundtrack appropriate
Loved the movie...love the song! Everthing doesn't have to be exteme or exciting to be worthwhile and reflective of life around us. Every time I tavel to Europe...the resulting jet lag leaves me in a weird dreamlike state for at least three days. Going as far as Japan must be even worse...for me...that was what the movie depicted so well. You kinda just go with the flow and end up doing things (Like the Kareoke scene) you would never do at home.
Sometimes movies and music..all art really....require you to engage with them...interact with them. People are getting too lazy to even put a little something of themselves into experiences like a movie. Hence all the stories that rely on huge special effects and forget to write a good storyline. I know people under thirty who refuse to watch anything filmed in black and white for chrissakes...one third of the greatest films of all time were B & W! Many didn't even have sound. That's like saying the Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo! Give it a chance!
OK...I'll get off the soapbox. Thanks for the rant-time. I'll get back to my rat catching. Now where did I leave that aluminum softball bat?
Sometimes movies and music..all art really....require you to engage with them...interact with them. People are getting too lazy to even put a little something of themselves into experiences like a movie. Hence all the stories that rely on huge special effects and forget to write a good storyline. I know people under thirty who refuse to watch anything filmed in black and white for chrissakes...one third of the greatest films of all time were B & W! Many didn't even have sound. That's like saying the Beatles weren't worthwhile until they recorded in stereo! Give it a chance!
OK...I'll get off the soapbox. Thanks for the rant-time. I'll get back to my rat catching. Now where did I leave that aluminum softball bat?
helgigermany wrote:
Okay!
this movie was so boring! And the song?? I give no more than 5!
Okay!
this movie was so boring! And the song?? I give no more than 5!
sutcliff wrote:
I'll always remember the past few days with you. Don't part mad. Tell him the truth. OK?
Did you get that from lip reading?
the mellow song from Psycho Candy.
(click here)
I'll always remember the past few days with you. Don't part mad. Tell him the truth. OK?
fontainemusic wrote:
One of my favorite songs in one of my favorite movies...
This was in a movie? I thought all time stopped when it became a cassette in the stereo of my SAAB in 1986.
Sofia Coppola appreciates the love, but asks that you write her name on the board 25 times before logging off. 
crystala wrote:
crystala wrote:ilove the song and the movie. Sophia Copala is so brilliant.
in my opinion.
One of my favorite songs in one of my favorite movies...
SWEET!
god i love this song. and i love that it reminds me of "lost in translation".
cool tune, great movie
Their first album ranks right up there with some of the finest rock 'n roll albums made.
ilove the song and the movie. Sophia Copala is so brilliant.
in my opinion.
Smoove_D wrote:
I've seen the movie a couple of times, but I never noticed this song in it. Hmmm...
This song plays as the film ends... :)
Yeah, okay, I did it. Bumped from a 9 to a 10. Because it's early Mary Chain, I now listen to RP with headphones so I can rawk it, and because it's Monday farickin' morning and boy does this deserve a 10 right now.
I've seen the movie a couple of times, but I never noticed this song in it. Hmmm...
Adore this song.....adore this movie....
Hols_der_geier wrote:
Don't like this "wall of sound".
Man, I dig the Phil Spector of it all! Not to be confused with Fill Spinktor.
wow, I only know this song on it's own...never saw the movie
Mesmerizing and brilliant.
Good in the movie, not so great outside of that context. Sounds like a bad Love and Rockets song. Honey dripping bee hive? Come on.
polka wrote:
Dear Japanmoran
After reading your quote about my guitar tone on my song "Just Like Honey" I realized how unfair life is sometimes.
I'm feel really bad every time I think that while you, with your amazing, beefy, clean and awesome guitar tone have to spend your afternoons reviewing songs on radio paradise, while me , with my sucky tone end up placing my music on cool movies, touring the world and screwing the girl on Mazzy Star....
I so sorry for that, you really deserve to be on my place.
Yours truly
Willian Reid, The Jesus & Mary Chain
japanmoran wrote:
Having lived in Japan for 3 years, I loved the movie and this song was great in it.
But as a guitarist, I have to say that guys guitar tone sucks
:)
Dear Japanmoran
After reading your quote about my guitar tone on my song "Just Like Honey" I realized how unfair life is sometimes.
I feel really bad every time I think that while you, with your amazing, beefy, clean and awesome guitar tone have to spend your afternoons reviewing songs on radio paradise, while me , with my sucky tone end up placing my music on cool movies, touring the world and screwing the girl on Mazzy Star....
I so sorry for that, you really deserve to be on my place.
Yours truly
Willian Reid, The Jesus & Mary Chainhttps://www.radioparadise.com/graphics/smiles/icon_nyah.gif
Can somebody *please* get the guy to step up to the mic? Geesh.
I go along with most everyone else: great movie and what a soundtrack! One of the best.
Mozart wrote:
otsukaresamadeshita! mata ne!
He was giving her many thanks. And in this case, adding "Mata ne" at the end indicates an emphasis on what he said.
I have this poster framed on the wall beside my bed. Fantastic movie and I never figured out what Bill sez to Scarlett at the end.
This movie inspired a romance I entered into.
Long time Jesus and MC fan, wonderful record.
incantation wrote:
Great song! Fantastic movie!
BTW, any idea what is Bill Murray whispering to Scarlett Johansson in last scene of the film?
otsukaresamdeshita! mata ne!
Great song! Fantastic movie!
BTW, any idea what is Bill Murray whispering to Scarlett Johansson in last scene of the film?
Monoman wrote:
Ahhh.... The JMC Psycho Candy LP. It sure brings back some fuzzy memories. :-)
fuzzy at best of times... was the highlight/lowlight of youth..
Mugro wrote:
Never understood why this band was popular......
Heh. "Never Understand" was one of their best singles
Don't like this "wall of sound".
Ahhh.... The JMC Psycho Candy LP. It sure brings back some fuzzy memories. :-)
this blows
I love J&M Chain - timeless stuff.
i like it! fits right in there with ride and the stone roses. good shoe gazer stuff!
Couldn't agree with you more. On the song & movie.
MikeWC wrote:
Try beautiful.
But then, I thought Lost In Translation was the best movie of 2003, so maybe I'm biased.
Having lived in Japan for 3 years, I loved the movie and this song was great in it.
But as a guitarist, I have to say that guys guitar tone sucks
:)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This sounds like all the other stuff I don't like!
I'm staring at my bellybutton as I contemplate which art school to go to......
say goodbye to hollywood... say goodbye my baby...
does anyone else hear billy joel's say goodbye to hollywood in this? i think it's just the generic BOOM... BOOM BOOM *clap!* beat of it.
Never understood why this band was popular......
MikeWC wrote:
Try beautiful.
But then, I thought Lost In Translation was the best movie of 2003, so maybe I'm biased.
Not to mention, 100 % correct!
J&MC is one of the few bands that redefined my whole view on what music should be like early in my life. This particular song is a perfect 10.
Try beautiful.
But then, I thought Lost In Translation was the best movie of 2003, so maybe I'm biased.
Boring