The Jesus and Mary Chain will be releasing a 44-track collection called Upside Down: The Best Of, a 2CD compilation. Inspiring bands like My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus And Mary Chain are proof that the eighties were’t all shit, paving the way for countless (and still counting) shoegaze, guitar/noise bands. The CD features “All Things Must Pass,” the sole new music released by the Reid brothers since reuniting in 2007.

Slicing Up Eyeballs reports that the CD is due out 20th September on Music Club Deluxe, in line with Film Festival screenings of the documentary “Upside Down: The Story of Creation Records,” (trailer above) which, like the new best-of, takes its name from the JAMC’s 1984 debut single.

Upside Down features music from all six albums and also a selection of B-sides and non-album tracks, as well as all but one of the A-sides included on Rhino Records’ 2002 comp 21 Singles (”Snakedriver,” off 1993’s Sound of Speed EP, being the exception). Also featured are two rare non-album tracks: “45 RPM,” an alternate version of the Hate Rock ‘N’ Roll cut “33 1/3,” included on the long-out-of-print 1995 disc 104.9: An XFM Compilation Album. The CD’s also feature “All Things Must Pass,” the reunited JAMC’s contribution to the ‘Heroes’ Original Soundtrack which is the only new music released by the band since 1998’s Munki.

Tracklist: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Upside Down: The Best Of

DISC 1
1. “Just Like Honey”
2. “April Skies”
3. “Blues From A Gun”
4. “Far Gone And Out”
5. “Some Candy Talking”
6. “Come On”
7. “Head On”
8. “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”
9. “All Things Must Pass”
10. “Reverence”
11. “Sidewalking”
12. “Cracking Up”
13. “Upside Down”
14. “Never Understand”
15. “The Hardest Walk”
16. “Happy When It Rains”
17. “The Perfect Crime”
18. “Sometimes Always”
19. “Almost Gold”
20. “Darklands”
21. “45 RPM”
22. “Head”

DISC 2
1. “Half Way To Crazy”
2. “You Trip Me Up”
3. “Rollercoaster”
4. “Birthday”
5. “Happy Place”
6. “Something I Can’t Have”
7. “I Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll”
8. “Tower Of Song”
9. “Vegetable Man”
10. “In A Hole”
11. “Kill Surf City”
12. “33 1/3?
13. “Cherry Came Too”
14. “Between Planets”
15. “Moe Tucker”
16. “Little Stars”
17. “God Help Me”
18. “New York City”
19. “Nine Million Rainy Days”
20. “Drop”
21. “Black”
22. “Psychocandy”

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