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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 22 March 1992[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
| Studio | The Drugstore | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, noise rock | |||
| Length | 42:39 | |||
| Label | Blanco y Negro, Def American Recordings | |||
| Producer | William Reid, Jim Reid | |||
| The Jesus and Mary Chain chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Honey's Dead | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Los Angeles Times | [3] |
| NME | 9/10[4] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[5] |
| Q |  [6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
| Select | 5/5[9] |
Honey's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1992 on Blanco y Negro Records. It marked a return to a more abrasive sound for the group, as well as incorporating elements of alternative dance. The title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style. The album peaked at No.14 on the UK Charts.[10]
The album's first single, "Reverence", attracted some controversy for the lyrics "I want to die just like Jesus Christ", and "I want to die just like JFK". Banned by Top of the Pops, the track peaked at #10 in the UK charts and received airplay in the United States on alternative radio stations.
Honey's Dead was recorded in the band's London studio, the aptly named "Drugstore", with accomplished engineer Flood and future JaMC producer Alan Moulder on board (not to mention a considerably larger bankroll).
Alternative and campus radio stations picked up "Far Gone and Out" which remains one of the band's most popular singles to date, peaking at #23 in the band's native UK. The Mary Chain shared the bill during parts of Lollapalooza 1992 in the U.S. with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ministry, Lush, Ice Cube and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anheuser Busch even used the samples of "Sugar Ray" as a background bed for their Bud Ice television commercials in 1993.[11]
Honey's Dead was on the short list of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize.
The album posts a close second in sales to their next release, Stoned & Dethroned (1994) (which contains the hit single "Sometimes Always" with Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star). The Reid brothers alternate between singing duties on tracks (most likely coinciding with songwriting duties).
- ^ "Honey's Dead | The Jesus & Mary Chain". Archived from the original on 5 August 2014.
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "Honey's Dead – The Jesus and Mary Chain". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ Cromelin, Richard (26 April 1992). "The Jesus and Mary Chain 'Honey's Dead' Def American". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Maconie, Stuart (21 March 1992). "The Jesus and Mary Chain: Honey's Dead". NME.
- ^ Abebe, Nitsuh (4 August 2006). "The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy / Darklands / Automatic / Honey's Dead / Stoned & Dethroned". Pitchfork. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ "The Jesus and Mary Chain: Honey's Dead". Q (68): 80. May 1992.
- ^ Robbins, Ira (14 May 1992). "Honey's Dead: The Jesus and Mary Chain". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ Sisario, Ben (2004). "The Jesus and Mary Chain". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 429–30. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ Perry, Andrew (May 1992). "Resurrection: The Reid brothers' apocalyptic second coming". Select (23).
- ^ "HONEYS DEAD". Official Charts. 4 April 1992. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Ice Draft from Budweiser Commercial". YouTube. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2014.