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Rhino Records has announced the release of a four-CD Jesus & Mary Chain box set. Due out September 30, The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities features 19 of the 20 tracks from Barbed Wire Kisses, along with a lo-fi version of "Up Too High" and a host of previously unreleased tracks, demos, and alternate versions. As is usually the case with Rhino releases, the collection features over-the-top packaging: a 6-by-10 gatefold case and an 18-by-24 poster featuring a family tree and special artwork.

As for the group's supposed reunion record, it's still a work in progress.

The Power of Negative Thinking tracklisting:

Disc one:

1. Up Too High
2. Upside Down
3. Vegetable Man
4. Suck
5. Ambition
6. Just Out of Reach
7. Boyfriend's Dead
8. Head
9. Just Like Honey (demo, October 1984)
10. Cracked
11. Taste of Cindy (acoustic)
12. The Hardest Walk
13. Never Understand (alternate)
14. My Little Underground (demo)
15. The Living End (demo)
16. Some Candy Talking
17. Psychocandy
18. Hit
19. Cut Dead (acoustic)
20. You Trip Me Up (acoustic)
21. Walk and Crawl

Disc two:

1. Kill Surf City
2. Bo Diddle Is Jesus
3. Who Do You Love
4. Everything's Alright When You're Down
5. Shake
6. Happy When It Rains (demo)
7. Happy Place
8. F. Hole
9. Rider
10. On the Wall (demo)
11. Surfin' USA (outtake)
12. Here It Comes Again
13. Don't Ever Change
14. Swing
15. Sidewalking
16. Surfin' USA (summer mix)
17. Shimmer
18. Penetration
19. Break Me Down
20. Subway
21. My Girl

Disc three:

1. In the Black
2. Terminal Beach
3. Deviant Slice
4. I'm Glad I Never
5. Drop (acoustic remix)
6. Rollercoaster
7. Silverblade
8. Lowlife
9. Tower of Song
10. Heat
11. Guitarman
12. Why'd You Want Me
13. Sometimes
14. Teenage Lust (acoustic version)
15. Reverberation (Doubt)
16. Don't Come Down
17. Snakedriver
18. Something I Can't Have
19. Write Record Release Blues
20. Little Red Rooster

Disc four:

1. The Perfect Crime
2. Little Stars
3. Drop (re-recorded version)
4. I'm in With the Out Crowd
5. New York City
6. Taking It Away
7. Ghost of a Smile
8. Alphabet Street
9. Coast to Coast (alternate take)
10. Dirty Water (alternate take)
11. Till I Found You
12. Bleed Me
13. 33 1/3
14. Lost Star
15. Hide Myself
16. Rocket
17. Easylife, Easylove
18. 40,000K
19. Nineteen666

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
06.26.08