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The Jesus and Mary Chain became infamous for having short concerts (generally around 20 minutes) that ended with violence or riots, a reputation that stayed with them throughout their early years. The brothers felt they had done as much as they could with pure noise pop and made their next albums, ''Darklands'' and ''Automatic'', [[New Sound Album|New Sound Albums]] - the former was more melodic and acoustic while the latter was classic-rock influenced [[Alternative Rock]]. Both were well-received and spawned a few hits ("Happy When It Rains" and "Darklands" for the former, "Head On" and "Blues from a Gun" for the latter).
The band's first album of [[The Nineties]], ''Honey's Dead'', continued with the sound of ''Automatic'' but added more [[Industrial Metal]] influences. Its first single, "Reverence" attracted controversy for its lyrics (with choice couplets like ''I wanna die just like Jesus Christ/I wanna die on a bed of spikes'' and ''I wanna die just like JFK/I wanna die in the USA'') and was banned from being played on BBC Radio 1 and ''[[Top of the Pops]]''. [[No Such Thing
The band received more attention post-split through [[Revival
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