Song · The Jesus and Mary Chain
“Cracking Up” by The Jesus and Mary Chain
From the album Munki (1998)
“Cracking Up” by The Jesus and Mary Chain appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1998. It was first released in 1998 on the album Munki. Its best result is #11 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #180 alternative song of 1998.
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"Cracking Up" was one of the singles the Jesus and Mary Chain pulled from Munki, their sixth album, in 1998: a William Reid composition, mixed by Dick Meaney, sharing the record with two other singles whose titles pick a fight with each other, "I Hate Rock 'n' Roll" and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll".
Munki was a homecoming of sorts for the Scottish band. Having left Blanco y Negro, the Reid brothers signed with Sub Pop in America and, in Britain, with Creation, the label that had launched them with "Upside Down" in 1984. As it turned out, it would be their last album for 19 years; the next one, Damage and Joy, didn't arrive until 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 11 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998 | 50 |
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