Song · The Jesus and Mary Chain
“Reverence” by The Jesus and Mary Chain
From the album Honey’s Dead (1992)
“Reverence” by The Jesus and Mary Chain appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1992. It was first released in 1992 on the album Honey’s Dead. Its best result is #13 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #102 alternative song of 1992.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain opened the Honey's Dead campaign with "Reverence", out on Blanco y Negro on 3 February 1992 as the first single from their fourth studio album. Jim and William Reid wrote it, Jim sings it, and Alan Moulder engineered, and it's the brothers at their most menacing, Jim sounding bored and dangerous at once.
Its lyric, in which the singer imagines dying the way Jesus Christ and JFK did, got it banned from BBC television, though BBC Radio One kept playing it. It still climbed to number 10 in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 88 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 | 102 |
| 1992 | 13 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1992 | 50 |
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