Song · The Jesus and Mary Chain
“Upside Down” by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Released 1984
“Upside Down” by The Jesus and Mary Chain appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1984. It was first released in 1984. Its best result is #37 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #149 alternative song of 1984.
"Upside Down" is where it all started for the Jesus and Mary Chain: the Scottish band's debut single, written by Jim Reid and William Reid and issued on Creation Records in November 1984. It's noise pop with its teeth bared, and on the flip they took on Syd Barrett's "Vegetable Man", a cover Joe Foster produced.
It was the band's only record for Creation in those early days, and at about 50,000 copies it gave the label its first real success. Bobby Gillespie, soon to be the band's drummer, printed the first 1,000 sleeves in Glasgow: black with red lettering, a contact address for fans beneath the credits, and handwritten messages from the group. Later pressings came in red, yellow, blue and pink, and a 1985 reissue got a new sleeve but kept the same catalogue number.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 37 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984 | 48 |
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