One of my all-time favourite sleeves, if nothing else for the fact I can look at it and recall having similar hairstyles at previous points in my life. I try not to get too sad looking in the mirror these days and wondering where all the hair went to (answer, most often down a sinkhole), and also when did grey overtake black as my main colour.
mp3: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Head On
My copy of this 45 is a second-hand one, and I didn’t know until doing that wee bit of research I sometimes do when pulling a piece together that Head On had been released in seven different formats, including four 7″ singles. – one 7″ single was released per week – all of which had different b-sides. It illustrates that some of what flimflamfan was saying the other day isn’t a new phenomenon
It turns out my copy was the first to be issued. This was the b-side:-
mp3: The Jesus and Mary Chain – In The Black
And my mood is black
And my eyes are black
And my life is black
And my love is black
But what about your hair, boys??
Despite all the multi-formatting, Head On only got to #57 in the UK charts. I would have thought the ruse of different 7″ singles over four successive weeks might have given it a bit of longevity at the expense of a high chart placing.
It didn’t. In at #57 on 18 November, down to #61 on 25 November, and gone completely out of the Top 75 by the time December rolled around.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Quite like the Pixies cover of Head On too, even if it’s very much played with a straight bat.
Good song, reminiscent of New Order from 2:00 to 2:25. The cover is just brilliant. I perceive a lot of “I really don’t have time for this right now” (vulgar: “F*** you”). [sk]
P.S.: I just opened a new bottle of maple syrup, which took about as long as a decent haircut. In my next life I really want to work in the packaging industry to develop particularly sadistic packaging. I would like to apologize for this at this point.
Great JAMC single from the sleeve to the songs. Perfect photo of them in many ways and yes, aspirational hair. Love William’s jacket too. Head On is a top ten Mary Chain song for me, always good when they do it live. Agree with Martin re: Pixies cover version too
I did another count and found that I have 11 favourite songs by The Jesus & Mary Chain (third place behind The Fall and Devo). Head on is not one of them, but the new single Pop Seeds, which was released at the beginning of September, is. [sk]