Jesus & Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

An appetite for self-destruction, any psych major can tell you, is a cry for attention. So when Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain wheezes: "I wanna die just like Jesus Christ.... I wanna die just like JFK.... I wanna die on a sunny day" – lines that kept "Reverence" (the first single from Honey's Dead) off British TV – he's obviously just jerking society's chain. And when he and brother William later run the same lyrics over a stretch of Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner," the song's death wish dissolves into self-mockery.