21 Singles

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{{Infobox album

| name = 21 Singles

| type = Compilation album

| artist = The Jesus and Mary Chain

| cover = TJAMC-21Singles.jpg

| alt =

| released = 27 May 2002

| recorded = 1984–1998

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Alternative rock

| length = 73:10

| label = Warner Strategic Marketing

| producer = {{flatlist|

• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• John Loder
• Bill Price
• Jim Reid
• William Reid}}

| prev_title = The Complete John Peel Sessions

| prev_year = 2000

| next_title = Live in Concert

| next_year = 2003

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |title=21 Singles - The Jesus and Mary Chain |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000660638|pure_url=yes}} |accessdate=22 December 2020 |website=AllMusic}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=The Jesus and Mary Chain|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/429 429]}}

}}

21 Singles is a compilation album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2002 by Warner Strategic Marketing, and in the United States on 2 July 2002 by Rhino Records. As the title proclaims, it contains 21 of the band's singles in chronological order from their 15-year career.{{cite book

| author = Zoe Howe

| title = The Jesus and Mary Chain: Barbed Wire Kisses

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nq6MAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA263

| date = 11 November 2014

| publisher = St. Martin's Press

| isbn = 978-1-250-03023-8

| pages = 263–

}}{{cite book

| author = Peter Buckley

| title = The Rough Guide to Rock

| url = https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock00roug

| url-access = registration

| year = 2003

| publisher = Rough Guides

| isbn = 978-1-85828-457-6

| pages = 1949–

| quote = With Hart spending more of his time working on video production, The Jesus & Mary Chain became essentially the Reid ... The 21 SINGLES compilation of 2002 suggested a full stop to the Mary Chain's story, but it remains unclear whether the ...

}}

The single versions of many of these songs differ from their album versions. "April Skies" is missing the final verse from the LP version; "Happy When It Rains" is missing the final chorus; "Rollercoaster" is the original EP version, which features a drum machine and echo on the vocals; and "Come On" is an extended version.