Psychocandy

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Psychocandy
Studio album by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Publication
(s)

November 18, 1985

Label (s) Blanco y Negro Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Genre (s)

Noise pop , shoegazing

Title (number)

14th

running time

38:55

occupation
  • Douglas Hart - bass

production

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Studio (s)

Southern Studios, London

chronology
- Psychocandy Darklands
(1987)
Single releases
February 1985 Never understand
May 1985 You trip me up
September 1985 Just like honey

Psychocandy is the debut album by the Scottish rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain . It was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records and combines catchy pop melodies with overdriven electric guitars , noise and feedback cacophonies . The album is considered to pave the way for the genre of shoegazing .

History of origin

The band was signed by Blanco y Negro Records . Shortly before, the single, Upside Down , produced by Slaughter Joe, received media acclaim and generated attention for the band. Their energetic, chaotic concerts, which initially lasted no longer than twenty minutes, attracted attention and helped the band to gain their image.

The vocals on the album are from Jim Reid, apart from the song It's So Hard , which is sung by brother William Reid.

The album includes the singles Never Understand , You Trip Me Up and Just Like Honey . Because the workers in the press shop had refused to reproduce the first single because the B-side Jesus Sucks (in German: "Jesus sucking" or "Jesus annoying") seemed blasphemous, the title was changed to Suck . The title track Psychocandy is not featured on the record. It only appeared on the EP Some Candy Talking in 1986 and was re-released in 1988 on the Barbed Wire Kisses compilation .

The re-release on CD in August 1986 included the bonus track Some Candy Talking from the EP of the same name. Other versions of the album come from Reprise Records (1986) as well as from American Records, which released the US version of the album in 1993 without the bonus track. In 2006 the album was remastered and released as a 2-CD set without Some Candy Talking in order to keep the original track listing.

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media
Laut.de

The album is considered a milestone in alternative rock and especially shoegazing . Sounds called Psychocandy "one of the most excellent debut albums ever made", the New Musical Express praised:

"The alliance of glowing pop wise men who melt the heart with a sawing guitar sound that gets the pulse racing, symbolizes the tension in love much more accurately than anything that otherwise dominates the charts."

Allmusic described the album as "one that started a movement without intending to".

Q magazine selected the album at # 88 of the 100 Best British Albums (2000) and # 23 of the 40 Best Albums of the 1980s (2006).

The music magazine Rolling Stone lists Psychocandy at number 269 of the 500 best albums of all time and at number 45 of the 100 best debut albums.

The New Musical Express voted it 157th of the 500 best albums of all time.

In the selection of the 200 best albums of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media has Psycho Candy Place 40th

On the list published in 2000 The 100 records of the century , curated by spex and the Viva-Zwei broadcast Wah Wah , Psychocandy reached number 96.

The album was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

Track list

All songs are penned by Jim Reid and William Reid .

page A
  1. Just Like Honey - 3:03
  2. The Living End - 2:16
  3. Taste the Floor - 2:56
  4. The Hardest Walk - 2:40
  5. Cut Dead - 2:47
  6. In a hole - 3:02
  7. Taste of Cindy - 1:42
Side B
  1. Never Understand - 2:57
  2. Inside Me - 3:09
  3. Sowing Seeds - 2:50
  4. My Little Underground - 2:31
  5. You Trip Me Up - 2:26
  6. Something's Wrong - 4:01
  7. It's So Hard - 2:37
Bonus track (CD)
  1. Some Candy Talking - 3:19

Individual evidence

  1. Barry Graves , Siegfried Schmidt-Joos : The new rock lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, Volume 1, p. 400.
  2. ^ Review by Ned Raggett on allmusic.com (accessed January 13, 2019).
  3. ^ Review by Gavin Edwards, in: Rolling Stone. June 29, 2006, issue 1003, p. 74.
  4. Review by Nitsuh Abebe on pitchfork.com (accessed January 13, 2019).
  5. Review by Josef Gasteiger on laut.de (accessed on January 13, 2019).
  6. Barry Graves, Siegfried Schmidt-Joos: The new rock lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, Volume 1, p. 401.
  7. Psychocandy: The Jesus and Mary Chain at Allmusic (English)
  8. ^ Q August 2006, issue 241.
  9. 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed January 13, 2019)
  10. 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed January 13, 2019).
  11. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on nme.com (accessed January 13, 2019).
  12. The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s on pitchfork.com (accessed January 13, 2019).