Psychocandy [Import, Original recording remastered]

Jesus & Mary Chain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino/Wea UK
• ASIN: B000G03Q6E
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,950 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just Like Honey

2. Living End

3. Taste The Floor

4. Hardest Walk

5. Cut Dead

6. In A Hole

7. Taste Of Cindy

8. Never Understand

9. It's So Hard

10. Inside Me

11. Sowing Seeds

12. My Little Underground

13. You Trip Me Up

14. Something's Wrong

Editorial Reviews

2006 UK pressing of this digitally remastered reissue of their 1985 debut, one of the most influential albums of the last quarter century and single-handedly responsible for inspiring the Shoegazing movement of the '90s as well as many Britpop bands from the last decade. Features 'Just Like Honey', 'Taste Of Cindy', 'You Trip Me Up' and more. Rhino.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars under-rated masterpiece, August 7, 2009

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jesse liddell (Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychocandy (Audio CD)

Definitely the album you want to buy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, or if you're a tremendous fan of alternative music. Slower songs for most part and mellowing riffs.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Menacing beauty, July 22, 2007

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychocandy (Audio CD)

Inspired by The Velvet Underground and perhaps also The Cure, The J&M Chain made feedback and distortion an integral part of their wall of sound, creating a unique and distinctive niche in rock music. It was in the way they did it - the distortion never sounds intrusive or discordant but complements the detached vocals for a cohesive music of eerie beauty.

In this crucial way the music differs from most of the output of the industrial genre, in that it has a trance-like, hypnotic quality. My favorite tracks on this seminal album include Just Like Honey, The Living End, The Hardest Walk, Sowing Seeds, My Little Underground and the sublime You Trip Me Up, a poignant blend of the tender and the ominous.

Psychocandy is a successful experiment in blending feedback with melody, creating atmospheric and always tuneful soundscapes that linger in the mind. Those who like Mercury Rev or My Bloody Valentine will love this classic album which takes rock music to places it's never been before.