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Editorial Reviews
PSYCHOCANDY, the band's stunning 1985 debut, is #268 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Features signature classics including Just Like Honey, My Little Underground, You Trip Me Up, and Never Understand.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Jess
Format:Audio CD
I wasn't old enough to hear the original verison of this album on vinyl so I've always been stuck with the "muddy" sounding original CD version. I'm always a little skeptical about the so-called digitally remastered albums but it seems they took their time on Psychocandy. The album sounds blisteringly better than the older version. I would recomend it to anyone who has listened to the older CD versions, it is great.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By kabalabonga
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
"Never Understand", probably the standout track from "Psychocandy" contains one of the most heavily distorted guitar riffs ever recorded, and reminds me of the sound of massive panes of glass breaking into individual shards while being levitated within the funnel of a gigantic cyclone. It's a backwash of pure, tuneful feedback meshed with a thick, propulsive bassline and rudimentary drumming while a warm, disaffected male voice mourns that his girl will "Never understand me/never understand me".
The Jesus and Mary Chain have been described by critics and admirers alike as sounding like the "..Beach Boys on acid", with their guitar sound famously described as "..chainsaws in a hurricane." The fourteen songs on their first release are raw, sometimes aggressively paced, at others bouncy and harmonious, short, and often cluttered with feedback, yet retain a kind of hypnotic, highly melodic sound to them. Many of these songs were college radio standards when "Alternative" meant "way out of the mainstream." And they were played frequently, which is where I first heard "Never Understand", "The Hardest Walk", "Just Like Honey", "Cut Dead", "Sowing Seeds", and "Taste of Cindy". This was a landmark CD, and its influence is impossible to overestimate; while looking over their shoulder at the Velvet Underground as their spiritual predecessors, the Jesus and Mary Chain essentially provided the blueprint for shoegazing rock, a debt freely acknowledged by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, whose "Isn't Anything" is widely considered to be the first proper shoegazing release.
But don't get it just because it's a pioneering release. Buy it because it's a catchy pop masterpiece that just about totally subverts that genre by burying it under heavily distorted guitar riffs and a massive wash of feedback. Buy it because it's melodic, hummable, and as memorable on the five-hundredth listen as it is on the first. This is as close to a can't-miss recording as I have heard in the 25 years since its release. Just buy it.
The Jesus and Mary Chain have been described by critics and admirers alike as sounding like the "..Beach Boys on acid", with their guitar sound famously described as "..chainsaws in a hurricane." The fourteen songs on their first release are raw, sometimes aggressively paced, at others bouncy and harmonious, short, and often cluttered with feedback, yet retain a kind of hypnotic, highly melodic sound to them. Many of these songs were college radio standards when "Alternative" meant "way out of the mainstream." And they were played frequently, which is where I first heard "Never Understand", "The Hardest Walk", "Just Like Honey", "Cut Dead", "Sowing Seeds", and "Taste of Cindy". This was a landmark CD, and its influence is impossible to overestimate; while looking over their shoulder at the Velvet Underground as their spiritual predecessors, the Jesus and Mary Chain essentially provided the blueprint for shoegazing rock, a debt freely acknowledged by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, whose "Isn't Anything" is widely considered to be the first proper shoegazing release.
But don't get it just because it's a pioneering release. Buy it because it's a catchy pop masterpiece that just about totally subverts that genre by burying it under heavily distorted guitar riffs and a massive wash of feedback. Buy it because it's melodic, hummable, and as memorable on the five-hundredth listen as it is on the first. This is as close to a can't-miss recording as I have heard in the 25 years since its release. Just buy it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By C. Gardner
Format:Audio CD
Taking the best elements of 1960s bubblegum, pop, and surf music (and even 50s rockabilly at times) and processing them through the most jaded sensibility imaginable, "Psychocandy" is a pivotal album in post-punk history. Classic. Sounds like the sound engineer was either asleep, tied up in the back room, or on the nod from horse, because every song is drenched in reverb and the knobs are stuck on ten. The guitars keen like bagpipes, squeal like tires, change into Coltrane-like lines then dissolve in clouds of white noise. Made in 1985, it still sounds fresh, and you can see the influence of this album through many bands, from the Butthole Surfers to My Bloody Valentine to Nirvana and Pavement and the new bands of the 1980s revival like Interpol.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
The disc was ruuined after I played it once in the CD player
This disc was damaged after I played it once in my CD player. Other CDs that I bought at the same time are still playing fine.
Published 2 days ago by M. M. P.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good
This is a very good album by TJAMC, from 1985. It's normally rated "all" stars (whether they're 5 or 10) and I think it deserves the stars. Really good album. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Jaguar XS
4.0 out of 5 stars
Turn guitar feedback up to 11
So i knew they did a lot of feedback from the music in this album. just didnt realize how much on some of the songs! I do like the album. Read more
Published 2 months ago by James B.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of their best!
I've been listening to the Jesus and Mary Chain for decades, saw them live in Orlando years ago. Some of their songs are perfect!
Published 4 months ago by R. L. Little
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding ! Essential !
Finally they got it right with the new recently released deluxe catalog of Jesus & Mary Chain.
I wasn't a fan of the previous release, the dual disc sets as it's easy to... Read more
I wasn't a fan of the previous release, the dual disc sets as it's easy to... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Cousin Bobby
5.0 out of 5 stars
I thought I was nuts for ordering remastered distortion
but then I played it. And it hasn't sounded tis good since I played it on vinyl. If you are a fan - I mean you like this album - you won't be disappointed. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Red Badge
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic
Ear shattering over-driven screechy fuzzed out guitars. Driving one note bass lines. Minimal drumming. Echoey, reverby vocals. Hook-rich Beach Boys melodies. Amateur playing. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Scott A. McWaters
5.0 out of 5 stars
6 stars, if I could
This sounds great, the bonus material is great, it's got a DVD added, too, what more could you want? And why is this the first review??
Published 10 months ago by Scott Klapman
1.0 out of 5 stars
Uninspired
Outside of its historical context... this album to me lacks anything that would qualify it as interesting. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Trevor Goodchild
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worthless dualdisc cd! Does not work in my cd player!
This dualdisc cd does not work in normal cd players! Neither the cd or the dvd side work! It even says on the back of the case that it might not work in some cd players! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Daniel Dicioccio
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