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  Psychocandy
Psychocandy, the group's debut album after a handful of sublimely catchy 45s, found the Glasgow lads drenching everything from the Ronettes to the Harley Davidson mythos and heroin chic in walls of feedback, matching even the Ramones in revisionist ingenuity.
Psychocandy, in most of the critics' circles, is hailed as something of a classic.
Psychocandy is a successful experiment in blending feedback with melody, creating atmospheric but always tuneful soundscapes that linger in the mind.
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 Psychocandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psychocandy is the debut album of the Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The LP was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records and peaked at number 31 in UK Albums Chart.
Psychocandy utilised the then-radical notion of combining simple pop tunes, à la The Beach Boys, with the searing guitar noise more akin to The Velvet Underground, effectively creating the genre of Noise pop.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Psychocandy: Music: Jesus & Mary Chain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Created by passionate adherents of pop culture, PSYCHOCANDY is one of the 1980s' landmark releases, inspiring some to follow a similar course, while others took similar influences to forge a quite different perspective.
But Psychocandy is a one-trick (or rather two-trick) album.
To the generation that heard Psychocandy for the first time, it had the same impact as Nirvana's Nevermind a decade later.
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 Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Song Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Arguably Psychocandy is an album with one trick and one trick alone -- Beach Boys melodies meet Velvet Underground feedback and beats, all cranked up to ten and beyond, along with plenty of echo.
However, what a trick it is. Following up on the promise of the earliest singles, the Jesus and Mary...
However, what a trick it is. Following up on the promise of the earliest singles, the Jesus and Mary Chain with Psychocandy arguably created a movement without meaning to, one that itself caused echoes in everything from bliss-out shoegaze to snotty Britpop and back again.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain album poll - Sonic Youth Gossip
Psychocandy and Barbed Wire Kisses.And then all the rest.
I have Psychocandy and Automatic, which I also think is very good, and I want Darklands and Honey's Dead.
I would always maintain that Psychocandy fully justifies the huge near-legendary reputation that has developed around it; there isn't a single wasted second on the entire LP.
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 Treble: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Listening to Psychocandy is like listening to a recording of "Be My Baby" played at full blast down the hall, a microphone in a trash can capturing the echoes and fuzz.
The album opens with "Just Like Honey," one of three singles the band released prior to Psychocandy and one of three variations of fuzzy noise that are found on the album.
Psychocandy sets up what would be a fine run by the Brothers Reid until the eventual meltdown of The Jesus and Mary Chain in Los Angeles in 1998 and the eventual official break up the following year.
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 Paste Magazine :: Review :: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Reissues :: Rhino (Page 1)
While Psychocandy inevitably glistens as the most distinctive of the lot, part of JAMC’s glory is that they were keen enough to take Psychocandy for what it was—a singular, galvanizing statement born of a moment in time—and resist the temptation to dilute its power by making it a sonic franchise.
While Psychocandy inevitably glistens as the most distinctive of the lot, part of JAMC’s glory is that they were keen enough to take Psychocandy for what it was—a singular, galvanizing statement born of a moment in time—and resist the temptation to dilute its power by making it too much of a sonic franchise.
The videos on Psychocandy, for instance, are concertedly sluggish, with slow-motion camera pans lingering across barely moving band members—the video analog to the mop-haired Scots’ early sets, where they’d stand in the stage shadows with their backs to the crowd, blast feedback for 20 minutes, and disappear again into the ether.
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 Adrian's Album Reviews : Jesus And Mary Chain
A revolutionary album when it first appeared in the mid-eighties, 'Psychocandy' and Jesus And Mary Chain later went onto be an influence on the likes of Ride, The Pixies, Sonic Youth and other innovative guitar bands circa the early nineties.
'Psychocandy' was seen as a reaction against the glossy 'newness' of mid-eighties, synthesized pop music.
As cool as Psychocandy's distortion was and still is, both Automatic and Darklands would prove that the JAMC didn't need noise to sound dark and confrontational.
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 Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain : Blistering ear candy
Gillespie was not in the original line-up, but he did play drums with them, for a while, in the days before he went off to form his own band Primal Scream.
Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain : The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
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 entertainment.iafrica.com | books | local scene | fiction Psychocandy
It's hard to put yourself in another's shoes, especially when their life experiences are gory and bleak enough for them condense it into a novel.
But Laurence H Cramer's 'Psychocandy' lets you into a world of drug abuse and crime with its honest, no-frills style that depicts an emotional journey of one teenage boy's fight against his inner demons within the underworld of Johannesburg's drug scene.
This is a poignant story that delves into the human psyche, the nature of addiction and what happens to relationships when trust fades away — you'll love it and hate it at the same time.
entertainment.iafrica.com /books/at_home/fiction/564966.htm   (605 words)

  
 Orlando Weekly - Music Review - Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic,
Honey's Dead, Stoned & Dethroned
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the group released the dizzyingly groundbreaking Psychocandy album, a 14-cut hallucination of feedback that recontextualized the possibilities of guitar rock.
What’s even harder to believe is that for nearly half of those years, Psychocandy and the bulk of the JAMC’s catalog has been unavailable in the United States.
The ultra-anticipated Psychocandy came out in 1985, and a tour was undertaken that cemented the Mary Chain’s reputation as riot-starters.
www.orlandoweekly.com /music/review.asp?rid=11599   (580 words)

  
 The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy / Darklands / Automatic / Honey's Dead / Stoned & Dethroned: Pitchfork Record ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sometimes people tell you that a 20-year-old album “sounded like nothing else,” but when you listen with today’s ears, it seems rather quaint and unsurprising.
Psychocandy remains a perfect record for states of feeling so bratty, depressed, or disgusted that you actually start to enjoy it.
Also, like with most heroin rock’n’roll bands, there’s an earnest, romantic belief in something beautiful and unattainable in the midst of it, which might be drug-related for them but doesn’t have to be for you.
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 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The album fused together the Reid's two primary influences, the indie guitar noise of The Velvet Underground with the '60s pop leanings of Phil Spector and The Beach Boys.
After Psychocandy, the band recorded and released the single "Some Candy Talking", which is commonly misunderstood as being about heroin use.
Their debut album Psychocandy, along with the Cocteau Twins, largely influenced the British Shoegazing movement of the late 1980s as well as numerous American alternative rock bands.
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 Amazon.com: Psychocandy: Music: The Jesus and Mary Chain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I remember at the time so many people thought they were the most exciting thing in punk rock, mostly for their stage shows where they refused to play to the audience and would often leave the stage after only 15 to 20 minutes.
This beautiful tune perfectly captures the transitional phase between the fuzz and distortion of Psychocandy and the gentler Darklands sound.
Although I am happy that I could finally own "Psychocandy" in a decent form, living where I live it is nigh impossible to find any decent record that isn't a greatest hits comp, the packaging and presentation here left a little to be desired.
www.amazon.com /Psychocandy-Jesus-Mary-Chain/dp/B000FFJ81M   (1256 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Psychocandy [Germany Bonus Track], The Jesus and Mary Chain, CD
However, what a trick it is. Following up on the promise of the earliest singles, with Psychocandy, the Jesus and Mary Chain arguably created a movement without meaning to, one that itself caused echoes in everything from bliss-out shoegaze to snotty Brit-pop and back again.
Psychocandy stands out as a work of art- to be evaluated and appreciated in its entirety, rather than for one or two numbers.
The Reid brothers seems to be intent on creating a dark soundscape, with their noise drenched melodies.
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 Dilutions of Grandeur (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Everything you ever wanted to know about me. And some stuff you probably didn't.
I whipped up a quick pasta with some seafood and marinara sauce last night for dinner.
OK, maybe I’m jumping the gun a bit, but one of my co-workers and I (our receptionist, a fine young fellow) swapped our gifts this morning and I am just too amused for words.
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 Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain on Rhapsody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain on Rhapsody
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 The 50 Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Psychocandy, the Jesus & Mary Chain's stunning (and perfectly-titled) 1985 debut, was a feast of noise and feedback, and is often cited as one of the truly essential alternative albums.
And it is -- it's hard to listen to any feedback-drenche indie band without crediting Psychocandy (though Husker Du made similar, if slightly less extreme, use of fuzzed-out guitars).
Whereas Stoned & Dethroned, a much less groundbreaking album (and one which came long after the J&MC's relevance in the indie rock pantheon had faded), still finds its way onto my stereo on a fairly regular basis.
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 Amazon.ca: Psychocandy: Music: the Jesus and Mary Chain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I guess perception flavours much and this is certainly the case with my feelings towards "Psychocandy".
Unfortunately, it doesn't sound that much like the live JAMC did when they first emerged, just before "Psychocandy" ("Taste The Floor" comes close).
I never saw them live at this point but news reports (such as on the New Music in Canada, an inventive and now-gone TV show) gave an impression of what the JAMC were doing in concert: short, brutal concerts, sometimes involving physical assaults on the audience, featuring short, brutal songs with feedback and caveman drumming.
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 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (DualDisc) - at Rhino
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (DualDisc) - at Rhino
Later that year their seminal debut single, "Upside Down," and cataclysmic live shows made them overnight sensations in the U.K. A year later they connected with Blanco Y Negro/Warner Bros. and issued the smash single "You Trip Me Up" and their revolutionary debut album, Psychocandy.
The Jesus And Mary Chain Psychocandy [180-Gram Vinyl]
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 Amazon.com: Psychocandy: Music: The Jesus and Mary Chain (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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First tag: psychocandy (Zachary J. Naughton "2 Cool" on Dec 23, 2005)
The Jesus And Mary Chain have followed Psychocandy up with a solid career that unfortunately will never be able to break out of the standard they set with this release.
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 RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
A love of classic pop songs and sonic terrorism conspire on this euphoric collection.
This entry was posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 6:50 am and is filed under Features, Rock.
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 Epinions.com - thevoid99's Classic Albums # 1: Psychocandy
The Bottom Line "Psychocandy" is one of the most seminal pieces of recording overlooked in the world of mainstream pop.
Since releasing the very first part of my very own Mindless Rants & Psychotic Essays series for the film “Secretary”, I had been seeking some newfound ideas on what is next.
You should confirm all information before relying on it.
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 Jesus Psychocandy Albums, CDs, Vinyl Records and LPs (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A noise assault that hadn't been heard since the Ramones' debut, coupled with the most bubblegum beautiful songs since Brian Wilson passed out in the sandbox.
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 Media Nugget : Psychocandy : The Jesus and Mary Chain
Media Nugget : Psychocandy : The Jesus and Mary Chain
It's time to relive those heady days when you styled your badly dyed hair with egg whites, you understood the beauty of distorted guitars, and you knew you were cool.
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