I feel so quick in my leather boots: poll of PSYCHOCANDY by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

I meant more of the 'sprouting from the top of the head, short on the sides' look xxxp

you know...like how a carrot looks when it's in the ground

onimo, could be the lost in translation OST skewing things iirc.

voted NEVER UNDERSTAND fwiw

That's more pineapple than carrot.

(But that said, Daniel Ash was the one and only Pineapple God and there will never be another. But his was special because it was a pineapple mullet)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YSqKnJvl0Eo/R_I3i4BduJI/AAAAAAAAArU/AwqfYDQg1V0/s400/jesus-mary-chain.jpg

who you callin a fuckin carrot top?

xp good point Steve (fucking loved that song kicking in in Lost in Translation in the cinema)

I honestly cannot choose. what a mighty album, great from start to finish.

This thread could really do with some more pictures, TBH

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hg-IOKPUrlY/S603k-YuomI/AAAAAAAAASI/JESX_FFMihk/s1600/The%2BJesus%2Band%2BMary%2BChain.jpg

aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww

I cannot believe they actually got them to pose so sweetly for long enough to take a picture before they went back to pulling each others' hair out.

"The Hardest Walk" for me, but there's not really a bad song in the bunch.

I actually don't like this album much. I lose interest after Taste the Floor, which is really good & what I'm voting for.

After listening to Never Understand just now, I like how it kind of reminds me of Surfer Rosa, so that's cool.

Bobby Gillespie's haircut in the Never Understand vid is the single best thing he has ever been involved with in more than 25 years in music.

True.

No, actually, it's only the second best thing, after his trousers in the Just Like Honey video.

"Never Understand" or "My Little Underground." I went completely around the bend for this 1986. Inspired one of my most pretentious reviews ever, over some solid competition.

voted u trip me upp

i prefer the songs that have a more reckless, unhinged sound to them than the slower ones.

went with "my little underground"

"Never Understand" or "My Little Underground," which are kind of the same song to me.

In the late 1980s when I listened to this daily, "Hardest Walk" or "Taste of Cindy."

Wait, maybe still "Hardest Walk."

OK, not voting.

Gotta go with "You Trip Me Up" as the old sentimental favourite here.

This is the hardest poll ever. I guess Never Understand if I have to choose.

Listening again now, for the first time in a long while. "Never Understand" for me, but I still <3 this record.

This is a most cruel poll.

"Hardest Walk" always struck something in me and that is what I voted for, but it was really painful to decide.

Perhaps more pictures will make it easier. Yes, more pictures...

Just Like Honey

i've probably told this story on another jamc thread, but my freshman-year college roommate refused to believe that the album was supposed to sound like that. it was outside his acceptable frame of reference that noise like that could be intentional. like, i mean, i was showing him that it was on a major label and asking him, really, do you really think a whole record company is distributing this internationally by accident? but he honestly didn't believe it was by design. he thought there had to be some other explanation.

anyway, for that reason and others, "never understand."

never understand, w/ strong competition from you trip me up, the living end, just like honey, etc.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M_jjIJQmP64/S9cGhs6orMI/AAAAAAAACOs/EBcJAw42WaM/s1600/jesus_and_mary_chain_record_new_song_tour_400x297.jpg

just like honey

What was that you said, Kaliflwr? More pictures?

Well, OK.... I guess... I could find some for you, since you *insist*...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/20365803/The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain+jimandwill.jpg

Ooh, you'll like this one...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/27397863/The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain+5.png

^^^^^fairly sure we've had acid trips where that was lying on the kitchen floor

http://i55.tinypic.com/eju53k.jpg

BOOOOOOAAABBBBBBYYYYYYYYYY...

::whimpers::

No, Karen D, think of what he *turned into*.

The Hardest Walk.

Got my first and only speeding ticket while playing this album.

Either "The Hardest Walk" or "The Living End" or "Taste of Cindy" or maybe "Never Understand" or

Aww shit or "Cut Dead" or

Also "Some Candy Talking" does not belong here thank you

as good a time as any to post this again.
"Because we're so good". "It's .. adequate". "My guitar's for kicking". "My favourite colour is gold". etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclcrEpui64

Awwww! ...Wait, what were we deciding again?

Oh right! Well, "Some Candy Talking," while one of my favorites (if not THE favorite, as it's been on occasion), doesn't belong on this list because it wasn't there when I had this on constant rotation on my turntable in my mid-teens. My mid-teens, which were relatively innocent until I saw one, "Just Like Honey" video.

It will always seem wrong to pick just one, but I'm sticking with, "The Hardest Walk." If not for the pop perfection under all that sexy noise, then for lyrics, which seem to me to be about a relationship-gone-dead. While far from unique in subject matter for the Brothers Reid, this time it swims in blood. It. Swims. In. Blood.

Still think more visuals are needed, though. Umm hmm.

http://aprilskies.amniisia.com/jamc/images/early.jpg

Can't find a better quality version of this :(

voted 'never understand'.

saw jamc at the ambulance station supported by the june brides - first time i was ever offered druks at a gig, oh happy days

Back then, The Hardest Walk. Now, The Living End.

oh . . . honey

Typical Kate, always thinking of Boaby..

It's not my fault. Those images were burned into my retina by those very same videos that Kaliflwr watched. Over. And over. And over again. Though, actually, not the *very* same one, because we actually managed to watch a hole in the tape, so she made me go down to Tower and buy a new copy.

But, basically, erm, a generation of women would really like to thank the Jesus and Mary Chain, and their leather trousers for our sexual awakenings, and for, erm, bringing *that* to our attention, thanks.

So who had your favourite boaby in JAMC then?

Boaby Gillespie's Boaby, natch. ;-)

You did "wear" a hole in the tape, or was that an acid experience?

i dread to think what she did to that tape

We watched it so many times that it went fuzzy and staticky and a bit funny at certain moments we really loved and watched over and over. Ha ha, Kaliflwr is going to keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell me for this.

staticky or sticky?

I put a one-hour J&MC 'experience' onto VHS back in the day just after "Sidewalking", called "Psychotherapy"

Various promo vids, snips from interviews, a few hand-made extras.

Full of static. Like a worn-out tape. Stop being gross, Kerr.

Ha Ha.... it's true. Rewind, pause, rewind, pause, rewind, pause. It'll do bad things to your videotapes after several hundred viewings.

Also, I'm pretty pissed the combo DVD/CD re-release totally crapped out on me. I never trust those two sided CDs to begin with. Well, the CD portion crapped out. The DVD portion still works, thank the lust-gods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlWGafmQXvE

I was at this gig. Listening to it now - sounds like Les Rallizes Dénudés! Similar taste in leather trousers too.

Psychocandy cranked up on my Walkman side 2 TDK no Dolby on the school bus buzzing my eardrums giving me early onset tinnitus

Great piece Ned, really enjoyed and am on second playthrough of the evening.

Do Darklands next! (No rush though)

Ha, give me a couple years or something!

Ned, I so appreciate the Bowie angle. It also puts the rest the received angle that he was always a gentleman -- well, no, not when he felt threatened (i.e. Gary Numan).

Very much the comparison in my head I was thinking of. I wonder if it's to do with age as well as perceived place in the firmament -- at his commercial peak (on a notable upswing already in the height of Numan thanks to "Ashes To Ashes" number one at 'home' where Numan was absolutely everywhere in turn) through the 80s, by 1987 he could afford to be lordly but instead could get defensive. The Pixies switch was in concert with his Tin Machine move, of course, but also maybe was a reaction to realizing he'd be better off cultivating those in his wake, which paid off down the road. (I do find it funny that first Trent Reznor collaborates with Bowie in the mid-90s and then a few years later during The Fragile releases a Numan cover in turn...)

Psychocandy cranked up on my Walkman side 2 TDK no Dolby on the school bus buzzing my eardrums giving me early onset tinnitus

My man.

I could totally fill in with ‘th chain’ the way my hair looks today

Psychocandy cranked up on my Walkman side 2 TDK no Dolby on the school bus buzzing my eardrums giving me early onset tinnitus

My first listen to Psychocandy was on a tape copy I had borrowed from our local library - I still distinctly remember that uncertainty of “is something broken oh shit no i think it is meant to sound like this” - can remember exactly where i was, who i was, one of those moments when you feel your brain expanding

I recently got a killer collection of old cassettes with Psychocandy among them and gave it a spin on my Walkman after reading Ned’s fine article, sounded awesome… they were always a cassette band for me - Automatic practically lived in the tape deck of my old Leyland Marina

I feel they are one of those bands who were essential in the 1980s but I don’t get a sense that subsequent generations are that interested - maybe they will have their day again

The Life of the Record episode was indeed a lot of fun. Factoids include:

-At first the label booking early morning studio time thinking the brothers would show up sober, but they just stayed out/up all night drinking and doing drugs and arrived wasted.
-Ministry was using the studio at night; they once borrowed a synth from Al
-The backing vocals on Just Like Honey are credited to Karen Parker (iirc William's girlfriend) and Laurence Verfaillie (Jim's girlfriend), but Karen couldn't swing it and might not actually be on the song, while Laurence just did enough takes until they got one good one, which they sampled.
-The brothers both write songs, but almost never together
-I forget which song it is, but one of the songs on the album is all Jim, with no William at all
-The key to the feedback was a Gretsch semi-hollow body, a possibly broken Shin-Ei Fuzz Wah pedal and Fender Twin reverb

And of course so much more. For some reason I always thought the Reids were a bunch of grumps, but they seemed really happy.

I think Karen Parker was Bobby's gf...? She took the band photo on Primal Scream's first single, and I think she's in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4ZXpsoOUg

You might be right, I couldn't remember if she was Jim's/Alan's/William's/Bobby's girlfriend.

"Sowing Seeds" xpost to Josh.

Any takers as to which song Jim raided for "Somethings Wrong" (I'm pretty sure I know...)

Ok, "Let's go to bed" The Cure

Not hearing it.
xxp funnily enough, i'm playing the hell out of her One True Parker album these days, which is a real late 90's d&b treat

Check the intros