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

ugghh the static in this album is unbearable. i'm a huge, huge mbv fan but i really can't listen for more than a song at a time without my ears just telling me to turn the shit off.

^^quality

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

^^

this is b/w "Sowing Seeds" & "Never Understand" for me.

picture me not caring

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have decided to replace my wardrobe with black buttonups

sowing seeds = just like honey

same song with slight variations

brilliant insight

im the best

Went with "Taste of Cindy", that one kills me every day.

Ah-ah-ooooooh

have decided to replace my wardrobe with black buttonups

remember to always button the top button

Oh yes. Black button-ups with the top button buttoned, black jeans, leather jacket, Chelsea boots, this was our uniform for those awkward years between discovering the Velvet Underground and later discovering acid.

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

I also can't really hear the song without hearing the Kaliflwr super lust remix happening in my head during certain choruses. "Just like honnnnn -bzzzzzt- Just like honnnn - bzzzzzt- just like honnn... honnn... honnn... oh shit the video's snapped!"

Also who the fuck is this new poster with OPINIONS4U he sounds like my mum "is the stereo broken?!" bleurgh. no. it's supposed to sound like that.

heading off the 'didn't see this, wish I could have voted!' comments ahead of time

I listened a few times since the poll started. I still prefer Darklands but this is obv. great too & for me it's between "You Trip Me Up" & "Something's Wrong" (in general I prefer the second side of this album). I'm gonna go with "You Trip Me Up", cos when these guys go full-on pop you can count me in.

yeah, voted "never understand" (the 120 minutes jam that first caught my attention), but "you trip me up" is unbeatable

I voted for "Taste of Cindy" in the end just cos it is so perfectly formed.

aplaceican'tbefoundmylittleunderground

knife in my head

christ, what was the name of that magazine that issued the free ep with Taste of Cindy on? It lasted about 3 issues, iirc. Other tracks on the ep were the Style Council and ...?

The appearance of Taste of Cindy was a major event in my 14yo self's intense anticipation for Pcandy in the summer/autumn of 1985.

Richard Hawley's version of Some Candy Talking is worth hearing

taste of cindy

It was called "The Hit", bham.

Style Council, Simply Red and the Redskins also.

I still have that EP from The Hit. "Upside Down" was my defining JAMC moment, so "Never Understand" felt somewhat in its shadow. But by heck, Psychocandy has worn well... so thank you to this thread for making me return to it.

just like honey. any other and you're trying too hard imo

yeah I am also suspicious of the motives of people with different taste

I did not realise that it was "trying too hard" to listen to album tracks beyond the single. Obviously I've been doing music wrong for all these years!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Hearing J&MC for the first time (the Annie Nightingale request show) when i was about 14 or 15 was life-changing. Afterwards, nothing in music sounded the same; I started to buy music papers to find out more about them, hell, anything about them, and started listening to John Peel in the hope that I'd hear them again. I don't think I did hear them again until I bought Psychocandy which came out soon afterwards, and that was a big leap - dare I spend my hard-saved pocket money on this album when there's still a Queen album or two I haven't got? I took the plunge and never looked back, started dressing in black and gave away all my Queen albums. The Jesus and Mary Chain were the gateway to everything I have loved since.

I have no way of knowing what single it was I first heard but it was probably Never Understand or You Trip Me Up, so for that reason alone, one of those two. Uhhh... Never Understand.

Ten minutes to go!

Predicting Just Like Honey with Hardest Walk and Sowing Seeds a distant 2nd and 3rd.

Meant to type Something's Wrong rather than Sowing Seeds, still miles out though :)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Damn was about to vote for Never Understand and the poll closed. To think I could have helped make a tie. Oh well.

never understand 17

that was one of my favourite songs when i was 17

if you'd heard this album at 17 and it wasn't one yr favourite songs, shame on you

some candy talking 3

dang, that could have been 3 votes for some of the other songs, sorry guys

nah one of them was me

I'm not sure what kind of math you'd use to measure this, but the distribution of those votes would seem to indicate a very deep album. Not only does every song but two register votes, the four at the top are all in double-digits and over 10%. I don't recall any comparable results for as long as I've been voting in these--any other LPs poll similarly?

taste the floor 1

So underrated ^^

did you vote for that?

This is among my top ten "Albums I should love but for some inexplicable reason I don't". I mean, "Just Like Honey" is awesome but the rest just never clicked. Maybe the distortion-for-distions-sake never sat well with me. This poll has inspired me to try again, though.

I'm trying to listen to other music but everytime this thread gets bumped I want to listen to this and only this

not enough votes for "my little underground" but otherwise unimpeachable results

only 5 votes for Something's Wrong? wow that is a crime

Is there an account anywhere of the actual recording process of Psychocandy? I've just listened again to Never Understand and the sheer density of the feedback must have needed some pretty radical production decisions. Assuming it was recorded on 16 Track (24 track tops, surely) half the tracks must have been devoted to feedback.

Someone back in the day used to produce a "fan" "Magazine", i.e. loads of photocopied a4 sheets (about 200 per publication) of clippings, etc. Some of those etc was the track-log sheets frm the recording sessions (i.e. track1=guitar, track2=drums, track3=etc) with who plauyed what.

Wow Inside Me is one of my fave songs on this and 0 votes! Don't think I actually voted on this so I only have myself to blame.

SB'd Lost In Translation btw

That's exactly the thing I meant Mark. I tried a quick google search, but if it's there at all, it's going to take some finding.

Is there an account anywhere of the actual recording process of Psychocandy?

John Loder was the sound engineer - he has a rich history of working with bands who cram lots of noise into small spaces (Crass, Big Black, Ministry, Fugazi, Shellac).

I didn't realise John Loder had engineered it, that makes sense. The band themselves are credited as producers aren't they? That's from memory, I'm not near my copies of the album.

The late John Loder, jeez, I hadn't realised he'd died.

I remember a number of the tracks had "Drums: John" so..