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

I used to have the 12" version of "Upside Down" you know.

Any road up, went for "It's so hard" because.

I see in HMV, there's a 'budget' box set of the first five albums, £13 to you guvnur.

Some Candy Talking on Psychocandy is just RONG. It totally disrupts the flow of the two sides of the album.

It is wrong. Yes.

I see in HMV, there's a 'budget' box set of the first five albums, £13 to you guvnur.

(HMV owned) Fopp had it for £10 recently, dunno if that's still the case.

xp KDT otm

everybody just pretend it isn't there and watch this instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bzrCCKDwc

Yr right, it was Fopp.

My one piece of published writing: A J&MC article in Record Collector.

Also weird that Something's Wrong is the longest song on the album. Nothing outstays its welcome at all. So concise, so perfect.

Though It's So Hard is such a weird, ugly, twisted song to end on. But that was probably the point.

Oh wait, In A Hole just came on.

GOD SPITS ON MY SOUL, THERE'S SOMETHING DEAD IN MY HOLE, HOW COULD SOMETHING CRAWL WITHIN MY RUBBER HOLY BAKED BEAN TIN IT'S GOD TO ME IT'S GOD TO ME, IT IS HEART AND SOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLL OAIWERKLASLK LKSADJFLKASDJFLKLK ALKJALKSDFJ LASKDJFLKSDFJ (random Jim screaming rendered in keyboard squee)

If I go bald in my old age, I blame this record for the abuse to my follicles.

"Cut dead, Jim's messed up boy
Dut n'dut n'dut n'dut n'dut ..."

is how Frank Sinatra would have sung it too...

I just went on last.fm to see how often some of these were played and spotted an ILxor scrobbling Something's Wrong :)

Taste of Cindy -> Never Understand = I have never in my life leapt up so quickly to turn a record over.

The Living End, all the way

I just went on last.fm to see how often some of these were played and spotted an ILxor scrobbling Something's Wrong :)

PWND.

That would be me, yes.

Picky detail ahoy:

"Taste of Cindy" came out on a magazine freebie e.p. some time before the album.

It has a split second intake of breath before the song starts.

It's the one thing I would complain about the album: That split second was like the one in "I heard her call my name" and it's MISSING!!!

Argh spotify ads, I hate you. You have interrupted my Jim Reid screaming pleasure.

side note: have any other dudes in history pulled off the carrot top haircut so successfully?

None of them were ginger?

I used to borrow my dad's car at weekends, and one time I was looking for the cassette of this.

I eventually found it, on the back parcel shelf.

He could have just placed it in the glove compartment, but no.

(Yeah, I know, very unusual to have 4 spotty scots lads in a room and none of them be ginger, but none of them were.)

People these days are too lazy to wait till an album finishes - the popularity of the Psychocandy tracks reads like the track listing. Just Like Honey dwarfs everything else by miles though.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain/+tracks

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

John Moore did some of the drums but it was mostly Bobby Gillespie.

Not mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychocandy but here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_and_Mary_Chain
it says

Drummer Gillespie announced his departure from the band in October 1985, to concentrate on Primal Scream.[31] He had recorded most of the drums on Psychocandy, with John Moore filling in when Gillespie was unavailable, eventually joining the band to replace him.[32] John Loder also acted as a stand-in drummer when Gillespie was unavailable for live performances.[33]

Well, there you go then. I knew this before Wikipedia was invented.

I'd find these sheets if:

1) I had the time,
2) I knew where they were. or even knew if I still had them or not.

Even the tracks with 0 votes are A+++++.

AND IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

and it's cold outside

so i'm playing the remastered version of this album for the first time tonight. absolutely blown away, like one of the best albums ever released blown away. WOW

these remastered versions of Jesus and Mary Chain albums are so amazing to hear.

Keep forgetting about these. Is Honey's Dead out and worth getting?

they were all released together afaik, sept 2011. amazon.co.uk has copies of HD.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-to-perform-psychocandy-in-full-during-upcoming-tour/

good news, nostalgic pensioners!

this actually sounds really awesome

only going to go if they have meat whiplash as support

And Doug and Bobby back in the band..

And, heck, Murray too for old times sake..

Do I have to drink a litre of Merrydown in the queue outside the Barras to complete the full nostalgia package?

that would be fun but i would like to hear more than just this album.

Lead singer Jim Reid said in a statement (via NME), “Psychocandy was meant to be a kick in the teeth to all of those who stood in our way at the time, which was practically the whole music industry. In 1985 there were a great many people who predicted no more than a six month life span for The Mary Chain. to celebrate the approaching 30th anniversary of the album, we would like to perform it in its entirety. We will also perform key songs from that period that did not feature on the album.”

Wish/Grant

You do realise they would play for 30 to 45 mins back then?

And that was when things were going well...

Do I have to drink a litre of Merrydown in the queue outside the Barras to complete the full nostalgia package?

I have decided this will be done. Silver top, none of yer sweet gold top shite.

Looks like it sold out in minutes. Weird how doing fuck all and/or being rubbish for decades makes you more popular.

iirc the last round of london gigs got merged together, 2 dates collapsed into 1, which i assumed was due to low ticket sales at the time.

just had a look and they were no tickets available. but GetMeIn could 'get me in' for ~£50 (half the glasgow price)

Was "Just Like Honey" a well known alternative rock hipster signifier before Lost in Translation or did it become so after? Danish national "alternative music" station P6 must play it a couple times a week and it seems like such a hollow gesture.

They also have stuff like "Lust for Life" on repeat, which it's a great song but maybe should not be applied every day I dunno.

It depends on which side of the pond you are. UK, well before. USA .. someone?

it was pretty known (number 2 in the Festive Fifty, got to number 45 in the charts etc) but not mega known. the film definitely put it on the radar of your Gen Y types.

i saw the Psychocandy gig at The Roundhouse last week; incredible sound and Miki of Lush fame was on backing vox for ..Honey once again.

Eye-opening pics in this thread. I had no idea these guys had such terrible 80s hair.

I was just going to ask if anyone had seen them on the current tour. I saw one of 2007 reunion shows and was pretty disappointed, but I'd give them another chance if the reports are good.

Gonna see them on Friday.

Seeing them this evening!

I will Never Understand, what the appeal of this song is.

It is a good song, but 2nd on the list?

Please enlighten me...

great revive

I like it but I find it almost indistinguishable from "My Little Underground" and I'm not sure why one has so much more canonical shine than the other.

Oh wait I've said this like twice in this thread already

Some eephus talking

Not gonna lie. Some eephus talking make me laugh!!