everybody just pretend it isn't there and watch this instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bzrCCKDwc
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yr right, it was Fopp.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
My one piece of published writing: A J&MC article in Record Collector.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
If I go bald in my old age, I blame this record for the abuse to my follicles.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"Cut dead, Jim's messed up boyDut n'dut n'dut n'dut n'dut ..."
is how Frank Sinatra would have sung it too...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I just went on last.fm to see how often some of these were played and spotted an ILxor scrobbling Something's Wrong :)
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Taste of Cindy -> Never Understand = I have never in my life leapt up so quickly to turn a record over.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The Living End, all the way
― Zeno, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
PWND.
That would be me, yes.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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!!!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Argh spotify ads, I hate you. You have interrupted my Jim Reid screaming pleasure.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
side note: have any other dudes in history pulled off the carrot top haircut so successfully?
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
(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.)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I meant more of the 'sprouting from the top of the head, short on the sides' look xxxp
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
you know...like how a carrot looks when it's in the ground
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
onimo, could be the lost in translation OST skewing things iirc.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I honestly cannot choose. what a mighty album, great from start to finish.
― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Hardest Walk" for me, but there's not really a bad song in the bunch.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually don't like this album much. I lose interest after Taste the Floor, which is really good & what I'm voting for.
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
After listening to Never Understand just now, I like how it kind of reminds me of Surfer Rosa, so that's cool.
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
True.
No, actually, it's only the second best thing, after his trousers in the Just Like Honey video.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
voted u trip me upp
― swagula (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i prefer the songs that have a more reckless, unhinged sound to them than the slower ones.
went with "my little underground"
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta go with "You Trip Me Up" as the old sentimental favourite here.
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the hardest poll ever. I guess Never Understand if I have to choose.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening again now, for the first time in a long while. "Never Understand" for me, but I still <3 this record.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― kaliflwr, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Just Like Honey
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
never understand, w/ strong competition from you trip me up, the living end, just like honey, etc.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M_jjIJQmP64/S9cGhs6orMI/AAAAAAAACOs/EBcJAw42WaM/s1600/jesus_and_mary_chain_record_new_song_tour_400x297.jpg
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
just like honey
― should i watch robocop y/y (cozen), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/eju53k.jpg
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
BOOOOOOAAABBBBBBYYYYYYYYYY...
::whimpers::
No, Karen D, think of what he *turned into*.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hardest Walk.
Got my first and only speeding ticket while playing this album.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Either "The Hardest Walk" or "The Living End" or "Taste of Cindy" or maybe "Never Understand" or
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Aww shit or "Cut Dead" or
Also "Some Candy Talking" does not belong here thank you
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
these remastered versions of Jesus and Mary Chain albums are so amazing to hear.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
Keep forgetting about these. Is Honey's Dead out and worth getting?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
they were all released together afaik, sept 2011. amazon.co.uk has copies of HD.
― koogs, Sunday, 8 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-to-perform-psychocandy-in-full-during-upcoming-tour/
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
good news, nostalgic pensioners!
― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
this actually sounds really awesome
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:12 (nine years ago) link
only going to go if they have meat whiplash as support
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
And Doug and Bobby back in the band..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
And, heck, Murray too for old times sake..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 09:58 (nine years ago) link
Do I have to drink a litre of Merrydown in the queue outside the Barras to complete the full nostalgia package?
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 10:09 (nine years ago) link
that would be fun but i would like to hear more than just this album.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
You do realise they would play for 30 to 45 mins back then?
And that was when things were going well...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
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.
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Friday, 16 May 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Friday, 16 May 2014 11:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― niels, Thursday, 16 July 2015 10:51 (eight years ago) link
It depends on which side of the pond you are. UK, well before. USA .. someone?
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Eye-opening pics in this thread. I had no idea these guys had such terrible 80s hair.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Gonna see them on Friday.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Seeing them this evening!
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
I will Never Understand, what the appeal of this song is.
It is a good song, but 2nd on the list?
Please enlighten me...
― BriefCandles, Saturday, 17 February 2024 21:52 (two months ago) link
great revive
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:27 (two months ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:34 (two months ago) link
Oh wait I've said this like twice in this thread already
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:35 (two months ago) link
Some eephus talking
Not gonna lie. Some eephus talking make me laugh!!
― BriefCandles, Saturday, 17 February 2024 22:53 (two months ago) link