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

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

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. ;-)

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!!