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.
― Euler, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, voted "never understand" (the 120 minutes jam that first caught my attention), but "you trip me up" is unbeatable
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 20 September 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted for "Taste of Cindy" in the end just cos it is so perfectly formed.
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
aplaceican'tbefoundmylittleunderground
― Lil Wayans Bros (S-), Monday, 20 September 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
knife in my head
― dayo, Monday, 20 September 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― bham, Monday, 20 September 2010 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
taste of cindy
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 20 September 2010 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
It was called "The Hit", bham.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 September 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 20 September 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
just like honey. any other and you're trying too hard imo
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 20 September 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I am also suspicious of the motives of people with different taste
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 30 September 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ten minutes to go!
Predicting Just Like Honey with Hardest Walk and Sowing Seeds a distant 2nd and 3rd.
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Meant to type Something's Wrong rather than Sowing Seeds, still miles out though :)
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn was about to vote for Never Understand and the poll closed. To think I could have helped make a tie. Oh well.
― Moka, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
never understand 17
that was one of my favourite songs when i was 17
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
if you'd heard this album at 17 and it wasn't one yr favourite songs, shame on you
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
some candy talking 3
dang, that could have been 3 votes for some of the other songs, sorry guys
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
nah one of them was me
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― clemenza, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
taste the floor 1
So underrated ^^
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
did you vote for that?
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 1 October 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm trying to listen to other music but everytime this thread gets bumped I want to listen to this and only this
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Friday, 1 October 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
not enough votes for "my little underground" but otherwise unimpeachable results
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 October 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
only 5 votes for Something's Wrong? wow that is a crime
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 1 October 2010 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 1 October 2010 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 1 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Friday, 1 October 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The late John Loder, jeez, I hadn't realised he'd died.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember a number of the tracks had "Drums: John" so..
― Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
.. It cound be John Moore, or it could mean Loder. I dunno. I think it's quite some time before Moore was their drummer, but then ...
― Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
are you saying bobby g wasnae a good enough drummer? heaven forfend!
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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]
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Even the tracks with 0 votes are A+++++.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
AND IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 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