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

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!

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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 :)

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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..

.. 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 ...

are you saying bobby g wasnae a good enough drummer? heaven forfend!

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