Why does Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Psychocandy' sound like crap?

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`Cos you've got your had way up your ass, apparently.

'Ears are broken' indeed. Vaguely remember some interview, Jim Reid relating how someone heard a song off Psychocandy playing on a radio, thinking the radio was broken, picking it up and banging it so it would get back to working correctly. I mean, if that was your band, tell me you wouldn't swell with pride.

No. But it's pretty good.

Context plays a part - the 'production' on those early records was diametrically opposed to the way a British indie release was meant to sound at the time.

I like it better because it's more my style. I do understand why the debut is considered their best though.

The "Darklands" album sounded way better, which was considered a "sellout" by some people.

it has always sounded amazing to me. maybe the cd sucks? i've never heard it on cd. some cds just aren't made very well. barbed wire kisses on cd always sounded good to me. and all the later stuff sounds fine on cd.

To my ears, the CD is slightly inferior to the original LP pressing, but it doesn't really sound like a different album or anything. I think the "Just Like Honey" production is flawless and of course sounded amazing in Lost in Translation.

This wouldn't surprise me. I haven't heard "Psychocandy" on vinyl, but I have the "You Trip Me Up" single and it sounds INCREDIBLE -- 100X bigger and nastier and gorgeous than on CD. The vinyl grooves might be the widest I've seen ... that sucker was mastered LOUD.

I also think that the Peel Sessions versions of the "Psychocandy" tracks are far better than those on the album proper.

5 Jesus & Mary Chain re-releases
These remasters now £7.99 each, click on the titles to pre-order and to check the tracks: 'Automatic', 'Darklands', 'Honey's Dead', 'Psychocandy' and 'Stoned And Dethroned'. Released 10th July.

Of course, you know I'm going to buy them.

Anyone have any opinions on getting Psychocandy on Dualdisc (remastered) vs. the 180-gram vinyl release from Rhino? Decisions, decisions...

Dualdisc has the videos which are GREAT.

Anyone have any opinions on getting Psychocandy on Dualdisc (remastered) vs. the 180-gram vinyl release from Rhino?

first, this thread is a great read.

and because of that i broke open my dualdisc of Psychocandy. it's a must, if you own the 80's version of this CD. it's sound cleaned up without losing any of the dirtiness. what a album, one of the best ever!

because youre an idiot jerk

So quick with the insults? I thought we were discussing music here in a civil manner. Or is that kind of thing beyond your obviously low intelligence level? If so, please leave the board. Thanks.

I think that was his response to the thread title

yes. bimble you linked me to that thorn of crowns vid on youtube & will never be an idiot jerk in my book.

are the UK versions of their remasters dualdiscs or regular CDs? i hate dualdiscs.

Regular discs.

"Something's Wrong" came up on my ipod this morning. I had completely forgotten how utterly (and paradoxically) majestic that album could sound.

The only way to fully appreciate Psychocandy is via a cassette-recorded copy made in the studio of a university radio station, using an inferior turntable and the station's well-worn-to-the-point-of-whiteness-paler-than-the-Reid brothers' complexions vinyl version. (I later bought an official actual cassette and it didn't measure up.)

Psychocandy is today's 'seminal album' being given away with The Times / WHSmith

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/commercial/article4867507.ece

I think I only have this on napster-download-circa-2001 mp3 so I'll probably buy that.

It is supposed to sound that way. It's called "shoegazing". See also My Bloody Valentine, which is an even more typical example of the same.