No. But it's pretty good.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrokid, Friday, 10 March 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Soukesian, Friday, 10 March 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I like it better because it's more my style. I do understand why the debut is considered their best though.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 10 March 2006 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
The "Darklands" album sounded way better, which was considered a "sellout" by some people.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― i'm from hollywood, Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― electrogrouse (haitch), Saturday, 11 March 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
5 Jesus & Mary Chain re-releasesThese 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.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 22 May 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
The band's 1985 debut, Psychocandy — which was named one of Spin Magazine's 50 essential records — will include the videos for "Just Like Honey," "You Trip Me Up" and "Never Understand."
Darklands (1987) features videos for "Happy When It Rains," "April Skies" and the title track.
The DVD portion of 1989's Automatic is comprised of "Her Way Of Praying," "Blues From A Gun" and "Head On."
Honey's Dead, their underrated 1992 album, has clips for "Almost Gold," "Reverence" and "Far Gone And Out."
Stoned And Dethroned, the last JAMC album to be released via Warner Bros. in 1994, will be reissued with the videos for "Come On," "Snakedriver" and "Sometimes Always."
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Of course, you know I'm going to buy them.
― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone have any opinions on getting Psychocandy on Dualdisc (remastered) vs. the 180-gram vinyl release from Rhino? Decisions, decisions...
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Dualdisc has the videos which are GREAT.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Bee OK, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
because youre an idiot jerk
― deeznuts, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think that was his response to the thread title
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yes. bimble you linked me to that thorn of crowns vid on youtube & will never be an idiot jerk in my book.
― deeznuts, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
are the UK versions of their remasters dualdiscs or regular CDs? i hate dualdiscs.
― f. hazel, Friday, 29 June 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Regular discs.
― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2007 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Something's Wrong" came up on my ipod this morning. I had completely forgotten how utterly (and paradoxically) majestic that album could sound.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 29 June 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I only have this on napster-download-circa-2001 mp3 so I'll probably buy that.
― jim, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
> See also My Bloody Valentine, which is an even more typical example of the same.
you talk as if mbv only ever released one lp...
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
pls do not associate JAMC with lame MBV thx!
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
by the way the first post is cute
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think the record sounds like crap. But I prefer the band's sound on their early 12" singles. They have this three-dimensional/dub feel that seems to be missing from Psychocandy.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
another day goes by meanother day, a month and a yearand as I look around meI feel so lonely there's no one hereno one here beside meno one here to help to see me throughto see me throughto see me through'cause I need you'cause I need youbeen standing still for much too longand I realise there's something wrongI'm feeling strange, I need a changeand I realise thatthere's something wrongthere's something wrongthere's something wronganother two years overdon't understand what's happened to methese days are so much colderup against the fire, dont feel any heatcracked up years behind mecracked up years ahead are all I seeare all I see
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the debt is pretty obvious and acknowledged.
Trivia: Douglas Hart has done the amazing visuals for the new MBV tour.
Also, MBV lame? No.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
come on now
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
The debt went the other way, though, didn't it? Obviously MBV's debt to Jesus & Mary Chain was great.
Both owe a great debt to Velvet Underground, with the exception that JAMC were influenced both by the good Velvets tracks("Sunday Morning", "Candy Says" etc.) and the bad ones ("Sister Ray", "Heroin" etc.), whereas MBV were only influenced by Velvets at their worst and most noisy and unlistenable.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yes surely MBV gave nary a second thought to Sunday Morning how true
― ian, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, that is obviously what I'm saying.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
regarding the direction of the debt.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir I honestly wonder how familiar you are with MBV. Very pretty melodies all over the place.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Fact: Psychocandy sounds best on scratched up vinyl through blown speakers.
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
No idea. I have listened to their albums several times. I can hear there are melodies buried somewhere in there, but getting them into my head, which is obviously needed to judge them, is impossible because of that wall of guitar noise.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Smoke some weed first
― Niles Caulder, Thursday, 9 October 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link