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

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.

> 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...

pls do not associate JAMC with lame MBV thx!

by the way the first post is cute

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.

another day goes by me
another day, a month and a year
and as I look around me
I feel so lonely there's no one here
no one here beside me
no one here to help to see me through
to see me through
to see me through
'cause I need you
'cause I need you
been standing still for much too long
and I realise there's something wrong
I'm feeling strange, I need a change
and I realise that
there's something wrong
there's something wrong
there's something wrong
another two years over
don't understand what's happened to me
these days are so much colder
up against the fire, dont feel any heat
cracked up years behind me
cracked up years ahead are all I see
are all I see

pls do not associate JAMC with lame MBV thx!

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.

come on now

I think the debt is pretty obvious and acknowledged.

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.

yes surely MBV gave nary a second thought to Sunday Morning how true

xpost, that is obviously what I'm saying.

regarding the direction of the debt.

Geir I honestly wonder how familiar you are with MBV. Very pretty melodies all over the place.

Fact: Psychocandy sounds best on scratched up vinyl through blown speakers.

Geir I honestly wonder how familiar you are with MBV. Very pretty melodies all over the place.

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.

Smoke some weed first

some days I think the best thing JAMC ever did was get mentioned in the liner notes to Evol or which ever it was

I can't see how Geir would dislike "Sunny Sundae Smile" or "Lovely Sweet Darlene".

(ie Loveless is NOT THE ONLY THING THEY DID FFS)

maybe because he's a cloth-eared fuckwit

i never really had a problem with the sound of this record, mainly just the repetitive song structures and general lack of variety. i've reconciled myself to this though over the last few years and now love the record pretty much unconditionally.

so basically u foreced urself to liek it.

sorta deal