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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
BBC(positive) [2]
Pitchfork Media(9.6/10) [3]
Q [4]
Robert Christgau(A-) [5]
Rolling Stone(favourable) [6]
Rolling Stone [7]
sputnikmusic [8]
Piero Scaruffi [9]

Psychocandy is the debut album by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in November 1985. Psychocandy combined the concepts of pop songs and searing guitar chords.

The album is considered to be a landmark recording, frequently appearing in "best-ever" album lists, such as Q magazine's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever, where it placed at number 88 in 2000. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at #23 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".[10] In 2003, the album was ranked number 268 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 greatest albums of all time". Allmusic described the album as one that "created a movement without meaning to."[11]

Background

The band had been signed by Blanco y Negro on the strength of their debut, Slaughter Joe-produced single, "Upside Down" and media attention generated by the band's highly charged and energetic gigs.

Recording and production

Lead vocals are handled by Jim Reid on this album, with the exception of "It's So Hard," sung by William Reid.

Release and reception

The album includes the singles "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up" and "Just Like Honey". Following reissue on CD in August 1986, the bonus track "Some Candy Talking", which was originally released on the namesake EP, was included on the album, only on the UK Blanco y Negro CDs released in 1986 and 1997; in the USA, it was released on CD by Reprise in 1986 and American Recordings in 1993 without the bonus track. In 2006, the album was remastered and released in DualDisc format without "Some Candy Talking" to conform with the original playlist.

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Reid and William Reid.

LP (BYN 7) and cassette (BYNC 7)

Side 1

  1. "Just Like Honey" – 3:03
  2. "The Living End" – 2:16
  3. "Taste the Floor" – 2:56
  4. "The Hardest Walk" – 2:40
  5. "Cut Dead" – 2:47
  6. "In a Hole" – 3:02
  7. "Taste of Cindy" – 1:42

Side 2

  1. "Never Understand" – 2:57
  2. "Inside Me" – 3:09
  3. "Sowing Seeds" – 2:50
  4. "My Little Underground" – 2:31
  5. "You Trip Me Up" – 2:26
  6. "Something's Wrong" – 4:01
  7. "It's So Hard" – 2:37
CD (BYNCD 7) 1986
  1. "Just Like Honey" – 3:03
  2. "The Living End" – 2:16
  3. "Taste the Floor" – 2:56
  4. "The Hardest Walk" – 2:40
  5. "Cut Dead" – 2:47
  6. "In a Hole" – 3:02
  7. "Taste of Cindy" – 1:42
  8. "Some Candy Talking" - 3:19
  9. "Never Understand" – 2:57
  10. "Inside Me" – 3:09
  11. "Sowing Seeds" – 2:50
  12. "My Little Underground" – 2:31
  13. "You Trip Me Up" – 2:26
  14. "Something's Wrong" – 4:01
  15. "It's So Hard" – 2:37

Personnel

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Additional personnel

References

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r10349
  2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xh25
  3. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37601/The_Jesus_and_Mary_Chain_Psychocandy_Darklands_Automatic_Honeys_Dead
  4. ^ July 2006 (p.122)
  5. ^ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=649&name=The+Jesus+and+Mary+Chain
  6. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thejesusandmarychain/albums/album/193252/review/6068217/psychocandy
  7. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&printsec=frontcover#PPA429,M1
  8. ^ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=1466
  9. ^ http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/jesusmar.html
  10. ^ Q August 2006, Issue 241
  11. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r10349
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