Psychocandy is the debut studio album by Scottishalternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records. The album is considered a landmark recording: its combination of guitar feedback with traditional pop song structures proved influential on the forthcoming shoegazing genre and alternative rock in general. The band would move away from its abrasive sound with the release of their second album, 1987's Darklands.
Background and recording
After quitting their jobs in 1980, brothers Jim and William Reid formed The Jesus and Mary Chain with bass player Douglas Hart. Taking inspiration from German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, girl group the Shangri-Las and The Velvet Underground & Nico, they bought a Portastudio in 1983 when their father lost his job in a local factory and gave the brothers £300 from his redundancy money. The band recorded a demo tape containing the songs "Upside Down" and "Never Understand" which was heard by Glaswegian musician Bobby Gillespie, who in turn passed it on to his friend Alan McGee of Creation Records. McGee was impressed with the tape and invited the band to play at a Creation Records showcase event in London, becoming the band's manager shortly afterwards.
Psychocandy (Full album) - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy (1985) Track listing :
1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole
7. Taste of Cindy
8. Some Candy Talking
9. Never Understand
10. Inside Me
11. Sowing Seeds
12. My Little Underground
13. You Trip Me Up
14. Something's Wrong
15. It's So Hard
published: 06 Jan 2013
Psychocandy
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Psychocandy · The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands
℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd
Producer: Jim Reid
Engineer: John Loder
Producer: William Reid
Composer: Jim Reid
Composer: William Reid
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published: 08 May 2015
Engineering The Sound: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
Cast against the backdrop of a conservatively regressive political climate, Psychocandy’s amalgamation of melody and extreme noise bucked against prevailing notions of popular taste. Paired with churning feedback, its bubblegum teen angst represented a much-needed rebuke to the hollowness of mid-80s pop, the stagnancy of rock, and the unambitious post-punk landscape. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut was the wake-up call for a generation of artists and fans.
But it wasn’t just a ticket to Top 40 success. For Jim and William Reid it was a form of sonic escapism. Melding their disparate reverence of 60s girl groups, classic rock and Einstürzende Neubauten, the Scottish brothers from East Kilbride boldly sought to correct contemporary popular culture’s failure to provide an escape from their ...
published: 27 Mar 2018
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Official Music Video)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Official Music Video) from their 1985 debut album 'Psychocandy.'
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Psychocandy - Hunger (Nashville Sessions)
Psychocandy performing "Hunger" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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published: 23 Jun 2023
Psychocandy - Monster (Nashville Sessions)
Psychocandy performing "Monster" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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published: 31 Oct 2023
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
From the compilation "Barbed wire kisses"
published: 04 Jan 2012
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
https://www.discogs.com/release/6417943-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-Psychocandy
A1 Just Like Honey
A2 The Living End
A3 Taste The Floor
A4 The Hardest Walk
A5 Cut Dead
A6 In A Hole
A7 Taste Of Cindy
B1 Never Understand
B2 Inside Me
B3 Sowing Seeds
B4 My Little Underground
B5 You Trip Me Up
B6 Something's Wrong
B7 It's So Hard
published: 13 Mar 2023
Psychocandy - Decay (Nashville Sessions)
Psychocandy performing "Decay" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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published: 28 Jul 2023
The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up (Official Music Video)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up (Official Music Video) from the album 'Psychocandy' (1985)
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Psychocandy (1985) Track listing :
1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole...
Psychocandy (1985) Track listing :
1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole
7. Taste of Cindy
8. Some Candy Talking
9. Never Understand
10. Inside Me
11. Sowing Seeds
12. My Little Underground
13. You Trip Me Up
14. Something's Wrong
15. It's So Hard
Psychocandy (1985) Track listing :
1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole
7. Taste of Cindy
8. Some Candy Talking
9. Never Understand
10. Inside Me
11. Sowing Seeds
12. My Little Underground
13. You Trip Me Up
14. Something's Wrong
15. It's So Hard
Provided to YouTube by Rhino
Psychocandy · The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands
℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd
Producer: Jim Reid
Engineer: John Loder
Producer: W...
Provided to YouTube by Rhino
Psychocandy · The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands
℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd
Producer: Jim Reid
Engineer: John Loder
Producer: William Reid
Composer: Jim Reid
Composer: William Reid
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Rhino
Psychocandy · The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands
℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd
Producer: Jim Reid
Engineer: John Loder
Producer: William Reid
Composer: Jim Reid
Composer: William Reid
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Cast against the backdrop of a conservatively regressive political climate, Psychocandy’s amalgamation of melody and extreme noise bucked against prevailing not...
Cast against the backdrop of a conservatively regressive political climate, Psychocandy’s amalgamation of melody and extreme noise bucked against prevailing notions of popular taste. Paired with churning feedback, its bubblegum teen angst represented a much-needed rebuke to the hollowness of mid-80s pop, the stagnancy of rock, and the unambitious post-punk landscape. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut was the wake-up call for a generation of artists and fans.
But it wasn’t just a ticket to Top 40 success. For Jim and William Reid it was a form of sonic escapism. Melding their disparate reverence of 60s girl groups, classic rock and Einstürzende Neubauten, the Scottish brothers from East Kilbride boldly sought to correct contemporary popular culture’s failure to provide an escape from their bleak suburban existence. An eruption of noise-pop underscored by punk idealism, Psychocandy cemented the Reid brother's place in music canon, elevating them from relative obscurity into a worldwide phenomenon.
Psychocandy was completed in six weeks on a modest budget of £17,000. Within their North London studio, the group took an almost perfectionist approach, a far cry from the drug-fuelled excess of their notorious live shows. “At the time, we made that album totally sober” bassist Douglas Hart told The Quietus in 2011. “We used to put a lot of this mad, drunken energy into the gigs with this pent-up anger that was kind of a, ‘If we don’t do this, we’re gonna die’ attitude. So when it came to making the record, we were very conscientious and not drinking and not getting wasted.”
“We weren’t aiming for a record that comes out in 1985 and then be forgotten in 1990” Adams revealed in the same interview. “We wanted to make a record that, if you heard it 25 years later, it wouldn’t sound like a 25-year-old record. And if it appealed to little spotty anoraks in their bedrooms like we were, that was good enough for us.”
Few could deny that the group have achieved their goal. Of all JAMC's recorded works; few come close to their captivating and influential debut. So great was the demand for their classic material the quarrelsome brothers reunited to tour in 2015, playing the album in its entirety. While it might be all but impossible to pour over every minute of the group’s production, here are five key elements which shaped the group’s distinctive debut.
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#thejesusandmarychain #psychocandy #shoegaze
Cast against the backdrop of a conservatively regressive political climate, Psychocandy’s amalgamation of melody and extreme noise bucked against prevailing notions of popular taste. Paired with churning feedback, its bubblegum teen angst represented a much-needed rebuke to the hollowness of mid-80s pop, the stagnancy of rock, and the unambitious post-punk landscape. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut was the wake-up call for a generation of artists and fans.
But it wasn’t just a ticket to Top 40 success. For Jim and William Reid it was a form of sonic escapism. Melding their disparate reverence of 60s girl groups, classic rock and Einstürzende Neubauten, the Scottish brothers from East Kilbride boldly sought to correct contemporary popular culture’s failure to provide an escape from their bleak suburban existence. An eruption of noise-pop underscored by punk idealism, Psychocandy cemented the Reid brother's place in music canon, elevating them from relative obscurity into a worldwide phenomenon.
Psychocandy was completed in six weeks on a modest budget of £17,000. Within their North London studio, the group took an almost perfectionist approach, a far cry from the drug-fuelled excess of their notorious live shows. “At the time, we made that album totally sober” bassist Douglas Hart told The Quietus in 2011. “We used to put a lot of this mad, drunken energy into the gigs with this pent-up anger that was kind of a, ‘If we don’t do this, we’re gonna die’ attitude. So when it came to making the record, we were very conscientious and not drinking and not getting wasted.”
“We weren’t aiming for a record that comes out in 1985 and then be forgotten in 1990” Adams revealed in the same interview. “We wanted to make a record that, if you heard it 25 years later, it wouldn’t sound like a 25-year-old record. And if it appealed to little spotty anoraks in their bedrooms like we were, that was good enough for us.”
Few could deny that the group have achieved their goal. Of all JAMC's recorded works; few come close to their captivating and influential debut. So great was the demand for their classic material the quarrelsome brothers reunited to tour in 2015, playing the album in its entirety. While it might be all but impossible to pour over every minute of the group’s production, here are five key elements which shaped the group’s distinctive debut.
Produced by Happy Mag: https://happymag.tv/
Find out more: https://happymag.tv/engineering-the-sound-the-jesus-and-mary-chains-psychocandy/
#thejesusandmarychain #psychocandy #shoegaze
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Psychocandy performing "Hunger" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Hunger" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Hunger" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Monster" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Monster" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Monster" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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https://www.discogs.com/release/6417943-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-Psychocandy
A1 Just Like Honey
A2 The Living End
A3 Taste The Floor
A4 The Hardest Walk
A5...
https://www.discogs.com/release/6417943-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-Psychocandy
A1 Just Like Honey
A2 The Living End
A3 Taste The Floor
A4 The Hardest Walk
A5 Cut Dead
A6 In A Hole
A7 Taste Of Cindy
B1 Never Understand
B2 Inside Me
B3 Sowing Seeds
B4 My Little Underground
B5 You Trip Me Up
B6 Something's Wrong
B7 It's So Hard
https://www.discogs.com/release/6417943-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-Psychocandy
A1 Just Like Honey
A2 The Living End
A3 Taste The Floor
A4 The Hardest Walk
A5 Cut Dead
A6 In A Hole
A7 Taste Of Cindy
B1 Never Understand
B2 Inside Me
B3 Sowing Seeds
B4 My Little Underground
B5 You Trip Me Up
B6 Something's Wrong
B7 It's So Hard
Psychocandy performing "Decay" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
Listen & Download "Decay" out now: https://nfan.link/pcdecay
Pre-save all future Psych...
Psychocandy performing "Decay" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Audio Production: Jase Blankfort
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Mixing: Nick "Squids" Squillante
Mastering: Joe LaPorta for Sterling Sound
Location: Fort Hillsner Studio
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The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up (Official Music Video) from the album 'Psychocandy' (1985)
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Psychocandy (1985) Track listing :
1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole
7. Taste of Cindy
8. Some Candy Talking
9. Never Understand
10. Inside Me
11. Sowing Seeds
12. My Little Underground
13. You Trip Me Up
14. Something's Wrong
15. It's So Hard
Provided to YouTube by Rhino
Psychocandy · The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands
℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd
Producer: Jim Reid
Engineer: John Loder
Producer: William Reid
Composer: Jim Reid
Composer: William Reid
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Cast against the backdrop of a conservatively regressive political climate, Psychocandy’s amalgamation of melody and extreme noise bucked against prevailing notions of popular taste. Paired with churning feedback, its bubblegum teen angst represented a much-needed rebuke to the hollowness of mid-80s pop, the stagnancy of rock, and the unambitious post-punk landscape. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut was the wake-up call for a generation of artists and fans.
But it wasn’t just a ticket to Top 40 success. For Jim and William Reid it was a form of sonic escapism. Melding their disparate reverence of 60s girl groups, classic rock and Einstürzende Neubauten, the Scottish brothers from East Kilbride boldly sought to correct contemporary popular culture’s failure to provide an escape from their bleak suburban existence. An eruption of noise-pop underscored by punk idealism, Psychocandy cemented the Reid brother's place in music canon, elevating them from relative obscurity into a worldwide phenomenon.
Psychocandy was completed in six weeks on a modest budget of £17,000. Within their North London studio, the group took an almost perfectionist approach, a far cry from the drug-fuelled excess of their notorious live shows. “At the time, we made that album totally sober” bassist Douglas Hart told The Quietus in 2011. “We used to put a lot of this mad, drunken energy into the gigs with this pent-up anger that was kind of a, ‘If we don’t do this, we’re gonna die’ attitude. So when it came to making the record, we were very conscientious and not drinking and not getting wasted.”
“We weren’t aiming for a record that comes out in 1985 and then be forgotten in 1990” Adams revealed in the same interview. “We wanted to make a record that, if you heard it 25 years later, it wouldn’t sound like a 25-year-old record. And if it appealed to little spotty anoraks in their bedrooms like we were, that was good enough for us.”
Few could deny that the group have achieved their goal. Of all JAMC's recorded works; few come close to their captivating and influential debut. So great was the demand for their classic material the quarrelsome brothers reunited to tour in 2015, playing the album in its entirety. While it might be all but impossible to pour over every minute of the group’s production, here are five key elements which shaped the group’s distinctive debut.
Produced by Happy Mag: https://happymag.tv/
Find out more: https://happymag.tv/engineering-the-sound-the-jesus-and-mary-chains-psychocandy/
#thejesusandmarychain #psychocandy #shoegaze
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Official Music Video) from their 1985 debut album 'Psychocandy.'
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Psychocandy performing "Hunger" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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Psychocandy performing "Monster" at Fort Hillsner Studio in Nashville, TN.
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https://www.discogs.com/release/6417943-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-Psychocandy
A1 Just Like Honey
A2 The Living End
A3 Taste The Floor
A4 The Hardest Walk
A5 Cut Dead
A6 In A Hole
A7 Taste Of Cindy
B1 Never Understand
B2 Inside Me
B3 Sowing Seeds
B4 My Little Underground
B5 You Trip Me Up
B6 Something's Wrong
B7 It's So Hard
The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up (Official Music Video) from the album 'Psychocandy' (1985)
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Psychocandy is the debut studio album by Scottishalternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records. The album is considered a landmark recording: its combination of guitar feedback with traditional pop song structures proved influential on the forthcoming shoegazing genre and alternative rock in general. The band would move away from its abrasive sound with the release of their second album, 1987's Darklands.
Background and recording
After quitting their jobs in 1980, brothers Jim and William Reid formed The Jesus and Mary Chain with bass player Douglas Hart. Taking inspiration from German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, girl group the Shangri-Las and The Velvet Underground & Nico, they bought a Portastudio in 1983 when their father lost his job in a local factory and gave the brothers £300 from his redundancy money. The band recorded a demo tape containing the songs "Upside Down" and "Never Understand" which was heard by Glaswegian musician Bobby Gillespie, who in turn passed it on to his friend Alan McGee of Creation Records. McGee was impressed with the tape and invited the band to play at a Creation Records showcase event in London, becoming the band's manager shortly afterwards.
The wind is screaming around the trees for my Psychocandy The world is spreading a strange disease for my Psychocandy Candy is the baddest seed She'll take you down and make you eat Her fish Her poison fish Is on her dish Candy cannot hear or see She's in the place she needs to be She'll take the point to a sharpened blade And give you something warm to taste And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (She's my Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (She's my Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (Psychocandy) And the world is turning 'round And on and on and on (Psycho)