Psychocandy

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Psychocandy
Studio album by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Released	November, 1985
Recorded	1985, Southern Studios, Wood Green, London
Genre	Noise pop
Length	42:23
Label	Blanco y Negro
Producer(s)	The Jesus and Mary Chain
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (9.6/10) link Q July 2006 (p.122) Robert Christgau (A-) link Rolling Stone (Favourable) RS 470
The Jesus and Mary Chain chronology
	Psychocandy (1985)	Darklands (1987)

Psychocandy is the debut album of the Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The LP was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records and peaked at number 31 in UK Albums Chart. The band had been signed by the label on the strength of their debut, Slaughter Joe-produced single, "Upside Down" and media attention generated by the band's anarchic gigs.

Psychocandy utilised the then-radical notion of combining simple pop tunes, à la The Beach Boys, with the searing guitar noise more akin to The Velvet Underground, effectively creating the genre of Noise pop. The album is considered to be a landmark recording, frequently appearing in various "best-ever" album lists, such as placed at number 88 in 2000 Q magazine list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 268 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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. In 2006, the album was remastered and released in DualDisc format without "Some Candy Talking" to conform with the original playlist.

The songs "The Hardest Walk" and "Just Like Honey" were featured on the soundtrack of the films Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) and Lost in Translation (2003), respectively.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Personnel 3 Charts 4 Samples 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

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 (only on the 1986, 1997 CD release)

[edit] Side two

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

[edit] Personnel

• Jim Reid - Guitar, Vocals
• William Reid - Guitar, Vocals
• Douglas Hart - Bass
• Bobby Gillespie - Drums

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• John Loder - Engineer
• Karen and Laurence - Backing vocals

[edit] Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1985	UK Albums Chart	31
1985	US Billboard 200	188
2003	Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time	268

[edit] Samples

[edit] External links

• Lyrics