Some Candy Talking

Some Candy Talking
EP by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Released	July 1986
Genre	Noise pop
Label	Blanco y Negro
Producer	The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain EP chronology
Some Candy Talking (1986) Happy When It Rains (1987)

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Some Candy Talking is an extended play (EP) by the Scottish rock band The Jesus & Mary Chain, released in 1986. Its track listing included "Taste of Cindy", a song from their first album, Psychocandy performed acoustically, and a song entitled "Psychocandy", which did not appear on that album.

The title track is commonly misunderstood as being about heroin use. In a 2005 interview with Jim Reid (lead singer) featured in Filter Magazine, Reid noted that: '"Some Candy Talking" had nothing to do with drugs, actually. It was just something a radio DJ picked up on, and it was banned in all the major radio stations in the UK.' Though that images of poppy flowers are featured in the video for the single, seeming to imply that the song is indeed about heroin. The song was originally banned for this reason by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Smith,^[2] although it was later voted at no. 9 in that year's John Peel Festive fifty.^[3] The song was included in the soundtrack to the 1986 film Modern Girls.

The EP marked the final release that drummer Bobby Gillespie appeared on. After this release he returned to his own band, Primal Scream.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 The Jesus and Mary Chain 2.2 Additional personnel 3 Charts 4 References

Track listing

All tracks written by William Reid and Jim Reid.

7" (NEG19)

1. "Some Candy Talking" – 3:19
2. "Psychocandy" – 2:52
3. "Hit" – 3:27

2×7" (NEG19F)

1. "Some Candy Talking" – 3:19
2. "Psychocandy" – 2:52
3. "Hit" – 3:27
4. "Cut Dead (Acoustic)" – 2:47
5. "Psychocandy (Acoustic)" – 2:01
6. "You Trip Me Up (Acoustic)" – 2:41
7. "Some Candy Talking (Acoustic)" – 3:13

12" (NEG19T)

1. "Some Candy Talking" – 3:12
2. "Taste Of Cindy" – 1:59
3. "Hit" – 3:22
4. "Psychocandy" – 2:48

Personnel

The Jesus and Mary Chain

• Jim Reid – vocals, producer
• William Reid – guitar, producer
• Douglas Hart – bass
• Bobby Gillespie – drums

Additional personnel

• Flood – engineer ("Some Candy Talking")
• John Loder – engineer ("Psychocandy", "Hit", "Taste of Cindy")
• Alan Moulder – assistant engineer ("Some Candy Talking")
• Phil Ward Large – producer ("Cut Dead (Acoustic)", "Psychocandy (Acoustic)", "You Trip Me Up (Acoustic)", "Some Candy Talking (Acoustic)")

Charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[4]	13
Irish Singles Chart[5]	11

References

The Jesus and Mary Chain Jim Reid William Reid Loz Colbert Mark Crozer Phil King Murray Dalglish Dave Evans Bobby Gillespie Douglas Hart Ben Lurie Steve Monti John Moore Nick Sanderson Richard Thomas Studio albums Psychocandy Darklands Automatic Honey's Dead Stoned & Dethroned Munki Live albums Live in Concert Compilations Barbed Wire Kisses The Sound of Speed Hate Rock 'N' Roll The Complete John Peel Sessions 21 Singles The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain EPs Some Candy Talking Happy When It Rains Darklands Rollercoaster The Peel Sessions Sound of Speed Singles "Upside Down" "Never Understand" "You Trip Me Up" "Just Like Honey" "April Skies" "Happy When It Rains" "Darklands" "Sidewalking" "Blues from a Gun" "Head On" "Reverence" "Far Gone and Out" "Almost Gold" "Sometimes Always" "Come On" "I Hate Rock 'n' Roll" "Cracking Up" "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Related articles Discography Primal Scream Creation Records Blanco y Negro Records Freeheat Lazycame Black Box Recorder