The Jesus & Mary Chain - 1985 - Psychocandy

Artist....: The Jesus and Mary chain

Title.....: Psyhcocandy

Rel. Date.: 1985

Type/Genre: Alternative

Size......: 79mb

Format....: mp3

Bitrate...: 220



1 Just Like Honey (3:00)

2 The Living End (2:14)

3 Taste The Floor (2:54)

4 The Hardest Walk (2:36)

5 Cut Dead (2:45)

6 In A Hole (3:01)

7 Taste Of Cindy (1:39)

8 Some Candy Talking (3:15)

9 Never Understand (2:58)

10 Inside Me (3:08)

11 Sowing Seeds (2:47)

12 My Little Underground (2:30)

13 You Trip Me Up (2:22)

14 Something's Wrong (4:00)

15 It's So Hard (2:35)



The Jesus & Mary Chain's debut album, now re-released in re-mastered form with former bonus track `Some Candy Talking' removed, remains their definitive album and their greatest achievement. Everything that followed didn't quite measure up, though if you have all the albums and compilations, you can discover later joys such as `Here Comes Alice', `Sidewalking', `Sometimes Always', `Cracking Up' & `Heat' (the latter bizarrely turning up in an advert and was later retitled `Teenage Lust' in relation to an MC5 song and a Larry Clark book of photographs).



The Mary Chain just happened rumour has it their demos were on a tape which had Syd Barrett on one side and them on the other, Bobby Gillespie (The Wake) listened to it and got Alan McGee involved and some Malcolm McClaren-style marketing later, they were the next controversial band. The Reid brothers wrote the material and were joined by Douglas Hart (bass) and Gillespie (Moe Tucker-style drumming), and with this album set the template for many bands over the following years - The House of Love, Ultra Vivid Scene, Primal Scream (who would cover `Darklands' and have Reid sing on `Evil Heat'), The Stone Roses, Ride, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, My Bloody Valentine, The Heart Throbs, Spacemen 3, Moose, Curve, Chapterhouse, Slowdive, The Boo Radleys, Brakes (who covered `Sometimes Always'), the Black Rebel Motorycle Club, The Kills, Singapore Sling & AR Kane. Predictably some of these acts would surpass the Mary Chain, but this album is key and as significant as `Revolver', `Never Mind the Bollocks', or `Never Mind.' It should be considered along those indisputable and influential classics and I can happily report it still stands up these days.